Johann Georg Seifert of Edelsheim

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Johann Georg Seifert (* 1639; † November 17, 1723 ), (also Seiffert , Seufert , Seuffert , Seyfahrt , Seyffert , Seyfried ), since 1673 with the noble title of Edelsheim (also Edelsheimb ) was raised to the imperial baron status in 1706 . He is the progenitor of the von Edelsheim family .

Career

Johann Georg Seifert was the son of a farmer or a miller, supposedly from a "village of Edelsheim" near Würzburg. The local indication of origin is unclear because the place of birth cannot be clearly identified. A corresponding "village" with a name written exactly like this does not exist (anymore) today.

He was in the service of the County of Hanau-Munzenberg . Here he rose to the rank of district president and chamber president . He was also an imperial and Kurmainzer assessor , court advisor and privy councilor . At the time of his death he was entitled: His Roman Imperial Majesty Reichshofrat, Electoral Mainz Privy Councilor, also Countess of the Hanau government and chamber president .

The Hanau “great year” 1669

Seiffert was involved in the failed "coup d'état" of Count Friedrich Casimir's younger brother , Johann Philipp von Hanau-Lichtenberg , in 1669 . It was about the struggle of the heavily indebted count, who tried to pursue a "modern" camaraderie (without the necessary money) on the one hand, and his agnates on the other, who tried to keep the country together against the count's excessive spending policy . Johann Georg Seiffert was on the side of this consolidation-conscious group. Count Friedrich Casimir accused him of high treason . However, he had fled Hanau in time and sought imperial protection from his Hanau employer, whom he sued in 1670 as an agent of the Imperial Court Council , because Hanau Count Friedrich Casimir had him and his further advice, Dr. Bernhard Lose, sentenced to a heavy fine. The count had their edictal charges hammered on the city gates of the Hanau city fortifications .

Count Friedrich Casimir pursued projects such as the establishment of a colony in Hanau-India , the settlement of highly profitable luxury industries such as the Hanau faience factory , the purchase of rarities for his collection or the expansion of the educational facilities in Hanau. Advisers such as Johann Joachim Becher , Bengt Skytte and Johann Michael Moscherosch were at his side. However, a significant part of these projects had to be pre-financed by the Count, without the latter having the necessary cash. He got heavily in debt, tried to make money through unconventional solutions, such as the offer to convert to the Roman Catholic faith, and ultimately sold the Rodheim office near Homburg vor der Höhe to Landgrave Georg Christian von Hessen-Homburg .

Resistance to this policy came mainly from the majority Calvinist Hanau citizenship, on the part of the wife of Friedrich Casimir, Princess Sibylle Christine von Anhalt-Dessau , and the guardianship of the descendants of his brother, Johann Reinhard II von Hanau-Lichtenberg , the heirs of the county , Count Philipp Reinhard and Count Johann Reinhard III. , as well as the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel , which had a manifest interest in maintaining the County of Hanau from a contract of inheritance from 1643. In 1669 the guardians of the two hereditary counts, their mother Anna Magdalena von Pfalz-Birkenfeld-Bischweiler and her brother, Duke Christian II von Pfalz-Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, obtained a mandate from the emperor, which counted Friedrich Casimir incapacitated . In February 1670, Hessen-Kassel finally forced the Hanau count to give in through military intervention and the presentation of an ultimatum. The government was now effectively collectively carried out by the guardians and Count Friedrich Casimir together. The old government was reinstated and Johann Georg Seiffert took up his work again, was promoted to court master and finally rose to chamber president ("finance minister") and head of the government of the county of Hanau. The Hanau religious trial of August 1670, which was supposed to strike a balance between the Reformed and Lutherans , was largely written by him.

family

He was married to Elisabeth von Speckhan (* September 18, 1637; † April 8, 1701), daughter of Statius von Speckhan (* 1599; † 1679). Three children are known from the marriage:

Elevation to the rank of nobility and barons

Seifert received the hereditary knightly imperial nobility with the predicate of Edelsheimb as Count of Hanau on December 12, 1673 in Vienna. As the electoral Mainz Privy Councilor and Count of Hanau-Münzenberg District President, he was granted the status of hereditary imperial baron on December 31, 1706 in Vienna.

When he became a councilor of the imperial knighthood of the Upper Rhine , he was supposed to have his coat of arms immortalized with four ancestral coats of arms in their knight's hall, according to an old custom. Since he could not show such ancestral coats of arms because of his origins, the man, who was praised for “his science, cleverness and other merits”, had the given coats of arms filled in with the words: 1. “Deo Autore”, 2. “Caesare Directore”, 3. “ Nobilitatis Favore ”, 4.“ Studio & Laboratories ”. Seifert, "who had raised himself through his studies, military service and a rich marriage," had the words "Bonis literis, justis armis, aptis nustiis" placed over the entrance of his newly built palace.

