Johann Wilhelm von Efferen
Johann Wilhelm von Efferen , often also Effern , (* in the 17th century ; † August 9, 1724 in Heidelberg ) was a noble officer in the service of the Electoral Palatinate .
Origin and family
He came from the extensive Lower Rhine noble family von Efferen, from which the Worms bishop Wilhelm von Efferen († 1616) emerged and which in turn formed a line of the ancient Cologne patrician family of the Overstolz . According to genealogical records, he was the son of Johann Adam Heinrich von Efferen and his wife Anna Agnes Johanna geb. from Norprath. The family line called itself with full name Freiherren von Efferen called von Hall zum Busch . His maternal grandfather was Lieutenant General Johann von Norprath († 1657), the paternal grandfather Colonel Adolf Dietrich von Efferen († 1631). Johann von Norprath was already in the service of Wittelsbach's branch Pfalz-Neuburg , which took over the government of the Electoral Palatinate from 1685 .
Johann Wilhelm's sister Catharina Elisabeth Loysae von Efferen became a Premonstratensian in the Füssenich Monastery , their cousin Franz Friedrich von Norprath served as Major General in the Palatinate and died in 1727 as military commander of Düsseldorf .
Johann Wilhelm von Efferen married Maria Anna Franziska born around 1690. von Spee , daughter of the Palatine Chamber President and Court Marshal Friedrich Christian von Spee (1620-1695), half-sister of General Degenhard Bertram von Spee (1681-1736) and granddaughter of Berg Colonel steward called Johann Bertram Scheid Weschpfennig , the educator of the future Palatine Elector Philipp Wilhelm .
The couple had two sons who also joined the Electoral Palatinate Army, but who had already died in his own death. Otherwise there were no offspring.
Live and act
Efferen embarked on a military career. As a lieutenant colonel in the Nine Leibregiment horse he gave in 1697 the passage of four dragoons companies , each with 80 heads of the army of the Margrave Christian Ernst of Bayreuth in the Kurpfälzer army . In the same year he appointed Elector Johann Wilhelm for bailiff in Heidelberg , what position he kept next to his military occupation by the end of life. Around 1700 Johann Wilhelm von Efferen was on the general staff . In 1703 he was major general, commanded the body regiment on horseback and acted as inspector general of the Palatinate cavalry ; In 1705 he is named as Lieutenant General .
In the War of the Spanish Succession Efferen defended the Spanish city of Tortosa as commander , but finally had to capitulate on July 11, 1708 after a hard fight against a ten-fold superiority. During the siege of Aire-sur-la-Lys in 1710, he was wounded while attacking a redoubt .
Under Elector Karl Philipp , Johann Wilhelm von Efferen was the longest serving lieutenant general, who should take over the command of the army in the event of war. In 1721 it is said that he was "afflicted with constant weakness" . He died on August 9, 1724 in Heidelberg and was buried in the Capuchin Church there, where his wife, who died in 1725, probably also found her resting place.
Possessions and foundations
Around 1702 General Efferen bought the properties of the extinct Lords of Meckenheim in Lambsheim , namely the Meckenheimer Castle and the so-called Weihergarten , a garden area south of the village. Here he built the still existing Lambsheim hunting lodge as a country residence in 1706 . In 1712 the Jungkennschen estate in Freinsheim was acquired , with today's Retzerhaus (Herrenstrasse 10) as the aristocratic residence.
The Efferen couple were both devout Catholics and had their own local chaplain. In Lambsheim they endowed the so-called “Efferen Foundation” , 700 guilders for the benefit of the Catholic parish.
In 1724 they donated the Freinsheim noble estate to the Carmelite convent of St. Maria in the Kupfergasse in Cologne so that a branch convent could be set up in Heidelberg ; In addition, the property was supposed to cover costs and dowry for the entry of 4 poor novices . The background to the donation to the distant Cologne monastery was the fact that Princess Maria Anna von Pfalz-Sulzbach (1693–1762), the sister of Joseph Karl von Pfalz-Sulzbach , who was pretending to the throne at the time, had lived there as a nun, and General Efferen as well asked for a prioress to be sent. After his death, the project of a Heidelberg branch monastery was not implemented due to the government's refusal. However, the Cologne nuns inherited the large estate in Freinsheim, the main building of which was the aforementioned, castle-like Retzerhaus . This fact became of great importance for the Catholics of the village, who since the Reformation no longer had their own church or pastor. In 1728, the priest Johann Jacob Creuzberg was sent there from Cologne as estate manager and the Carmelites had the large lower hall set up as a Catholic village church in their new house . With the consent of the responsible bishop of Worms , the clergyman from Cologne exercised regular pastoral care in Freinsheim until 1745, after his departure a parish could be founded again. The estate of the Cologne nuns continued to serve as the local Catholic church until a new one was built from 1771–1773.
The Efferen couple bequeathed part of the income from their Freinsheim estate to the Heidelberg Carmelite Monastery , to which the Carmelite Monastery planned there will be subordinate and where later spiritual masses were to be held for them. In the Düsseldorf City Museum there is a chalice that the widow von Efferen donated in 1725 for a Heidelberg church (probably for the Carmelite Church).
The remaining possessions, especially the two Lambsheimer castles, inherited the aforementioned cousin Franz Friedrich von Norprath († 1727). He sold the Lambsheim property in 1725 to the Palatinate Oberstforst- and Oberstjägermeister Freiherr Ludwig Anton von Hacke .
literature
- Hans-Helmut Görtz: The builder of the Lambsheimer Jagdschloss , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Rheinpfalz-Kreis, Volume 30, (2014), pp. 110-118, ISBN 978-3-00-042960-6
- Heinrich Rembe: Lambsheim , Volume 2, pp. 59, 60 and 77, Arbogast-Verlag, Otterbach, 1983
- Hans-Helmut Görtz: The most glorious progress of our Christian ministers and the beautiful church service there: a source book on the history of the Freinsheim Catholics in the 18th century , self-published by the author, Freinsheim, 2014, pp. 309–321, (find reference)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website on the coat of arms of the Efferen and on their origin from the Overstolz family ( memento from June 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ admin: Efferen, Adolf Theodor [Dietrich], called Hall | The Thirty Years' War in personal testimonies, chronicles and reports. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
- ↑ 12.6.-11.7.1708 siege and conquest of Tortosa. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
- ^ Erich Graf von Kielmansegg: Letters from Duke Ernst August zu Braunschweig-Lüedburg to Johann Franz Diedrich von Wendt from the years 1703 to 1726 , 1902, p. 229; (Detail scan)
- ^ Monasteries in Baden-Württemberg: Monastery. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
- ^ Website of the Heidelberg History Association. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Retzerhaus | Stadt-Freinsheim.de. Retrieved July 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Hans-Helmut Görtz: The builder of the Lambsheimer Jagdschloss , in: Heimat-Jahrbuch des Rheinpfalz-Kreis, Volume 30, (2014), pp. 110–118, ISBN 978-3-00-042960-6
- ↑ Hans-Helmut Görtz: Most glorious progression of our Christian minister and beautiful church service there - A source book on the history of the Freinsheimer Catholics , Freinsheim, 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-048474-2 , pp. 72-94, 99 and. 531
- ↑ Web link to the Efferen Chalice
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Efferen, Johann Wilhelm von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Effern, Johann Wilhelm von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Electoral Palatinate general and official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 9, 1724 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |