Johann Winter von Güldenborn

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Memorial stone for Johann Winter von Güldenborn in the Hanau castle garden
Conquest of Hanau by hand, copper engraving from the 17th century.

Johann Winter von Güldenborn (* 1595 in Birstein ; † May 16, 1668 in Gelnhausen ) was a military and administrative officer in a number of territories in the Rhine-Main area .

youth

He was born as Johann Winter in 1595 in Birstein, Isenburg .

Conquest of Hanau Fortress

The ruling Count of Hanau-Munzenberg , Philipp Moritz , had fled to the Netherlands with his family after the battle of Nördlingen after he had left the imperial cause when King Gustav II Adolf was approaching . In the city of Hanau , the Swedish General Jakob von Ramsay stayed as commandant for years . He also stayed in the Hanau Fortress when Count Philipp Moritz succeeded in reconciling with the emperor in 1637, switching back to his side and returning to Hanau. General Ramsay simply arrested the count in his castle in Hanau. He evidently hoped to inherit the count as sovereign in Hanau-Münzenberg.

On February 12th, Jul. / February 22, 1638 greg. but by means of a military coup carried out by friendly members of the Wetterau Count's Association and carried out by Major Johann Winter, powers friendly with the count seized the fortress. Early in the morning, Winter's soldiers penetrated the fortress at the Herrnmühle , first freed the count who had been imprisoned in the city ​​palace and occupied the fortifications in the old town. The occupation was thus in a hopeless situation because the new town was unfortified opposite the old town. General Ramsay was now arrested himself and taken to Dillenburg , where he succumbed a year and a half later from the injuries he had suffered in this operation. Count Philipp Moritz was reinstated in the government.

Career

Inscription on the memorial stone

Johann Winter was chosen for this military coup by Emperor Ferdinand III. transferred to hereditary nobility in the same year and was now called Johann Winter von Güldenborn . One after the other he became the imperial commander in Hanau, Oberlahnstein and Friedberg Castle .

After the war he began a civilian career, initially as a bailiff in Neuenhain in the Electoral Mainz - Electoral Palatinate services. In 1667 he became bailiff and imperial school in Gelnhausen in the Electoral Palatinate-Hanau service. He died there a short time later on May 16, 1668.

monument

The Frankfurt artist Sebastian Furck created a copperplate portrait of Johann Winter von Güldenborn .

The descendants of Johann Winter von Güldenborn erected a memorial for him in the 19th century, which after at least two changes of location - most recently in 1991 - is now in the palace garden in Hanau. It is a cultural monument due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act for artistic and historical reasons.

literature

  • Jürgen Ackermann: Gelnhausen - the pledged imperial city = investigations into constitutional and regional history 22. Marburg 2006, p. 43.
  • Heinrich Bott : Johann Winter von Güldenborn as Reichsschultheis in Gelnhausen , in: Geschichtsblätter für Kreis und Stadt Gelnhausen 31/32 (1934), pp. 124ff and 33/34 (1934), pp. 132-134.
  • Reinhard Dietrich : Hanau conquered by hand. In: Hanauer Anzeiger (Volume 263, No. 37) of February 13, 1988, p. 8.
  • Caroline Krumm: cultural monuments in Hesse - city of Hanau = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse . Wiesbaden 2006. ISBN 3-8062-2054-9 .
  • GW Roeder: Life and deeds of Johann Winter von Güldenborn and his services to the counts of Isenburg-Büdingen and Hanau-Münzenberg: a noble image of a man a. Chronological mirror from the period of the Thirty Years' War. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History and Regional Studies, Vol. 10, 1865, pp. 97–171.
  • Friedrich Wilhelmi: Reichsschultheiß Johann Winter von Güldenborn. In: History sheets for the district and town of Gelnhausen 13/14 (1933), pp. 53–55.
  • Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country. 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dietrich, Im Handstreich
  2. ↑ Krumm, p. 251 as well as State Office for the Preservation of Monuments Hesse (ed.): Nordstrasse (in the castle garden): Monument for Winter from Güldenborn In: DenkXweb, online edition of cultural monuments in Hesse
personal data
SURNAME Winter from Güldenborn, Johann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Winter, Johann (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military and administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1595
PLACE OF BIRTH Birstein
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 1668
Place of death Gelnhausen