Aschhausen (noble family)
The von Aschhausen family was a Franconian nobility .
history
The eponymous place Aschhausen is today part of the community Schöntal in Hohenlohekreis in Baden-Württemberg . The Swabian Federation destroyed Aschhausen Castle in 1523 because the gentlemen were the helpers of the robber baron Hans Thomas von Absberg . The destruction was a subject of the 1523 Wandereisen woodcuts .
As part of the Frankish imperial free knighthood , the family was organized in the knightly canton of Odenwald . The genealogist Johann Gottfried Biedermann , who is to be viewed critically in detail , presented the family tree on two tables; among the family members were several bailiffs and canons in the service of Würzburg . The male family died out in 1657.
Personalities
- Johann Gottfried I von Aschhausen (1575–1622): Bishop of Bamberg (1609–1622) and Bishop of Würzburg (1617–1622), he is considered a fanatical witch hunter - see also witch trials in Würzburg
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a silver wheel with five spokes on a red background. The helmet covers are red and silver. The wheel is also repeated as a helmet ornament.
literature
- Johann Gottfried Biedermann : gender = register of the Reichs Frey immediate knight creates land to Francken praiseworthy place Ottenwald… . Kulmbach 1751. Plate CCCLXIX. and CCCLXX.
- Alfred F. Wolfert: Groups of coats of arms of the nobility in the Odenwald-Spessart area. In: Winfried Wackerfuß (Ed.): Contributions to the exploration of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes II. Festschrift for Hans H. Weber. Breuberg-Bund , Breuberg-Neustadt 1977, pp. 325–406, here p. 394.