Joachim Sigismund von Ziegler and Klipphausen

Joachim Sigismund von Ziegler and Klipphausen (born October 13, 1660 in Radmeritz ; † June 30, 1734 ibid) came from the originally Meißnian noble family Ziegler and Klipphausen , which also settled in Upper Lusatia in the 17th century . He was best known for his lively construction activity and the foundation of the Free World Noble Evangelical Fräuleinstift Joachimstein in the village of Radmeritz, of which he was the landlord .

After Joachim Sigismund, the eldest son of Heinrich Anshelm d. Ä. von Ziegler and Klipphausen and Helena Sabina von Hohberg , who had probably spent his childhood and youth on his father's estate in Radmeritz, he went on a gentlemen's journey and stayed in Paris in 1687 and 1688, among other things . In 1690 he became chamberlain to the later Elector of Saxony, Johann Georg IV . In the first few years of August the Strong's reign he was chamberlain and later became a chamberlain.

His center of life, however, was in Radmeritz. Thanks to his extensive income from the villages of Radmeritz, Markersdorf , Mittellinda and Niecha , it was possible for him to re-shape the town of Radmeritz with impressive baroque buildings within about 40 years . For this he was able to attract well-known architects and sculptors from the immediate vicinity of the Polish-Saxon court, including Christoph Beyer , Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann , Johann Friedrich Karcher and Johann Christian Kirchner . The central structure was the three-wing moated castle with a French garden . Joachim Sigismund von Ziegler und Klipphausen, who remained unmarried and childless throughout his life, set up the Joachimstein Abbey in 1722, to which he left his property and property as foundation capital . After the construction work was completed, the first canons moved in in 1728. The facility existed almost unchanged until 1945.

A brother of Joachim Sigismund, Heinrich Anselm von Ziegler and Klipphausen, was known for his novel Asian Banise or The bloody but courageous Pegu in historical truth covered with the cloak of a hero and love story, which was received well into the 18th century .

literature

• Jan Bergmann: The statutes of the Joachimstein monastery. Edition and analysis (Adel in Sachsen, Vol. 3), Olbersdorf 2013.
• Richard Jecht : Joachim Sigismund von Ziegler and Klipphausen. Ceremonial address given on June 17, 1922 in Joachimstein. In: New Lusatian Magazine . Volume 98, 1922, pp. 64-97.
• Tilo and Marita Böhmer: Joachimstein Abbey. Commemorative writing for the 275th anniversary of its inauguration. Bautzen 2004.