Leopold Friedrich zu Stolberg-Stolberg

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Leopold Friedrich Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg (* 24. February 1799 in Eutin , † 9. August 1840 in Morzg ) was 1838-1840 District Chief of the Salzburg district of the country Austria above the Enns (now Upper Austria ).

Life

Graf Stolberg came from one of the oldest German count families and was one of 18 children of the well-known poet and Goethe friend Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg-Stolberg , whose texts Franz Schubert had also set to music.

During his short time as head of the district, Leopold-Friedrich lived with his wife Kristiána (* March 28, 1798, † December 21, 1840), daughter of Count František Josef Václav von Sternberg- Manderscheid , at Montfort Castle near Hellbrunn . Both died tragically in quick succession that year; only the couple's later only child, Franz (1840–1878), survived. A large tomb in Morzg cemetery, designed in the neo-Gothic style by Ludwig Schaller , and a monument in the green space west of Morzg, remembered the couple and their end for a long time. - Leopold Friedrich had acquired the Räckelwitz manor in Upper Lusatia.

literature

  • Reinhard Medicus: The two Morzger hills and their surroundings, part I, published in: Bastei, magazine of the Salzburg City Association (issue 3/2009)

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