Ludwig Eisenberger (bailiff)

The title of this article is ambiguous. For the writer with a similar name, see Ludwig Eisenberg .

Ludwig Eisenberger with his wife

His parents, Philipp Eisenberger and Amalia Trechin

Ludwig Eisenberger (born August 18, 1541 ; † March 1591 in Wehrheim ) was a clerk in the Ortenberg and Wehrheim offices .

Life

Ludwig Eisenberger was the son of the Ortenberg bailiff Philipp Eisenberger (the fifth of the name) and his first wife Amalia Trechin. Ludwig Eisenberger visited the school in Marburg sporadically , but showed little interest in school education. Therefore he was given to the court of Wächtersbach as a chamberlain of Count Georg von Ysenburg . In 1567 he took part in a campaign in Hungary against the Turks under Emmerich von Reiffenburg . He then spent a year at the court of Count Palatine Georg zu Lutzelstein before serving for ten years in Mainz at the court of Archbishop Daniel Brendel von Homburg , where his brother Dr. Johann Thoman Eisenberger acted as advice.

On November 26, 1578 Ludwig Eisenberger married Margaretha Schwartzin in Wetzlar , the daughter of the Nassau town council and Wehrheim bailiff Dr. Jacob Black. Black was an educated and wealthy man. As a doctor of law, he was an influential advisor to the Nassau counts. He owned houses and properties in Wetzlar, Dillenburg and Wehrheim. In Wehrheim he was the owner of a noble estate that had been given to his father Chun Schwarz by Count Wilhelm in 1536 .

Ludwig Eisenberger became bailiff in Ortenberg in 1575, an office that his father had already held. With the death of Christoph zu Stolberg in 1581 he had to give up the office. The reason is unknown. It may be related to the disputes over the county of Königstein . In each case there were inheritance conflicts within the Eisenberger family. The Eisenberger Chronicle comments in Ludwig Eisenberger's picture shown: “God grace and forgive them the harm they have done to their sex and the unfriendly shown”. In 1577, 1578 and 1580, comparisons were made between the siblings regarding the legacy of brother Johann Thoman Eisenberger. Ludwig received, among many other things, the parental home in Ortenberg and "Daniels Hof" in Ranstadt .

In 1581 he left Ortenberg and moved to his father-in-law's estate in Wehrheim. There he worked as a bailiff after the death of his father-in-law in 1583 and resigned from office in 1589.

Ludwig Eisenberger died childless in 1591. His wife became the heir to his property. The family loans received went to the siblings.

literature

• Hartmut Bock: The Eisenberger Chronicle. Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-89282-040-6 , pp. 144–145, 317–318 and 120–121.
• Johanna Koppenhöfer: Wirena. Wehrheim 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028403-8 , pp. 75-76.