Johann Ernst Kregel von Sternbach

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Johann Ernst Kregel von Sternbach around 1707
around 1730

The Saxon court and judiciary Johann Ernst Kregel von Sternbach (born August 13, 1652 in Magdeburg ; †  December 26, 1731 in Leipzig ) was a wool merchant, councilor and master builder in Leipzig.

Life

Johann Ernst Kregel was the son of Nikolaus Kregel, a citizen of Magdeburg . He had become rich in Leipzig through wool wholesale. In 1690 he bought the Abtnaundorf estate northeast of Leipzig and became heir, feudal lord and court lord here . At Leipzig Neumarkt he built from 1695 to 1697 his house "to Great Fireball" from scratch. He later bought the adjacent land on Universitätsstrasse and, after it was rebuilt, created one of the first Leipzig passageways .

  • The great fireball 1722

  • The Georgenhaus

  • Abtnaundorf mansion

  • Gut Güldengossa

On August 22, 1697 he was raised to the imperial nobility by the Elector of Saxony Friedrich August I ("the Strong") with the predicate "Noble Lord of Sternbach" .

In addition to several foundations for the Leipzig Thomas School , he initiated the construction of the Georgenhaus am Brühl , which was used as a hospital , breeding and orphanage, and also made a financial contribution. From 1701 to 1709 he was its first head. The Georgenhaus is one of the predecessors of today's St. Georg Leipzig Clinic .

In 1720 he acquired the Güldengossa estate south of Leipzig. Here he built a spacious baroque mansion in 1721 and laid out a park. He also financed an extension to the local church and donated two bells.

As a master builder, he built the manor house for Gut Neuscherbitz in 1720 .

Kregel von Sternbach was the godfather to Johann Sebastian Bach's son Ernst Andreas on October 30, 1727 , who died two days later.

Kregel was married twice, first from 1678 to Anna Florentine Schultze, née Kleinau, and from 1692 to Johanna Susanna Graf.

After the death of Kregels von Sternbach, his son of the same name, District Chamber Councilor Johann Ernst Kregel von Sternbach († 1737), took over his inheritance, which is why the above is also called the elder.

Honor

Leipzig honored its former citizen in 1907 with the naming of Kregelstrasse in the Thonberg district and the Kregel von Sternbach family in 1932 with Sternbachstrasse in Abtnaundorf.

literature

  • Jan Bergmann: The Kregel von Sternbach family , in: Life pictures of the Saxon nobility I, ed. by Lars-Arne Dannenberg / Matthias Donath (Adel in Sachsen, vol. 5), Bernstadt ad Eigen 2014, pp. 31–82.
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : Neues Allgemeine Deutsches Adels-Lexicon , Vol. 5, Leipzig 1864, p. 278. (primarily related to the son; digitized in the Google book search)
  • Henriette Krahnstöver: Between Rüben and Güldengossa, from the memoirs of the castle gardener Reinhold Hofmann in the Leipzig area , Verlag Pro Leipzig, 2012, ISBN 978-3-936508-78-9 , pp. 108–117 Rittergut and Dorf Güldengossa, explanations and mentions of Johann Ernst Kregel von Sternbach

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Riedel: Stadtlexikon Leipzig from A to Z . PRO LEIPZIG, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-936508-03-8 , p. 206
  2. ↑ Data on the funeral sermon , accessed on March 2, 2014
  3. ^ Gina Klank, Gernot Griebsch: Lexikon Leipziger Strasseennamen , Verlag im Wissenschaftszentrum Leipzig, 1995, ISBN 3-930433-09-5 , pp. 127 and 202
personal data
SURNAME Sternbach, Johann Ernst Kregel from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sternbach the Elder, Johann Ernst Kregel von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German trade and councilor, heir, feudal lord and court lord
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1652
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH December 26, 1731
Place of death Leipzig