Philipp Kinsky from Wchinitz and Tettau
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Philipp Joseph Count Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau (Czech Filip Josef hrabě Kinský z Vchynic a Tetova ; born August 4, 1741 in Chroustovice , † February 14, 1827 in Prague ) was an Austrian general, Imperial Chamberlain and Bohemian nobleman.
family
Philipp Graf Kinsky comes from the Chlumetz branch of the Kinsky line . His father was the Oberstlandjägermeister Leopold Ferdinand Graf Kinsky (1713–1760), his mother Maria Theresia (1715–1778) a daughter of Hieronymus Graf Capece Marchese de Rofrano. His siblings were
- Franz Ferdinand (1738–1806), ∞ Maria Christine Princess of Liechtenstein
- Therese (1740–1806), ∞ Andreas Fürst Poniatowski
- Maria Anna (* 1744), ∞ Wenzel Ernst Graf Schaffgotsch
Józef Antoni Poniatowski was his nephew.
According to a family contract, Count Philipp Kinsky was engaged to his cousin Marie Auguste and was earmarked to inherit part of the property of the princely line, as Franz Joseph Prince Kinsky (1726-1752) had left only this daughter. Marie Auguste died in 1763 at the age of twelve.
On August 27, 1787, Kinsky married Countess Maria Theresa von Dietrichstein (1768–1822), a sister of Franz Joseph von Dietrichstein, in front of the imperial court in Vienna . The marriage with the young woman, called la celeste Therese because of her beauty , was extremely unhappy, and she left him shortly after the wedding. In 1788 the marriage was annulled; Therese Kinsky married Maximilian Friedrich von Merveldt in St. Petersburg in 1807 .
Life
Kinsky initially completed a military career. From his father's inheritance he was endowed with the West Bohemian estate Zvíkovec with Chlum . After the death of his fiancée, he inherited the Richenburg estate from the estates of the princely line and had the dilapidated Richenburg ready for residence. Between 1767 and 1776 he had the Karlstein hunting lodge built.
In 1778 he and his brother inherited the maternal rule Chraustowitz . After paying off his brother in 1779, he had Chraustowitz Castle redesigned in rococo style into a representative seat with a French park between 1779 and 1780. His widowed sister Therese, a sister-in-law of the Polish King Stanislaus II August Poniatowski, was often a guest at the castle. For them he had the Theresienlust hunting lodge built by Uhersko . In 1780, after the death of his childless great-uncle Josef Johann Maximilian Graf Kinsky, he inherited the Stubenbach estate in the Bohemian Forest . In 1782 he bought the Schaffgotsch Palace in Prague's New Town for 22,000 guilders , which he had costly redesigned.
On April 10, 1783 he left the imperial army with the rank of major general and retired into private life. He was on friendly terms with Emperor Joseph II , and in 1787 he accompanied the Emperor as a cavalier on a journey. He sold the Zvíkovec estate with Chlum in 1786 to Johann Prokop Hartmann von Klarstein. In 1788 Kinsky expanded the Stubenbach estate to include the small Gutwasser estate . Between 1792 and 1793 he had the villages of Chinitz ( Vchynice ) and Tettau ( Tetov ) laid out in the Waldhwozder forests . In 1794 he inherited the lordship of Bürgstein and two houses in Prague's New Town from his cousin Friedrich Joseph Graf Kinsky (1767–1794) . In 1798 Kinsky sold his Prague palace and instead acquired the Palais Losy, also located in the New Town . In the same year Philipp Graf Kinsky sold the Stubenbach and Gutwasser estates for 400,000 guilders to Joseph II zu Schwarzenberg ; He kept the mirror hut with the two mirror grinding shops to himself. Kinsky sold the two Prague houses he had inherited in 1800.
In old age, Count Philipp Kinsky had the dilapidated Burgstein Castle, which he had not visited for 15 years, restored as a retirement home. He sold the allodial rule Chraustowitz and Richenburg in 1823 to Karl Alexander von Thurn und Taxis . During his final years, Kinsky lived alternately at Burgstein Castle and in the Kinsky Palace in Prague (formerly Palais Losy), where he died in 1827. The childless Kinsky had chosen his cousin Karl Graf Kinsky (1766-1831) as heir.
In 1828 the remains of Philipp Graf Kinsky were moved to Bürgstein in the chapel of St. John of Nepomuk convicted. In front of the chapel, Karl Graf Kinsky had a memorial with a bust of the deceased erected in 1828, which was stolen in the 1970s.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau, Philipp Joseph Graf (d. 1827) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 11th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1864, p. 285 ( digitized version ).
- Karel Richter: Sága rodu Kinských , 2008
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau, Philipp |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kinsky von Wchinitz and Tettau, Philipp Joseph Graf; Kinský z Vchynic a Tetova, Filip Josef hrabě (Czech) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian general and chamberlain, Bohemian nobleman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 4, 1741 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chroustovice |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 14, 1827 |
| Place of death | Prague |