Philipp Wolfgang (Hanau-Lichtenberg)

Count Philipp Wolfgang von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* July 31, 1595 in Buchsweiler (today: Bouxwiller); † ^July 14 / February 24,  1641 ^greg. In Buchsweiler) was a son of Count Johann Reinhard I of Hanau-Lichtenberg ( * 1569; † 1625) and Countess Maria Elisabeth von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein (* 1576; † 1605). He ruled the county from 1625.

Childhood and youth

Pedigree of Count Philipp Wolfgang von Hanau-Lichtenberg
Great grandparents	Philip IV of Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1514; † 1590) ∞ Eleonore von Fürstenberg (* 1523; † 1544)	Jakob von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1510; † 1570) ∞ Katharina von Honstein († 1570)	Ludwig Kasimir von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein- Langenburg (* 1517; † 1568) ∞ Anna von Solms-Laubach (* 1522; † 1594)	Wilhelm the Rich of Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1487; † 1559) ∞ Juliana zu Stolberg (* 1506; † 1580)
Grandparents	Philipp V. von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1541; † 1599) ∞ Ludovica Margaretha von Zweibrücken-Bitsch (* 1540; † 1569)		Wolfgang von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim (* 1546; † 1610) ∞ Magdalene von Nassau-Dillenburg (* 1547; † 1633)
parents	Johann Reinhard I. von Hanau-Lichtenberg (* 1569; † 1625) ∞ Maria Elisabeth von Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim (* 1576; † 1605)
Philipp Wolfgang

For the family cf. Main article: Lords and Counts of Hanau

Philipp Wolfgang attended the University of Strasbourg . His cavalier tour took him through Germany, France , Italy and England .

family

Philipp Wolfgang married twice:

1. on November 15, 1619 Countess Johanna von Öttingen (born August 30, 1602 - † September 17, 1639 in Strasbourg , buried first there in St. Peter, later transferred to Buchsweiler (today: Bouxwiller ) and buried there with Philipp Wolfgang). From this marriage emerged:

Grave slab of Count Johann Ludwig von Hanau-Lichtenberg in the church of Buchsweiler

Grave slab of Countess Anna Elisabeth von Hanau-Lichtenberg in the church of Buchsweiler

1. 1. Johann Ludwig (born June 14, 1621 in Strasbourg; † January 30, 1623 in Buchsweiler), buried in the city church in Buchsweiler.
   2. Anna Elisabeth (born May 19, 1622 in Buchsweiler; † May 21, 1622 in Buchsweiler), buried in the town church in Buchsweiler.
   3. Friedrich Casimir (August 4, 1623 - March 30, 1685)
   4. Dorothea Elisabeth (born November 19, 1624 in Buchsweiler; † November 21, 1624), buried in the town church in Buchsweiler.
   5. Johann Philipp (born January 13, 1626 [according to the Julian calendar ] in Buchsweiler; † December 18, 1669 in Babenhausen )
   6. Johanna Juliane (born January 4, 1627 in Buchsweiler; † September 4, 1628, in Buchsweiler).
   7. Johann Reinhard (II.) (Born January 23, 1628 in Buchsweiler; † April 25, 1666 in Bischofsheim am Hohen Steg )
   8. Sophie Eleonore (born April 13, 1630 in Buchsweiler; † April 20, 1662 [according to the Julian calendar] in Lützelstein ), unmarried, probably lived with her sister Agathe Christine, buried in Buchsweiler. A funeral sermon appeared at her funeral.
   9. Agatha Christine (born September 23, 1632 - † December 5, 1681), married to Count Palatine Leopold Ludwig von Pfalz-Veldenz-Lützelstein
   10. Christian Eberhard (* July 17, 1635 [according to the Julian calendar] in Strasbourg; † May 4, 1636, in Strasbourg), buried in Buchsweiler. A funeral sermon appeared at his funeral.
2. after May 17, 1640 Rhine Countess Dorothea Diana von Salm (* July 25, 1604 in Criechingen , † December 19, 1672 in Wörth ), widow of Count Philipp Ludwig von Rappoltstein († December 19, 1672). She was buried in Buchsweiler. A funeral sermon by Günther Heiler, Superintendent and Consistorial Councilor of the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg was also published.

government

The problems caused by the Thirty Years' War were at the center of the government of Count Philipp Wolfgang . It is reported that he led the government largely personally and was on the road a lot. This account is in striking contrast to the later literature, which reports that he was often ill.

