Karl von Oeynhausen

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Karl Freiherr von Oeynhausen with the cross and star of the Red Eagle Order
Karl Freiherr von Oeynhausen in front of the bath house I in Bad Oeynhausen
Monument in the Bad Oeynhausen spa gardens

Karl August Ludwig Freiherr von Oeynhausen (born February 4, 1795 in Nieheim ; † February 1, 1865 there ) was a Prussian miner . The city of Bad Oeynhausen is named after him.

Life

Karl von Oeynhausen came from the old Westphalian noble family Oeynhausen . His parents were the Hanoverian captain Friedrich von Oeynhausen (* February 5, 1744 - March 1, 1796), heir to Grevenburg, Nordborchen and Polhof, and his wife Wilhelmine von Mengersen (* August 16, 1764 - March 19, 1811) .

Karl von Oeynhausen was born with his twin brother Friedrich Adolf Ludwig on February 3, 1795 on Gut Grevenburg near Nieheim . He attended grammar schools in Mannheim and Stuttgart and then began studying mathematics and natural sciences in Eisleben and Göttingen . Starting in 1816, he completed internships as a mountain trainee in Waldenburg (Lower Silesia) and Tarnowitz ( Upper Silesia ), and passed the mountain assessor exam in 1820.

He became a mountain trainee in Bochum and during this time made extensive trips through Germany, France, the United Kingdom and Belgium, where he dealt with the local geological conditions. In 1824 he was appointed Senior Mining Authority Assessor.

Two years earlier he had submitted his first publication attempting a geognostic description of Upper Silesia , which was soon followed by numerous other publications. Because of these publications, he became a lecturer at the Prussian Ministry of the Interior, where he was then given a permanent position.

He moved to the Oberbergamt in Bochum. In 1828 he was appointed Oberbergrat in Dortmund and in this position moved to Halle / Saale in 1830 and to Bonn in 1831, where he spent the next ten years. In 1841 he became a secret mountain ridge in the mining, smelter and saltworks administration at the Ministry of Finance in Berlin. From 1847 he was director of the Silesian Mining Authority in Brzeg as a mining captain . In 1855 he took over the management of the Oberbergamt Dortmund . In 1864 he fell ill and left the civil service. Karl von Oeynhausen died on February 1, 1865 at the age of 69 in his place of birth.

family

In July 1829 Karl von Oeynhausen married Caroline Gerhard, the daughter of the Prussian chief miner and head of mining, metallurgy and salt works Johann Carl Ludewig Gerhard (1768–1835) and Ernestine Friederike Scharlow. His brother-in-law was the geologist Ernst Heinrich von Dechen . After the death of his first wife on June 28, 1830, he married on October 31, 1833 Dorothea Charlotte Adolphine (Dorette) von Kerssenbrock (1812–1895), the daughter of the Hanoverian Drost zu Radolfshausen Gottlieb Friedrich Achaz von Kerssenbrock and Luise Elisabeth Sophie von Stockhausen. The couple had the children:

  • Luise Friederike Sophia Josephine (born April 6, 1835)
  • Friedrich Otto Gottlieb (* August 20, 1836; † 1893)
  • Emilie Ernestine Anna (born February 12, 1838)
  • Auguste Wilhelmine Ottilie (born January 3, 1840)
  • Maria Sophia Thusnelde (* June 4, 1841) ⚭ March 7, 1866 Börries Carl August Hilmar von Oeynhausen (* February 14, 1836; † 1896) from the Sudheim family
  • Anna Luise Eugenie (* October 23, 1842 - † October 7, 1848)
  • Carl Heinrich Friedrich (23 May 1844 - 30 March 1848)
  • Agnes Dorothea Elisabeth (born April 5, 1847)
  • Hedwig Luise Caroline (July 12, 1852 - June 8, 1853)

Services

Karl von Oeynhausen campaigned early on for the construction of the Ruhr-Sieg Railway . As mining captain in Dortmund, he was committed to reducing rail tariffs , expanding the railway in the Ruhr area and a canal between the Weser and the Rhine .

Von Oeynhausen invented a sliding scissor named after him in 1834 .

His main focus, however, was on finding rock salt deposits in the Weser Uplands, especially around the town of Rehme . Instead of rock salt deposits, an artesian spring was discovered there. Karl von Oeynhausen now promoted the development of the place into a brine bath . He acquired land on which he had bathhouses and parks built. As a reward for these awards, the place was renamed from Bad Rehme to Bad Oeynhausen in 1848.

Awards

literature

  • In memory of the mining captain Carl von Oeynhausen who died on February 1, 1865 . Bädeker, Essen 1865, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-138646 .
  • Wilhelm von Gümbel:  Oeynhausen, Karl Freiherr von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 25, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 31-33.
  • Albert Liesenhoff: Baron Karl von Oeynhausen. A picture of life . Festschrift to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Royal Baths in Oeynhausen. Ernst, Berlin 1895, urn : nbn: de: hbz: 6: 1-199434 .
  • Wilhelm Schulte (Ed.): Westphalian heads. 300 life pictures of important Westphalians . 3. Edition. Aschendorff, Münster 1984, ISBN 3-402-05700-X .
  • Heinrich Langejürgen: Carl August Ludwig Freiherr von Oeynhausen - namesake of the city of Bad Oeynhausen. A biographical sketch. In: Johannes Henke (Ed.): 150 Years of the Oeynhausen Spa. Horb am Neckar 1998, pp. 119-139.

Web links

Commons : Karl von Oeynhausen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary . In: Poems: from the estate of Baron Friedrich Adolph Ludwig von Oeynhausen. Paderborn 1872
  2. ↑ a b Werner Kroker:  Oeynhausen, Karl Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 478 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ↑ a b Bernd Huesmann: Oeynhausen, Karl August Ludwig Frhr. v. In: Hans Bohrmann (Ed.): Biographies of important Dortmunders. People in, from and for Dortmund . tape 3 . Klartext, Essen 2001, ISBN 3-88474-954-4 , p. 148 ff .
  4. ↑ Rico Quaschny: In the shadow of the miner captain. Dorette von Oeynhausen (1812–1895) . In: Often in the shade - rarely in the light. Life pictures of Bad Oeynhausen women (=  contributions to local history of the cities of Löhne and Bad Oeynhausen . Special issue 10). Löhne 2000, ISBN 3-9805205-4-4 , p. 25-32 .
personal data
SURNAME Oeynhausen, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oeynhausen, Karl August Ludwig Freiherr von (full name); Oeynhausen, Carl von (alternative spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian mining captain
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Never home
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1865
Place of death Never home