Johann Christian Wirth
Johann Christian Wirth (born July 21, 1756 in Hof (Saale) ; † October 8, 1838 in Oberröslau ) was a Protestant pastor and is best known as the host of Baron Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow .
Life
The Frankish theologian Wirth 1793 pastor in Saxony Eichigt in Vogtland . Several years later, in 1813, the legendary Baron Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow's “Black Hunters” kept a bivouac in Eichigt during the battle against Napoleon I , because they wanted to raid Hof to win the Hofers over to fight Napoleon. The camp is said to have been on a meadow next to the church. While the writer Theodor Körner had to spend the night in the camp, Lützow found accommodation in Wirth's rectory.
In 1814 Wirth took up a new pastorate in Rehau in Upper Franconia . According to H. Höllerich (Church and Parish Rehau, 1970), Wirth was more interested in education, health education, alchemy and magic than in community life during his time in Rehau, and he wasted his energy in combating pietistic, awakening trends in the community.
When Wirth took up his duties, the damage caused by the fire in 1763 was as good as repaired. The years 1814 and 1815 were under the influence of the Wars of Liberation , as French, Austrian, Saxon, Prussian and Russian troops marched through Rehau and some of them had to be billeted. During Wirth's term of office the even more devastating city fire of September 6, 1817 fell. Wirth witnessed how the rectory and parish church burned down; his pseudoscientific attempts to make the house fire-proof through strange precautions had failed. In addition, he was too shocked and too phlegmatic to save important things from the burning rectory. Numerous irreplaceable church records have been lost forever.
The construction work after the fire overwhelmed Wirth and so he left the community six months later, in spring 1818, and moved to Oberröslau , where he stayed until his death.
literature
- Hans Höllerich : History of the church and parish Rehau . Rehau 1970.
- Matthias Simon: Bayreuth Pastors' Book. The Evangelical Lutheran Clergy of the Principality of Kulmbach-Bayreuth (1528 / 29–1810) (= individual works from the church history of Bavaria, Volume 12). Kaiser, Munich 1930.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wirth, Johann Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant pastor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 21, 1756 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hof (Saale) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 8, 1838 |
| Place of death | Oberröslau |