Johann Jakob von Beck

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Johann Jakob von Beck zu Willmendingen (* 1566 in Tiengen ; † 1629 in Schwerzen ) was a baron , bailiff and builder of Willmendingen Castle , which is in the village of Willmendingen near Schwerzen, a district of Wutöschingen .

Coat of arms of the Beck zu Willmendingen (here incorrectly called Wildmendingen )
Willmendingen Castle
Epitaph of those von Beck zu Willmendingen in the Schwerzen church

Life

Johann Jakob von Beck was the son of the schoolmaster and sacristan Lukas Beck from Tiengen (today: Waldshut-Tiengen ). He attracted attention early on due to his extraordinary talent for writing and reading and was encouraged by his sovereign Landgrave Karl Ludwig zu Sulz . He also accompanied him on the campaigns as an ensign . Johann Jakob von Beck was first bailiff of the Mettingen rule in 1599, with his seat in Untermettingen Castle , then land clerk in Vaduz .

"Emperor Rudolf II. Johann Jakob Beck brought on 23 June 1603 the Kingdom of nobility as well as, Notarius publicus' and Count Karl Ludwig Ernst von Sulz appointed him Governor of Landgraf stem Klettgau . He was married to Anna Westermayer. "

Merit

"Karl Ludwig Ernst von Sulz awarded him for his services on January 1, 1607 in addition to a noble seat still the little village Willmendingen with the lower courts and all related rights to eternal hereditary fief for him and his descendants." (Nohl, 1996, 153).

This meant that he could call himself and his heirs "from and to Willmendingen". There he built the castle of the same name in 1609. Like his descendants later, he was buried in the crypt of the church in Schwerzen, which he donated.

family

Johann Jakob von Beck had two sons:

  • Johann Jacob von Beck
  • Alwig Friedrich von Beck

Some descendants of the von Beck family became clergy, such as Franz Leopold Ignatius von Beck zu Willmendingen , the family died out in the male line .

The coat of arms is divided into four diagonally and shows two oppositely colored lilies (Westermayer) and two fields each with silver rafters and three alarm clocks on a black field in the spandrels , the coat of arms is red and silver.

literature

  • Alois Nohl: home on the Upper Rhine. 1984, pp. 201-206.
  • Alois Nohl: Johann Franz Beck von Willmendingen, the first Oberamtmann and Obervogt of the new city of Karlsruhe , in: (Ed.): Geschichtsverein Hochrhein eV: Land between the Upper Rhine and the southern Black Forest , Waldshut 1996.
  • Wutöschingen - then and now, The reading book: Degernau, Horheim, Ofteringen, Schwerzen, Wutöschingen. Wutöschingen community (ed.), 2006. pp. 70–81.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alois Nohl: Johann Franz Beck von Willmendingen, the first Oberamtmann and Obervogt of the new city Karlsruhe , in: (Ed.): Geschichtsverein Hochrhein eV: Land between Hochrhein and Südschwarzwald , Waldshut 1996, p. 153.
  2. ↑ Copy of the Klettgauer Regesten from the magazine for history of the Upper Rhine, 1861, 1862 and 1869 (PDF; 1.7 MB), p. 170
personal data
SURNAME Beck, Johann Jakob von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beck zu Willmendingen, Johann Jakob von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vogt and builder of Willmendingen Castle
DATE OF BIRTH 1566
PLACE OF BIRTH Tiengen
DATE OF DEATH 1629
Place of death Schwerzen