Johann Georg von Rechenberg
Johann Georg von Rechenberg , also Hans George Baron von Rechenberg , Johannes Georg von Rechenbergk or Hanßgeorg von Rechenbergk , (born October 11, 1610 in Cunnersdorf , Oberlausitz ; † April 7, 1664 in Dresden ) was a Saxon court marshal , real secret councilor , upper chamberlain and head stable master . Under the company name The Reserved , he was accepted as a member of the Fruitful Society .
Live and act
Johann Georg was born in 1610 as the son of Baron Johann Joseph von Rechenberg on Cunnersdorf in Upper Lusatia . His mother was Ursula von Gersdorf from the Lipsa house . In 1629 he came to the court of Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony as the page of the electoral prince . From 1633 to 1636 Prince Elector Johann Georg II let him travel to England, France and the Netherlands at his own expense. In 1639 von Rechenberg acquired what is now the Blüherpark , outside the city walls in front of Dresden's Pirna Gate , on which he had a pleasure palace built fourteen years later . In 1641 he was appointed stable master and electoral chief chamberlain and Emperor Ferdinand III. In 1656 he renewed the baron status confirmation that his ancestors had had for his services .
After Elector Johann Georg II took over government in 1656, he was appointed Ober-Hof-Marshal and Ober-Cammer-Herr . In 1657, the manor came over the manor Hermsdorf including Wahnsdorf by transferring Prince Elector Johann Georg II to the Baron von Rechenberg. In the same year he acquired the Bischofsberg in Zitzschewig , from which he made the Hohenhaus , among other things by converting an existing winegrower's house . His wife Rachel von Werthern , daughter of Dietrich von Werthern zu Frohndorf, owner of Triestewitz Castle , added another vineyard to the property, which from then on comprised sixteen contiguous mountain parts. After the death of her husband, she acted as the guardian of her sons Hans Dietrich and Hans Georg.
In 1658, Rechenberg, as the Saxon court marshal, was one of the companions of his elector Johann Georg II. In the election of Leopold I as emperor in Frankfurt am Main and was then appointed real secret councilor and prime minister , and in 1664 he was appointed chief stable master . After his death in the same year, the elector personally arranged the funeral ceremonies and personally attended them in the presence of Prince Elector Johann Georg , Duke Moritz von Sachsen-Zeitz and Landgrave Georg Christian von Hessen-Homburg . He was buried on April 14th in the Dresden Kreuzkirche .
Marriages and offspring
Johann Georg Freiherr von Rechenberg, Herr zu Herrmannsdorf, Reichenau, Eytra, Hof, Mausitz, Rehemitz, Radeburg, Zschochau, Tristewitz, Buchwalda, Draßdorf, Grünberg, Cracau and Schmiedeberg , was married three times, with almost all goods being in his two last marriages his possession came:
1. (on January 21, 1638) with Perpetua Juliana († July 9, 1645 in Dresden), daughter of Wolf Albrecht von Carlowitz from the house of Griebenstein , captain of the Pleissenburg fortress , of which he was only one daughter, wife of the Lord of 1660 Schönberg zu Biberstein , left behind
2. (on November 2, 1646) with Magdalena Sophia († February 5, 1655 at Sonnewalde Palace ), daughter of Baron Reinhard von Taube at Neukirchen and Höckericht , Saxon chief stable master and governor of Chemnitz. All five children in this marriage died at a young age before their father.
3. (on February 18, 1656) with Rahel († January 17, 1677), daughter of Dietrich von Werther , Kaiserlicher Erb-Kammerthürhüther and Chursächsischer Secret Rath, Chamber Director and Bergrath on Beichlingen , Frohndorf and Eytra . Of the five children from this marriage, only one daughter and two sons survived the father. His son Johann Dietrich, Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor, left only two daughters from his morganatic marriage . Johann Georg, the other son, Royal Polish Privy Councilor and Chamberlain, captain of the Leipzig district , envoy in Hanover, married Luise (1671–1709), daughter of Hans Adam von Schöning , and died in 1729 at the age of 70.
literature
- Jakob Christoph Beck , August Johann Burtorff, Jakob Christoph Iselin : Neu- Vermehrtes Historisch- und Geographisches Allgemeine Lexicon , 1744, page 1055 f.
- Sebastian Gottfried Starcke: Feudum Vitae aeternae Regale , 1664.
Web links
- Hermsdorf Castle & Park
- Triestewitz Castle
- Christian Heinker: Johann Georg von Rechenberg (1610–1664) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hohenhaus Radebeul: From the bishop's seat to the fairytale castle
- ↑ Schloss Triestewitz: Family von Werthern, Family von Rechenberg ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Stadtwiki Dresden: February 27, 1660
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Rechenberg, Johann Georg von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rechenberg, Hans George Baron von; Rechenberg, Johann Georg Freiherr von; Rechenbergk, Hanßgeorg von; Rechenbergk, Johannes Georg von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Saxon court marshal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1610 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cunnersdorf , Upper Lusatia |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1664 |
| Place of death | Dresden , Electorate of Saxony |