Johann Friedrich Hund of Saulheim

Johann Friedrich Hund von Saulheim on a contemporary foam coin

Family coat of arms of the dog of Saulheim

Johann Friedrich Hund von Saulheim (* before 1560; † March 19, 1635 in Heitersheim ) was a German knight , Catholic priest and from 1609 to 1612 Großbailli of the Order of St. John. From 1612 until his death, Prince of Heitersheim and Grand Prior of Germany.

Origin and family

He came from the 1750 extinct, Rheinhessen noble family of the dog from Saulheim , with its headquarters in Saulheim . They were originally ministerials to the Archbishop of Mainz , later they belonged to the knightly canton of Upper Rhine .

Johann Friedrich dog Saulheim was the son of Frederick II. Dog Saulheim and his second wife Regula Christophera of Affenstein , daughter of in Dirmstein -based Palatine Hofrichter Wolf of Affenstein born († 1556) and his second wife Dorothea Kistel from Dürkheim.

Half-sister of the mother was Maria von Affenstein († 1556), married to the Electoral Palatinate bailiff Jakob von Helmstatt , whose tombstone was moved from the Stephanskirche in Lambsheim to the Historical Museum of the Palatinate in Speyer because of its artistic quality .

Life

Johann Friedrich Hund von Saulheim entered the Order of Malta . He became a knight there and was ordained a priest.

In 1600 he officiated as Komtur von Kleinerdlingen , where he succeeded in reintroducing the Catholic faith.

He was Commander of Würzburg , Biebelried and Rottweil and built the new church of St. Johannis Beheading in Biebelried in 1606 . He had a brother who was the administrator in Biebelried and resigned in 1617 . His successor as Commander of Würzburg and Biebelried was Georg Christoph von Weitingen .

On the contemporary plaque for the new building of the church, he is referred to as the Commander of Würzburg, Schleusingen and Weißensee as well as the Imperial Council .

On March 24, 1612, Johann Friedrich Hund von Saulheim was elected Grand Prior of the German Order of Malta with his seat in Heitersheim, making him prince of the imperial rule of Heitersheim . As such, he represented his order in 1613 at the Reichstag .

The place Heitersheim 1644. The Franciscan church with the convent building is the right of the two churches

The historian Wolf-Dieter Barz writes about him that he “gained great importance for the place Heitersheim by trying to create order in all areas and to raise Heitersheim's position as a residence.” Johann Friedrich Hund von Saulheim settled the Franciscan order there to take over the pastoral care and donated him a plot of land to build a monastery in 1616, since he had stated "how bad the worship service was here" . The church and monastery were consecrated in 1619. In 1620 he issued a new regime for his principality.

Prince Hund von Saulheim died in 1635 after experiencing the first plunder of his residence in Heitersheim in 1633, during the Thirty Years' War . He was buried in the choir of the Franciscan church there, which he helped donate and which was demolished in 1812. Only the convent building has been preserved as today's rectory.

His brother Wilhelm Hund von Saulheim († 1632) was cathedral capitular in Mainz and Speyer , the sisters Margareta Kanonisse in Frauenalb and Brigitta Nonne in the Poor Clare Monastery in Speyer .

In Heitersheim, on the Schilzberg, there is a wayside cross from 1633, which Johann Friedrich Hund von Saulheim is said to have donated and which apparently relates to the looting of the place during the Thirty Years War.

Peter Kaltenbach, Vogt in Britzingen in Baden , noted the events of 1633 in his camp book: “As with such great unbearable misery and hardship, the majority of people fled to Heitersheim, especially the Britzingers, so the revered Prince and Herr Johann were in such misery Friedrich, the chivalrous St. Johannis Order Colonel Master in German lands, the expelled margrave subjects, but especially those from this Bailiwick of Britzingen, did much good, given protection and protection ... "

Memorial plaque for the new building of St. Johannis Beheading in Biebelried

literature

• Wolf-Dieter Barz: The Heitersheim rule of rule of the Order of St. John, Order of Malta from 1620 , p. XXI u. XXII, LIT Verlag, Münster, 1999, ISBN 3825845001 ; (Digital scan)
• Bernhard von Koehne : Journal for Coin, Seal and Heraldry , Volume 4, P. 365, Berlin, 1844; (Digital scan)
• Walter Gerd Rödel: The German (grand) priors. In: Bernard Andenmatten (arrangement), Petra Zimmer and Patrick Braun (ed.): Helvetia Sacra, 4th department, volume 7, part 1 Die Johanniter, pp. 51–76, Schwabe Verlag, Basel, 2006, p. 68 / 69.

Web links

• Data page in the portal thesaurus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Peter G. Bietenholz, Thomas Brian Deutscher: Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation , Volume 1, pp. 10-12, University of Toronto Press, 2003, ISBN 0802085776 ; (Digital scan, English biography of Wolf von Affenstein)
2. ↑ Johann Benedict Carpzov: Newly opened temple of honor of remarkable antiquities of the Marggraffthums Ober-Lausitz, Leipzig , 1719, p. 679; (Digital scan)
3. ↑ Johannes A. Mol, Klaus Militzer, Helen J. Nicholson: The Military Orders and the Reformation: Choices, State Building, and the Weight of Tradition , 2006, ISBN 9065509135 , p. 107; (Digital scan)
4. ^ Josef Hoh: Biebelried, the Johanniterdorf. A contribution to the history of the Johanniter in Franconia In: Fränkische Heimat No. 4 from 1932
5. ^ Constantin Karl Falkenstein: History of the Order of St. John , 1st volume, p. 133, Dresden, 1833; (Digital scan)
6. ^ Lupold von Lehsten: The Hessian Reichstag Envoy in the 17th and 18th Century , Volume 2, p. 79, footnote 342, Hessische Historische Kommission Darmstadt, 2003, ISBN 3884430912 ; (Detail scan)
7. ^ Website of the Franciscan monastery in Heitersheim
8. ^ Johann Heinrich Zedler: Large, complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts , Halle, 1739, Volume 19, Column 2426 (digital scan)
9. ↑ Johann Benedict Carpzov: Newly opened temple of honor of remarkable antiquities of the Marggraffthums Ober-Lausitz, Leipzig , 1719, p. 679; (Digital scan)
10. ^ Newspaper article, Badische Zeitung , August 26, 2008
11. ↑ Website with an enlargeable photo of the wayside cross
12. ↑ Christian P. Herbst: Chronicle of Britzingen in the Grand Duchy of Baden , Freiburg, 1841, pp. 88 and 97; (Digital scan)

predecessor	Office	successor
Arbogast from Andlau	Grand Prior of the German Order of Malta and Prince von Heitersheim 1612–1635	Hartmann von der Tann
Wilhelm von Cronberg	Grand Bailli of the Order of St. John 1609–1612	Georg Christoph von Weitingen