Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck

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Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck, copper engraving from 1748

Johann Georg Adam Baron von Hoheneck (born January 29, 1669 in Schlüßlberg ; † August 11, 1754 ibid) was an Upper Austrian genealogist , historian and politician who lived primarily on his estates in the Hausruckviertel (Schlüßlberg, Gallspach ).

Life

Parents and ancestors

The ancestors of the Hohenecker family come from a farm in Hoheneck near Reischach , near Altötting . They had risen from the peasant class through military service. The oldest tangible offspring of the family is Hermann Hohenecker, who served as the district judge in Vilshofen in 1354 and was referred to as strenuus miles (= powerful, brave knight ) when he died in 1370 . The Hohenecker first appeared in Austria during the 15th century. Valentin Hohenecker acquired the Machländische Schloss Breitenbruck in the parish of Katsdorf in 1441 , Hans Hohenecker zu Rauscheck and Reisach († approx. 1536) came in 1514 together with his brothers Leo and Martin into the possession of the rule and fortress Hagenberg in the Riedmark . His son Jörg (1524-1587) 1561 Council, Regent of the regiment of the Lower Austrian countryside, 1561 knighthood councilor of the country whether the Enns and 1585. Regional Hunting . The line leads through Ehrenreich (1570–1620), Hans Trojan († 1644) and Hans Adam (1636–1682) into the Trattnachtal . Hans Adam acquired the Schlüßlberg estate in 1668. It was here that his second wife, Anna Franziska von Oedt (1645–1725), gave birth to their son Johann Georg Adam on January 29, 1669.

Youth, studies, cavalier tour

He spent his first years at Schloss Schlüßlberg, where he received his first lessons. At the age of twelve he came to the Jesuits in Linz and Steyr . After completing the six-year high school, he went on a cavalier tour , as was customary in aristocratic circles at that time . This took him via Besançon , Strasbourg , Speyer , Heidelberg , Worms , Mainz , Frankfurt , Cologne and Nijmegen to the Netherlands, where he visited Utrecht , Amsterdam , Leiden , The Hague , Delft and Rotterdam . Unlike France, he liked the Netherlands very much. He finally reached Paris on September 7, 1688 via Middelburg , Ghent , Antwerp and Brussels . Here he fell victim to the political disagreement between Austria and France. As a countermeasure for the arrest of French agents in Hungary, King Louis XIV had the members of the Reich present in his capital arrested and brought to the Bastille . Among them was Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck. The detention was only a kind of internment - he was allowed to walk in the garden and in the courtyard of the prison every day and listen to mass every day - the fortress gates did not open again for him until January 11, 1689, under the condition that within four weeks France to leave.

family

After the unsuccessful cavalier tour, the mother urged an early marriage. The choice fell on the wealthy widow Sabina Elisabeth Märck von Gneisenau zu Helfenberg and Piberstein (* 1655), widow of the estate owner Franz Friedrich von Stibar zu Kröllendorf , who died in 1683 and to whom she had borne just as many children in nine years of marriage. The wedding was on February 5, 1690. Despite the age difference of 14 years, the two had a very happy and harmonious marriage, which resulted in seven children: Johann Georg Emanuel (1692–1770), Johann Georg Leo (1694–1763), Maria Josepha Theresia (1696–1753) and Johann Georg Brixius (1698–1765); Anna Sabina Elisabeth (* 1690), Johann Georg Trojan (* 1695) and Maria Anna Rosina (* 1699) died as children. The wife passed away on January 30th, 1707 on a heated stick-cathar and was buried with the Minorites in Linz next to the Predig-Stuehls . His eldest stepdaughter Maria Sabina von Stibar (1681–1755) took the place of mother and housekeeper.

