Aretin (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Aretin

Aretin is the name of a Bavarian aristocratic family that begins its line of genealogies with Johann Baptist Kristof von Aretin (* 1706).

history

According to a baptism certificate dated May 8, 1710, Johann Baptist Christoph Aroution Caziadur was born in Constantinople on June 24, 1706 as the son of the small Armenian king Baldazar Caziadur (also Bagdasar of Siounik ) and his wife Gogza from the house of the princes of Charabagh . The second wife of Elector Maximilian II. Emanuel of Bavaria , Therese Kunigunde of Poland , had fled to Venice when the Austrians occupied Bavaria and had spent a long time there. On her return she brought the boy with her, who was recommended to her in 1710. It was said that he was born in Constantinople in 1706, where his father, the petty king of a part of Armenia bordering Persia, had fled from the Persians. In 1708 the two-year-old was brought to Venice for safety. With the exception of the baptismal certificate, there were no documents about his identity. Raised at the court in Munich, he became a real councilor and chief toller at Ingolstadt . On April 11, 1769, Elector Maximilian III raised him . Joseph into the Bavarian baron class .

Adam von Aretin (1769–1822), Bavarian Vice Chancellor

Of Johann Christoph's sons, only the eldest, Karl Albert von Aretin (* 1741) and his wife Maria Anna Rosina, b. Noble von Weinbach, descendants, namely Adam and his brothers Johann Georg and Johann Christoph. Adam von Aretin (1769–1822) also entered the Bavarian civil service as a lawyer, was in 1793 a councilor to the state government and in 1798 its vice-chancellor. The family was enrolled in the baron class in the Kingdom of Bavaria on October 1, 1812 . Here the coat of arms was renewed, with the addition of a royal crown in the head of the shield as an indication of ancestry. From 1802 the Vice Chancellor Adam von Aretin was responsible as General Commissioner for the secularization in Bavaria of the previously independent Hochstift Freising . In 1812 he acquired Haidenburg Castle ( Passau district ) and in the same year the secularized Aldersbach Monastery with the Aldersbach brewery, seven kilometers away .

In the period that followed, the Barons von Aretin managed to acquire a few more court brands between Vils and Rott with Haidenburg as their center by the middle of the 19th century . Haidenburg Castle, which was rebuilt in neo-Gothic style after a fire in 1871 , was sold by the family in 1972, who then built a smaller manor house in the village and still runs the estate and the brewery to this day. The former monastic property in Aldersbach and most of the convent properties were also sold, but the majority of the brewery is still family-owned.

In the middle of the 19th century, Münchsdorf Castle came into the possession of the family and has remained so to this day. In Swabia, Neuburg Castle an der Kammel had been owned by Aretin since the beginning of the 19th century , but was sold in 1984 and is now an inn.

Adam von Aretin's brother was the historian and librarian Johann Christoph von Aretin , who as senior librarian at the Court and State Library in Munich played a key role in secularization and became a pioneer of modern librarianship . He is considered to be the (re) discoverer of Carmina Burana in 1803. In his monthly Allemania in 1815/16 he turned against the romantic nationalism of Ernst Moritz Arndt and Johann Gottlieb Fichte , in particular, and opposed the enlightened spirit of the Bavarian state reformers. In 1781 he acquired Münchshofen Castle in Upper Palatinate, which remained in the family until 1910, most recently in the possession of Countess Julie Anna Armansperg , née. by Aretin, but was then sold and is now threatened with decay. In 1809, Johann Christoph acquired Wischenhofen Castle near Regensburg (sold in 1831) and Gut Rinnenthal (the castle was demolished in 1835).

Another brother was Johann Georg von Aretin (1770-1845), who, as a Bavarian civil servant and publicist, also supported the Montgelas reforms with a magazine . In 1810 he received the Mendorferbuch fiefdom near Hohenburg from the king as a reward for his services .

By marriage, a branch of the family is now based at Haus Ermelinghof in Westphalia.

The family provided several other Bavarian politicians and historians.

Coat of arms of the Barons of Aretin

The coat of arms since 1769

Quartered with a silver heart shield, inside a three-masted warship on natural waves, accompanied at the top right by a golden comet . 1 and 4 in blue three (2, 1) gold stars, 2 and 3 in red on a silver steed a sword-wielding armor with a silver shield on the left side, on it a St. George's cross . Royal temple crown and two helmets ; on the right with red-silver ceiling of Armor, between two of gold and blue diagonally split buffalo horns , on the left with blue and gold ceiling of the comet with downside tail between open, silver and red diagonally split flight .

Name bearer

Johann Christoph von Aretin (1772–1824), librarian

literature

Web links

Commons : Aretin family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The dates of life except the year of birth are uncertain, see entry about Johann Baptist in the portal "Deutsche Biographie" , accessed on December 11, 2019
  2. ↑ A brief outline of Haidenburg's history on the Aldersbach website