Heinrich XXIX Reuss, Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf (born: 21 July 1699 in Ebersdorf

Saalburg-Ebersdorf

Saalburg-Ebersdorf is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Saale, 10 km southwest of Schleiz, and 30 km west of Plauen....

; died: 22 May 1747 in Herrnhaag

Herrnhaag

Herrnhaag was a communal spiritual centre for the Moravian Unity, an early form of Protestantism. It and Marienborn, a nearby sister community, are located in the Wetterau, an area of Hesse, north of Frankfurt am Main in Germany....

) was a member of the House of Reuss Younger Line and Count Ebersdorf

Reuss-Ebersdorf

Reuss-Ebersdorf was a county and from 1806 a principality located in Germany. The Counts of Reuss-Ebersdorf belonged to the Reuss Junior Line. Reuss was successively a part of the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, German Confederation, North German Confederation, German Empire and...

 from 1711 until his death

Life

Heinrich was the son of Count Heinrich X Reuss of Ebersdorf and his wife Erdmuthe Benigna of Solms-Laubach. They raised Heinrich strictly according to the guidelines of the Pietism

Pietism

Pietism was a movement within Lutheranism, lasting from the late 17th century to the mid-18th century and later. It proved to be very influential throughout Protestantism and Anabaptism, inspiring not only Anglican priest John Wesley to begin the Methodist movement, but also Alexander Mack to...

. Heinrich soon befriended Count Nicholas Ludwig von Zinzendorf. He married on 7 September 1721 in Castell

Castell

A castell is a human tower built traditionally in festivals at many locations within Catalonia, Spain. At these festivals, several colles castelleres or teams often succeed in building and dismantling a tower's structure...

 with Sophie Theodora (1703–1777), daughter of Count Dietrich Wolfgang of Castell-Remlingen and Countess Dorothea Renata of Zinzendorf. At Heinrich's wedding, Count Nicholas Ludwig met Heinrich's sister, Erdmuthe Dorothea. They married exactly one year later.

Under Count Heinrich XXIX, a Moravian Church was founded in Ebersdorf

Saalburg-Ebersdorf

Saalburg-Ebersdorf is a town in the Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in Thuringia, Germany. It is situated on the river Saale, 10 km southwest of Schleiz, and 30 km west of Plauen....

, after the model of the church von Zinzendorf had founded in Oberlausitz. Because class differences were largely eliminated in this church, the whole village met in the ballroom of the palace to pray and chant. The Count and his servants were to treat each other as "brothers" while in church.

Issue

Count Heinrich XXIX and Countess Sophie Theodora of Castell-Remlingen had thirteen children:

• Renate Benigna (1722–1747)
• Heinrich XXIV (1724–1779), Count of Reuss-Ebersdorf
• Heinrich XXVI (1725–1796)
• Heinrich XXVIII (30 August 1726 — 10 May 1797), married Agnes Sophie (1720–1791), daughter of Erdmann II of Promnitz
  Erdmann II of Promnitz
  Erdmann II, Count von Promnitz was Lord of Zary and Trzebiel in Lower Lusatia, and Pszczyna in Upper Silesia....
  
  
• Sophie Auguste (1728–1753), married 1748, Baron Ludwig von Weitelfshausen
• Charlotte Louise (1729–1792)
• Heinrich XXXI (1731–1763)
• Heinrich XXXII (born: 1733, killed in the Battle of Lobositz
  Battle of Lobositz
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  on 1 October 1756)
• Heinrich XXXIII (1734–1791)
• Heinrich XXXIV (1737–1806)
• Christiane Eleonore (1739–1761)
• Mary Elizabeth (1740–1784), married in 1765 Heinrich XXV, Count of Reuss-Lobenstein
• Johanna Dorothea (1743–1801) married in 1770 Christoph Friedrich Levin von Trotha