Johann Hartwig von Nostitz-Rieneck

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Johann Hartwig von Nostitz-Rieneck, portrait by Karel Škréta after 1672

Johann Hartwig of Nostitz-Rieneck (even Hanns Hartwig von Nostitz , Czech January Hartvik for Nostic * 1610 in Kunz village ; † 23. March 1683 in Vienna ) was from 1652 to 1683 High Chancellor of Bohemia of the emperor and Privy Councilor Leopold I .

Life

Johann Hartwig came from the noble family Nostitz . His parents were Hans von Nostitz (1562–1619) on Seifersdorf and Heidersdorf , governor of the Duchy of Wohlau and Sophia, née. von Nostitz- Rottenburg on Neundorf (1582–1656). The parents were of the Evangelical Lutheran denomination.

After the early death of his father, he lived temporarily with his uncle, who had converted to Catholicism, the Bohemian Vice Chancellor and Baron Otto von Nostitz (1574–1630). In 1628/29 he had united his estates Falkenau and Groß Tschochau in Bohemia into a Fideikommiss and designated his nephew Johann Hartwig von Nostitz to Seifersdorf and Heidersdorf, along with the privilege of the old manor, as universal heirs in his will of April 16, 1630, on the condition that that he must be of Catholic faith. After Otto's death, Johann Hartwig - meanwhile converted to Catholicism - inherited the majoratsgut Falkenau and Tschochau as well as the Heinrichsgrün , Littmitz , Hlinay estates along with Staditz, Suchay, Morowan and Habrowan , as well as the rank of nobility.

Nostitz studied law in Siena, among others . It was not until 1638 that he entered his Falkenau residence. The emperor had appointed him next to Philipp von Hertenberg auf Pichlberg as captain of the Elbogen district , to which the Falkenau rule belonged.

Seal of Johann Hartwig von Nostitz-Rieneck as Colonel Chancellor of Bohemia 1652–1683
Palais Nostitz in Prague

From 1644 he was appointed President of the Prague Chamber of Appeals and from 1650/51 to the Bohemian Oberstlandrichter and Oberstlandkämmerer. Since 1652, as a strict Catholic, he shaped the re-Catholicization of Bohemia for almost 30 years as Chancellor Colonel . Especially in his rule, he pushed the Counter Reformation . For example, he founded the Capuchin monastery in Falkenau, where he elevated the parish to archdechantry in 1671. In addition, he campaigned for the reorganization of the economic and financial system of the Bohemian state politics. At the same time, he was a privy councilor in the inner cabinet of Emperor Leopold I.

On May 6, 1646, he was ennobled as Count of Bohemia, and on May 9, 1651 he was promoted to titular Count . On February 5, 1652 he was appointed Chancellor Colonel of Bohemia and Privy Councilor, and in 1671 he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece .

In 1662 he bought Türmitz . Also Pakoměřice and Libesnitz and United Bascht and Mieschitz near Prague were his.

In 1666 the ownership of the town and manor of Graslitz passed to him. In 1671 he began to carry out the Counter-Reformation in this domain as well. He gave the almost entirely Protestant population the choice of either professing the Catholic faith or emigrating. Between 1671 and 1676 two thirds of the residents, around 2000 people, left the Graslitz rule and moved as exiles across the nearby border, mostly to Saxony.

In 1675/1676 he founded the first brass factory in Bohemia in Silberbach near Graslitz. In 1667 the Saar rulership , which had belonged to his father-in-law, passed into his possession.

In 1673 he acquired the northern part of the Imperial Counties of Rieneck from Archbishop Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid, Elector of Mainz , and from then on took the name of Nostitz-Rieneck, thereby earning the title of Imperial Count . The reason for the purchase was the seat and vote in the Frankish Reichsgrafenkollegium of the Reichstag and in the Frankish Reichskreis , which were connected with the County of Rieneck. The count never visited Rieneck. The only ones who ever inspected their property were his two sons Anton Johann and Wenzel Desiderius, who came to Rieneck on July 9, 1684 to pay homage to their father after the death.

Nostitz bought a palace in Vienna, built after 1662, the Prague palace Nostitz and laid the foundation for the famous Nostitzsche collection of paintings.

family

Johann Hartwig von Nostitz married Maria Katharina Sahrer von Sahr († 1658) in 1651 . This marriage produced five children who died early.

In his second marriage he married Eleonora Maria Popel von Lobkowitz († 1681). The sons came from this marriage

  • Anton Johann von Nostitz-Rieneck (1659–1736), Burgrave of Eger and Colonel Marshal of Bohemia; was married to Theresia von Herberstein .
  • Wenzel Desiderius von Nostitz-Rieneck (1662–1700); married Maria Elisabeth Kinsky von Tettau (1670–1737) on February 29, 1692

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts of Nostitz and Rieneck

1651: Squared shield with crowned red heart shield, in it three gold bars (Grafschaft Rieneck). In the first field in blue on a golden crescent moon, two outwardly curved horns with red and silver shafts with the tips pointing downwards. In the second field in silver a black eagle's wing covered with a gold bar. On the division of the shield lies an anchor, which is blue in the third silver field, but gold in the fourth, blue field. A count's crown covers the shield, on which are three crowned helmets. On the right with black and silver covers the eagle's wing covered with the beam, on the middle with black and silver covers on the right, red and silver covers on the left a silver swan (Rieneck) ready to fly, on the left with red and silver covers two of silver and red nested buffalo horns, in between three ostrich feathers blue, gold and blue.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Pelleter: Memories of the city of Falkenau an der Eger. Verlag Müller & Weiser, Falkenau 1876, p. 117.
  2. ↑ Memories of the city of Falkenau an der Eger ; Michael Pelleter, Verlag Müller & Weiser, Falkenau 1876, pp. 141-142.
  3. ↑ List of Counts Nostitz'schen Painting Gallery in Prague ; Prague: Gräfl. Nostitz'scher Verlag, 1870
  4. ↑ http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz72468.html#ndbcontent
  5. ↑ Leonard Dorst von Schatzberg: Schlesisches Wappenbuch or the arms of the nobility in the Sovereign Duchy of Silesia etc. G. Heinze & Co., Görlitz 1847, Volume 1, p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Nostitz-Rieneck, Johann Hartwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nostitz, Hanns Hartwig von; Nostic, Jan Hartvík z (Czech)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colonel Chancellor and Privy Councilor in Bohemia
DATE OF BIRTH 1610
PLACE OF BIRTH Kunzendorf
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 1683
Place of death Vienna