Raban von Canstein (politician)

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Raban von Canstein

Raban von Canstein (born August 10, 1617 at Canstein Castle ; †  March 22, 1680 in Küstrin ) was a privy councilor of Brandenburg and the president of the court chamber . He was raised to the hereditary baron status in 1657 .

Raban was lord of Canstein, Warburg , Eiche, Schönberg , Dalwitz , Helmsdorf , Neukirch and captain of Beeskow , Storkow , Lindenberg and Mallynchen .

family

His parents were Philipp Ludwig von Canstein (1579–1623) and his wife Margarethe von Münchhausen (1589–1629) from the House of Oldendorf.

His first marriage was Lucia von Oppershausen in 1648 , but she died in 1660. In 1662 he married Hedwig Sophie von Kracht, widow of Lieutenant Colonel Berenth Friedrich von Arnim (Boitzenburg) and daughter of officer Hildebrand von Kracht . He had three daughters and three sons, Friedrich Wilhelm (1666–1678), Philipp Ludwig , Carl Hildebrand and Margarete Helena (1665–1746). She married Maximilian von Degenfeld (1645–1697) and became the mother of General Christoph Martin von Degenfeld-Schonburg . The second daughter, Louise Henriette (March 1663 - May 28, 1730) married Colonel von Mäsebuch and, after his death, Chancellor Otto Heinrich von Friesen .

Life

Epitaph of Raban von Canstein and his first wife Lucia geb. Oppershausen on the north gallery of Halberstadt Cathedral

After studying law and a grand tour through Holland, Belgium, France, England and Sweden, Canstein began his career in 1645 as a privy councilor and court marshal to the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg, the "Great Elector", met him through Duchess Anna-Sophie , who came from the House of Brandenburg , and took him into his service in 1650.

At the end of 1651 Canstein reorganized the domain system in the Mark Cleve . In 1652 he was appointed to the Privy Council and government director for the Diocese of Halberstadt, which had belonged to Brandenburg since 1648 . In 1655 he was called back to Berlin and took over the administration of the Kurmark . In 1657 he became head of the financial administration of all parts of the country and president of the Privy Council. In 1658 Canstein was entrusted with voting for the Brandenburg electoral vote in the election of Leopold I as emperor . In addition, in 1659 he became director of the “Commerce and Industry Department” and in 1660 Oberhofmarschall and administrator of the treasury, and finally the president of the court chamber, which he remained until 1669.

After his withdrawal from the administration, Canstein was entrusted with special diplomatic tasks as confidante of the elector. As such, he signed, among other things, the alliance treaty between Brandenburg and Sweden in 1672. In 1673 he was ambassador extraordinary at the court of the Electorate of Saxony in Dresden .

His epitaph is in Halberstadt Cathedral , where his first wife Lucia was buried. Your sarcophagus is said to have stood in the north arm of the transept. The great epitaph of the two was behind it, on the western wall of the north transept. It is completely carved out of wood, painted and gilded. It is divided into three image levels. The top one shows a representation of the resurrection of Christ surrounded by rich tendrils and angels. Three writing cartridges are no longer legible. The middle level is divided into three axes. The left side shows a portrait of Raban von Canstein in a praying posture. The right side shows Lucia also praying. Both turn to the center of the picture. A crucifix is ​​located in the center of a large inscription tablet. The three axes of the picture are separated by columns surrounded by tendrils. The lower image level contains an illegible inscription surrounded by tendrils. The entire ensemble was bordered by an iron grating.

The depiction of his first wife Lucia makes it probable that the epitaph was dated to a period between her death in 1660 and his new marriage in 1662. Today the epitaph is on the gallery of the north transept, his wife's sarcophagus and the iron grating have not been preserved.

Two drawings of the epitaph by Hermann Heinrich Schäfer (1815–1873) from 1845 are in the Gleimhaus and can be viewed via museum-digital .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chełmica (German Helmsdorf ) in the Polish rural community Tuplice in the Lebus Voivodeship in the Powiat Żarski
  2. ^ Neukirch, Grünberg district, Silesia, since 1945: Orzewo, village in the powiat Zielonogórski, Lebus Voivodeship
  3. ↑ Carl Elis: the cathedral in Halberstadt. Historical-archaeological description . Halberstadt 1857, p. 58 .
  4. ↑ Conrad Matthias Haber: concise but thorough news of the high collegiate churches or the so-called cathedral churches of Halberstadt [...] Halberstadt 1728, p. 35 ( uni-halle.de ).
  5. ↑ Portraits and inscription
personal data
SURNAME Canstein, Raban of
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Canstein, raven of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Privy Councilor of Brandenburg and President of the Chamber
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1617
PLACE OF BIRTH Canstein Castle
DATE OF DEATH March 22, 1680
Place of death Küstrin