View into the courtyard of the Edelsheimschen Palais in Hanau, which was destroyed in 1945.

Property accumulation

The property of Johann Georg Seifert von Edelsheim included:

  • Edelsheimsches Palais in Hanau, a city residence in the vicinity of the Hanau City Palace , destroyed in 1945.
  • In 1674, Count Friedrich Casimir von Hanau-Lichtenberg enfeoffed the Hanau government and chamber president Johann Georg Seiffert von Edelsheim in recognition of his services to the County of Hanau with the former Kronberg fiefdom of Rumpenheim . The core of today's Rumpenheim Castle in Offenbach am Main goes back to a mansion that Johann Georg Seiffert von Edelsheim built from 1678. The mansion later became the central part of the castle. Ninety years later the von Edelsheim family sold their fiefdom to Prince Karl von Hessen-Kassel . In 1771 he expanded the manor house into a princely country seat.
  • In the middle of 1684 the Mosbach von Lindenfels family died out . This family held fiefs in Ueberau from two different sources. On June 23, 1684, the hereditary kitchen master in Hesse, Ludwig Wilhelm von Hertingshausen, received the Hessian fief of the late Mosbach von Lindenfels, including the Great Sinoltshof in Ueberau. Johann Georg Seyfahrt (Seiffert) von Edelsheim received the fiefdom of the county of Sponheim .
  • Leonhard Castle in Groß-Karben (1691–1790).
  • the Junkerhof in the vicinity of Dorfelden Castle .
  • Oak yard .
  • Hofgut in the center of Wachenbuchen .
Epitaph of Johann Georg Seifert von Edelsheim in the monastery church in Ilbenstadt .

End of life

Johann Georg Seifert von Edelsheim died in 1723. In the basilica of St. Peter and Paul in Niddatal-Ilbenstadt there is his epitaph in the north transept . The epitaph was created in 1719 by the Frankfurt sculptor Bernhard Schwartzenburger. A mourning poem was written for the funeral of Johann Georg Seifert von Edelsheim. A copper engraving (27 × 18 cm) by the Frankfurt copperplate engraver Peter Fehr (* 1681; † 1740) after a portrait by the Hanau painter Johann Heinrich Appelius (* 1684; † before 1733), around 1723, shows Johann Georg Seifert von Edelsheim's portrait ( Bust to the quarter right) as electoral councilor in Mainz and regional president of the county of Hanau-Münzenberg, including the inscription with coat of arms and incense, globe and compass. Two angels are depicted as allegories in the upper corners of the engraving, a warrior woman at the bottom right and a grieving woman at the bottom left. (Depiction of the epitaph in Ilbenstadt for Johann Georg and his son Friedrich Christian.)

