Rudolph von Schmertzing

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The coat of arms of those of Schmertzing: vertically divided shield of red and gold with three lilies of alternating colors

Rudolph von Schmertzing (also: von Aching ) (* around 1580 ; † June 19, 1646 in Erdmannsdorf ) was an Electoral Saxon major and war commissioner of the Erzgebirge district and owner of several Erzgebirge hammer mills .

Von Schmertzing was born around 1580 as the son of Rudolph von Schmertzing and his wife Martha nee. von Helldorff born. On October 28, 1611 he married Esther, who had just turned 20, daughter of one of the richest hammer lords of the Ore Mountains, Nikolaus Klinger , and his wife Anna. Klinger, who died the year before the wedding, left an extensive legacy to his children. In addition to the Förstelhammer north of Raschau , Esther also brought the youngest of the three Rittersgrüner hammer works, which was henceforth called "Schmertzingischer Hammer", into the marriage as a dowry . Rudolph von Schmertzing was also the tenant of the Obermittweidaer Hammer at this time . On March 12, 1619, Schmertzing was granted the electoral privilege of two wooded areas on the lower Heyde and the lower jurisdiction over all his properties around the Förstel, as well as the authorization for the hammer smiths and miners who worked in his Hammerwerk were busy building new houses. These formed the origin of the parcel village Langenberg , which consisted of 12 houses until well into the 18th century.

From 1612 to 1619 Schmertzing was the tenant of the Rabenstein Castle and Vorwerk . In November 1621 he bought half of the Limbach manor from the brothers Georg Friedrich and Antonius von Schönberg for 7,300 guilders. As early as 1617 he was referred to as "Junker zu Limpach", which indicates his stay there. In 1646 his son Hannibal received the fief of the said property.

After falling ill with consumption, Esther von Schmertzing died on June 29, 1622 as “ Des Edlen / Gestrengen and Ehrenvesten Herr Rudolphen von Schmertzings on Förstel / Rittersgrün and Limpach / Churf. Saxon. People and were warm spouses and house decorations ”. She left five children with her widower; her sons, the Junkers Hannibal, Georg Sebastian and Caspar Rudolph and their daughters, the virgins Anna Ottilia and Esther. Soon after Esther's death, Rudolph von Schmertzing married again. In 1623 he took Anna, the daughter of Hans Friedrich von Miltitz auf Zadel, as his wife. After her death in August 1639, he married Katharina, the widow of Adam Friedrich von Klinge auf Erdmannsdorf on November 23, 1641, during the Thirty Years' War , before he died in 1646. The possessions in Rittersgrün went to the son Hannibal, who founded a small settlement for his workers in 1670 by building “17 heuslein”. This is listed in old maps as "Schmertzingsdorf" and remained an independent municipality until the middle of the 19th century.

His step-nephew, the Erzgebirge chronist Christian Lehmann, reports on an episode from the life of Rudolph von Schmertzing :

“In 1626 Juncker Rudolff rode from Schmertzing, Erbsaß on the Hammergut Förstel, half-dry from Annaberg completely alone, and thought to take the straight path via Schletta to the Scheibenberg mill through the under Scheibner rooms. But he was seduced by a hunt of hunters screaming and barking dogs, which he rode after, and fell into a marrast with his horse, in which the horse got stuck half sunk. He looked dangerously loose, ran onto the neighboring wagons, took off his clothes, and had people come up who had to pull the horse out of the Marrast with poles and ropes and win them. "

Probably the most important offspring of the von Schmertzing family was the grandson Rudolph von Schmertzings, born in Limbach in 1660 , Hannibal Germanus Freiherr von Schmertzing auf Ehrenberg, Ehrenhain and Reusa, royal Polish and electoral Saxon chamberlain, chief steward and governor of the Ballei Thuringia and knight of the Order of St. John .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Karsten Richter: The work of Rudolph von Schmertzing in the Erzgebirge , in: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 36 (2014), Issue 5, pp. 6-9. ISSN  0232-6078
  2. ↑ Deviating from this, there are different information about the mother in historical aristocratic literature: The New General German Adels Lexicon (8th volume, 1868, p. 234) calls her Marie Magdalene von Dölitsch . In the German nobility samples ... she is called Gertrud von Kitscher . Zedler ( Schmertzing, an old noble family. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 35, Leipzig 1743, column 324 f.) Calls her Magdalena Sophia von Dolitzsch.
  3. ↑ See Siegfried Hübschmann: Das Förstel in Langenberg. Dr. Wilmar Schwabesche non-profit Heimstättenbetriebsgesellschaft (publisher), Heidler & Fahle, Scheibenberg approx. 2002.
  4. ↑ Karsten Richter: 425 years Langenberg? About the beginnings of a miners' settlement in the Ore Mountains. Chemnitz: Verlag Robin Hermann, 2013, ISBN 978-3-940860-10-1
  5. ^ Cf. Paul Seydel: The history of the manor and village of Limbach in Saxony. Zahn & Jaensch, Dresden 1908, p. 64 ff.
  6. ^ Funeral sermon by Esther von Schmertzing . University and State Library Saxony-Anhalt , signature: Pon Ze 2005, QK. ( Digitized version )
  7. ^ Erdmannsdorf municipal administration (ed.): 1196–1996, 800 years of Erdmannsdorf . Erdmannsdorf 1996, p. 15.
  8. ↑ Quoted from: Rittersgrün through the ages . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 1993.
  9. ↑ Christian Lehmann: Historical scene… . 1699, p. 77 f. ( Digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Schmertzing, Rudolph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Saxon major
DATE OF BIRTH around 1580
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1646
Place of death Erdmannsdorf