Abenheim (noble family)

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Abenheim (also Abinheim) is an extinct , ancient noble ministerial family from Abenheim , in Rhineland-Palatinate ( incorporated into the city of Worms since 1969 ).

history

The place Abenheim was formerly called Abunheim (774), Abinheim (1190), Abenheym (1360), Obinheim (1405) and is documented for the first time in 774 in the Lorsch Codex . The village came into the possession of the Fulda monastery as a royal gift in 932 . Since the end of the 12th century there are ministerials named after the place, such as 1190 Wernhere de Abinheim (witness in a Worms bishopric), 1227 Fridericus and Nebelungus de Abenheim . In 1367 a Kobel from Abenheim is documented, in 1418 and 1425 a Dierolf Schmutzel from Abenheim . There is documentary evidence from 1408 of a castle in Abenheim, which was probably more or less a small residential and defense system. However, it remains to be seen whether the original was the Count of Leiningen or the local nobility, who named themselves after the place Builders of the castle were. It is also unclear whether the former Abenheim Castle was destroyed when it was built over by the Amtshof in 1556. After numerous changes of ownership between the Fulda monastery, the Counts of Leiningen and the Counts of Nassau , the Lords of Dalberg , treasurers of Worms, acquired Abenheim on March 17, 1391, who kept it in their possession until 1797. After the Dalbergs took over the property, there are only sparse mentions of the family in various documents from the surrounding monasteries. For example:

  • 1227 Friedrich von Abenheim "Heinrich Bishop von Worms testifies that Friedrich von Abenheim and his son Hertwich renounce their claims to the mill at Santbach"
  • 1302 Konrad von Abenheim "Konrad von Abenheim and his wife Adelheide lease property from the Otterberg monastery."
  • 1308 Heilmann von Abenheim
  • 1326 Kobel from Abenheim
  • 1366 Wippel von Abenheim 1366 (1. Jan) renounce Wippel von Abenheim noble servant, Greda min honest husfrauwe, Thomas von der alden ere, Elsa min honest husfrauwe .... on the previous. Goods in favor of the Eberbach Monastery ...
  • 1395 Cuntzel called Bredel von Abenheim
  • 1395 Young Lord Dyerolffe von Abenheim
  • 1403 July 21, Heidelberg. "Asks the city of Strasbourg to stop the rehearsal at St. Peter there, so that it does not prevent the master Conrad von Abenheim from receiving the benefice on the monastery at Surberg, which he had long possessed through the primate of the king."
  • 1410, 1427 and 1437 "Henne von Abenheim and Kunegunde, his wife, sell 3 Malter and 1 1/2 Fiernzel to 74 Malter and 3 Fiernzel grains annually to the Schönau monastery by pledging goods to Roxheim.
  • 1444 Henne von Abenheim is high school student von Abenheim
  • 1494 Eva von Abenheim married into the noble von Allendorff family
  • Volkher von Abenheim dies in 1512.

The noble family von Abenheim probably died out in the male line at the beginning of the 16th century.

Otto Titan von Hefner counts the noble family "von Abenheim" to the dead nobility. The family name Abenheim still exists. If the nobility of a family has ceased to exist after more than two generations, one speaks of darkened nobility . Abenheim itself, like so many parts of Europe, has been destroyed several times over the centuries by numerous wars and ravaged by numerous epidemics. All written documents and chronicles from the early Middle Ages were lost due to these war influences. The few documents that have survived, such as church registers and court books, date from the 17th century with a few exceptions. Some of these are kept in the Worms City Archives.

coat of arms

Kobel von Abenheim 1327 Abenheim Wippel 1366
Kobel von Abenheim 1327
Abenheim Wippel 1366
  • Kobel von Abenheim 1327, branch beam in shields
  • Wippel von Abenheim 1366, the simple crossbar in the shield with a diamond in the left upper corner.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Boos, Urkundenbuch Worms Volume 1, p. 77 No. 92
  2. ^ Entry by Reinhard Friedrich zu Abenheim in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on September 16, 2016.
  3. ↑ Register of the blossoming and dead nobility in Germany ..., Volume 1, Georg Josef Manz Verlag, Regensburg, 1860, page 5
  4. ^ Document book of the Otterberg monastery in the Rheinpfalz, page 36, here online
  5. ^ Document book of the Otterberg monastery in the Rhine Palatinate, page 232, online here
  6. ^ Containing the regesta of the province of Rheinhessen, Volume 3, page 154
  7. ↑ Dr. Baur: General register to the registers of the documents printed so far ..., Volume 5, 1860 link
  8. ↑ Hessian documents: from the Grand Ducal Hessian House and ..., Volume 3, page 453
  9. ↑ Heimatverein 1953 Abenheim: Chronicle of Worms-Abenheim Volume 1, p. 139
  10. ↑ Hans Ramke: Contributions to German Philology, Volume 43, p. 87
  11. ↑ Ludwig Baur: Hessische Urkunden, vol. (1846-60) The provinces of Starkenburg and Upper Hesse, p. 505
  12. ^ Document of Count Palatine Ruprecht III. on www.regesta-imperii.de
  13. ↑ State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Department General State Archive Karlsruhe, 43 No. 4900
  14. ↑ Heimatverein 1953 Abenheim: Chronicle of Worms-Abenheim Volume 1, p. 139
  15. ↑ Johann Maximilian Humbracht: The highest ornament Teutsch-Land, and excellence of the Teutschen Adels ..., Frankfurt a. M, p. 263 link
  16. ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner: Register of the blooming and dead nobility in Germany, Volume 1 , Georg Josef Manz Verlag, Regensburg, 1860, p. 4, here online
  17. ↑ Archive for Hessian History and Archeology, Volume 11