Ludwig Friedrich Göler of Ravensburg

Ludwig Friedrich Göler von Ravensburg (born September 21, 1707 in Sulzfeld ; † December 22, 1757 ibid) comes from the Göler von Ravensburg family , an old noble family from Kraichgau that belonged to the Swabian Imperial Knighthood and their ancestral seat, the Ravensburg , near Sulzfeld in Baden -Wuerttemberg is located. He was the Electoral Palatinate upper office man in Simmern .

family

Ludwig Friedrich was the son of Ludwig Ferdinand Göler von Ravensburg (1664–1722), ducal Chamberlain of Württemberg . He was married to Wilhelmine Friedericke nee Freiin Horneck von Hornberg (born March 21, 1709 in Sulzfeld), widowed von Thüngen . She donated the jewelry to the Protestant church in Sulzfeld, which is still preserved today: the large crucifix above the pulpit and the pictures on the gallery . The couple remained childless.

Life

Ludwig Friedrich was called the "long gentleman", while his brother Johann Friedrich II. Göler von Ravensburg was called the "fat gentleman". Ludwig Friedrich erected a two-story baroque building with a beamed cellar on the Ravensburg , which lay on the outside of the curtain wall . In 1822 this building was demolished by Benjamin Göler von Ravensburg (1782–1834). Ludwig Friedrich was Oberamtmann of the Electoral Palatinate at the Oberamt Simmern .

The grave slab for Ludwig Friedrich Göler von Ravensburg and his wife is at the Evangelical Church in Sulzfeld: It shows allegorical figures of faith and hope and two trusting putti .

literature

• Dieter u. Ravan Göler von Ravensburg: The Göler von Ravensburg. Origin and development of a family of the Kraichgau knighthood . Published by Heimatverein Kraichgau (special print no.1), Sinsheim 1979.