Wolfgang von Hofkirchen

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Wolfgang II. (Wolf) Freiherr von Hofkirchen, Herr zu Kollmünz and Dressidel (Drösiedl) (born September 1, 1555 in Kollmitz, near Raabs an der Thaya ; † June 15, 1611 in Prague ) was an Austrian nobleman, Protestant class politician and governor of Lower Austria .

Life

Wolfgang was the eldest son of Wilhelm Freiherr von Hofkirchen (* around 1529; † 1584) and Eva Pögl (Begl) († before 1591), Freiin von Reiffenstein.

He studied in Strasbourg in 1570 , in Padua in 1574 , in Bologna and Siena in 1579 and was appointed by Rudolf II on May 17, 1593, to the Lower Austrian government council. For a short time (1600 to 1601) he was provisional governor of Lower Austria, and after he made derogatory comments about Archduke Ferdinand II , he was dismissed from service in 1601 as a punishment.

The predominantly evangelical (Protestant) gentry elected him from 1603 to 1608 as a decree. In 1603 Baron Hofkirchen led a delegation of the Protestant estates of Austria to Dresden , Berlin , Wolfenbüttel , Stuttgart , Ansbach , Oettingen and Neuburg an der Donau in Germany in order to get the electors and imperial princes to support. The imperial court interpreted this as treason and had him arrested from 1604 to 1605. Nevertheless, Hofkirchen appeared as the spokesman for the Evangelicals in the gentry and signed the Horner Bundbrief as the third party in 1608 . After the agreement with Archduke Matthias in 1609, Wolfgang was given back all freedoms and honorary posts.

Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg (1580–1645) dedicated a collection of thanksgiving sermons to Wolfgang II von Hofkirchen in 1610 for the exhibition of the Bohemian majesty of 1609, which allowed Protestants to practice their religion freely.

Wolfgang II von Hofkirchen died in Prague in 1611 and was buried in the family crypt in the parish church of St. Jakobus von Aigen .

family

Wolfgang Freiherr von Hofkirchen married Anna Dorothea Countess von Oettingen-Oettingen (1563 – after 1624), daughter of Ludwig XVI. Count of Oettingen (1508–1569) and Susanne Countess of Mansfeld († 1565). Most of the twelve children died in childhood, only the sons Lorenz and Albrecht continue the sex.

The sons Hanns Ludwig († after 1619) and Albrecht Freiherren von Hoffkirch studied in Tübingen from 1600. Albrecht († 1633) was later an imperial lieutenant colonel. Because of the allegation of desertion in the battle of Lützen , he was executed by Wallenstein in the “Prague Blood Court”. The daughters Eva (* around 1583) and Susanna (* around 1585) died within a week in 1603. Polykarp Leyser the Elder took part in her funeral pamphlet .

The son Lorenz IV. (* Around 1606, † beginning of 1656) was Major General of the Electorate of Saxony. In 1632 he received the county of Oettingen - Wallerstein from Gustav II Adolf and took part in the Battle of Lützen on the Swedish side in 1632. Lorenz IV. Was married to Agatha von Oettingen-Oettingen (1610–1680). He entered imperial service on December 9, 1636 and became lieutenant general. In 1639 he was captured and in 1642 with Johann von Werth and Hans Christoph III. von Puchheim replaced Field Marshal Gustaf Horn . In 1644 Lorenz IV of Hofkirchen returned to the Swedes.

swell

  • Gallus Schmögel, Polykarp Leiser: Christian funeral sermon. At the beginning of the Wolgebornen Fräwlein, Frewlein Euae and Fräwlein Susannae Born Freyinnen von Hoffkirchen. Des ... Wolffgangen von HoffKirchen, Freyherrn zu Collmitz, auff Dresidel ... daughters . Which ... within a few days than May 16 and 22 of the 1603rd year, out of this wretched life, followed one another into that everlasting joyful life. And on April 13th of the 1604th year they were transferred to their conditorium and bed. Held, by M. Gallum Schmögel, pastors to own in Austria under the Ennß. Lorenz Säuberlich, Wittenberg 1604.
  • Gallus Schmögel: Exequiae Hoffkirchianae, that is: Christian funeral sermon at the funeral of ... Mr. Wolffgangen Von Hoffkirchen, Freyherrn zu Collmitz auff Dresiedel ... Who was blissfully different on June 15 of the 1611th year in Prague, and then was Christian buried on December 29th, and placed in his crypt and hereditary burial at Aigen in Austria. Maintained by M. Gallum Schmögelium Fidebricenum Marchicum , pastor of Schrättenthal in Austria. Abraham Lamberg, Leipzig 1612

