Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg

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Family coat of arms from the Thesaurus Palatinus

Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg , known as Stechinelli (* July 20, 1677 in Celle ; † April 20, 1752 in Heidelberg ) was an Electoral Palatinate Privy Councilor and author of the historically significant work "Thesaurus Palatinus" .

origin

He was the son of Francesco Maria Capellini von Wickenburg, called Stechinelli (1640–1694), postmaster general and court banker of the Guelph duchies and his second wife Agnes Elisabeth born. Breiger. Since 1675 the family lived in the house in Celle, which is now known as the Stechinelli House , which was left by the father-in-law, Hofrat Breiger . From his father, who had acquired an estate in Wieckenberg in 1677 and was ennobled as imperial baron von Wickenburg in 1688, the son also took on the additional nickname "Stechinelli" , which referred to his spindly legs.

Life

Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg was first in the Hanoverian service and became chamberlain to the Palatinate Elector Johann Wilhelm , in Düsseldorf , who also appointed him to the Privy Council in 1712 . In 1718 he settled with his successor Karl III. Philipp went to the Electoral Palatinate , where he stayed at the court in Heidelberg and then in Mannheim . In 1738 the baron was promoted to president of the electoral clergy administration , a very important, mixed-denominational government body that administered and supervised all church property. When he took over this office, he moved back to Heidelberg, where he died in 1752. Capellini von Wickenburg was married to Maria Ottilia Ludovika geb. Blankart von Ahrweiler , with whose childless brother Johann Otto Friedrich Blankart von Ahrweiler this sex became extinct in the male line in 1712.

Her grandson Anton Anselm Capellini von Wickenburg (1750-1813) was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1790 and worked as Bavarian envoy (authorized minister) in St. Petersburg and Vienna . His son was the Austrian statesman Matthias Constantin Capello von Wickenburg (1797-1880).

Historical meaning

Title page of the Thesaurus Palatinus

Johann Franz Capellini von Wickenburg achieved historical importance with the publication of his two-volume work “Thesaurus Palatinus” . Probably stimulated by the assumption of the presidency in the clerical administration, the nobleman began to systematically collect views of buildings, of grave monuments in churches, local inscriptions, bell inscriptions and similar historical things, to catalog and to record them in drawings. He also instructed his employees to report anything they discovered during their business trips. This is how the 2-volume collection “Thesaurus Palatinus” was created , which today is an important source of many lost monuments and inscriptions. Various draftsmen were involved in the two large-format volumes, including Peter Friedrich de Walpergen and Theodor Gottfried Thum. The representations are often handed down in the form of red chalk drawings and were created between 1747 and 1752. The first volume focuses on Heidelberg and Mannheim buildings and monuments, the second volume mainly contains epitaphs or inscriptions from the Electoral Palatinate and the larger cities of Mainz , Trier , Speyer and Worms .

The two original volumes are now in the Secret House Archives of the Bavarian Main State Archives in Munich under the signature Hs. 317.

literature

  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 9, Leipzig 1870, p. 562 ( digitized version ).
  • Adolf von Oechelhäuser : The Thesauarus Palatinus in Munich . In: Mitteilungen zur Geschichte des Heidelberger Schlosses 3, 1896, pp. 68–127 ( digitized version ).
  • Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter , Volume 5, 1935, p. 233, University of Bonn, Institute for Historical Regional Studies of the Rhineland; (Cutout scan 1) , (Cutout scan 2) .
  • Heinrich Ihme: Southwest German personalities. A guide to bibliographies and biographical compilations , Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3170102885 , p. 128 ( Google Books ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liselotte von der Pfalz : Lettres françaises , 1989, p. 213; (Detail scan)
  2. ^ Website of the city of Celle on the Stechinelli House
  3. ^ Website of the Heidelberg History Association ; Website on the history of the electoral clergy administration .
  4. ↑ Website on Blankarts Hof in Ahrweiler
  5. ↑ Website on the Gymnicher Hof in Ahrweiler ( memento of the original from November 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alt-ahrweiler.de
  6. ↑ Heiko Lass: Court and media in the field of tension between dynastic tradition and political innovation between 1648 and 1714. Celle and the residences in the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (= Rudolstadt research on residential culture, volume 4). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2008, ISBN 3422068627 , p. 101 ( Google Books ); Mannheimer Geschichtsblätter , Volume 13 (1912), No. 3, Sp. 62 ( digitized version ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link accordingly Instructions and then remove this notice. ). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadtarchiv.mannheim.de
  7. ↑ Website on inscriptions in the Bad Kreuznach district, with a separate chapter on the "Thesaurus Palatinus"
personal data
SURNAME Wickenburg, Johann Franz Capellini from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stechinelli
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electoral Palatinate civil servant and regional historian
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1677
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1752
Place of death Heidelberg