Hoheneck as a squire

In 1690 he took over an economically troubled paternal inheritance, which consisted of the Schlüßlberg rule and the aristocratic Brunnhof estate in Lower Austria, as well as the Bavarian family feuds in the courts of Reischach , Eggenfelden , Reichenberg and Rosenheim . A debt burden of 32,858 fl ( gulden ) was offset by assets of 38,860 fl. As early as 1694 he was able to increase the ownership by buying the Feyereckerische Freihaus at the riding school in Linz. Trattenegg was bought in 1700, Gallspach in 1709 , Rechberg in Lower Austria in 1713 and St. Pantaleon in Lower Austria in 1717 . In 1721 he acquired the houses at Hofgasse 20 and 22 in Linz from Count Ferdinand Bonaventura von Weißenwolff, in 1728 the Tröstelberg estate , in 1732 the forest offices of Stampfegg and Weitersfelden and in 1736 the Waizenkirchneramt. In order to keep at least part of the property of his descendants undivided, he set up a Fideikommiss in the form of a seniorate in 1713 , which represented a value of about 170,000 fl. Around 1750, 226 subjects belonged to the Gallspach dominion, which produced a net profit of 2,108 fl, and 108 subjects to the Schlüßlberg dominion, which produced 1,331 fl. He expanded his market in Gallspach considerably by adding the Neumarkt and St. Georgsgasse. He demonstrated his social commitment to his subjects by setting up two hospitals (old people's homes) in Schlüßlberg (1701) and Gallspach (1710).

Holding public office

In 1696, 1706, 1716 and 1718 von Hoheneck was a member of the Estates Committee; 1699 Raitrat ; 1706–08 and 1718–20 ordained for the Upper Austrian knighthood. In the War of the Spanish Succession in 1702 he was appointed chief commissioner and magazine director in the Hausruckviertel . Under his leadership, two thousand workers equipped with picks, hoes and shovels destroyed the Bavarian border fortifications between Peuerbach and Erlach near Kallham on the night of April 3rd, 1703 . After storming Ried, he campaigned for the military to protect the civilian population who had fled to the church. In gratitude for the salvation of his goods in this war, he erected a seven meter high Trinity Column in Unterberg in 1708, which has been in Grieskirchen since 1979 . In the summer and autumn of 1713 he acted as a medical commissioner in Wels during a plague epidemic .

For his services to the fatherland, Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck was given an imperial rescript from Emperor Karl VI on March 16, 1716 . raised to the baron status. The enrollment with the estates took place in September 1722. On July 8, 1730, the admission into the Lower Austrian gentry took place.

Hoheneck's grave

After his death on August 11, 1754 at the age of 86, Hoheneck's heart was buried in the crypt of the Schlüßlberg castle chapel. The body found its final resting place in the tower crypt under the bell house of the parish church Gallspach . There an epitaph with a colored portrait reminds of him. He chose the site of his final resting place for two reasons. Once he did not see himself worth resting inside the house of God. On the other hand, he wanted to offer those subjects whom he was said to have done injustice during his lifetime the opportunity to trample him at least after his death. In the course of the partial demolition and rebuilding of the parish church in Gallspach, the Hohenecker crypt was archaeologically examined in 2005 on behalf of Georg Spiegelfeld , the bones of Freiherr von Hoheneck were identified and on November 23, 2005 with the other family members in four specially made urns made of chrome-nickel steel in the Family crypt newly buried in Gallspach.

Hoheneck as a historian and writer

Title page of the first volume (1727) of the three-volume work written by Hoheneck The praiseworthy gentlemen, gentlemen's estate deß Ertz-Hertzogthumbs Oesterreich ob der Ennß .
  • Annotationes : youth work in which, beginning from 1636, he recorded all family events and between 1671 and 1688 also other events.
  • The laudable gentlemen, gentlemen of the Ertz-Hertzogthumb Austria ob der Ennß : His main work. Published in three volumes in 1727, 1732 and 1747.
  • Biographies of all Roman emperors up to Charles VI. : written in 1735
  • The war, and in turn calmed the Archduchy of Austria ob der Enns : Description of the homage of the estates to Karl Albrecht of Bavaria and the reconquest of the country by the troops of Maria Theresa .
  • The tomb of the freedom of the estates : it contains the extensive elimination of the estates by Maria Theresa in the years 1748 to 1751.
  • Schlüßlbergerarchiv : The most important private archive in the Province of Upper Austria. Was bought by the country in 1834.

