Oswald von Kromsdorf
Oswald von Kromsdorf († July 9, 1553 near Sievershausen ) was an Electoral Saxon governor in Weissensee and Eckartsberga and owner of the secularized Ottenhausen monastery .
Life
After Duke Moritz von Sachsen and his brother August had compared themselves on January 16, 1543 with the Great Estates Committee about the fact that they were selling several secularized monasteries, their outworks and goods to private individuals and using the purchase money they received for the maintenance of new boys' schools, the later ones came into being three princely schools in Grimma , Meißen and Pforta . The former Benedictine convent Ottenhausen in the Weißensee office also belonged to the abolished monasteries in the Wettin domain, which were sold specifically for this purpose. It was hereditary sold to Oswald vom Kromsdorf complete with all accessories as well as the hereditary courts and services in the field and village of Ottenhausen. Kromsdorf came from a Thuringian noble family that named themselves after their ancestral seat Kromsdorf . The purchase price was 4,000 guilders, the payment of which was to be made in installments in Merseburg. Moritz and August both signed the sales contract in Dresden on Wednesday after Matthew 1543. The corresponding loan letter was issued two years later on June 11, 1545 in Merseburg.
In 1546, Oswald von Kromsdorf received for his loyal service to the Wettins, the higher courts over Ottenhausen and annual income in Oberbösa , which the Braunsroda monastery had previously owned there.
In 1547 Oswald von Kromsdorf also acquired Heinrich Hacke's free knight seat there in Ottenhausen. He had a new feudal letter issued for all his possessions acquired in Ottenhausen, which was made out on December 19, 1551 by Elector August of Saxony during a stay in Selva in the Ore Mountains .
Because of the numerous favors he received, Oswald von Kromsdorf also served the Wettins militarily and went to the battle of Sievershausen with Elector Moritz , in which he was fatally injured.
Since he had no children of his own, his fiefdom fell to his brother Ernst Wittich von Kromsdorf after his death, whom he had already included in the fiefdom letter for Ottenhausen as a co-fief in 1545. Ottenhausen remained in his family until 1687.
literature
- Friedrich B. von Hagke: Documentary reports on the towns, villages and estates of the Eckartsberga district , 1867, p. 522ff.
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kromsdorf, Oswald von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krombsdorff, Oswaldt von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Electoral Saxon governor and manor owner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 15th century or 16th century |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 9, 1553 |
| Place of death | near Sievershausen |