Karl Joseph von Mirbach

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Karl Joseph von Mirbach, as the canon of Speyer

Karl Adolph Adrian Joseph von Mirbach (born March 11, 1718 ; † September 26, 1798 in Bruchsal ) was a baron , Catholic priest and canon in the Principality of Speyer .

origin

He came from the old noble family von Mirbach and was the son of Baron Carl Adolph Joseph von Mirbach (1691–1729), privy councilor of Palatinate-Neuburg and bailiff of Randerath ( Duchy of Jülich ) and his wife Gabriela Godefrida Felicitas Freiin von Schaesberg (1696–1785) .

Coat of arms of the Barons of Mirbach

Live and act

Karl Joseph von Mirbach chose the ecclesiastical status. In 1727 he passed the test of nobility for admission to the Speyer cathedral chapter , and on December 15, 1761 he was appointed to the local cathedral choirmaster . In addition, from March 7, 1758, Mirbach held the dignity of provost of the Speyer All Saints' Foundation and was cantor at the knight's monastery in Odenheim zu Bruchsal . At St. Martin's Church in Morken , which has since fallen victim to open-cast lignite mining , he held the office of personatarius (pastor who did not have to reside). To this church he donated a. 1785 a valuable book cover with silver fittings.

When Bishop Franz Christoph von Hutten died on April 20, 1770, the Speyer Cathedral Chapter elected him to be one of the two governors of the bishopric. The former Sedisvakanz coins of the diocese carry u. a. also his coat of arms.

On December 3, 1771, Mirbach took possession of the Weissenburg Abbey , which was united with the diocese , on behalf of the new Bishop August von Limburg-Stirum , and on September 6, 1776, Limburg-Stirum appointed the Cathedral Scholaster as its governor in the event of illness or unforeseen absence. On February 17, 1777 he was promoted to chairman of a council, which in the cases mentioned was supposed to lead the secular government of the prince-bishopric.

The gatehouse of the Mirbach Palais in Speyer, known as the Auwach balustrade
The copy of the Speyer image donated by Domscholaster Mirbach, St. Magdalena Abbey Church, Speyer
Epitaph of the Canon in Bruchsal

The canon lived in a no longer existing palace south of the cathedral in Speyer, built by cathedral dean Hermann Lothar von Auwach († 1722), later generally known in the city as the Mirbach House . In its place is now the central archive of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate ; However, the gatehouse with towers, the so-called Auwach balustrade (1702), has been preserved from the historic Canon Palace .

In 1782 Mirbach transferred 1,500 guilders to the Deidesheimer Spital to endow a nursing charge so that a ninth sick bed could be set up there for the needy.

Under Bishop Limburg-Stirum, mainly in the years 1773–78, the Speyer Cathedral , which had been in ruins since the fire of 1689, was renovated , with a baroque vestibule built according to plans by Franz Ignaz Michael Neumann . As part of these renovation measures, cathedral scholaster Karl Joseph von Mirbach donated a precious silver tabernacle with 4 columns and 6 silver candelabra , as well as a large golden monstrance, for the sacrament altar of the cathedral . The tabernacle bore the Mirbach coat of arms. During the looting of the Speyer Cathedral by French revolutionaries and their helpers in January 1794, these Mirbach foundations went under or were robbed. On this occasion, the looters also burned the famous miraculous image of the Speyer Madonna, which is now replaced in the cathedral by a modern wooden figure from 1930. Karl Joseph von Mirbach suffered from the loss of the "Patrona Spirensis" so badly that he ordered the Speyer sculptor Peter Anton Linck (brother of the Palatinate court sculptor Franz Conrad Linck ) to make an exact copy of the old figure at his own expense should later be set up again in the cathedral or in another Speyer church. This Mirbach Madonna is currently in the St. Magdalena Monastery (Speyer) , on the left side altar of the convent church.

After Speyer had previously been occupied by the French, the city was ceded to France in 1797 at the time of the Campo Formio peace treaty as part of the German territories on the left bank of the Rhine , where it remained until 1814.

When Karl Joseph von Mirbach, after the death of Bishop Limburg-Stirum, led the provincial government of the prince-bishopric (actually only on the right bank of the Rhine) in 1797, after the death of Bishop Limburg-Stirum, he strongly advocated the abolition of serfdom , which the new Bishop Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk did von Walderdorf willingly implemented.

