Damian Hartard von der Leyen-Hohengeroldseck
Damian Hartard von der Leyen, Damian Hartard baron of Leyen - Hohengeroldseck, ( born March 12, 1624 Trier, † December 6, 1678 in Mainz ) was from 1675 to December 6, 1678 Archbishop and Elector of Mainz, as well as Bishop of Worms.
Life
Damian Hartard came from the noble family of the von der Leyen. With the support of his elder brother Karl Kaspar von der Leyen, who until 1676 held office in 1652 as Archbishop of Trier, he was at first in 1654 archdeacon of cards within the Archbishopric of Trier and in personal union provost of the Collegiate of St. Castor in carding.
In 1675 he became Archbishop and Elector of Mainz and received the standing since 1663 in personal union with the diocese of Mainz Worms. As Bishop of Worms he consecrated on 31 October 1676 chapel (St. Joseph Chapel ) of the new Jesuit College in Worms. 1678, he earned for himself and his family the Electorate of Cologne rule New Castle as a deposit.
Under his rule, in the Electorate of Mainz the east wing of the Mainz castle was completed. He donated the Laurentius altar in the Mainz Cathedral. His relatives were very close, on a pillar in the south aisle, build a grave monument. It shows the deceased as a standing figure between Bishop Coat of rows and baroque gables. It is the last grave monument of Archbishop of Mainz in a reaching back to the 14th century series.
Library
Remains of the library of the Elector should have been in the Von der Waal Leyen'schen library. Source of this statement is the following passage: " The rule Waal had changed after the extinction of the native nobility in the Middle Ages their owners more often, until it was acquired by the Leyen by Prince Erwin on 17 May 1820. The prince united in the castle the few rescued stocks of devastated in the revolutionary wars Blieskasteler Library (encyclopedias, Genealogy, natural history ), which by Count Franz Karl von der Leyen († 1755) was applied, with the book collection of the provost of Mainz, Count Damian von der Leyen ( French literature and philosophy), and multiplied it by purchases. Later came the added library of Count Louis de deashers de la Pagerie († 1861) with French and Italian works and memoirs of military literature. With the new acquisitions preferred the owner history and beautiful literature. The library includes 10-12000 volumes ( manuscripts are not available). Their use by foreigners is permitted in individual cases " ( Waldemar Sensburg The Bavarian Libraries A Historical Overview with special emphasis on public research libraries, Munich 1925, p 149 Then based without additional information. Minerva Manuals 1st Dept.: libraries: Vol 1 German Empire, Edit by Hans Praesent, Berlin / Leipzig 1929, p 699 ). . This noble library was auctioned at Arco & Flotow in the 1990s. Reinhard Klimmt auctioned several books.