Johann Franz Jakob Anton von Hoheneck
Johann Franz Jakob Anton von Hoheneck (born June 13, 1686 ; † May 8, 1758 ) was a German cathedral dean in Mainz and canon in the prince-bishopric of Worms .
Origin and family
He came from the Palatine noble family of the barons of Hoheneck, which died out in 1808, with their ancestral castle Hohenecken near Kaiserslautern . The ancestor of the family was the Lauterer Reichsschultheiß Reinhard I de Lutra († 1218), whose son Landolf von Hoheneck († 1247) officiated as Bishop of Worms .
Live and act
Johann Franz Jakob Anton von Hoheneck was born as the child of the Electorate Mainz Rittmeister , Chamberlain and Oberamtmann zu Tauberbischofsheim , Lothar Friedrich von Hoheneck (1654–1705) and his wife Eva Maria geb. von Bernhausen (1673–1729). His great-grandmother Anna von Hoheneck geb. Countess Wolff-Metternich zur Gracht (1573–1626) was the niece of the famous Speyer cathedral dean Adolph Wolff von Metternich zur Gracht (1553–1612).
The von Hoheneck family traditionally had many spiritual members. The uncles Anselm Franz von Hoheneck († 1704), Philipp Franz Adolph von Hoheneck (1645–1705), Johann Adam von Hoheneck († 1731) and Wilderich Marsilius von Hoheneck († 1735) as well as his own brother Johann Philipp von Hoheneck († 1743) ) were also canons or clerics.
Johann Franz Jakob Anton von Hoheneck also entered the clergy. From 1695 he owned canons at the Mainz Cathedral Monastery , in 1717 he was appointed here and in 1722 in Worms Cathedral Chapter , in 1738 he was elected Dean of the Mainz Cathedral . In addition, he acted as dean of the knightly monastery of St. Ferrutius zu Bleidenstadt and as the secret council of the elector and his governor in Mainz . At the coronation of Emperor Charles VII on February 12, 1742, in the Frankfurt Cathedral , Hoheneck appeared as the representative of the Archbishop of Mainz and proclaimed the new ruler from a platform in the church. In 1743 he was characterized as follows: "Sincere and dutiful, strict against himself and others." To mark his 45th anniversary as a canon, he had a silver commemorative medal struck in 1740 with the Mainz diocese patron St. Martin . It says u. a. (in Latin): "Jubilation priest 1 year, dean 2 years, capitular 23 years, age 54 years, ownership (of the canon office) 45 years" .
In 1754 Archbishop Johann Friedrich Karl von Ostein founded the Academy of Charitable Sciences in Erfurt and appointed the scientifically interested cathedral dean von Hoheneck as its special protector , who took care of the construction on his behalf.
In 1756 the prelate bought an older building in Bensheim an der Bergstrasse and had the Hohenecker Hof built here. He also carries his coat of arms stone as the client.
As the Worms cathedral capitular, he donated a Rococo epitaph to his early family member, Bishop Landolf von Hoheneck († 1247) in his church of the Holy Sepulcher Maria Münster (Nonnenmünster) in 1756, which was placed in the Worms cathedral when this monastery was dissolved (1802) (today the northern transept ).
In the “Genealogical Handbook” by Gottlob Friedrich Krebel and Gottlieb Schumann, Johann Franz Jakob Anton von Hoheneck is referred to in 1758 as the “senior” of the Worms cathedral chapter .
Dean von Hoheneck had two altars erected in the north transept of Worms Cathedral, one of which was a St. Mary's altar. The altars themselves have disappeared today (2015), but there is still a memorial inscription referring to them, which at the same time represents an epitaph inscription by the founder Johann Franz Jakob Anton von Hoheneck and also to his spiritual relatives, the canons of Worms Johann Adam von Hoheneck ( † 1731), Wilderich Marsilius von Hoheneck († 1735) and Johann Philipp von Hoheneck († 1743).
The brother Johann Philipp († 1743) donated the two side altars flanking the high altar of Worms Cathedral, which also bear the Hoheneck coat of arms.
His nephew, the Mainz cathedral cantor Philipp Karl von Hoheneck , died in 1808 as the last male offspring of the noble family.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archive for Middle Rhine Church History , Volume 32, 1980, p. 243.
- ↑ Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv Reichskammergericht: No. 4492-5084 (letter H) , Volume 50 of: Bayerische Archivinventare. Self-published by the General Directorate of the Bavarian State Archives, 1994, p. 482, ISBN 3-921635-86-1 ( detail scan ).
- ↑ Genealogical website about the grandmother
- ^ Sources and studies on the history of the Teutonic Order , Volume 25, 1971, p. 229 (detail scan of Franz Anselm and Philipp Franz Adolph von Hoheneck)
- ^ Website on the epitaph of his brother Johann Philipp von Hoheneck in Würzburg, with family genealogy
- ↑ a b Dela von Boeselager : Capella Clementina: Elector Clemens August and the coronation of Emperor Charles VII (= studies on Cologne Cathedral . Volume 8). Archdiocese of Cologne, 2001, p. 380 (detail scan)
- ↑ Mainzer Zeitschrift , Volume 103, Verlag des Mainzer Altumsverein, 2008, p. 126.
- ↑ Illustration of the medal
- ↑ Yearbooks of the Royal Academy of Non-Profit Science in Erfurt , Volume 30, 1904, p. 146 (detail scan)
- ↑ Website on the Hohenecker Hof in Bensheim
- ^ Ernst Wörner: Art monuments in the Grand Duchy of Hesse: inventory and descriptive representation of the works of architecture, sculpture, painting and the arts and crafts up to the end of the 18th century. Century: Province of Rheinhessen, District of Worms , Darmstadt 1887, p. 189 (online) and 201 (online)
- ↑ Gottlob Friedrich Krebel, Gottlieb Schumann: Genealogisches Hand-Buch. Leipzig 1758, p. 172; (Digital scan)
- ^ Mainzer Zeitschrift, Verlag des Mainzer Altertumsverein, 1911, p. 47; (Detail scan)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Hoheneck, Johann Franz Jakob Anton von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German cathedral dean in Mainz and canon in the prince-bishopric of Worms |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 13, 1686 |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1758 |