Works

  • Wolfgang von Hofkirchen: Relation of the Freyherrn von Hofkirch to the H. decreed under the Enns, handed over on November 24, 1603 [extract]. In: Franz Kurz: History of the people of war, which Emperor Rudolph II had recruited in Passau in 1610 , Vol. I (Contributions to the history of Austria above the Enns 4). Cajetan Haslinger, Linz 1809, pp. 274–345 ( Google Books )

literature

  • Franz Karl Wißgrill , Karl von Odelga: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lordship and knighthood of the XI. Century on, except for the present , Volume 3, Vienna 1800, pp. 354–363. especially 358.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry in the register of Johannes Baptist II. Haintzel (1556–1638); Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (154.18 Ethica 8 °, sheet 22).
  2. ↑ Hofkirchen called Ferdinand II before witnesses a " slave (s) of the Jesuits, a completely ignorant person, inclined only to bloodshed and tyrannical exercise and devoid of all understanding ", in Johannes Janssen: History of the German People since the End of the Middle Ages , fifth Volume, 1866 reprint
  3. ↑ See Bernhard Raupach: Presbyteriologia Austriaca , Hamburg: Filginer Witwe und Bohn 1741, appendix, small review of some documents and news , p. 27f ( Google Books ); see. Part III, p. 188.
  4. ^ Matthias Hoë von Hoënegg: Two congratulations, thanks and joy preaches, about the blessed run of the gracious, holy gospel. Which Almighty God ... this year 1609. by ... Mr. Rudolphi the Other, & c. And ... Mr. Matthiasen the Other ... Concession, in the Kingdom of Böheimb, Hungarn, Ertzhertzogthumb Austria, Hertzogthumb Silesia, and Marggraffthumb Mährern, & c. has granted and bestowed. At Hernals near Vienna, and at Plawen, held a gathering of people. By Matthiam Hoe Austriacum, H. Schrifft Doctorn, and ... Superintendent to Plawen, & c. Andreas Lamberg, Leipzig 1610.
  5. ↑ 1619 in Prague register holder with Nicolaus von Wicken.
  6. ↑ As minors, they did not take a university oath; see. also State Archives Baden-Württemberg (holdings A 71 government files, Bü 1774): Recommendation of Archduke Maximilian III. of Austria for two sons of Wolfgang von Hofkirchen who are accepted into the new college in Tübingen, 1600.
  7. ↑ Sie ∞ II. 1657 Count Gustav Axel von Löwenstein (1632–1683); see. Main State Archives Stuttgart (inventory A 21: Oberhofmarschallamt, 6 Fürstliche Beilager, 71).
  8. ↑ See Johann Peter Silbert: Ferdinand the Second, Roman Emperor and his time . Mechitaristen-Congregation, Vienna 1836, p. 369f ( Google Books ).
  9. ↑ Copy in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel (Sign. Xa 1:13 (11)).
  10. ^ Copy in the Herzog August Library Wolfenbüttel (Sign. Lpr. Stolb. 12714).

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personal data
SURNAME Hofkirchen, Wolfgang von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hofkirchen, Wolfgang Freiherr von; Hoffkirchen, Wolff von; Hofkhirchen, Wolffgang Freiherr von; Hofkircher, Wolfgang; Hoffkirch, Wolfgang von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian nobleman, Protestant class politician and governor of Lower Austria
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1555
PLACE OF BIRTH Kollmitz, Kollmitz castle ruins near Raabs an der Thaya
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1611
Place of death Prague