Johann Lambert von Babo

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Coat of arms of the Babo family (before the ennoblement), from the grave of the 1st wife, in the St. Laurentius Church, Weinheim
Nobilitation sheet of the imperial barons of Babo
Grave of the first wife, in the St. Laurentius Church, Weinheim; created by Franz Conrad Linck

Johann Lambert Gregor Reichsfreiherr von Babo (born September 8, 1725 in Mannheim ; † 1799 ) was a court official of the Electorate of Bavaria and Bavaria , as well as town clerk in Mannheim and Weinheim . He is considered to be the founder of the family of the imperial barons of Babo.

Life

He was born on September 8, 1725 as the son of Marcellus Antonius Babo in Mannheim. He was baptized on September 9, 1725. He was already enrolled at Heidelberg University as a 16-year-old . It is listed there as Lambertus Babo, Mannheimensis, logices studiosus.

On September 1, 1747 he got his first marriage to Maria Anna Kräutlein (Kreitlin, Krettelin) in the parish church in Mundenheim near Mannheim. She was born on May 20, 1706 in Zell im Zillertal and is attested on August 18, 1765 as the godmother of a convert. Maria Anna died on January 15, 1785. Johann Lambert was already 60 years old at the time of her death. The tomb in the Catholic St. Laurentius Church in Weinheim bears the following inscription: “Here lies under the large stone No. 1 Maria Anna Babo, drilled Kreitlin of the electoral Palatinate Bavarian really secret government u. Hofkammerrath also Anwaldschultheißen zu Mannheim then co-lord of Strassheim Mr. Johann Lambert Babo, wife who was piously loyal. She was born on May 20, 1706, died there on July 15, 1785, for the salvation of her soul an anniversarium on the day of death along with the annual distribution of five guilders was donated to poor Bethende in the local parish church. May you rest in peace. ” Her gravestone was created by the sculptor Franz Conrad Linck from Speyer .

Act

From 1752 to 1757 Johann Lambert worked as a town clerk in Oggersheim . In his farewell wish he wrote, who called himself a polygraph (prolific writer) in his signature: Finis felix corona topus (A happy ending crowns the work). Johann Lambert then became town clerk or council clerk in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, replacing Franz Joseph Büchler, who was town clerk from 1744 to 1757. His duties included keeping the council and court minutes, the land registers, the will books, the tax lists and city bills and being responsible for all correspondence of the city. Legal knowledge was generally required. The office was not filled annually, but mostly held over a longer period of time. Since the Palatinate was ruled by a Catholic, the office of scribe was also occupied by a Catholic. In 1766, Franz Joseph Büchler owned forty-five guilders (that much is taxed), two fields, two vineyards and a plant garden. Nothing is known of a house.

In the minutes of the council of 1757 it can be read: “12. May 1757 Highly laudable Oberamt communiciret under the 29th huj (d. Month GR) Churfürstlichen u. High government admission order for the former town clerk Babo for the message with the further order that the further necessary items should be decreed. ”After taking office, he criticized the city's appraisal system. The city did not keep a stock register. The write-down and attribution protocol was kept untidy and many Weinheimers did not pay any taxes because they were not represented in the appraisal registers. There were also deficiencies in the registry and in other areas.

The following entry can be found in the minutes of the Council of January 22, 1759:

"Town clerk Babo again tells the council and the community that he found the appraisal system to be detrimental to the electoral and municipal arary, and against all the ordained effort for the reasons because the city had no stock book, the record and attribution record in such a sad one was due Assuming that such a thing resembles a confused chaos due to the many thousands of torn sheets and uncontinuous points, it could not be controlled, and therefore it could no longer be put in order without renovation. The registry and many other urban matters have an additional nature. In particular, there are so many households and residents not provided with the necessary protection in the city, who caused great losses for the citizens and are not even in the treasury register, nor have they paid some other money so far. Since the town clerk has already been reminded of all this and more often, but so far the council and community have not owed the least provision for the necessary remedies and he foresees in advance that this and the many other disorder will mean that the heaviest responsibility will grow on him, so if he wants to remember this all repetendo and to set up storage and resp. Have made a change hereby by instructing him to do so with his duties and, on the other hand, the duties of the council and community. Should he be blamed for something on us in the near future, he would refer to the so often and this special last report for his excuse, which he wanted to incorporate into the council protocol for the future, also necessary trial. In fidem JL Babo town clerk Weinheim 1759 January 22nd. "

Mannheim

In 1760 he went to Mannheim and traded jobs with Büchler. In the Council minutes of 27 March 1760 is: "High praiseworthy Oberamt communiciret High governmental Rescriptum that the appointed between the two town clerks Buechler and Babo Dienstpermutation graciously granted under the 14th February and the former had been recalled his earlier allschon paid duties of Upper ex officio." Was in 1763 he attorney mayor and also the resident Hofkammerrat Palatine and Elector Carl Theodor . Later he was appointed director of the court chamber and on April 8, 1785, he was appointed the real privy councilor of the Palatinate and Bavaria .