Cathedral scholaster Mirbach last lived as a canon in the knight's monastery in Odenheim zu Bruchsal and died there in 1798 as a senior of the Speyer cathedral chapter; here he had also donated a valuable monstrance. He was buried in the town church of Bruchsal , where a beautiful epitaph was dedicated to him. The monument survived the bombing of the church in 1945, but it was no longer erected. In 1999, city pastor Edgar Neidinger made sure that the epitaph was transferred to the nearby Vinzentiushaus, restored and rebuilt there in an exposed place.

Mirbach's sister Louisa Rosa Adolphine Josepha Anna von Mirbach (1723–1790) was a canon in the St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne, where she passed away as the eldest female capitular on February 23, 1790.

Baron von Mirbach inherited the knightly seat of Neuerburg in Wassenberg from his mother in 1785 , which he bequeathed to his nephew Gerhard Johann Wilhelm Joseph von Mirbach (1739–1794) and his son Johann Wilhelm von Mirbach-Harff (1784–1849). The nephew Gerhard Johann Wilhelm von Mirbach was in the service of the Electorate of the Palatinate . In 1769 he lived with his wife in Speyer, later in Mannheim and at Harff Castle .

Another nephew, Friedrich Ludwig Anton Joseph von Mirbach (1742–1799), also worked as a clergyman in Speyer. Like the uncle, he was there cathedral capitular and cathedral scholaster, as well as capitular at the knight monastery Odenheim zu Bruchsal. He is reported to 1779, during the casting of the largest Speyer cathedral bell, silver händweise Kronentaler the bells dining 've thrown.

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Age portrait from the epitaph
  1. ↑ Archive for Middle Rhine Church History , Volume 60, 2008, page 201, footnote 57; Excerpt from the source
  2. ^ Rudolf Wesenberg: The monuments of the Rhineland: Bergheim district , volume 16 of: The monuments of the Rhineland , Rhineland-Verlag, 1971, page 80; Excerpt from the source
  3. ^ Franz Xaver Remling: History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 2, Mainz, 1854, page 703
  4. ^ Franz Xaver Remling : History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 2, Mainz, 1854, pages 719 and 732; Digital scan
  5. ^ Herbert Dellwing: Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany (Volume 1 of Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany: Cultural Monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate), 1985, page 84, ISBN 3590310316 ; Excerpt from the source
  6. ^ Fritz Klotz: Domkapitularische Höfe, houses, house squares and gardens in Speyer, in the 18th century , pages 36-39, volume 14 of: Writings of the Diözesan-Archiv Speyer , 1991
  7. ^ Franz Xaver Remling: Das Hospital zu Deidesheim , Speyer, 1847, page 43; Digital scan
  8. ↑ Johannes von Geissel : The Kaiser Dom zu Speyer: a topographical-historical monograph , 3rd volume, Mainz, 1828, page 149; Digital scan
  9. ↑ Johann Michael König: History of the Speyer Cathedral from 1030 to 1834 , Speyer, 1834, page 28, digital scan
  10. ↑ Georg Litzel : Historical description of the imperial burials in the Dome zu Speyer, as such from the year 1030 to 1689 were made , Speyer, 1826, p. 30, footnote; (Digital scan)
  11. ^ Fritz Klotz: Domkapitularische Höfe, houses, house squares and gardens in Speyer, in the 18th century , page 39, volume 14 of: Schriften des Diözesan-Archivs Speyer , 1991
  12. ↑ National-Zeitung der Teutschen , issue 15, from April 13, 1797, column 333 of the year
  13. ^ Barock in Baden-Württemberg, exhibition of the state of Baden-Württemberg, Schloss Bruchsal, from June 27 to October 25, 1981 , catalog for the exhibition, page 282, ISBN 392313200X ; Excerpt from the source
  14. ↑ Website about the knight seat Neuerburg in Wassenberg (with photo)
  15. ^ Carl Heiner Beusch: Noble Standespolitik in Vormärz: Johann Wilhelm Graf von Mirbach-Harff , LIT Verlag Münster, 2001, page 11, ISBN 3825843777 ; Digital scan
  16. ^ Peter Joseph Strange: Contributions to the genealogy of the noble families , issue 5, page 58, Cologne 1867; Digital scan
  17. ^ Johannes von Geissel: Der Kaiser-Dom zu Speyer: a topographical-historical monograph , 3rd volume, Mainz, 1828, page 149
personal data
SURNAME Mirbach, Karl Joseph von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mirbach, Karl Adolph Adrian Joseph Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and canon
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1718
DATE OF DEATH September 26, 1798
Place of death Bruchsal