literature

  • Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in Hanau. Hanauer history sheets. Vol. 34. Hanau 1996. ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
  • Reinhard Dietrich: ... because of large government led, but poor payment of debts ... On the financial situation of the County of Hanau in the 17th century. In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. 31, Hanau 1993, pp. 123-148.
  • Ferdinand Hahnzog : The Hanauer "great year" 1669. In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter . 20, 1965, pp. 129-146.
  • Johann Adam Bernhard : Hanauisches servant book. Hanau 1757/58, p. 34ff., Published in Karl Dielmann: On the history of the Junkernhof in Niederdorfelden, Hanau district. Hanauer Geschichtsblätter 24, 1973, pp. 58-61.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d CERL Thesaurus: Seifert von Edelsheimb, Johann Georg (1639 - 1723)
  2. ↑ Eight-page mourning poem for Johann Georg von Edelsheim, documented in: Catalog of funeral sermons and other mourning documents in the Central Office for Personal and Family History in Frankfurt Höchst = Marburger Personalschriftforschungen 36. Stuttgart 2003, No. 413.
  3. ^ A b Heinz Reitz: The development of the village of Ueberau since 1635. In: "Der Odenwald"; Journal of the Breuberg Association ; 38th year, issue 2, June 1991
  4. ^ Georg Winter:  Seufert v. Edelsheim, Friedrich Christian . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 34, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1892, p. 52 f.
  5. ↑ a b c d e f g h Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag Limburg / Lahn 1975, p. 81
  6. ↑ a b c d e Dieter Krieger: Hessisches Wappenbuch, 3rd part family coat of arms Volume 1 , CA Starke Verlag Limburg / Lahn 1999, p. 53 f.
  7. ^ Editors:  Edelsheim, Freiherren von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 309 ( digitized version ).
  8. ^ Ernst Julius Zimmermann: Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919. ND 1978, p. 747.
  9. ↑ Possibly it was just a hamlet , a single settlement (desert; for example homestead , mill or inn), as there were several under this name, such as in the "Topo-geographical Lexicon of the Kingdom of Bavaria" (Erlangen 1831) ( digitized version ) you can see. There are settlements with similar (place names are subject to in their history Changes) or same name listed that very had about 1831 small population: the village "Edelham" (also called "Edelsheim"): nine houses, 60 residents of the hamlet " Edelham "(also called" Edelheim "): 2 houses, 15 inhabitants, the desert" Edelhäuschen ": 13 inhabitants, the desert " Edelsheim " [!] (To the Mühldorf district, 2 hours' walk away), the hamlet" Edelhausen ": 7 houses, 1 mill [the father is said to have been a miller], 50 inhabitants, the further hamlet" Edelhausen "with 9 houses, 1 castle and 57 inhabitants, the desert" Edelhof "with 10 inhabitants, 2 desert areas" Edelmühle " "and a hamlet of the same name with 6 houses and 40 inhabitants, finally the single mill" Edelsmühle "(which was also called" Edelmühle ") with 5 [!] inhabitants and another single mill" Edelsmühle ". Since the Thirty Years' War (which was at the time JG Seifert still born) in many places the settlements by different circumstances up to the deserted village were decimated, one can assume that it also were other small settlements of similar names. It is possible that the statement of the spatial proximity to Würzburg is historically incorrect, then not only Adelsheim would come , but also Oedelsheim (part of Wesertal near Kassel ), the Lower Saxon Etelsen (name is interpreted as Edelsheim : [1] ) near Bremen (where Seifert's wife came) or the Palatinate Edesheim for the original origin (of the father) into consideration. Another possibility is that the name von Edelsheim is an art creation that has nothing to do with the actual origin, but was only interpreted in retrospect as a designation of origin. In any case, according to information from the Baden-Württemberg State Archives , the family comes from Würzburg. The family and manor archive of Edelsheim is located in the General State Archive of Karlsruhe , which belongs to the State Archive of Baden-Württemberg. (State Archive Baden-Württemberg, General State Archive Karlsruhe, 69 von Edelsheim: Family and Manorial Archives of Edelsheim ( digitized) )
  10. ^ Pierer's Universal Lexicon: Edelsheim
  11. ^ Catalog of funeral sermons and other mourning documents in the Central Office for Personal and Family History in Frankfurt Höchst = Marburger Personalschriftforschungen 36. Stuttgart 2003, No. 413.
  12. ^ The files of the Imperial Councilor of the Imperial Court: Antiqua - Volume 1 - File 362
  13. ↑ The files of the Imperial Council of the Imperial Court: http://www.rhrdigital.de/id/antiqua.1.362/akte.html Antiqua - Volume 1 - File 362 (preview)
  14. ↑ Dietrich, Constitution, p. 98.
  15. ↑ For the events of 1669 in total see Ferdinand Hahnzog: The Hanauer "great year" 1669. In: Hanauer Geschichtsblätter. 20, 1965, pp. 129-146.
  16. ↑ CERL Thesaurus: Edelsheim, Elisabeth von (1637 - 1701)
  17. ↑ a b CERL Thesaurus: Bechtolsheim, Sabina Helena Margaretha von (1676 - 1701)
  18. ↑ ( sic  ! The spelling without "b" at the end caught on.)
  19. ^ Bernhard, Dienerbuch , p. 35; Johann Georg Keyßler , Recent journeys through Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, Switzerland, Italy and Lorraine , Hanover 1751, p. 473 f. ( Digitized version )
  20. ↑ Kulturportal Hessen: Südhessen
  21. ^ Walther Möller: Genealogical contributions to the history of the Odenwald and the Bergstrasse. The one with the deer pole. In: AHG NF 24 (1952/3), p. 137
  22. ↑ General State Archives Karlsruhe: Dept. 69, No. 226. House book v. Edelsheim (1682), p. 130. Cf. on the v. Family. Edelsheim also wrote the essay by Dr. Gertrud Großkopf: Imperial property and manorial rule in Rendel. In: Wetterauer Geschichtsblätter 28 (1979) pp. 25-57.
  23. ↑ Eight-page mourning poem for Johann Georg von Edelsheim, documented in: Catalog of funeral sermons and other mourning documents in the Central Office for Personal and Family History in Frankfurt Höchst = Marburger Personalschriftforschungen 36. Stuttgart 2003, No. 413.
  24. ^ Artist gallery: Fehr, Peter (* 1681; † 1740)
  25. ↑ artfinder: Painters
  26. ^ Auctions Kaupp: Auctions since 2004
  27. ↑ Peter Bierl - Buch & Kunst Antiquariat: Edelsheim, Johann Georg Freiherr von (died 1723)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bierl-antiquariat.de  
personal data
SURNAME Seifert of Edelsheim, Johann Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seiffert of Edelsheim, Johann Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION State and Chamber President
DATE OF BIRTH 1639
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1723