Maximilian Adam von Blumencron

Coat of arms of the von Blumencron family, detail from the memorial in the Prot. Church of Wattenheim

Maximilian Adam von Blumencron (far left) with his family; High altar of the Frauenroth monastery church

Blumencron coat of arms figure with spoon (Wattenheim, former manor house)

Maximilian Adam von Blumencron , correct noble name Maximilian Adam Ludwig von Blumencron ; Original name without nobility predicate Maximilian Adam Ludwig (* 1612 in Babenhausen (Hesse) ; † after 1690) was a member of the Catholic League in the Thirty Years War , later bailiff of the prince-bishops of Würzburg and founder of the noble family of knights (later barons ) von Blumencron.

Live and act

Maximilian Adam von Blumencron or Maximilian Adam Ludwig von Blumencron carried the family name Ludwig before he was raised to the nobility . In the ennoblement deed of 1690, it is said that his ancestors had made a name for themselves in the duchy of Würzburg and the Duchy of Franconia , in administrative offices such as rent masters or chancellery lists .

Ludwig was a soldier in the Catholic League in the Thirty Years War. Initially volunteer in the cavalry regiment of General Feldzeugmeister Hannibal von Schauenburg or Schaumburg (1582–1634), he was captured by the Swedes in 1631 at the Battle of Breitenfeld and held for a long time. He then served for three years as a cornet in the regiment on horseback of Baron Johann von Werth (1591–1652) and for two years as regimental quartermaster with Colonel (later General) Johann von Sporck (1600–1679). In the latter position he had to take care of the food, the quarters and the supplies of the troops, which the silver spoon apparently alludes to later in the noble coat of arms.

In 1637 Maximilian Adam Ludwig retired from the military and entered the administrative service of the prince-bishops of Würzburg. He held this career for 50 years under seven bishops, where he was land commissioner for the imperial or allied troops, bailiff of the meaning reason , administrator of the Frauenroth monastery and later high school of Gemünden am Main .

At the age of 70 (around 1685) the official withdrew into private life, to his estate in Babenhausen near Hanau , which he left around 1688 because of the threatened French invasions and acquired properties in Austrian Silesia . With a letter of nobility dated June 21, 1690, Emperor Leopold I elevated him to the bohemian knighthood as Maximilian Adam Ludwig von Blumencron . With that he became the progenitor of the noble family von Blumencron , which later rose to the rank of baron.

Date and place of death of Maximilian Adam Ludwig von Blumencron are unknown. He and his family seem to have stayed at least partially in Babenhausen even after the ennoblement, because his third wife Anna Maria geb. Faydt died there on February 15, 1692 and was buried in St. Peter's Church in neighboring Stockstadt am Main .

Family relationships

Maximilian Adam Ludwig von Blumencron was married three times.

• 1st wife: Eva Maria geb. Frank
• 2nd wife: Maria Dorothea Moser
• 3rd wife: Anna Maria (also Martha) geb. Faydt; † February 15, 1692 in Babenhausen

With the 3 women he fathered at least 19 children. Historically significant are:

• 1. Franz Ludwig, † around 1703; General tax collector of the Silesian Estates in Wroclaw
• 2. Franz Georg, born March 28, 1651 in Frauenroth ; Kurmainzer Obernfeld war kommissar , 1678-1686 bishop bailiff in Freudenberg (Baden) ; Acquirer and founder of the Wattenheim rule in the Palatinate
• 3. Maximilian Adam, born October 20, 1653 in Frauenroth, † April 18, 1690 in Speyer ; Lawyer, Imperial Councilor at the Imperial Court of Speyer. All still living namesake of the noble family von Blumencron descend from him.
• 4. Eva Maria, choir sister in the monastery of St. Clara in Bamberg
• 5. Maria Dorothea, born April 27, 1644 in Frauenroth, † 1715; Cistercian and abbess in the Gottesthal monastery near Oestrich in the Rheingau . Her grave slab was rediscovered during construction work in 1992 and is now in the Catholic parish church of St. Martin in Oestrich.
• 6. Elisabeth Maria ∞ Baron von Braillat, in Mainz, Imperial Councilor of the Imperial Court .

Wattenheim local coat of arms. Half with the figure is taken from the Blumencron family coat of arms

coat of arms

Maximilian Adam Ludwig von Blumencron received a coat of arms when he was ennobled in 1690, which his descendants carried on, sometimes slightly modified. Due to the Blumencron possession of the Wattenheim rulership, its coat of arms was transferred to the current municipal coat of arms of the village of Wattenheim .

According to the nobility letter of 1690, the description of the coat of arms read: In a blue shield, the figure of a young man standing straight up from the knees, wearing a red skirt, which is closed with dark red buttons at the front, girded with a white band in the middle, on his head a red, slit Hungarian bonnet, covered with brown, fur lining; in his right hand holding a bare sword held upwards. Above it a knight's helmet with red and blue helmet covers, as a helmet jewel a similar figure as in the coat of arms, but clad in a blue skirt, wearing a flower crown on his head and holding an upwardly pointing silver spoon in his right hand.

Altar Foundation

High altar of the Frauenroth monastery church, depicting Maximilian Adam von Blumencron as the founder

In the Frauenroth monastery church there is a baroque high altar that can be used on both sides . According to the inscription on the predella (back), Maximilian Adam von Blumencron, as cloister administrator, had the ruined church rebuilt for worship and donated the altar in 1652. At that time he still had the civil family name Ludwig and is shown there kneeling at the feet of a cross with his first two wives and 11 children. The inscription reads:

" In honor of the Most Holy Trinity and Mother of God Maria, also the eternal memory of his two dear wives Eva Maria Ludwigin a real Franconian, buried here, then Maria Dorothea Ludwigin, a real Moser as well as children born from both marriage, has the honorable and distinguished one Mr. Maximilian Adam Ludwig von Würtzburg Chur - also Hochfürtslicher Würtzburgischer for 24 years at the court of the servant and the monastery Frauenroth administrator of these churches, so completely burned down and perished also no church service can be held next to this altar, done the 1. Octrobris Anno 1652 " "

- Inscription from the back of the high altar

literature

• Anton Meißner: New contributions to the local and church history of Wattenheim . Part 1, Verlag Kath. Pfarramt Wattenheim, 2005.
• Hans Othmar Müller von Blumencron: Maximilian Adam Ludwig - progenitor of the family von Blumencron . In: Würzburg diocesan history sheets . Volume 67, 2005, pp. 371-372; Excerpt from the source, on Franz Georg von Blumencron .
• Hans Friedrich von Ehrenkrook: Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume 16, p. 48, Deutsches Adelsarchiv, 1957; Excerpt from the source .

Web links

• Maximilian Adam von Blumencron in the Portal Thesaurus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website with reference to General Hannibal von Schauenburg ( Memento of the original from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Yvonne Monsees Gottesthal in: Germania Benedictina, Volume IV-1 The monastic and nunnery monasteries of the Cistercians in Hesse and Thuringia, p. 866, EOS Verlag Erzabtei St. Ottilien 2011 ISBN 978-3-8306-7450-4