Ludwig von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1694–1771)

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Baron Ludwig von Gemmingen zu Hornberg
His second wife Albertine Regine von Gemmingen-Gemmingen (1740–1799)
Epitaph in the Amandus Church in Beihingen

Ludwig Imperial Baron of Gemmingen zu Hornberg (born September 27, 1694 in Neckarzimmern ; † July 16, 1771 ) belonged to the family of the Lords of Gemmingen , was chief appellate councilor and extraordinary minister.

Life

Ludwig von Gemmingen was born in 1694 at Hornberg Castle in Neckarzimmern as the son of Reinhard von Gemmingen (1645–1707) and raised in the pedagogy in Halle . He later studied at the university there and then in Giessen . After stays abroad in the Netherlands , France , England and Italy , he entered the Prussian service as a councilor in Halberstadt . He then moved to Wolfenbüttel and then into the the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg and thus the UK belonging Celle as Oberappellationsrat, where he was vice president in 1740. In 1743 he accompanied the English King George II on the campaign on the Rhine as an extraordinary minister and was an extraordinary envoy to several courts. In 1764 he resigned and took care of his family business.

As the local lord of Beihingen (now a district of Freiberg am Neckar ), he donated 50 to 100 guilders to purchase a new bell for the Amandus Church in 1763. In addition, he never missed an opportunity to demonstrate his freedom from the empire to his neighbors in Württemberg, especially in church matters . He refused a dean to visit the church and did not have the Württemberg marriage regulations read out in Beihingen. The Amandus Church became a popular wedding church for foreign couples because of this and the work of Pastor Bilfinger, who was appointed by von Gemmingen and the other local lord Albrecht Heinrich Schertlin in 1740. The Amandus Church was also extensively rebuilt in its time.

After going blind, he died on July 16, 1771 and was buried in the Amandus Church in Beihingen. His son Eberhard, who died in 1767 at the age of 10, and a daughter of his son Ernst in 1799 also found their final resting place there.

family

On September 18, 1740 he married Rosina Dorothea von Steinsberg , widow of Wrisberg. She died in childbed in 1749. The marriage remained childless. On July 23, 1755, at the age of 60, he married Albertine Regine von Gemmingen zu Gemmingen (1740–1799), daughter of Friedrich Jakob von Gemmingen (1712–1750), who was only 14 years old , and had three children.

Progeny:

  • Amalie (1756–1782) ⚭ C. von Kniestädt
  • Eberhard (1757–1767)
  • Ernst (1759–1813) ⚭ Henriette Charlotte von Holle (1773–1814)

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 278–280.
  • Friedrich Winter: Amandus Church in Beihingen. The chronicle of a church between rule and citizenship. Memminger, Freiberg am Neckar 2001, pp. 70-75.

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personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen-Hornberg, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gemmingen zu Hornberg, Ludwig imperial baron of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman, councilor of appeals and extraordinary minister
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1694
PLACE OF BIRTH Neckarzimmern
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1771