Johann Leonhard Lippe
Johann Leonhard Lippe (born February 21, 1671 in Tauberbischofsheim , † August 18, 1737 in Mannheim ) was a privy councilor from the Palatinate and mayor and city director of Mannheim. His baroque epitaph has been preserved in the Mannheim parish church of St. Sebastian .
Live and act
He was born in Tauberbischofsheim under the name Johann Leonhard Lipp as the son of a butcher. After studying in Mainz and Vienna , he came to Mannheim, where Elector Karl III. Philip used it as a town school in 1698. From then on he was no longer called Lipp, but Lippe, and in 1706 he advanced to Mannheim's city director. In these offices he played an essential part in the reconstruction of the city that was destroyed in the War of the Palatinate Succession . Johann Leonhard Lippe was privy councilor of the elector, court judge and in 1712 was also given the dignity of imperial court palatinate . In 1717 he acquired the property of Countess Maria Eva von Framboisier born in Freinsheim . from Geispitzheim . Lippe laid the foundation stone for the (old) Trinity Church on behalf of the Elector in 1706 .
The mayor was married to Maria Magdalena geb. Bencard († 1723). They had four daughters, the youngest of whom married Jakob Friedrich Gobin, her father's successor in office. As a widower, Johann Leonhard Lippe married Maria Eleonora Heyl in 1725, who survived him.
Lippe died in 1737 and was buried in the Catholic parish church of St. Sebastian in Mannheim, where his first wife also rested and owned a memorial stone. There he also received an epitaph which praises him as a "well-known and knowledgeable man who is highly recommended by legal scholars and who is very well versed in Christian ethics" . It was badly damaged in World War II and moved to the outside of the church. A restoration took place after 2012. The memorial stone now hangs inside the church, under the organ gallery.
There is a portrait of Johann Leonhard Lippe, as well as an old age portrait of his daughter Josepha Gobin, nee. Lip.
literature
- Jakob Baroggio The history of Mannheim from its creation to 1861 , Mannheim 1861, p. 500; (Digital scan)
- Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg : Thesaurus Palatinus , Heidelberg, 1752, Volume 1, p. 334; (Digital scan)
- Susanne Räuchle: Stop your step, Wanderer ... (newspaper article on the restoration of the epitaph), Mannheimer Morgen, September 2, 2011; (Digital view)
Web links
- Genealogical page about the person
- Biographical website
- MARCHIVUM : Chronicle Star , online chronicle of the city of Mannheim
Individual evidence
- ↑ Deeds
- ↑ J. Philipp Walther: Mannheims memorials from its creation to the newest time , Mannheim, 1855, p. 39; (Digital scan)
- ^ New archive for the history of the city of Heidelberg and the Rhineland Palatinate , 1913, p. 220, (detail scan)
- ^ Ernst G. Jung, A. Krock: A Lentigo maligna in a portrait of Josepha Gobin from 1789 , Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart, (digital view)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Lippe, Johann Leonhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Privy Councilor of the Electoral Palatinate, Count Palatine and City Director of Mannheim |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1671 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tauberbischofsheim |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 18, 1737 |
| Place of death | Mannheim |