Joachim von Stettenhofen

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Joachim Stettenhofen , from 1779 Knight of Stettenhofen (born April 10, 1742 in Vienna , † March 16, 1813 in Brno ) was an Austrian farmer, court official and promoter of the Josephine reforms . From 1794 he was the owner of the allodial rule Budischau in Moravia .

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Stettenhofen came from an old Augsburg patrician family and was the son of an imperial and royal state official. He also entered the civil service. Due to sickness, Joachim Stettenhofen had to give up this activity and devoted himself to agriculture, where he soon gained the reputation of an excellent estate manager. In 1770, the Cistercian monastery of Wellehrad appointed him inspector of the newly acquired Wiesenberg estate and granted him unlimited power of attorney. Under Stettenhofen's management, the Wiesenberg rule experienced an economic boom. Bleaching plants, flax spinning mills and factories to promote the yarn trade were set up; at the same time he introduced measures to improve flax cultivation in the poor mountain villages. In Zöptau he had an ironworks built and founded the Stettenhof ( Štětínov ) colony named after him . In 1773 Stettenhofen founded the Philippsthal ( Filipová ) family colony named after Abbot Philipp Zury . The following year he had a church built in Wiesenberg. Because of his services as an inspector in Wiesenberg, the Society for the Promotion of Agriculture in Moravia appointed him a member.

During the War of the Bavarian Succession , which ended his work as director of the Wiesenberg estate, Stettenhofen set up a free hunter corps with 400 men from his own resources in 1778, which he commanded with the rank of captain. This is how he met Field Marshal Albert von Teschen , who introduced him to his mother-in-law, the Bohemian Queen Maria Theresa . On May 8, 1779, this raised him to the herbland knighthood and offered him a position in the imperial military service or economics. Stettenhofen decided against a military career and in April 1780 was appointed camera inspector of the confiscated goods of the Jesuit order in Moravia and Silesia . He was subordinate to the state property administrator Anton Valentin Kaschnitz von Weinberg. Between 1783 and 1785 Stettenhofen founded around 40 Dominican settlements on the corridors of abolished monastery courtyards . As Kameralinspektor Joachim led by Stettenhofen the Robotabolition in the dominions and goods Old Brno, Althart , Bochtitz , Brzezowitz, Brenditz, Chirlitz, Chwalkowitz, Czellechowitz , Diwak , Dollein , Daubrowitz, Freiwaldau , Gurein , Gewitsch , Hradisch , Hradisko , Hödnitz , Jesse network , Keltsch , Konitz , Kozuschan, Kremsier , Laškau , Meltsch , Mülfraun , Mokrolasetz , Morzitz , Mürau , Nezamislitz , Moravian-Neustadt , Neutitschein , Olbersdorf , Oslawan , Ptin , Roketnitz , New Rothwasser, Rzeczkowitz, Schebetau , Sucholasetz, Sternberg , Tainitschek , Tischnowitz , Trschitz , Wiesenberg, Welehrad , Zdaunek , Zittow , Zuckmantel and Zuckerhandl as well as the cities of Littau , Teschen and Troppau . In 1788, Stettenhofen leased the estate of Chudwein with Lautschan for 7,000 guilders a year from Philipp von Andlern-Witten.

In July 1789, Emperor Joseph II appointed von Stettenhofen as a substitute for the state property administrator Kaschnitz von Weinberg. After there had been riots in Inner Austria because of the reforms, the Emperor von Stettenhofen set up on November 7, 1789 as state property administrator, tax regulation commissioner and Robotabolitions court commissioner for Inner Austria. In this task he was able to calm the minds again through his demeanor. After the death of Joseph II, his successor called Leopold II von Stettenhofen's predecessor back in office. Von Stettenhofen, who had achieved prosperity through his marriages with two wealthy women, did not accept his appointment as state property administrator for Galicia and retired with the rank of kk Moravian-Silesian gubernial councilor with a pension of 2500 guilders.

On February 15, 1794, Stettenhofen bought the allodial rule Budischau with the adjoining Tassau estate from the guardian of the four underage daughters of the late Franz Josef von Jungwirth, Felix Pino von Friedenthal, for 150,000 guilders . Stettenhofen had the town of Budischau and the villages under his rule expanded and new settlements and roads laid. Stettenhofen founded a cotton mill in Budischau. He sold the manorial tavern in the middle of the Budischauer Markt in 1795, and new construction sites were soon set up in the area. The Kundelov colony named after the first settler Karl Kundelius was established in 1797. In 1798 Joachim von Stettenhofen founded the colonies Joachimshof ( Jáchymov ) and Mihokowitz ( Mihoukovice ), the latter named in honor of his second wife Franziska nee von Mihokowicz. The following year, the Klementitz ( Klementice ) colony named after his only son, Clemens, was established . During this time Stettenhofen also had two new Meierhöfe built: the Stettenhof ( Obora ) and the Amalienhof ( Holeje ) named after his daughter . In 1808 the new Budischauer school was completed; due to the French invasion and the war, its completion was delayed by six years.

Since his son died in 1802 at the age of 27 in Hradisch and his son-in-law had succumbed to his wounds from the battle of Wagram in 1809 , Joachim von Stettenhofen determined in his last will, written on June 16, 1811, the rule of Budischau as the family fideikommiss and his first-born grandson Joachim Vincenz von Baratta and his male descendants as heirs, to whom he subordinated his second grandson, Karl Joachim von Baratta. In the event of the extinction of his descendants, the Budischau lordship was intended as the basis of a scholarship foundation for needy sons of senior civil servants in Moravia. Stettenhofen lived in Budischau and Brünn; During the winter he moved to Brno and returned to Budischau Castle in May. Joachim von Stettenhofen died in 1813 and was buried on the south wall of the Church of the Assumption and St. Gotthard in Budischau.

Since the intended heir Joachim von Baratta did not reach the age of majority and drowned in the Danube on June 21, 1816, von Stettenhofen's daughter Amalia von Pötting-Persing and her first-wedded son Karl von Baratta initially took over the property jointly. With the settlement of January 30, 1838, a Fideikommisskapital of 80,000 guilders and an appanage fund of 24,000 guilders were established on the Budischau rule in accordance with Stettenhofen’s will; at the same time, Karl von Baratta took over the rule as the sole owner.

family

Joachim von Stettenhofen was married twice. His first marriage with Domenica Freiin von Serlon de Morcelle, which was concluded in 1768, had his son Clemens († 1802) and daughter Amalia. His second marriage to the widow Franziska von Schoenewicz, née von Mihokowicz, remained childless.

Amalia von Stettenhofen married the Imperial and Royal Rittmeister Vincenz Ritter von Baratta († 1809) in 1793, the marriage had two sons: Joachim († 1816) and Karl. In her second marriage, she married the Imperial and Royal Lieutenant Colonel Wenzel Reichsgraf von Pötting and Persing .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gregor Wolny : The Margraviate of Moravia, presented topographically, statistically and historically . Volume VI: Iglauer Kreis, Brno 1842, p. 107
personal data
SURNAME Stettenhofen, Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stettenhofen, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian farmer and court official
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1742
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH March 16, 1813
Place of death Brno