Adam Heinrich von Steinau
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Graf Adam Heinrich von Steinau (? - 1712 in Nebillau) was a Saxonian-Polish Generalfeldmarschall. He served in the Bavarian contingent of the realm army in the 1685-1688 campaign in Ottoman Hungary against the Ottoman Empire. He then participated in the succession War of the Grand Alliance against France under the Duke Charles of Lorraine and in successful siege of Mainz in 1689. Later he stepped into the service of the Republic of Venice in the 1695 war against Ottoman Empire. In 1695/1696 he was in service of Saxonian prince Friedrich August I ( Augustus II the Strong King of Poland) as the commander of the imperial troops in Hungary in the continuous war with Ottoman Empire. On 27 August 1699 Adam Heinrich von Steinau was promoted to the rank of the Generalfeldmarschall. With his Saxonian troops he participated on behalf of Augustus II the Strong in the Northern war defending Livonia in Courland campaign, and in February - November 1700 siege of Riga. In July 1700 he won the battle in Jungfernhof (Jumpravmuiža, Jumprava) near Riga against young Swedish general Otto Vellingk.
However on 9 July 1701 he lost the Crossing of Daugava battle against the Swedish king Karl XII and later in Poland on 9 July 1702 he lost the Battle of Klissow. On April 21, 1703 a decisive battle was fought in Pułtusk where the Swedish army under Charles XII once again defeated and captured a large part of the Saxon army under Adam Heinrich von Steinau. After this defeat Graf von Steinau second time stepped into the service of Venice. He regarded service to Venice according to his own statement as "part of his old person".
In 1705 he purchased Steinau and Nebillau including Nettonitz. In 1706 he commissioned construction of the Nebillau palace[1] to the building master Jakob Auguston from Pilsen. After his death Adam Heinrich Graf von Steinau was buried on the grounds of the Jakobus Church in Prusing.
