Jobst Christoph von Römer (forester)

Coat of arms of the von Römer family (Meißen)

Jobst Christoph von Romans (* around 1588 , † 24. August 1660 in Dresden ) was a Electoral Saxon Oberforst- and game champion Erzgebirge and superintendent of customs duties and Saale - rafting .

Life

He came from an old Meißnian family , whose direct lineage began with the Chemnitz councilor Paul Romer , mentioned in a document in 1401, and had been associated with the Saxon mining industry since the 15th century through Martin Römer , mountain tenth man from Schneeberg . He was the son of the landowner Hans Christoph von Römer (around 1542–1588), landlord on Ober- Steinpleis , Marienthal , Weißenbrunn and Höchstädt , and his second wife Maria von Metzsch (around 1588 – after 1610).

Römer was the landlord of the Neumark estates (since 1636), Rauenstein in the Erzgebirge (since 1651) and Rehefeld in the Eastern Ore Mountains . He was a member of the “ Fruit Bringing Society ” under the name “The Cooling One ”.

In his first marriage, Römer married Maria Martha Rositzky von Kinsky († April 13, 1654), the daughter of the landlord Friedrich Rositzky von Kinsky , landlord of Bödelwitz , Grädel and Bottenkräh , and Martha von Hartitzsch ( Hartitzsch house in Weißenborn ). After their death he married Elisabeth von Loß († after 1660), the daughter of the electoral Saxon court judge Christian von Loß , landlord of Röhrsdorf and other estates, and Catharina von Kannewurff.

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses B 1954. Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1954, p. 362.

Remarks

1. ↑ The Bergzehntner is an official who takes the Bergzehntner. Source: German dictionary
2. ↑ Martin Römer, merchant and electoral Saxon bailiff in Zwickau , as well as his brother Nicol Römer received the imperial letter of arms on February 5, 1470 and in 1476 were enfeoffed with Steinpleis and Niederalbertsdorf . Their families passed into the landed gentry in the 16th century . Source: Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume XI. Volume 122 of the complete series. Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISBN 3-7980-0822-1 , ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 484.
3. ↑ In 1636, Römer only bought a fire site of the former castle and manor from Haubold von Schönberg; the reconstruction in the design that is still there today was slow; the estate remained in Roman family ownership until the escape in World War II (Source: here ( memento of the original from September 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove this notice. )