Werner Adolph von Haxthausen
Werner Adolph von Haxthausen (born October 11, 1744 in the prince-bishopric of Paderborn , † April 23, 1823 in Bökendorf near Brakel ) was a prince-bishop-Paderborn drost in the office of Lichtenau. He was a grandfather and (like his mother-in-law Luise von Westphalen-Heidelbeck) a godfather of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , who inherited his hunting pipe from him.
His father was Caspar Moritz von Haxthausen , his mother Christiane Theresia Freiin von der Asseburg . Werner Adolph von Haxthausen first married Marianne von Westphalen zu Heidelbeck. Their daughter Maria Therese Luise (* 1772) became the mother of the poet Annette von Droste-Hülshoff through her marriage to Clemens-August II. Von Droste zu Hülshoff. Marianne died early in 1772, so that Werner Adolph entered into a second marriage with Maria Anna von Wendt zu Papenhausen in 1773 . Since this marriage resulted in 14 more children, it is referred to as the "big generation" of the von Haxthausen family. His sons Werner von Haxthausen and August von Haxthausen , who were the center of the Bökendorfer Romantikerkreis, became known above all .
The painter Ludwig Emil Grimm describes Werner-Adolf as “a man of some eighty years, at the same time still robust, straightforward, sometimes rough; he had a right knight physiognomy, noble head, with a beautiful nose ”. In 1820 Friedrich Eduard Beneke wrote : "The old man is almost eighty years old, very lively, good-natured, a kind of old French education combined with Low German simplicity, often very funny, very talkative ..."
Werner Adolph became known through the novel “ Die Judenbuche ” by Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, which is part of world literature . His son August Franz von Haxthausen wrote the historical basis in 1818, a "literally true" story of a murder case in the prince-bishopric of Paderborn, in which Drost von Haxthausen acted as judge in 1782 . Contrary to what is described in the literature, Werner Adolph was not yet a Drost of the Paderborn office in Lichtenau in 1787 . Werner Adolph only officially took over the office when his father died on April 19, 1783. However, he was probably "adjoint" (assigned) to his father Caspar Moritz before. The Drost named in the “Urjudenbuche” could also be Werner Adolph.
The Paderborn Court and State Calendar lists him in 1787 as Chamberlain of the Electoral Palatinate . In 1794 he served as a deputy of the knighthood of the prince-bishopric.
See also
literature
- Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff (introduction and biographies) / Sibren Verhelst (genealogy): Werner Adolph Freiherr von Haxthausen - inspirer of the Bökendorfer Romantikerkreis and his descendants , Gorinchem (Netherlands), 2014
- Wilderich von Droste zu Hülshoff .: Annette v. Droste-Hülshoff in the tension between her family. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0683-0
- Friedrich Keinemann: The Paderborn Monastery at the end of the 18th century . tape 2 , 1996, ISBN 3-8196-0405-7 , pp. 312 f .
- Genealogical paperback of baronial houses, Volume 4, 1854, pp.227f
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jochen Grywatsch : The birthday of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff. In: Droste yearbook. 10, 2013/2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haxthausen, Werner Adolph von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Haxthausen, Werner Adolph Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nobleman, Paderborn Drost |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 11, 1744 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Principality of Paderborn |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 23, 1823 |
| Place of death | Bökendorf near Brakel |