Johann Aloys I. zu Oettingen-Spielberg

Oettingen Castle and St. Jakob Church, aerial photo (2016)

Johann Aloys I. Sebastian Ignaz Philipp zu Oettingen-Spielberg (born January 18, 1707 in Oettingen Castle in Oettingen in Bavaria ; † February 16, 1780 ibid) was a German prince .

Life

family

Johann Aloys I zu Oettingen-Spielberg was the son of Prince Franz Albrecht I zu Oettingen-Spielberg (born November 10, 1663 in Oettingen in Bavaria; † February 3, 1737 ibid), in 1688 Imperial Chamberlain, 1715 Imperial Privy Councilor and Imperial Court Councilor and his wife Freiin Maria Johanna Margarethe (born June 27, 1672; † April 25, 1727 in Oettingen in Bavaria), a daughter of Franz Ignaz Freiherr von Schwendi , Lord of Hohenlandsberg (1628–1686). On July 18, 1734, his father was raised to the rank of imperial prince and since that day 1st prince of Oettingen-Spielberg .

Of his fourteen siblings are known by name:

• Maria Anna Katharina von Oettingen-Spielberg (born September 21, 1693 in Vienna , † April 15, 1729 in Groß-Glogau , Silesia ) was Princess of Liechtenstein ;
• Maria Josepha Theresia zu Oettingen-Spielberg (born September 19, 1694; † August 21, 1738), married to Count Hermann Frederick von Hohenzollern-Hechingen (1665–1733);
• Marie Friederike Rosalie zu Oettingen Spielberg (born November 27, 1699; † January 15, 1759), married to Count Karl Siegfried von Königsegg-Aulendorf (1695–1765);
• Maria Franziska Luise zu Oettingen-Spielberg (* May 21, 1703; † 1737), wife of Joseph Franz Ernst von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1702–1769);
• Prince Anton Ernst zu Oettingen-Spielberg (* February 12, 1712 in Oettingen in Bavaria; † May 23, 1768 in Schwendi ), married to Maria Theresia Walpurga (* May 25, 1735; † December 23, 1789), daughter of Count Friedrich Anton Marquard Eusebius von Waldburg zu Trauchburg (1700–1744);
• Maria Gertrud Friederica Therese zu Oettingen-Spielberg (born April 17, 1714 in Oettingen in Bavaria; † November 30, 1771 in Vienna ), married to Count Joseph Maria Caspar von Wilczek (1700–1777), real secret councilor and treasurer , Lord Königsberg , Poruba , Polanka near Königsberg, Gross-Pohlom in the Wagstadt district , Polish-Ostrau , Hruschau , Michalkowitz , Hermanitz , Wirbitz , Muglinau , Konskau , Kostkowitz , as well as on Kreuzenstein and Seebarn in Lower Austria .

Johann Aloys I. zu Oettingen-Spielberg married Princess Theresia Maria Anna on May 23, 1735 in Watzdorf near Rohrbach an der Gölsen in Lower Austria (December 19, 1713 in Vienna; July 14, 1745 in Oettingen in Bavaria), a daughter of the Duke Leopold von Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg (January 12, 1674 in Brieg ; † March 4, 1744 in Vienna), Privy Imperial Councilor in Vienna. Bearer of the Order of the Golden Fleece .

Together they had three daughters, two of whom reached adulthood:

• Maria Leopoldine Princess zu Oettingen-Spielberg (born November 28, 1741; † February 28, 1795), married to Ernst Christoph von Kaunitz-Rietberg , the eldest son of State Chancellor Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz-Rietberg ;
• Maria Eleonore Princess zu Oettingen-Spielberg (born July 7, 1745 in Oettingen in Bavaria; † November 26, 1812 in Vienna), married to the Imperial Field Marshal Karl Borromäus von und zu Liechtenstein (1730–1789).

Map with the territories of the House of Oettingen in the middle of the 18th century: Principality of Oettingen-Spielberg (pink) and the counties of Oettingen-Wallerstein (yellow and light yellow) and Oettingen-Baldern (green). Also shown (purple) are the areas of the free imperial cities of Nördlingen (with half a dozen exclaves), Bopfingen and Dinkelsbühl.

Ownership

The house of Oettingen was split into three sub-counties in 1694:

• the Oettingen-Spielberg line;
• the Oettingen-Wallerstein line (prince 1774);
• the Oettingen-Baldern line.

The county of Oettingen-Spielberg, which belonged to the Swabian Empire , was subdivided into the upper offices of Aufkirchen , Dürrwangen , Mönchsroth , Oettingen and Spielberg , the Hochaltingen nursing office and the knighthood of Schwendi. In addition, there was state sovereignty over the Johanniterkommende Kleinerdlingen and the subjects of the Regensburg monastery of St. Clara in Utzwingen . The almost 20,000 inhabitants lived in the city of Oettingen, in 64 villages, 24 hamlets and 26 farms on an area of ​​around 500 square kilometers.

Career

Because his father was able to broaden the financial basis of his Spielberg house through his marriage to Maria Johanna Margarethe von Schwendi, who brought in the Schwendi and Achstetten estates , he made further acquisitions, which led to the elevation to the prince status.

Johann Aloys I. zu Oettingen-Spielberg was able to continue the acquisition policy of his father after the inheritance from 1737 and in 1742 acquired the goods of the secularized Benedictine Abbey of Mönchsroth and in 1764 the rule of Hochaltingen .

After he had only daughters as offspring and his wife died a week after the birth of the third daughter, the government of the principality was passed on to his nephew Johann Aloys II of Oettingen-Oettingen and Oettingen-Spielberg (born April 16, 1758 in Schwendi; † June 27, 1797 in Neuburg an der Donau ).

literature

• Funeral speech to commemorate the weyland of Mr. Johann Aloys Sebastian Ignaz Philipp Des Heil. Rom. Imperial princes of Oettingen-Spielberg: held in the parish church of Oettingen on 29 Hornung in 1780 . Lohse, 1780.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Worldhistory - persons of world history. Retrieved May 24, 2019 . 
2. ^ Carl Eduard Vehse: History of the German courts since the Reformation. P. 106. Hoffmann and Campe, 1858 ( google.de [accessed on May 24, 2019]).
3. ↑ Günther Ebersold: Karl August imperial prince of Bretzenheim: the political biography of a Non-political . P. 91 f. BoD - Books on Demand, 2004, ISBN 978-3-8334-1350-6 ( google.de [accessed on May 25, 2019]).