progeny

Descendants of his daughter Maria Josepha Theresia (1696–1753), who married Johann Weickhart Gottfried Adam Count Engl von und zu Wagrain in 1720 , still live today and live again at Schloss Schlüßlberg. Of his sons, only Johann Georg Emanuel (1692–1770) and his wife Maria Elisabeth Freiin von Grünthal (Grienthal) had male descendants: Johann Georg Ferdinand († 1727), Johann Georg Rudolf († 1737) and Johann Georg Ehrenreich (1718–1786) ). The latter acquired the Freihaus Promenade 7 in Linz in 1774 and was elevated to the rank of imperial count on February 6, 1775 . His only son was Johann Georg Achaz (1754–1796) from his marriage to Maria Anna, Reichsfreiin von Imsland. Since the latter did not want to marry, the Hohenecker family died out with him. He adopted his nephew Ferdinand Maria Johann so that the name and coat of arms could be continued. His unmarried aunts Maria Anna Josepha and Maria Anna Jacobina von Hoheneck, his eldest sister Leopoldina (1749–1831), who also remained unmarried, and the younger sisters Maria Anna (1752–1799) and Maria Susanna (1756) made claims to the rich family heritage –1836), both of whom were married to Freiherr Ferdinand Maria von Imsland (1765–1831). Children only grew out of Maria Anna's marriage, of which only Ferdinand Maria Johann (1793–1871) reached adulthood. Without marriage or children, he decided to join the Imsland family.

A comparison of the three core rulers of the Hoheneckischen Fideikommiss from the year 1809 shows that the market and the rule Gallspach with a value of 52,700 fl, the rule Schlüßlberg with 41,525 fl and Trattenegg with 26,350 fl. The resulting income amounted to 2,384 fl (Gallspach), 1,500 fl (Schlüßlberg) and 1,234 fl (Trattenegg).

literature

Literature on the person of Hoheneck:

Further literature:

  • J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms. Volume 4, Department 5: Alois Freiherrn von Starkenfels, Johann Evangelist Kirnbauer von Erzstätt : Upper Austrian nobility. New, fully ordered and richly increased edition. Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1885–1904.
  • Ferdinand Krackowizer : The archive of Schlüsselberg in Upper Austria. State Archives to Linz. Urfahr Press Association, Linz 1899.
  • Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in the Innviertel and Alpine foothills (= castles and palaces. Upper Austria. Volume 2). Vienna 1964.
  • Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. A guide for castle hikers and friends of home. 3rd, revised edition. Upper Austrian Provincial Publishing House, Linz 1976.
  • Wolfgang Perr, Bertram Scharinger, Helmuth Wansch: Gallspach. 550 years of the market. Wiesner, Wernstein 1989, ISBN 3-900663-02-5 .
  • Wolfgang Perr: Parish chronicle of Gallspach in 3 volumes , Bad Ischl 2014. Volume 1: Dominion ( online , as of 09/2019), Volume 2: Parish ( online , as of 09/2019), Volume 3: Market and surrounding area ( online , as of 09/2019) 10/2019).
  • Alois Stocker: The nobles from Hoheneck. In: Oettinger Land. Volume 10, 1990, ISSN  0723-5127 .
  • Wolfgang Perr: Archaeological excavations in Gallspach. In: The Bundschuh. Series of publications Museum Innviertler Volkskundehaus . Volume 9, 2006, ZDB -ID 2001456-9 , pp. 17–24 (concerns the old church cemetery).
  • Angelika Aspernig, Walter Aspernig: Castle history (s). Region Wels - Hausruck (= sources and representations on the history of Wels. Volume 12, ZDB -ID 2220485-4 ). Musealverein Wels, Wels 2010, pp. 133–140.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heilingsetzer 2017, p. 144.
  2. ↑ a b Heilingsetzer 2017, p. 150.
  3. ↑ a b Heilingsetzer 2017, p. 151.
  4. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels Lexicon. Volume 4, Leipzig 1863, p. 425.
personal data
SURNAME Hoheneck, Johann Georg Adam von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoheneck, Johann Georg Adam Imperial Baron of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Upper Austrian genealogist, historian and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1669
PLACE OF BIRTH Schlüßlberg
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1754
Place of death Schlüßlberg