Joseph Heinrich Groß von Trockau

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Funerary inscription with coat of arms

Joseph Heinrich Groß von Trockau (born February 19, 1766 ; † August 22, 1850 in Mannheim ) was a baron , Commander of the Teutonic Order and high official in the Prince Diocese of Bamberg .

Life

Origin and family

He came from the old Franconian noble family of the Groß von Trockau and was the son of the prince-bishop of Bamberg, chief bailiff Karl Ludwig Groß von Trockau (1723–1789) and his wife Maria Anna von Greiffenclau zu Vollraths (1733–1804), the daughter of the Würzburg court marshal Lothar Gottfried von Greiffenclau zu Vollraths and niece of the Würzburg Prince-Bishop Karl Philipp von Greiffenclau zu Vollrads (1690–1754).

Joseph Heinrich's older brother was Adam Friedrich Groß von Trockau (1758–1840), from 1812 to 1818 Vicar Apostolic in Bamberg , then Bishop of Würzburg .

Career

Gravestone, Mannheim main cemetery

Joseph Heinrich Groß von Trockau belonged to the Teutonic Order and held the office of commander there . He entered the service of the prince-bishopric of Bamberg and acted as a senior administrative officer under the last prince-bishops Franz Ludwig von Erthal and Christoph Franz von Buseck . The Bamberg court calendar of 1796 shows him as a councilor and assessor at the episcopal court court , and that of 1799 as an episcopal court and government councilor and senior bailiff in Baunach . His funerary inscription also describes him as chamberlain for the prince-bishop of Bamberg .

After the secularization of the bishopric, Joseph Heinrich Groß von Trockau initially stayed in Bamberg . In 1824 he joined the newly founded art association there. He later moved to Mannheim, where he was buried in the main cemetery there after his death . His tombstone has been preserved here, which also shows the Groß von Trockau family coat of arms, placed on the cross of the Teutonic Order. In the year he died he donated 50 guilders to the poor institution in Mannheim.

literature

  • Leopold Nedopil: German nobility samples from the German Order Central Archive , Volume 1, p. 308, Vienna, 1868; (Digital scan)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adam Friedrich Groß zu Trockau in the New German Biography, with genealogical information
  2. ↑ Erich Schneider: The former summer residence of the Würzburg prince-bishops in Werneck , 2003, p. 139, ISBN 3768693023 ; (Detail scan)
  3. ^ Bamberger Hofkalender , 1796, p. 76; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Bamberger Hofkalender, 1799 , p. 87 u. 121; (Digital scan)
  5. ↑ Report on the Bamberg Art Association from its establishment on December 12, 1823 to 1843 , Bamberg, 1843, p. 46, person no. 39; (Digital scan)
  6. ↑ Großherzoglich Badisches Regierungsblatt , No. XIX, Karlsruhe, March 13, 1851, p. 212 of the year; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Groß von Trockau, Joseph Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baron, Commander of the Teutonic Order, Oberamtmann in the Bamberg Monastery
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1766
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1850
Place of death Mannheim