Adelsheim (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Adelsheim based on Scheibler's book of arms

Adelsheim (formerly Alletzheim , Adol (t) zheim ) is the name of an old Franconian - Swabian noble family .

history

Members of the family were followers of the Counts of Dürn . In the 13th century they still carried the name from their original seat in Dürn , which later sometimes led to genealogical confusion with the younger sons of the count's house. Poppo von Duren (also Düren) , first mentioned in 1298, acquired the free rule of Adelsheim and parts of the rule of Sennfeld at the beginning of the 14th century . He built Adelsheim Castle, from which his descendants took the name.

The family then appears for the first time with Hans von Adelsheim in 1324 under the new name. The Beringer and Poppo von Adelsheim brothers , both of whom already called themselves knights , handed over the property of their castle and town of Adelsheim and their share in the Herbolzheim fortress to the Bishop of Würzburg in 1347 and at the same time took it back as a fief . The lords of Adelsheim received the formal town charter in 1374 from Emperor Karl IV for all people who lived under their castle in Adelsheim or who later became resident there.

Goetz von Adelsheim became the subordinate bailiff in Alsace in 1480 and received Schloss Wasselnheim near Strasbourg as an imperial fief , which his sons sold to the city of Strasbourg in 1496.

From 1550 to the end of the 17th century, the lords of Adelsheim counted because of the ownership or partial ownership of, among others, Edelfingen , Binau (1714 to 1763), Laudenberg (2nd half of the 15th century), Sennfeld , Volkshausen (half as Würzburg fiefdom), Wachbach , Hachtel and Dörtel, to the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knight circle . In the 16th century they were also registered in the knightly canton of Rhön-Werra .

Johann Friedrich von Adelsheim , councilor of knights in the canton of Odenwald, received from Emperor Karl VI. for himself and his successors the title of imperial real council. The family's baron status was recognized in 1830 when it was entered in the nobility register of the Kingdom of Bavaria .

The gender exists today with the name Freiherr von Adelsheim von Ernest (non-objection to an adoption under association law and nobility law by resolution of the committee for nobility law issues from 1951) with an increased coat of arms from 1951 (from Ernest | von Adelsheim).

possession

Since the 14th century was in Adelsheim a castle of the Lords of Adelsheim, which was first mentioned in the 1338th In 1504 the upper castle was built next to it as the second family seat . In place of the moated castle, which was destroyed by fire in 1733, the Lower Castle was built from 1734 to 1738 as a baroque country castle for Friedrich Leopold von Adelsheim (1691 to 1763). The headquarters in Adelsheim (upper castle) is still owned by the family today.

From 1588 to 1592, the Lords of Adelsheim had Wachbach Castle built. Edelfingen was a condominium of the Teutonic Order , the Lords of Hatzfeld and those of Adelsheim.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a black, vertical ibex horn in silver, the tip at the top, the lower end in the shape of a clover leaf. On the helmet between two black and silver divided ibex horns is a crowned, black clad woman's torso. The helmet covers are black and silver.

The sex leads since ancient times, together with the sexes Fechenbach , Dürn and Kotwitz a Capricorn or ram's horn in the arms, probably the speaking Wappenbild the ganerbschaft rams . On September 8, 1422, Herbolt von Adelsheim brought about an improvement in the coat of arms of King Sigismund for himself and his entire family . On the helmet between the two horns [..] there was to be a picture of a Jungfrawen (trunk) with a golden crown (covered) and a long yellow plait [..] .

  • Coat of arms from Siebmacher's coat of arms book

  • Coat of arms (since 1951) of those of Adelsheim von Ernest

In today's city arms of Adelsheim, the horn runs in the arms from bottom to left and top, so it is open to the right. The black fenugreek still appears in some of the Oodenwald local coats of arms.

  • Coat of arms of the city of Adelsheim

  • Coat of arms of Laudenberg, part of the Limbach community

  • Coat of arms of the municipality of Seckach

  • Coat of arms of Oberneudorf, part of the municipality of Buchen

  • Alliance coat of arms of Peter Echter and his wife Gertrud, b. from Adelsheim in Erbach

Name bearer

literature

Grave slab of Anna von Adelsheim († 1543) in the Notburgakirche Hochhausen

Web links

Commons : Adelsheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Comparison: Gender coat of arms on the real epitaph
  2. ↑ cf. Siebmacher-Wappenbuch and z. B. on the Praunheim epitaph in the town church of Groß-Umstadt
  3. ^ O. Hupp, Munich calendar
  4. ↑ Quoting from Bucelini in: Kneschke, Neues Allgemeine deutsches Adelslexicon, Leipzig 1859, p. 13
  5. ↑ Histor. Lexicon from Köbler
  6. ↑ Weiß, Regesten der Freiherren v. Adelsheim, Mannheim 1888
  7. ↑ Biography: Louis von Adelsheim
  8. ^ Filmmakers: Cleo von Adelsheim