Johann Bernhard von Francken

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Johann Bernhard von Francken (born December 2, 1668 in Burg an der Wupper , † November 10, 1746 in Regensburg ) was a baron , ambassador to the Electorate of the Palatinate , vice chancellor and conference minister . He built the Upper Palatinate Castle Pirkensee in its current form.

origin

His family comes from Monschau (formerly Montjoie), the parents were Johann Bernhard von Francken the Elder († 1698) and his wife Anna Margaretha nee. Bunny Clever. Johann Bernhard von Francken the Elder was originally secretary to Landgrave Georg II of Hesse-Darmstadt and came into the Electoral Palatinate's service when his daughter, Princess Elisabeth Amalia Magdalena , married the future Elector Philipp Wilhelm of the Palatinate in 1653 . Francken officiated as the Jülich-Bergischer official cellar at Burg Castle and operated nearby, as an entrepreneur, the so-called "Kellershämmer" . Most recently he lived in Düsseldorf as a court chamber councilor from 1684 .

Live and act

Pirkensee Castle , built by Johann Bernhard von Francken
Alliance coat of arms of the married couple at Hof Kaldenberg in Düsseldorf
Modern grave inscription of the daughter and her husband, Fußgönheim Castle

The son of the same name, Johann Bernhard von Francken (the younger), often called Joseph Bernhard, joined the electoral court chancellery in Düsseldorf at the age of 18 . With a doctorate in law, he became court and privy councilor there . From 1710 to 1716 he was Vice Chancellor of the Electoral Palatinate for the Upper Palatinate , in Amberg . Elector Karl Philipp valued Johann Bernhard von Francken and in 1720 appointed him his envoy to the Viennese imperial court. Here he received hereditary elevation to the baron status in 1721 and remained in his position until 1728. In that year he also took part in the Congress of Soissons as an authorized representative of the Electorate of Palatinate . In 1730 Francken was promoted to conference minister and ambassador to the Electoral Palatinate to the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg , which met in Frankfurt am Main from 1742 to 1745 as a result of the War of the Austrian Succession . He also often represented the Imperial Estates Kurtrier and Kurköln .

The elector gave (pledged) Johann Bernhard von Francken and his descendants the city of Erkelenz in 1727 . In 1731 he acquired Pirkensee Castle and had it rebuilt in its current form, in 1742 he bought the Hofmark Winklarn (Upper Palatinate) ; Hofmark Leonberg also belonged to his property.

The baron died in Regensburg in 1746 and rests with his previously deceased wife in the parish church of St. Leonhard zu Leonberg-Maxhütte , where their epitaph has also been preserved.

family

Johann Bernhard von Francken was married to Anna Sibilla geb. zum Pütz († 1740). Between 1710 and 1725 they owned Hof Kaldenberg in Düsseldorf, where they had their marriage coat of arms affixed to the archway in 1715. Both the Alian coat of arms with the corresponding inscription and the year 1734 also adorns the outer entrance gate to Pirkensee Castle. In 1737 they also erected a Trinity column with the same marriage coat of arms in a wooded area southeast of the castle .

The couple had two sons and three daughters who reached adulthood.

The son Johann Heinrich von Francken († 1782) succeeded his father as ambassador to the Palatinate at the Reichstag in Regensburg.

The daughter Anna Maria Josepha (1694–1739) married the Electoral Palatinate court chancellor and conference minister Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg (1681–1744). Both built Fußgönheim Palace , donated the village's Catholic parish and were buried together in the Mannheim garrison church. The regional historian Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg handed down her grave inscriptions in the “ Thesaurus Palatinus ” . The garrison church was demolished in 1780, its crypt remained underground and was forgotten. It was not found again until 1979 during construction work. Here the bones of the von Hallberg couple were also found and in 2003 they were transferred to a new sarcophagus in an unused crypt under the church wing of Fußgönheim Castle. From the castle courtyard you can look into the crypt through a window and a memorial plaque was placed there for the builder Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg and his wife Anna Maria Josepha nee. by Francken, who later found their final resting place here.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1867 , Perthes, Gotha, p. 192; (Detail scan)
  2. ↑ Website on the history of the cellar hammers near Remscheid
  3. ↑ Further website on the history of the basement hammers near Remscheid
  4. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1849 , Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha, p. 515; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ Tileman Dothias Wiarda : Ostfriesische Geschichte , Volume 7, p. 407, Aurich, 1797; (Explanation of the Soissons Congress)
  6. ↑ Frank and impartial reflections on the present peace congress at Soissons , Soissons, 1728, p. 92; (Digital scan with mention of Francken)
  7. ↑ The strangest news from the General Peace Congress , which was actually initiated at Soissons , 1728, p. 116; (Digital scan with mention of Francken)
  8. Jump up ↑ Schematic outline of the imperial convention, which was preceded by the most glorious government, Caroli VII, at Franckfurt am Mayn , Frankfurt, 1742; (Digital scan of a contemporary report on his activities in Frankfurt, 1742)
  9. ^ Georg Hager: The art monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Volume 2: Administrative region of Upper Palatinate and Regensburg , Issue 5: District Office Burglengenfeld , Munich, 1906 p. 95; (Digital scan)
  10. ↑ Georg Hager: The Art Monuments of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Volume 2: Administrative Region Upper Palatinate and Regensburg , Issue 5: District Office Burglengenfeld , pp. 104-106; (Digital scan)
  11. ^ Digital scan of Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg's grave inscription, in the Thesaurus Palatinus
  12. ^ Digital scan of the wife's grave inscription, in the Thesaurus Palatinus
  13. ↑ Website of the Garrison Church Mannheim
personal data
SURNAME Francken, Johann Bernhard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Francken, Joseph Bernhard von; Franken, Johann Bernhard von; Franconia, Joseph Bernhard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ambassador and Minister of the Electoral Palatinate
DATE OF BIRTH December 2, 1668
PLACE OF BIRTH Castle on the Wuper
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1746
Place of death regensburg