Konstantin zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

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Konstantin Josef Hereditary Prince of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg

Konstantin Josef zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg (born September 28, 1802 in Kleinheubach ; † December 27, 1838 there ) was a German aristocrat and publicist.

Life

Konstantin zu Löwenstein was the oldest child from the marriage of Prince Karl Thomas (* 1783; † 1849) with Countess Sophie zu Windisch-Grätz (* 1784; † 1848). Constantine had five younger sisters and, as the only son, was the bearer of hope for the preservation of the dynasty. He received his educational character from the awareness of the feudal rights of his house, which had been significantly reduced as a result of mediatization at the end of the Holy Roman Empire . During his training and student years he dealt in particular with philosophy, history and constitutional law and appeared as a publicist in the late 1820s.

Hereditary Prince Constantine around 1835

In his articles in newspapers and in some anonymously published writings, he vehemently represented the interests of the class lords . He demanded an independent court at the German Confederation , which should be specifically responsible for the mediatized class gentlemen, and denied the federal states the power to pass laws to the detriment of the class gentlemen. He also represented the interests of the class lords at the Vienna ministerial conferences. Konstantin zu Löwenstein saw himself as a staunch opponent of liberalism . Konstantin zu Löwenstein maintained a lively correspondence with like-minded people like Professor Carl Friedrich Vollgraff and several Catholic-conservative journalists, during which the deep longing for a return to the legal relationships and basic values ​​of the old Roman-German Empire became clear. He was in close contact with his uncle Konstantin zu Löwenstein (1786–1844), a representative of the ultramontane and reactionary party who was adjutant general to King Ludwig I in Munich . He was suspicious of the constitutions of the southern German states. He supported the publications of the conservative opposition in Bavaria with financial donations. His extremely conservative attitude earned him fierce criticism from more politically progressive circles. The correspondence with the philosopher Franz von Baader contains a number of noteworthy ideas in terms of intellectual history.

Since his father Karl Thomas zu Löwenstein was mostly on the road, Konstantin de facto took over the entire management of the class as early as the early 1830s and resided in Kleinheubach Castle . He took care of everything personally and entered into the political dispute with the state governments of Bavaria, Baden , Hesse and Württemberg , which were responsible for his property and to which the territories of his house that were once imperial direct had fallen in the course of mediatization. In an interview with the Baden Minister Sigismund von Reitzenstein , he gave preference to his civil rights over the interests of Baden, which he declared as the common good and which ruled his family's former territories with great severity.

In 1834 he was a member of the First Chamber of the Estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

As the owner of the Bohemian rule of Weseritz , the Hereditary Prince acquired the mineral springs there in 1836 and had them expanded into a health resort. The resulting town of Bad Neudorf owes its blossoming to Konstantin zu Löwenstein and in 1900, in his honor, was renamed Konstantinsbad . The current Czech name Konstantinovy ​​Lázně also keeps the memory of the founder. Hunting and traveling were among the noblemen's passions. When he died at the age of only 36, it was a deep turning point in the history of the Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg family.

Grave of the wife, Franciscan monastery Engelberg , Großheubach

family

Konstantin zu Löwenstein married Marie Agnes Princess zu Hohenlohe (1804–1835) on May 31, 1829, a daughter of Prince Karl Ludwig zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg .

There were two children from the marriage:

Works

  • Anonymous: Refutation of some recently spread false news regarding the origin of the ducal house of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg and its right of success in Bavaria , Wertheim 1830
  • Anonymous: Something about the abuse of legislative power. On the occasion of certain results of the most recent meeting of the estates in the Grand Duke of Baden , Frankfurt am Main in 1832
  • Anonymous: Consideration of the inadequacy of the 14th article of the German Federal Act for the Satisfaction of the Mediatized Imperial Estates , Heidelberg 1833
  • Anonymous: Under what conditions can the country-class constitutions in the German Confederation be expected to flourish? , Heidelberg 1833
  • Anonymous: Contributions to the Philosophy of Law , Heidelberg 1836
  • Posthumous: Attempt to schematically illuminate the first elements of a Christian philosophy , Frankfurt am Main 1840
  • Italian translation of the previous work: Primi elementi d'un sistema di filsoofia cristiana , G. Miglio, Novara 1847, with a dedication to Antonio Rosmini Serbati

literature

  • Italo Francesco Baldo: Costantino Giuseppe di Loewenstein e la "filosofia cristiana". In: M. Longo (ed.): Cristianesimo e filosofie tra Otto e Novecento , aA. VV., Gregoriana, Padua 1995, pp. 93-103.
  • Italo Francesco Baldo: Keyword Costantino Giuseppe di Loewenstein in Enciclopedia Filosofica , Volume 10, Bompiani, Milan 2006.
  • Heinz Gollwitzer : The gentlemen. The political and social position of the mediatized 1815-1918 , Stuttgart 1957 (2nd edition, Göttingen 1964).
  • Harald Stockert: Nobility in transition. The princes and counts of Löwenstein-Wertheim between state rule and class rule. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3-17-016605-0 .
  • Jochen Lengemann : MdL Hessen. 1808-1996. Biographical index (= political and parliamentary history of the state of Hesse. Vol. 14 = publications of the Historical Commission for Hesse. Vol. 48, 7). Elwert, Marburg 1996, ISBN 3-7708-1071-6 , p. 246.
  • Klaus-Dieter Rack, Bernd Vielsmeier: Hessian MPs 1820–1933. Biographical evidence for the first and second chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse 1820–1918 and the state parliament of the People's State of Hesse 1919–1933 (= Political and parliamentary history of the State of Hesse. Vol. 19 = Work of the Hessian Historical Commission. NF Vol. 29) . Hessian Historical Commission, Darmstadt 2008, ISBN 978-3-88443-052-1 , No. 547.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heinz Gollwitzer: Die Standesherren , p. 235.
  2. ↑ Heinz Gollwitzer: Die Standesherren , p. 104.
  3. ↑ Website on the history of Konstantinsbad and Weseritz
personal data
SURNAME Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Konstantin zu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg, Konstantin Hereditary Prince to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, Hereditary Prince of the House of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Kleinheubach
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1838
Place of death Kleinheubach