Wilderich of Walderdorf
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Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk (2 March 1739 – 21 April 1810) was count of
Biography
His reign was short, from 1797 until the secularization in 1803. It was unusual that during the secularization, Wilderich was able to live in the south wing of his official residence, the baroque palace in Bruchsal, until his death in 1810. When he was inaugurated in his office, there were already signs indicating that the dissolution of the old empire was at hand. On 22 April 1797, following the death of his predecessor August Philip of Limburg Stirum, Walderich, who was at that time the Domdechant of Trier, was installed as lord bishop of Speyer.
Wilderich left few physical traces of construction in the Bruchsal palace. It was the little room north of the Fürstensaal, which the newly appointed bishop immediately arranged for his regency. The stuccoers had to use all their imagination and Walderich did not exactly make it easy for them. It was less the artistic design of space as much as the willfulness of the presentation, which Wilderich demanded. More so it was with the furniture with which they had to decorate the room.
At the beginning of 1799 the French armies crossed the Rhine and by the
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- Translated and edited from de:Philipp Franz Wilderich Nepomuk von Walderdorf, 10 December 2008