Nikolaus Georg Reigersberg

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Nikolaus Georg von Reigersberg
House Bratfisch , built by Conz Bratfisch around 1435, residential house Nikolaus Georg von Reigersberg

Nikolaus Georg Reigersberg , also von Reigersberg († June 7, 1651 in Frankfurt am Main ) was imperial councilor, Kurmainz chancellor and mayor in Aschaffenburg . He was the Kurmainzischer envoy in Münster ( Peace of Westphalia ) in 1648.

Origin and family

He was the son of the butcher Georg Reigersberg in Diedenhofen and his wife Anna Gudnacht and was born around 1598. He completed his law studies in Cologne and Mainz with the title of doctor in both rights . On August 19, 1624 he married Maria Salome von Faber († 1639), the daughter of the cupbearer Nikolaus Faber. They had four sons and a daughter. Georg, the eldest son, became a canon in the Aschaffenburg Abbey of St. Peter and Alexander . In his second marriage he married Eva Maria von Münster, who brought Collenburg into the marriage. The castle and later the Fechenbach Castle became the family seat.

career

His professional career began in 1622 when he was appointed court advisor to the Electorate of Mainz, then secretary in the state chancellery. From 1624 to 1651 he was mayor in Aschaffenburg. In this capacity he was also a judge in witch trials in the courts in Aschaffenburg , Großkrotzenburg , Wörth and Mönchberg . When he was accused of enrichment, he asked Johann Wolfgang Wetzel, the dean of the collegiate monastery of St. Peter and Alexander, for a letter of discharge on October 2, 1628. In 1635, Elector and Archbishop Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt appointed him Reichshofrat and raised him to the knightly nobility, in 1640/1643 he appointed him Electoral Privy Councilor and Chancellor of the Archbishopric of Mainz.

He achieved fame not only because of his calling to many diets and prince assemblies, but also because of his participation in the peace negotiations in Münster and Osnabrück in 1648 after the Thirty Years' War ( Peace of Westphalia ). On October 24, 1648, on behalf of the Elector and Archbishop Johann Philipp von Schönborn , Reigersberg, in place of Count Hugo Everhard Cratz von Scharfenstein, who had left early in 1647, was the first of the representatives of the empire to sign the total peace treaty. His services were made by Emperor Ferdinand III. praiseworthy.

His house in Aschaffenburg on Grosse Metzgergasse (today Dalbergstrasse 41) is still there. He was buried in the parish church " Our Lady " in Aschaffenburg. Reigersbergstrasse in Aschaffenburg is named after him.

literature

  • Heinrich Fußbahn: Dr. Nikolaus Georg Reigersberger - Aschaffenburger Stadtschultheiß and Electorate Mainz Chancellor , in: Aschaffenburger Yearbook for History, Regional Studies and Art of the Untermaing area 20 (1999), pp. 121–182

Individual evidence

  1. Carsten Pollnick: Aschaffenburg mayor Würzburg: Volksblatt Verlagsgesellschaft mbH 1983, ISBN 3-429-00875-1
  2. Alois Grimm: Aschaffenburg house book . Volume 1: Dalbergstrasse-Stiftsgasse-Fischerviertel . Aschaffenburg: Geschichts- und Kunstverein eV 1985, ISBN 3-87965-007-3 .
  3. Carsten Pollnick: Aschaffenburg street names - people and personalities and their local historical significance I. Stadtgeschichtliche Posts Volume I Aschaffenburg: Aschaffenburg - urban and Stiftsarchiv 1990, ISBN 3-9801478-5-1 .

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