Wolfgang Wildfire

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Wolfgang Wildfeuer (born May 5, 1611 in Falkenau an der Eger , Bohemia ; † March 18, 1674 at Littmitz Castle near Falkenau) was the first captain to Littmitz and to Falkenau after the Counter-Reformation from 1638 under Count Nostitz.

Life

Wolfgang Wildfeuer (also Wolff Wiltfeyer ) was a son of the Falkenauer councilor, cloth maker and mayor Jacob Wildfeuer and his wife Margaretha, née. Lorentz. Growing up during the Evangelical Lutheran period, he experienced the Counter Reformation (1624/1625) in Falkenau. When his two parents died of the plague in autumn 1633, he opened up to the re-established Roman Catholic faith. When his younger brother Martin was buried in Falkenau on September 21, 1635, he too died as a hopeful convert.

In 1631 Count Johann Hartwig von Nostitz took over the rulership of Falkenau and then deployed the young and educated Wildfire as a bailiff at the castle in Littmitz not far from Falkenau. There he also received the title of stately hunting companion and supply leader . Wildfire promoted the reintroduction of the Catholic faith in the office and rule of Falkenau in the spirit of Count Nostitz.

From 1662 he was appointed captain in Falkenau, but stayed at Littmitz Castle. The list of subjects from 1651 for Littmitz with the castle, Meierhof and sheep farm, as well as the villages of Albernhof, Wintersgrün , Granesau , Schwarzenbach , Kösteldorf, Grünlas, Roßmeißl, Doglasgrün , Grießbach and Dotterwies comes from his hand .

He is ancestor of the Wildfeuer family in Falkenau, who can be traced there from 1573 with Hans Wildfeuer until 1945.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baptism, marriage and death records, Königswerth No. 1, 1654–1716, p. 184
  2. ↑ Baptism, marriage and death registers Falkenau Vol. 1, 1628–1657
  3. ↑ Baptism, marriage and death registers Falkenau Vol. 1, 1628–1657
  4. ^ City archive Falkenau, council minutes from 1663
  5. ^ Czech State Archives, Prague
personal data
SURNAME Wildfire, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first captain to Littmitz and to Falkenau
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1611
PLACE OF BIRTH Falkenau an der Eger , Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH March 18, 1674
Place of death at Falkenau