Wolf Christoph Schenk zu Schweinsberg

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Wolf Christoph Schenk zu Schweinsberg (born September 26, 1653 in Burghaun , † September 3, 1717 in Marburg ) was a German landowner and officer as well as an inheritance gift in Hesse .

family

Wolf Christoph came from the the Hessian nobility scoring race of Schenck zu Schweinsberg . His parents were Ludwig (Ludewig) Schenk zu Schweinsberg, Erbschenk in Hesse, and his wife Anna, nee. from and to Mansbach . The paternal grandparents were Volprecht Daniel Schenk zu Schweinsberg auf Hermannstein and Burghaun, Princely-Fulani councilor , bailiff zu Bieberstein , inheritance in Hesse, and Mechthild Sabina, née. from Haune . The maternal grandparents were Erhardt Friedrich von und zu Mansbach and Elisabeth, geb. by Cramm .

He himself married in 1682, as a 28-year-old captain , Juliane von Boyneburg (* 1658), daughter of Wilhelm Christoph von Boyneburg zu Lengsfeld , Weilar and Gehaus († 1710) and Maria Susanna von Buttlar . The marriage remained childless.

Life

Wolf Christoph Schenk zu Schweinsberg entered the military service of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel as a teenager after completing his school education . As an officer candidate , he served his way up to free corporal and then ensign . In 1676 he took part in the siege and conquest of the Philippsburg fortress . 1677 he was one, now the lieutenant promoted to the Kassel aid contingent , the Landgraf Karl in Brandenburg Swedish war the Danish King Christian V in support of Swedish Pomerania sent; he was taken prisoner in Sweden on Rügen , from which he was only released six months later. During this time he was promoted to lieutenant captain. 1686, meanwhile promoted to captain , major and finally lieutenant colonel, he served in the Hessian auxiliary corps in Hungary in the Great Turkish War against the Ottoman Empire .

In the Palatinate War of Succession , in which he took part on foot as the commander of the Hessian Leib regiment, he was shot in the elbow of his left arm during the siege of Mainz on September 4, 1689 . For Colonel promoted, he made even the campaigns in Brabant with and on the Rhine. But then in 1694 he said goodbye for health reasons and retired to his estate in Buchenau near Hersfeld . He had inherited the Burghaun manor when his father was divided, but in 1692 he exchanged this with the Fulda abbot Placidus von Droste for the Buchenau manor and castle and was enfeoffed with Buchenau by the abbot in 1694. In Buchenau he had the rent shop in the area of ​​the so-called Upper Castle extensively renovated in 1713; the building has been called the General House since then.

In 1706 Landgrave Karl called him back into his service and appointed him Commander of Marburg and Major General . In 1709 he became lieutenant general and governor of the so-called Oberfürstentums (the part of the country around Marburg) and the Marburg fortress.

Wolf Christoph Schenk zu Schweinsberg died without a physical heir on September 3, 1717 and was buried on September 16, 1717 in the Evangelical Lutheran parish church in Marburg. His deceased brother's son Johann Carl Schenk von Schweinsberg became his heir.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The members of the so-called Hermannsteiner Line of the Schenck zu Schweinsberg usually spelled their name only with "k", not with "ck".
  2. ↑ daughter of the last male representative of the sex, Ludwig von Haune, † 1626/27.
  3. ↑ John Andree Hofmann: Abhandelung of the former and present war state .... Second part, Meier, Lemgo, 1769, p 501
  4. ↑ Maximilian von Ditfurth : The Kurhessische Leibgarde-Regiment: A historical sketch. Klaunig, Kassel, 1882, p. 8
  5. ↑ Johann Gottfried Biedermann: genealogical register of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood Landes zu Franken praiseworthy place Rhön and Werra ..., Bayreuth, 1749, Tabula CCLXXX
  6. ↑ HStAM Fonds Urk. 75 No 2016: Detailed description of the barter transaction ("This is how it happened Fuldt the 30th Martii anno 1692")
  7. ↑ Buchenau New Castle
  8. ↑ Johann Gottfried Biedermann: genealogical register of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood Landes zu Franken praiseworthy place Rhön and Werra ..., Bayreuth, 1749, Tabula CCLXXX

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SURNAME Gift to Schweinsberg, Wolf Christoph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schenck zu Schweinsberg, Wolf Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hessian landowner, general, governor and inheritance
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1653
PLACE OF BIRTH Burghaun
DATE OF DEATH September 3, 1717
Place of death Marburg