Johann Heinrich von Dünewald

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Johann Heinrich von Dünewald

Johann Heinrich Graf von Dünewald (born February 21, 1617 - † August 31, 1691 in Esseg , today Osijek ) was an Austrian field marshal of the cavalry .

Life

Johann Heinrich von Dünewald's parents were Lorenz and Katharina von Dünewald. He was first in Swedish and later in imperial service. So he distinguished himself in 1664 in the battle of St. Gotthard . He became major general and in 1670 was given command of a cuirassier regiment , which he was to lead for twenty years. Later, under Raimondo Montecuccoli , he helped defeat the French at Sasbach and was raised to the rank of count and general of the cavalry by Emperor Leopold I in 1675 .

He was made a Lieutenant Field Marshal in 1682 . When Vienna was besieged by the Turks , he defended Krems and defeated a strong army detachment of the Turks there. Then he found himself at the end of the siege of Vienna and led the persecution of the Turks after the Battle of Kahlenberg . At Párkány on October 9, 1683 and at the siege of Gran on October 24, 1683, he fought under Duke Charles V of Lorraine . In 1684, Dünewald led the Swabian auxiliary troops to the first siege of Ofen (Budapest), in 1685 he helped significantly in the victory at Gran and on August 14, 1686 defeated the Turkish relief army in front of Ofen. After the battle of Mohács (1687) he led a corps against the Turkish reserve that had remained at Esseg, which he pushed back to Belgrade . He then conquered all of Slavonia by October 25, 1687 and took all of the fortresses there. For this he was appointed field marshal on March 31, 1688. During the siege of Belgrade , he commanded the entire imperial cavalry. In 1689 he fought on the Rhine and horrified Heidelberg . In 1691 he commanded the left wing at the Battle of Slankamen . There should have been disputes with the much younger Commander-in-Chief, Margrave Ludwig von Baden . On the trip to Vienna he died in Esseg in 1691.

family

From 1677 to 1683 he had a castle built for himself and his descendants near Zabór (dt. Saabor) in Silesia , which still exists today. In 1689 he settled in Pixendorf in Lower Austria and applied for admission to the Lower Austrian nobility (gentry).

Dünewald was married to Katharina Elisabeth Freiin von Blumenthal (daughter of the governor of Halberstadt and secret councilor Joachim Friedrich von Blumenthal ), with whom he had two sons: Franz († 1693) was Imperial Colonel and Ludwig († 1727) was Saxon-Polish from 1718 Major general.

On June 11, 1692, Franz married Maria Barbara von Starhemberg (1673–1744 / 45), the daughter of Field Marshal Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg (1638–1701). But he died in 1693. His widow then married Maximilian Sigismund Graf von Trautmannstorf (1667 / 68–1732). In 1716 she sold the Pixendorf estate to Johann Georg Hampmüller Edler von Metzburg .

His brother Ludwig was married twice. First marriage with Elisabet Dorothea von Limpurg-Speckfeld (1656–1712; widow of Wilhelm Heinrich von Limpurd-Gaildorf ), then with Luise Amalie von Callenberg . He inherited the castle in Saabor and also died without an heir. He was last of the sex.

literature

Web links

Commons : Johann Heinrich von Dünewald  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Franz Karl Wissgrill: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lordship and knighthood of the XI. Century up to the present day . 2nd volume. Franz Seizer, Vienna 1795, p. 295 ( digitized version in Google book search).
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon . 2nd volume. Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1860, p. 595 ( digitized version in Google book search).
  3. ↑ Neil Jeffares: Zinzendorf , in: Dictionary of pastel ists before 1800 , PDF, 95 kB .
  4. ↑ Saabor Castle in Tomasz Mietlicki's collection of Lower Silesian monuments (Polish, German)
personal data
SURNAME Dünewald, Johann Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dünewald, Johann Heinrich Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian field marshal of the cavalry
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1617
DATE OF DEATH August 31, 1691
Place of death Esseg , today Osijek