Marsilius Franz Sturmfeder from Oppenweiler

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Sturmfedersches Castle in Dirmstein

Baron Marsilius Franz Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler (born February 7, 1674 in Mainz , † May 30, 1744 in Oppenweiler ) was a member of the aristocratic Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler family , which owned important properties in southwest Germany . The Sturmfedersche Schloss in the Palatinate municipality of Dirmstein (today Rhineland-Palatinate ) was named after the nobleman .

family

Coat of arms of the Lords Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler
Coat of arms gable (hoe / storm spring) at Trippstadt Castle

Sturmfeder was the second son and heir of Johann Friedrich Franz Sturmfeder (1650-1691) and Maria Catharina von Auwach († 1712), sister of the Speyer cathedral dean Hermann Lothar von Auwach († 1722). After her death, the mother was buried in the Speyer Cathedral and had an epitaph there, as reported by Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg (1677–1752) in Volume 2 of the Thesaurus Palatinus .

Paternal grandparents were Philipp Friedrich Sturmfeder (1615–1689) and Maria Magdalena Dorothea Lerch, born in 1612; The grandmother had inherited the influential local nobleman Caspar Lerch IV (1575–1642) as the second eldest daughter in Dirmstein and thus brought his considerable fortune into the Sturmfeder family.

In 1722, when he was already 48 years old, Sturmfeder married Friederike Ernestine von Löwenstein-Wertheim , a direct descendant of Elector Friedrich I. Their eldest son and heir was Johann Franz Georg Ernst von Sturmfeder (1727–1793).

At the end of the 17th century, Sturmfeders father was the first name bearer of the family, who ennobled himself by adding a "von", although the Sturmfeder family has been proven to be wealthy since the High Middle Ages. The title of nobility was preserved for more than 200 years, until 1901 when the last Sturmfeder died childless.

Sturmfeder's grandson Carl Theodor Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler (1748–1799), who had the palace named after his grandfather rebuilt in its present form around 1780, wrote a very extensive and detailed memorandum around 1790 on the economic and social situation in Dirmstein; in it he accurately predicted many of the impending effects of the French Revolution on the areas on the left bank of the Rhine .

Sturmfeders great-granddaughter - one of the daughters of Carl Theodor Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler - was Louise von Sturmfeder (1789–1866), the educator of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and his brother, Emperor Maximilian of Mexico .

Amöna Marie Charlotte Juliane Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler, the daughter of Marsilius Franz, married the Palatinate Colonel hunter Franz Karl Joseph von Hacke (1727–1780), builder of Trippstadt Castle and son of Baron Ludwig Anton von Hacke . Their names with alliance coats of arms are attached above the main entrance of the castle.

Life

Michelstor: Fight with the flaming sword against the devil
Head of envy over the side gate of the Michel Gate

Sturmfeder followed his father in the service of the Archbishop of Mainz was, first as Electoral Mainz Chamberlain after, later as Knight council of the North Württemberg Canton cooker . Especially in Württemberg he created by its lavish royal household - with more than 180,000 guilders liabilities - and its rugged nature enemies. In 1715 he was reprimanded for this by the Council of Knights, excluded from it in 1716, and even temporarily detained in 1720 at the instigation of Duke Eberhard Ludwig of Württemberg . His assurance of future conduct did not even last a full year, then on the orders of the sovereign the jurisdiction that he had illegally appropriated was formally withdrawn from him.

In his old age, Sturmfeder seems to have stayed longer and longer in Dirmstein, where from 1736 he had the castle he inherited, which was later named after him, expanded. During the renovation, he attempted to settle accounts with his adversaries by means of numerous carved, partially rhymed inscriptions and a head of envy . To top it off, he had a sculpture placed on top of the new Michel Gate (1738), which shows the Archangel Michael fighting the devil with a gold-plated flame sword, probably the "storm feather" .

In connection with this, there was at least one incident in Dirmstein in which Sturmfeder came into conflict with the authorities: Because a ditch was being dug across the planned entrance to the gate on community property - probably from a chicane - Sturmfeder had to concave the Michelstor and the courtyard wall on both sides take back to his property in order to be able to base the entrance.

Sturmfeder also bought a house in Mannheim in 1731. However, he died in Oppenweiler in 1744, and according to his will, he was buried in the Sturmfeder family grave in the parish church of Schwäbisch Gmünd . Three years after his death, his widow concluded an agreement with Duke Carl Eugen from Württemberg to settle the old disputes.

meaning

"Wall newspaper" at the Michelstor

For Dirmstein, Sturmfeder was significant as the heir of the noble Lerch family , as a builder and namesake for the Sturmfedersche Castle and as the builder of the associated Michelstore. With the pamphletic inscriptions attached there, the place owes one of the oldest wall newspapers to him, so to speak .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Digital scan of the epitaph inscription.
  2. ↑ Michael Martin (ed.): Dirmstein - nobility, farmers and citizens . 2005, p. 157-170 .
  3. ^ Genealogical website on Franz Karl Joseph von Hacke.
personal data
SURNAME Storm spring from Oppenweiler, Marsilius Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Southwest German nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1674
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 1744
Place of death Oppenweiler