Karl Henrich Groos

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Former domain building on the Friedrichshammer

Karl Henrich Groos (born June 30, 1771 in Elsoff ; † February 9, 1858 in Laasphe ) was a German administrative officer and head of the rent chamber in the county of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein .

Live and act

Johann Daniel Karl Henrich Groos was born on June 30, 1771 in Elsoff as the youngest son of eight children of the evangelical clergyman Johann Konrad Groos and his wife Friederike Groos. In 1755, the father was first pastor of Weidenhausen , was transferred to Elsoff in 1764 and was pastor of Feudingen from 1774 . Karl Henrich Groos lived in Elsoff for three years and then grew up in Feudingen.

On 5 May 1789, he began studying cameralistics at the University in Marburg . In 1793 he entered the service of Count Wittgenstein as a forest secretary with a salary of 300 guilders, together with his friend, who later became chief forester Staudinger in Saßmannshausen . The administrative relations at that time under Count Friedrich Karl zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein are said to have been rather disordered. There was a lack of money and officials. Groos quickly showed himself to be a capable worker, which was beneficial to his career. In 1803 he was appointed chamber overseer. This promotion was associated with a change of residence from Saßmannshausen to Wittgenstein Castle . The upheaval brought about by the mediatization of the county brought with it an enormous workload. In 1837 Groos was promoted to chamber director. Groos played an important role in Wittgenstein during the Napoleonic and early Prussian times. He experienced compulsory administration and the redemption agreements on burdens and taxes with the Prussian government. While he was in office, without having studied this subject, he showed great interest in the county's forestry affairs. The fruit tree breeding was one of his special interests and a stony land at Schnittelsberg that the now gefürstete him nobleman Friedrich Karl gave, he transformed into a magnificent garden. With exquisite diligence, he turned to the building trade and some of his houses, with great simplicity, show both beautiful form and practicality. The domain building on the Friedrichshammer near Laasphe, the Lahnbrücke at the Friedrichshütte and the Emmaburg , residence of Princess Emma zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1802–1862) and her husband Curt von Bose , were among his buildings. But he also had two houses built in the shadow of the Emmaburg, in which the two country doctor's practices were set up for his sons Eduard and Emil.

family

Groos married Anna Friederike Schaffner, daughter of the Nassau-Orange lieutenant colonel Schaffner from Diez , in Feudingen on September 24, 1797 , with whom he had four children. The oldest child died at the age of four, the remaining children made respectable careers in Wittgenstein:

  • Karl Ludwig Albertus Groos (born July 22, 1799 - December 4, 1803)
  • Wilhelm Friedrich Groos (born June 28, 1801 - May 20, 1874), District Administrator of the Wittgenstein District (1831–1850)
  • Emil Groos (born October 12, 1803 - December 23, 1885), doctor, royal councilor, honorary citizen of the city of Laasphe
  • Eduard Groos (February 21, 1806 - December 12, 1891), homeopathic doctor, princely councilor, honorary citizen of the city of Laasphe.

Karl Henrich Groos died on February 9, 1858 at the age of 86 in Laasphe.

literature

  • Pastor Bauer: The Groos family and their relationships with Wittgenstein In: Das Schöne Wittgenstein, 1st issue, year 1927, Verlag Ernst Schmidt, Laasphe 1927.
  • Dr. Karl Grossmann: From old letters from the Groos family In: Wittgenstein magazine, year 53, 1965, vol. 29, no.2, self-published by the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein Laasphe.
  • Gustav Bauer : The Groos family in Wittgenstein In: Wittgenstein magazine, year 53, 1965, vol. 29, no.2, self-published by the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein Laasphe.
  • Ms. Otto Groos, Marburg: When grandfather took grandmother . Self-published in Marburg 1895, online edition: Düsseldorf, University and State Library, 2015.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marburg matriculation 1527–1830 (edition) 1778–1795, page 426, from May 5, 1789, matriculation no. 66: Carolus Grooss, Witgensteinensis
  2. ↑ A Grand Ducal Hessian commission was set up in 1810 to regulate the Princely Wittgenstein-Wittgenstein Debt and to administer the Princely House property .
  3. ↑ see also: http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Grafschaft_Wittgenstein/Archiv_Wittgensteinsche_Debit-_und_Administrationskommission , last accessed: October 27, 2018, 10:20 pm
  4. ↑ The Groos family and their relationship with Wittgenstein In: Das Schöne Wittgenstein, 1st issue, year 1927, Verlag Ernst Schmidt, Laasphe 1927, p. 27
personal data
SURNAME Groos, Karl Henrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German administrative officer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1771
PLACE OF BIRTH Elsoff
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1858
Place of death Laasphe