Moritz Casimir II (Bentheim-Tecklenburg)

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Moritz Casimir II of Bentheim-Tecklenburg, 1765

Moritz Casimir II of Bentheim-Tecklenburg (born September 12, 1735 in Hohenlimburg , † November 4, 1805 in Rheda ) was Count of Tecklenburg , Count of Limburg and Lord of Rheda .

family

Moritz Casimir II von Bentheim-Tecklenburg was the son of the ruling Count Moritz Casimir I (1701–1768) and his wife Countess Albertina Henrieta von Isenburg-Büdingen-Meerholz (1703–1749), daughter-in-law of Count Georg Albrecht von Isenburg-Büdingen (1664–1724) and Countess Amalia Henrieta von Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1664–1733).

Moritz Casimir II of Bentheim-Tecklenburg married Helene Charlotte Sophie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg (1739-1805) on September 2, 1761. The marriage had five children:

Life

Of his five siblings, only two years older sister Ferdinande Henriette (1737–1779) came of age. Like his father, he studied at Utrecht University . After the death of his father in 1768, Moritz Casimir II took over the reign of the county of Limburg and the East Westphalian rule of Rheda . From 1756 Rheda Castle was the main residence and seat of government of the Count's House. The Hohenlimburg Castle, which was extensively converted by the father, served as a secondary residence and administrative seat for the South Westphalian territory.

Like his father, Moritz Casimir II primarily cultivated his cultural interests, in addition to which he continued to expand his father's music library . At the residence in Rheda he maintained a court orchestra and court theater.

As the client, he added a castle mill (1772) and a chancellery and guard house (1780/81) to the farm buildings and stables, which his father had already built on the outer bailey, but also a small, structurally very attractive court theater (1790). .

In addition, he also took care of the economic upturn in his country with specific projects. In 1769, as one of his first government measures , he founded an earthenware manufacture at Haus Bosfeld , which, however, had to cease operations four years later for economic reasons.

The count's health care also corresponded to the demands of the time, the ordinances to avert the plague , rabies , smallpox and dysentery showed caution and medical foresight. And the care for the mentally ill was exemplary .

Heir to the Bentheim-Tecklenburg family was his son Emil Friedrich I (1765–1837).

See also

literature

  • Joachim Domp: Studies on the history of music at Westphalian aristocratic courts in the 18th century. Freiburg studies in musicology, Regensburg 1934.
  • Rudolf Reuter : The instruments of the Fürstlich-Bentheim-Tecklenburgischen court music in the Erbdrostenhof in Münster. Westfalen, Volume 46, 1968, pp. 129-145.
  • Hans Schnoor : Music at Rheda Castle. Monograph of the district of Wiedenbrück. Music + Theater - without their own roof, Bielefeld 1969, pp. 32–57.
  • Hans-Joachim Böckenholt: Castle and rule Rheda . Rhode Druck und Verlag, Harsewinkel-Marienfeld 1979, ISBN 3-921961-02-8 , pp. 38-39.
  • Hermann Schaub: The rule of Rheda and their residence city. From the beginning to the end of the Old Empire (= publications from the Gütersloh district archive. Vol. 10). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2006, ISBN 3-89534-610-1 .
  • Jürgen Kindler, Wolfgang-A. Lewe: The castle mill in Rheda. Rhedaer Schriften, issue 11, Rheda-Wiedenbrück 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermann Schaub: The rule of Rheda and their royal seat. From the beginning to the end of the Old Kingdom , Bielefeld 2006. p. 110.
  2. ↑ Castle and Lordship of Rheda
predecessor Office successor
Moritz Casimir I. Count of Limburg
1768–1805 		Emil Friedrich I. and
Moritz Kasimir III. († 1806)
Moritz Casimir I. Head of the House of Bentheim-Tecklenburg
1768–1805 		Emil Friedrich I. and
Moritz Kasimir III. († 1806)
personal data
SURNAME Moritz Casimir II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bentheim-Tecklenburg, Moritz-Casimir II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Tecklenburg and Limburg, Lord of Rheda
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1735
PLACE OF BIRTH Hohenlimburg
DATE OF DEATH November 4, 1805
Place of death Rheda