Johann Philipp Husmann

Johann Philipp Husmann, Baron of Namedy and Riolsburg (Czech Jan Filip Husmann ; † 1651) was an imperial colonel at the time of the Thirty Years War . Like several of his brothers, he was in the service of the Habsburg army.

Life

Husmann came from a Rhenish nobility family that originally had its seat at Namedy Castle and named itself after this and the later acquired Riolsburg as Hausman , Husman and Hussmann von Namedy. At the beginning of the Thirty Years' War he served in the imperial army and commanded 1100 Walloon cuirassiers. After the victorious battle of the White Mountain , Emperor Ferdinand II sold him the royal city of Tachau on December 4, 1623 for a goodwill price of 96859 shock. At the same time, Hussmann was elevated to the Bohemian baron class with the title of Namedy and Riolsburg . It is assumed that at the same time the costs for the formation of the cuirassier regiment were offset. A year later, Husmann also acquired the neighboring Hals estate .

The citizens of the city of Tachau lost all privileges with the sale. As the new heir, Husmann also carried out the Counter-Reformation, which, however, only succeeded with great difficulty. Imperial troops were still stationed in the town of around 1,000 people. It was not until 1625 that the citizens of Tachau returned to the Catholic Church and formally declared their subjection to the new authorities. The hostility between the citizens of Tachau and Johann Philipp Husmann continued, however. In the traditions of later times the figure of the Evil Husmann was impressed .

Husmann developed ample economic skill. He not only founded new farms, sheep farms or mills around Tachau, but also got involved in mining and the construction of the first glassworks in the forests west of Tachau. The baroque mill in Tachau, which was built during the Husmann reign in 1645, is now one of the city's reconstructed monuments. The Husmanns built the monastery of Heiligen for the monks of the Paulaner Order with a letter of foundation dated February 5, 1639, near the town of Tachau . The donation comprised 40,000 guilders, he also donated the building land to the order and contributed another 10,000 guilders to the construction costs. In 1644 he donated the estate and village of Hals, only a few kilometers away, to the monastery . In addition to Tachau, Husmann also owned the Meierhöfen and Minichsfeld (Mnichovství) estates near Pfraumberg .

Again and again Husmann had to leave Tachau as an imperial colonel for military operations. After his wife, Emilie Burggräfin von Dohna-Kraschen, died on November 3, 1643 , Husmann married Theresia Eleonora zu Lodron for the second time . No male offspring resulted from either marriage.

After his death in early 1651, his widow, who later married a Marchese Capra, took control of the city of Tachau, which only slowly recovered from the armed conflicts and looting during the Thirty Years' War. Husmann was buried in the Paulaner Church in Tachau next to his first wife. The Meierhöfen and Minichsfeld estates were acquired by Johann Wenzel Kolowrat -Nowohradsky in 1653 . On September 1, 1664, Husmann's three daughters finally sold a large part of the Tachau estate to the imperial count Jan Anton Losy von Losinthal .

literature

• Zdeněk Procházka : Tachov - historical and tourist guide. 1997, ISBN 80-901877-4-9
• Franz Löw: Chronicle of the community neck. Erlangen 1966
• Rudolf Johann von Meraviglia-Crivelli : Siebmacher's great book of arms, vol. 30; The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility p. 244.

Web links

• Tachov - Husmann mill from 1645