His further rise began in Mannheim. In 1775 he suggested building a comedy house. For this purpose, the court chamber council prepared an expert opinion. The application was rejected because of the costs. A new application for 58,405 guilders was only approved on August 25th. The new theater was built in the former arsenal and was attached to St. Borromeus Hospital on January 12, 1776. On September 16, 1776, it was made independent by an electoral edict and placed under the supervision of Babo. The Schaubühne, whose director Marchand was appointed director in 1777, was excluded. Babo had the entire economic management of the theater, together with beer, wine and tea. An ordinance of September 16, 1776 stated: “I. The exclusive right to all spectacles, comedies, and pocket games, jugglers and tightrope walkers, also all other news, from strange animals, characters, etc. So mainly all those balls, redoubts, public parties and concerts, so not in the electoral palace and theater are listed at court, to keep in it alone. II. The unlimited wine, beer, liqueur, coffee, chocolate and tea bar, holding one or more billiards and other permitted card games. "

The court theater was also part of his service area at times. On June 7th, 1777, he was replaced by a rescript from the Elector "from the time-hero with good success at the German Schaubühne" . He was succeeded by Count Savioli. Until 1787 he was still active as a theater construction commissioner. In 1777 the so-called Schüllhaus was converted into a theater at the suggestion of Babo. On April 8, 1785, he was appointed "in consideration of long-term and loyal and loyal service as a real privy councilor of the Palatinate-Bavarian" . On September 8, 1790 Elector Carl Theodor appointed in his capacity as imperial vicar Babo for baron . He received a coat of arms.

He had already been immortalized on a memorial on Mannheim's market square. He is then referred to as the Mannheim Propraetor.

On May 19, 1785, he married Maria Anna Cordula Sartorius (* August 8, 1765 - January 7, 1827), the daughter of the Weinheim administrator of the Teutonic Order, Franz Simon Sartorius, and his wife Helena Catharina. Maria Anna brought a lot of property into the marriage, a large number of goods in the Weinheim district. Lambert Gregor became the owner of the knightly estate in Ingelheim as well as the goods in Straßenheim, Heppenheim and Weinheim and the tithe in Bammental . In 1795 he was enfeoffed with the imperial fief of von Sickingen zu Ladenburg. An exchange of letters with Countess Marianne Oberndorff from 1793 provides information about the situation of Baron von Babo. At that time he was "sick with his wife, child, maids, servants and coachman." He owned two large houses in Mannheim. In 1792 13 soldiers were quartered there, for which he had to pay 1,100 guilders. He was afraid of his precious furniture because of "bombers and fireballs" . “I have just heard that Herrgraf von Lehnbach and his wife, who have been to Deutsheim and want to bring their belongings from there to Mannheim, are said to have caught the French across the Rhine. Your Excellency will read yesterday's Laage from the enclosed documents. The past night was there at Weinheim, where the Lazaret der Palatinate had been brought from Alsace to over 200 miserably ill and blemished Bavarians from the Palatinate contingent and immediately afterwards the Kayser regiment, which was 2,400 men strong, had us 54 officiers, with something More than 600 men and 17 officers in a miserable and sad state, also in the seam, came here to do the winter campaign. "

progeny

The marriage with Maria Anna resulted in three children:

  • The son Josef Albert Christian von Babo, born on July 3, 1789, died childless on October 10, 1869 as the owner of the Straßenheimerhof.
  • The second son Lambert Joseph von Babo (1790–1862) became famous in the 19th century and was an important citizen of Weinheim.
  • The couple also had a daughter, Anna Maria, of whom only the date of her burial on July 23, 1786 is known.

relative

The son of his cousin, the Elector of Trier officer Johann Carl Babo, was the writer Joseph Marius Franz von Babo (1756–1822), who also worked for a time at the theater in Mannheim .

literature

  • Wilhelm Blab: The ancestors of the barons of Babo and the poet Joseph Marius of Babo . Munich 1948
  • Karl Zinkgräf: Baron Lambert v. Babo and his monument in Weinheim ad Bergstrasse. (Print: Diesbach, Weinheim) 1912.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogical page of the Babo family