Jobst Edmund von Brabeck (Drost)

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Jobst Edmund Freiherr von Brabeck (* after 1700 presumably in Liebenburg ; † April 28, 1767 presumably at Söder Castle ) was an influential member of the Westphalian noble family von Brabeck in the bishopric of Hildesheim and through inheritance the owner of several estates and pre-industrial businesses. He was Drost of the Liebenburg Office and builder of Söder Castle.

Life

Crescent moon Madonna with the motto Sub tuum praesidium , the coat of arms of the Brabeck and Kerckerinck families and the year 1741; Iron casting at the Brabeck factories in Liebenburg-Kunigunde , identical in Stachelau
Brabeck-Kerckerinck alliance coat of arms on the organ of the castle church in Liebenburg

Jobst Edmund (III.) Von Brabeck was a son of Johann Arnold von Brabeck († 1720) and a nephew of Hildesheim canon Jobst Edmund (II.) Von Brabeck († 1732), who in turn was nephew Jobst Edmunds (I) von Brabeck were and were brought by him after his election as Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim in the bishopric and placed in lucrative positions. After the von Bortfeld family died out in 1688, he left the Söder and Nienhagen estates to both of them . He used Johann Arnold as Drost von Liebenburg. This family "import of personnel" was also part of the efforts to recatholize , after the Hildesheim monastery had been restored in 1643 to almost the same extent as it had before the feudal feud in 1519, whereby the bishop had become ruler of large, meanwhile Lutheran areas.

Jobst Edmund (I.) had already promoted the mining and smelting of ores on his possessions in the Brabeck ancestral lands and in the Hochstift Hildesheim before his election as bishop .

After the death of his father Johann Arnold and his spiritual uncle Jobst Edmund (II ), Jobst Edmund (III.) Received an extensive inheritance, including a. in Westphalia House and Good Letmathe , house and property Hemer , castle and Good Klusenstein and Rhonardbergbau with the sting Auer hut , Stift Hildesheim goods Söder and Nienhagen and the mines at Salzgitter Hills with the cottage Cunegonde . He also moved into the Liebenburger Drostenamt as his father's successor in 1720. This was administered by his uncle Jobst Edmund (II) until he came of age in 1727.

Jobst Edmund (III.) Married Anna Maria Alexandrina Countess von Hatzfeld-Wildenburg (* 1707 ) in 1731 , who died after only three years of marriage. In 1736 he married Maria Felizitas Baroness von Kerckerinck . The two marriages resulted in a total of five sons and six daughters.

After his marriage to Maria Felizitas von Kerckerinck, Jobst Edmund intensified his industrial and construction activities. For himself and his family, from 1742 onwards, he converted the medieval manor house in Söder into a representative baroque palace, which, enlarged by his son Friedrich Moritz von Brabeck , has been preserved to this day. From 1750, as Drost von Liebenburg, on behalf of Prince-Bishop Clemens August von Bayern , he was in charge of the construction of the new Liebenburg Castle and Castle Church on the medieval castle hill. In Söder and Liebenburg, at the Kunigunde and Stachelau ironworks and elsewhere, where Jobst Edmund von Brabeck was active, he had the Brabeck family coat of arms affixed together with his wife's Kerckerinck family coat of arms.

Jobst Edmund von Brabeck died in 1767, his wife Maria Felizitas in 1775, after Jobst Edmund (IV.), His eldest son from his first marriage, initiated a lawsuit against his stepmother for the Brabeck inheritance, which was burdened with 100,000 thalers in debt. Both spouses were buried in the Hildesheim Capuchin Church.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Until 1727 he was not of age and was represented as Drost von Liebenburg by his uncle of the same name.
  2. ↑ State Archives Hanover
personal data
SURNAME Brabeck, Jobst Edmund von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brabeck, Jodocus Edmundus a
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, Drost von Liebenburg, builder of Söder Castle, owner of the huts in Stachelau and Liebenburg-Kunigunde
DATE OF BIRTH around 1700
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Liebenburg
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1767
Place of death uncertain: Söder Castle