Rahel Louise of Hoym
Rahel Louise Countess von Hoym , née Countess von Werthern (born February 24, 1699 in Regensburg , † July 15, 1764 in Thallwitz ) was a large German landowner who owned several manors with lands and an important city palace in the Electorate of Saxony .
Life
Rahel Louise (self-written Rachel Louyse ) came from the Thuringian noble family von Werthern and was the daughter of Count Georg von Werthern and his wife Rahel Helena. The politician Georg Graf von Werthern on Eythra was her one year younger brother. Her place of birth is Regensburg, where her father stayed temporarily as the Reichstag envoy.
On June 3, 1716 in Dresden she married the later royal-Polish and electoral-Saxon secret council and captain in Thuringia, lord of the lordships of Droyßig, Slawentzitz and heir, feudal lord and court lord of Schkölen, Gleina, Nebra, Birkigt, Löbichau, etc. ., Ludwig Gebhard Graf von Hoym . He was considered to be one of the financially strongest men in Saxony and Poland. By his death in 1738 Rachel Louise inherited a not inconsiderable part of his fortune. Rahel Louise Countess von Hoym, interested in enlarging the property and making a profitable investment, bought further properties. In 1743 she acquired the Strelln manor in the Torgau district . In addition, she bought the Palais Beichlingen in Dresden in 1752 , which was rebuilt in 2010 after being destroyed in the bombing raid in 1945. On the front of this palace she had her own colored family crest and that of her husband affixed.
At an auction in the Leipzig district office in 1737, she acquired the allodial village Trebnitz from the indebted Princess Wisniowieska as the highest bidder. In an inheritance comparison, the village of Trebnitz received its eldest son Julius Gebhard Graf von Hoym in 1764 .
Rahel Louise Countess von Hoym died a sudden death shortly before the beginning of the service in the church in Thallwitz. At that time Rahel Louise Countess von Hoym was the owner of the manors Thallwitz, Ochsensaal, Strelln and Trebnitz. On the evening of July 18, 1764, her body was appropriately buried in Hoym's hereditary burial in Thallwitz. She left the two sons Julius Gebhard Graf von Hoym , a real secret councilor from the Electoral Saxony, and Gotthelf Adolph Graf von Hoym , chamberlain and Naumburg chamber director, as heirs. There were also the sisters Henriette Charlotte von Arnim, wife of General von Arnim auf Neusorge, and Helene Renate, widow of the chief president Graf von Reden. On December 31, 1764, these four siblings concluded an inheritance settlement over their mother's legacies. For example, Gotthelf Adolph Graf von Hoym received their Strelln estate. With his death in 1783, the male line of his family died out.
literature
- General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , 1834, p. 283.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate from Pastor Mag. Johann Gottfried Kramer from 1764.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hoym, Rahel Louise from |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoym, Rahel Louise Countess of (full name); Werthern, Rahel Louise Countess of |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German landowner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 24, 1699 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | regensburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 15, 1764 |
| Place of death | Thallwitz |