Frederick Adolphus, Count of Lippe-Detmold

Friedrich Adolf zur Lippe -Detmold (* September 2, 1667; † July 18, 1718 ) was from 1697 to 1718, Count of Lippe- Detmold. Adolf Friedrich was the son of Count Simon Heinrich zur Lippe -Detmold and the Viscountess Amalia of Dohna- Vianen.

Life

He broke with the tradition of its predecessor to fulfill his military obligations towards the Reich by paying Subsidiengeldern and hired a company to own Lippe. This has since been expanded beyond the required level of the kingdom addition to battalion strength. During his reign, the troops but did not play. The reward of his followers apparently took place by generous donation of goods. So he enfeoffed on June 16, 1699 Frantz Dietrich Bohsen with the village Ilendorf between Pömbsen and Nieheim, with the court to Döring field, with the tithes and the tithes to Wintrup Great Heisten. In 1712 he enfeoffed the sons of his lieutenants Johann Adolf von Schledorn with the Wickenhof to Anroechte.

Friedrich Adolf took in October 1698 the Hamburg Baroque painter Hans Hinrich Rundt in his services. This painted a number of portraits of the count's family and paid at the luxurious conversions of the Royal Palace, the rooms with wall and ceiling paintings.

The Count was a typical ruler of the Baroque. Its construction overburdened the country's finances. The Russian Tsar Peter to have said to the count during a 1716 out of this richtenen free shooting in Bad Pyrmont: " Your Lordship are too big for this country. " His most famous project, the Friedrich Taler channel is still visible today in Detmold and is a popular Sunday walk of the Detmold. The Dutch hydraulic engineering specialist Hendrick Kock was responsible for the construction of canals. Favorite Castle, located on the canal and part of the plant is used by the Detmold Academy of Music since 1954. The subsequent, landscaped in the English style and a nature reserve, palace garden was opened in 1919 to the public. From the garden Friedrichstal only the mausoleum at Büchenberg, the new pitcher and the crooked house remained on the site of today's open-air museum Detmold. In order to provide the appropriate framework of this project, let the count towards the south gate a cavalier house, now built Hotel Lippe Residenz and a row of new houses, today's New Town.

Friedrich Adolf was in 1712 awarded the Prussian Black Eagle.

Progeny

He married in 1692 to Johanna Elisabeth of Nassau- Dillenburg (* 1663, † February 9, 1700 ) daughter of Adolf of Nassau- Schaumburg. The couple have the following children:

• Simon Heinrich Adolf (1694-1734) ∞ Johanna Wilhelmine von Nassau- Idstein (1700-1756) daughter of George Augustus Nassau- Idstein
• Karl Friedrich, (* January 1, 1695, † May 28 1725 )
• Amalia, * Detmold (* November 11, 1695, † December 22, 1696 )
• Charlotte Amalie, (* September 7, 1697, † June 14, 1699 )
• Leopold Hermann, (* August 8, 1698; † August 31, 1701 )
• Friedrich August (* November 5, 1699, † December 11, 1724 )

On June 16, 1700 he married his second wife Amalie of Solms- Hohensolms (* October 13, 1678, † February 14, 1746 ). The couple have the following children:

• Amalie Luise (* August 5, 1701, † April 19, 1751 )
• Elisabeth Charlotte ( * July 12, 1702, † March 27, 1754 ) Abbess of St. Mary in Lemgo ( 1713-51 ),
• Karl Ludwig Simon ( born October 1, 1703 † March 28, 1723 )
• Franziska Charlotte ( born November 11, 1704 † June 12, 1738 ) ∞ Friedrich Graf von Bentheim - Steinfurt Belgicus Karl ( 1703-1733 )
• Maximilian Heinrich ( born June 12, 1706, the † June 17, 1706 )
• Karl Josef (* August 25, 1709, † March 27, 1726 )
• Friederike Adolphine (* October 24, 1711, † May 10 1766 ) ∞ April 3, 1736 Count Friedrich Alexander of Lippe -Detmold (* March 21, 1700; † July 21, 1769 )