Joseph II (Schwarzenberg)

Joseph II Prince of Schwarzenberg

Willmendingen Castle

Joseph II. Johann Nepomuk Karl Franz de Paula Ladislaus Prince of Schwarzenberg (born June 27, 1769 in Vienna , † December 19, 1833 in Frauenberg ) was a German-Bohemian nobleman from the Schwarzenberg family .

Life

Joseph was born as the first son of Johann I von Schwarzenberg and Countess Maria Eleonora von Öttingen-Wallerstein and inherited from his father in 1789, including further expanding the Schwarzenberg canal in southern Bohemia. He was active in the banking sector and was involved in various ways to provide for the poor, invalids, widows and orphans.

In 1798 he bought the goods Stubenbach and Gutwasser with the connected künischen free dishes Stachau , Altstadln and Neustadln. He combined this with the Langendorf estate, acquired two years later, to form the allodial rule of Stubenbach and Langendorf. In 1801 or 1803 he acquired Willmendingen Castle in Klettgau , and in 1810 the Libějovice property .

In 1802 he ceded his younger brother Karl Philipp , who later became field marshal, the second majorate of the Princely House and part of the property as a secondary school, which transferred it to the Worlik rule . The Czech politician Karel Schwarzenberg (* 1937) from this line has been the internal head of the Schwarzenberg family since 1979 and united the two lines of the family (Primogenitur and Secondogenitur) in his person.

In 1804 he had his brother Friedrich Johann Nepomuk zu Schwarzenberg, who was fatally wounded as an officer in the siege of Mannheim in 1795, erected an elaborate and high quality marble tomb by the sculptor Maximilian Joseph Pozzi . It is located at the place where Friedrich Johann died, in the parish church of St. Laurentius in Weinheim .

In 1806 he lost sovereignty over the Franconian and Swabian possessions of his house.

In 1808 Joseph was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece .

Marriage and offspring

Joseph married in May 1794 Pauline Karolina Iris Princess von Arenberg-Aarschot (* September 2, 1774 - July 2, 1810), daughter of Duke Ludwig Engelbert von Arenberg and Aarschot , and had six daughters and three sons with her:

• Marie Eleonore Phillipine (1795–1848) ⚭ 1817 Alfred, 1st Prince of Windisch-Grätz (1787–1862)
• Marie Pauline Therese (1798–1821) ⚭ 1817 Heinrich Eduard 2nd Prince of Schönburg-Hartenstein (1787–1872)
• Johann Adolph Joseph (1799–1888) ⚭ 1830 Eleonore Princess of Liechtenstein (1812–1873)
• Felix Ludwig Johann (1800–1852), Prime Minister of Austria
• Aloysia Eleonore (1803-1884) ⚭ 1823 Heinrich Eduard Prince of Schönburg-Waldenburg-Hartenstein (her widowed brother-in-law, sv)
• Mathilde Therese (* 1804)
• Maria Karolina (1806–1875) ⚭ 1831 Ferdinand, 2nd Prince of Bretzenheim (1801–1855)
• Anna Bertha (* 1807) ⚭ Prince August Longin Lobkowitz (1797–1842)
• Friedrich Johann (1809–1885), 1835 Archbishop of Salzburg, Cardinal and Prince Archbishop of Prague

His wife Pauline died in 1810 in a fire during a ball in the garden of the Austrian embassy in Paris in honor of Napoleon's marriage to Marie-Louise of Austria .

literature

• S. Lippert:  Schwarzenberg Josef II. Prince to. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 12, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2001–2005, ISBN 3-7001-3580-7 , p. 22.
• Prince Joseph von Schwarzenberg, Duke of Krummau , in: New Nekrolog der Deutschen . Volume 11 (1833), Part 2, Weimar 1835, pp. 820f.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schwarzenberg, Joseph Johann Nepomuk Prince . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 33. Part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1877, pp. 86–88 ( digitized version ).
• Manfred Zollinger:  Schwarzenberg, Joseph II. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 22 f. ( Digitized version ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann I of Schwarzenberg	Landgraf in Klettgau 1789 - 1806	Karl Ludwig Friedrich (Baden)