Ludwig (Wartenberg-Roth)

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Ludwig, the last count of the Kolb von Wartenberg family

Ernst Ludwig Kolb Graf von Wartenberg , Lord of Curl and Ostermannshofen (* October 14, 1752 - † March 10, 1818 in Rot an der Rot ), was first a ruling Count of Wartenberg, then ruling Count of Wartenberg-Roth , and a Bavarian lieutenant general the cavalry and adjutant general .

Life

origin

He was a son of the ruling Count Friedrich Karl Kolb von Wartenberg (1725–1784) and Caroline Polyxena von Leiningen-Dagsburg-Hardenburg (1728–1782), who had been married since 1751, and thus came from the old imperial ministerial family of the Kolb von Wartenberg .

government

After the death of his father in 1784, Ludwig took over the government of the imperial county of Wartenberg on the left bank of the Rhine. It belonged to the Upper Rhine Empire until the end of the 18th century . The title of Herr zu Curl and Ostermannshofen came from Ludwig's great-grandfather Johann Kasimir Kolb von Wartenberg , who in 1701 became the first royal Prussian prime minister . Curl and Ostermannshofen werewartberg holdings in the county of Mark and in the Duchy of Kleve , which were quickly lost again, but the titles were retained.

With the capture of the Left Bank of the Rhine in 1794 by French revolutionary troops , Ludwig was expelled from his ancestral territory. His county was of the French Republic ( 1797 / 1801 ) incorporated in 1801 was thus resolved no later than factual.

As compensation for the loss, Ludwig received in 1802 (confirmed by Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803) the possessions of the secularized Reichsabtei Rot an der Rot in Oberschwaben , as well as additional pension payments.

After the Congress of Vienna (1815) the area of ​​the former county of Wartenberg came to the Kingdom of Bavaria ( Rhine district ) in 1816 , only Mettenheim came to the Grand Duchy of Hesse ( Rheinhessen ).

Ludwig's new property, the secularized Reichsabbey Rot an der Rot, was made the Reichsgrafschaft Wartenberg-Roth . He exercised full sovereignty over the county of Wartenberg-Roth until 1806, when it was mediated into the Kingdom of Württemberg .

Honors

Ludwig was a knight of the Order of Hubert and holder of the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Bavarian Crown .

adoption

He had no descendants entitled to inherit. Because the name of the Wartenberg family was in danger of becoming extinct, on December 4, 1804 , he adopted his step-nephews, the brothers Franz Carl Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Graf zu Erbach-Erbach (1782-1832) and Franz Georg Friedrich Christian Eginhard Graf zu Erbach-Erbach (1785 –1854), with the right of succession in the government of Wartenberg-Roth in Primogenitur . A name and coat of arms association for Graf zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth was established for them on January 20, 1806 in Vienna .

Her biological father was Count Franz I. zu Erbach-Erbach (1754–1823). The birth mother, like Count Ludwig's mother, came from the Leiningen family : Princess Charlotte Louise Polyxena zu Leiningen and Dagsburg, wife of Aspremont (1755–1785). Count zu Erbach-Erbach had married Count Ludwig's sister, the Countess zu Erbach-Fürstenau, widowed on March 12, 1784, Charlotte Luise Polyxene nee Kolb von Wartenberg (1755-1844), in his second marriage. On March 10, 1818, with the death of his adoptive father, the first-born, Franz Carl II zu Erbach-Erbach (1782–1832), also became Count von Wartenberg-Roth. As early as 1845, however, his son Franz Eberhard Carl Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Graf zu Erbach-Erbach and von Wartenberg-Roth (1818-1884) sold the county of Wartenberg-Roth again in order to remediate financial difficulties. The imperial county of Wartenberg-Roth came entirely to Württemberg, into which it had been mediatized as early as 1806. Name, title and coat of arms as well as the forest estate remained with the house of Erbach-Erbach.

literature

  • Friedrich W. [Wilhelm] Weber: Count Ludwig, the last Kolb von Wartenberg: with news about the Palatinate County of Wartenberg and the County of Wartenberg-Roth in Upper Swabia. ed. from the North Palatinate History Association , Otterbach, 1988.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Karl Heinrich von Lang , Adelsbuch des Kingdom of Baiern: Grundwerk , Volume 1, p. 92 f. ( Digitized version )
  2. ↑ a b Bernhard Peter: The development of the Erbacher coat of arms
  3. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 5. 1864, p. 215 ff. ( Online )
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, pp. 397f.
  5. ^ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Princely Houses Volume XV, Volume 114 of the Complete Series, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, p. 205.
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kolb von Wartenberg, Ernst Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Governing Reichsgraf, Bavarian lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1752
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1818
Place of death Red on the red