Jost Christian zu Stolberg-Roßla senior

Count Jost Christian zu Stolberg-Roßla (born October 24, 1676 in Ortenberg ; † June 17, 1739 in Roßla ) was the founder of the Stolberg-Roßla line of the House of Stolberg and ruled over part of the County of Stolberg from 1706 , which was known as the County of Stolberg- Roßla, but was not officially recognized under this name.

Life

Jost Christian is the youngest son of Count Christoph Ludwig zu Stolberg (1634–1704) and the born Landgrave Louise Christine von Hessen (1636–1697), daughter of Georg II. He received private lessons. After the early death of his mother on November 11, 1697, instead of going on educational trips, he preferred to support his father in the government until his death on April 7, 1704. After two years of managing the affairs of government together with his older brother Christoph Friedrich zu Stolberg-Stolberg , both decided on July 19, 1706 to divide the property, which was modified again on July 6, 1719. Jost Christian received the rule of Ortenberg, a quarter of the city of Grüningen and five twenty- fourths to the castle and city of Munzenberg , the offices of Roßla, Ebersberg , Questenberg , Wolfsberg and Bärenrode , the court villages of Dietersdorf and Dittichenrode and the village of Uftrungen from the County of Stolberg . The Stolbergian half of the offices of Kelbra and Heringen remained in common ownership.

On October 20, 1712, Jost Christian exchanged his quarter in Grüningen with Count Wilhelm Moritz von Solms-Braunfels for five twelfths in the village of Heuchelheim and a third of five twenty-fourths in the castle and town of Münzenberg.

After Elector Friedrich August von Sachsen took over the claimed sovereignty over the entire county of Stolberg by military force in 1730, Jost Christian had to sign a so-called tender reverse and accept further cuts in the political rights and freedoms of the county of Stolberg-Roßla.

On September 10, 1738, he issued his will, which was published after his death on July 20, 1739 and in which he introduced the primogeniture for the Stolberg-Roßla line.

Furthermore, the new building and renovation of the churches in Roßla, Herrmannsacker , Breitenstein , Uftrungen, Wolfsberg, Dietersdorf and Hainrode go back to Count Jost Christian .

During his reign, the last wolf was shot in the southern Harz in 1724. The wolf monument near Schwiederschwende commemorates this event .

family

Jost Christian married Countess Aemilie Auguste zu Stolberg , the older sister of Count Christian Ernst zu Stolberg-Wernigerode, in Ilsenburg Palace on October 1, 1709 . He had the following children with her:

• Louise Christine, born November 6, 1710 in Ortenberg, † March 10, 1711
• Christiana Albertine, born April 16, 1713 in Roßla,
• Friedrich Botho , born May 13, 1714 in Roßla - Hereditary Count and successor
• Ernst August, born May 6, 1715 in Roßla
• Louise Charlotte, born June 5, 1716 in Roßla
• Sophie Ernestine, born June 3, 1717
• Otto Casimir, born July 1, 1718 in Roßla, † March 13, 1798 in Roßla
• Christoph Ludwig, * July 16, 1719, † June 18, 1720
• Louise Henriette, born December 11, 1720
• Jost Christian , born August 23, 1722, † October 10, 1749
• Christine Eleonore, born December 21, 1724 in Ortenberg, † February 26, 1725
• Johann Martin, born January 6, 1728 in Roßla
• Premature son, * / † June 26, 1730.

His wife died as a result of the stillbirth of their last son on June 30, 1730, and left him with nine underage children. Since it seemed questionable to him to get married in a different way, but he did not want to live without marriage at all, he found a new wife in Auguste Elenore Gebser , the daughter of the Anhalt bailiff Johann Wilhelm Gebser from Gernrode. He secretly led a morganatic marriage with her , achieved her elevation to the nobility of Seemen in 1736 and had the following children with her:

• Christine Eleonore von Seemen
• Jost Christian von Seemen
• Auguste Christiane von Seemen
• Caroline Wilhelmine from Seemen.

In his will he obliged his successor, Count Friedrich Botho zu Stolberg-Roßla, to pay his second wife 300 thalers a year. She should also receive 100 thalers for each child. After the death of Christian Jost Auguste Elenore moved from Seemen on her Freigut to Wickerode , where she died in late 1749th