He tried to continue the policy of neutrality that his father had begun with relative success , but it did not succeed. First it hit the Babenhausen Office again in 1631 , but this time the city and Babenhausen Castle were occupied and plundered by imperial troops. A year later, the Swedes invaded under General Count Wolf Heinrich von Isenburg . From February 23 to March 28, 1635, the city was again besieged by the imperial family under Philipp von Mansfeld , but unsuccessfully. In 1636 the office of Babenhausen was occupied by Kurmainz .

The Hanau-Lichtenberger areas on the Upper Rhine and Alsace were also hit. Imperial troops also marched in there and set fire to numerous villages. Philipp Wolfgang also offered military resistance, taking the imperial entrenchments at Drusenau and Lichtenau . But overall, with the limited resources available to him, he had little chance of successfully asserting himself in these disputes. In 1633 the Swedish troops reached the area of ​​the County of Hanau-Lichtenberg on the Upper Rhine. There were also military clashes, changing loads and looting in the area around the county. So it happened z. B. Pfaffenhofen , where only two families survived the war. When the Swedes subsequently allied with France, Pfaffenhofen, Buchsweiler and Ingweiler were occupied by the French. As a result, imperial troops again invaded the country under Field Marshal Matthias Gallas . The city of Wörth was looted twice. The next wave of invading military were the Evangelicals under Duke Bernhard von Weimar , who set up his headquarters in Brumath . During this campaign, Count Jakob Johann von Hanau-Münzenberg (* 1612; † 1636), who was buried in the church of St. Nikolai in Strasbourg, also fell before Zabern . In 1638, Croats looted the Hanau-Lichtenberg residence in Buchsweiler.

Philipp Wolfgang tried to counteract this by placing himself under the protection of the French king. One reason for this was that he was afraid of the ambitions of Bernhard von Weimar, who was an important military man but did not own his own land. He was said to want to create his own rule out of conquered areas in Alsace. This came into conflict with French interests, which were aimed at incorporating these areas themselves. After the death of Bernhard von Weimar in 1639, the fear was over.

For security reasons, Philipp Wolfgang often stayed in his residence in Strasbourg . Of all the towns and villages in the county, no place was spared from war. Like his predecessors, Philipp Wolfgang was not involved in the witch hunt , which was rampant during this period , so that the county of Hanau-Lichtenberg was largely spared.

death

In his will, Philipp Wolfgang designated his eldest son, Friedrich Casimir, as the sole heir. The two younger sons were assigned residences without sovereignty: Johann Philipp the Babenhausen office, Johann Reinhard the Lichtenberg office . Philipp Wolfgang died on 14./24. February 1641 in Buchsweiler, where he was buried in the town church.

literature

• Reinhard Dietrich : The state constitution in Hanau (= Hanau history sheets , volume 34). Hanau 1996, ISBN 3-9801933-6-5
• M. Goltzené: From the history of the office Buchsweiler . In: Pay d'Alsace . Issue 111/112, pp. 64f.
• Wilhelm Morhardt: Hanau old's - in honor of b'halt's - The Counts of Hanau-Lichtenberg in history and stories (= Babenhausen then and now, Volume 10). Babenhausen 1984.
• Fritz Roth : Complete evaluation of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical and cultural-historical purposes . Volume 6, Boppart 1970.
• Reinhard Suchier : Genealogy of the Hanauer count house . In: Festschrift of the Hanau History Association for its 50th anniversary celebration on August 27, 1894 . Hanau 1894.
• Georg Wittenberger: Stadtlexikon Babenhausen . Babenhausen 1995.
• Ernst Julius Zimmermann : Hanau city and country . 3rd edition, Hanau 1919, ND 1978.

References

1. ↑ Jacobus Hindermeier published a funeral sermon on her death in Strasbourg in 1641 . Proof: Roth, No.R 5018.
2. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt , inventory: D7, 1/1: * January 24, 1627.
3. ↑ Sebastian König's funeral sermon. Proof: Gustav Früh u. a .: The funeral sermons of the Braunschweig City Archives . Volume 3, Hanover 1979. Signature: Vol. 34 No. 10.
4. ↑ funeral sermon of Jacob Hinder Meier. Evidence from Fritz Roth : Complete evaluation of funeral sermons and personal documents for genealogical purposes. Volume 6, Boppard 1970
5. ↑ Proof in Roth, No. 5024.
6. ↑ See: Leichenpredigt, after Roth, R 5018, Volume 6, p. 14f.
7. ↑ Wittenberger, p. 64.
8. ↑ Wittenberger, p. 91.
9. ↑ Goltzené, p. 69, deviates from Lichtenberg as the burial place.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johann Reinhard I.	Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg 1625–1641	Friedrich Casimir