Auwach (noble family)
The Lords of Auwach were a noble family from the Trier area, which was later elevated to the rank of baron .
Family history
The family started in the 16th century.
In 1599, in the libro officiali of Trier Elector Lothar von Metternich, a Johann von Auwach (with a nobility predicate) is mentioned, who was enfeoffed with a court at Wallersheim (Waldersheim) by the Archbishopric of Trier .
Gerlach Auwach, mayor from Wittlich , inherited from his childless uncle Friedrich von Hoverdingen (called Sauerzapf), his mother's brother, a farm in Schweisthal (today Wetteldorf ) and a castle in Büdesheim from Schöneck . In 1579 he received a formal loan from the Abbot of Prüm . Gerlach's brother Johann Friedrich Auwach officiated from 1593 until his death in 1621, as abbot of the Augustinian canons of Springiersbach . Because of his indomitable adherence to the Catholic faith, the Protestant rulers of Sponheim kidnapped him and imprisoned him until he signed a certificate of submission, which he immediately revoked after his release. In 1606 the Pope granted him the privilege of being the first abbot of Springiersbach to wear a miter for his firm belief . In 1610 he also donated an ornate Renaissance altar to the pilgrimage church of St. Bartholomäus Olkenbach-Heinzerath . Both brothers always appear in contemporary sources without a nobility designation, or under the name Auwach von Wittlich .
Gerlach's son Johann Philipp von Auwach, trier bailiff of Manderscheid and Burgmann von Schönecken, married Aemilie Rosine von Koppenstein in Wittlich in 1635 , from an old noble family. In the church book entry of the marriage, the bridegroom now appears with the nobility predicate "von Auwach", which he and his descendants continue to use. It is unclear whether and when a formal aristocratic uprising took place in this epoch. She died in 1692 and was buried in the crypt of the Abbey Church of St. Michael in Siegburg , where her epitaph with an alliance coat of arms Auwach / Koppenstein is preserved.
Johann Philipp von Auwach and his wife Aemilie Rosine von Koppenstein had several children. The most famous are Hermann Lothar von Auwach (1652–1722), canon in Worms and cathedral dean in Speyer , Johann Wolfgang von Auwach († 1733), from 1717 Austrian commander of Constance , from 1730 imperial field marshal lieutenant , Johann Philipp von Auwach, field marshal lieutenant in the Electoral Palatinate Army and Maria Katharina († Speyer, 1712), who married the Dirmstein nobleman Johann Friedrich Franz von Sturmfeder (1650–1691) and had with him the regionally important son Marsilius Franz Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler (1674–1744).
Hermann Lothar von Auwach studied at the German College in Rome and received in 1671, on papal commission, a canons prebend in Worms . The Worms cathedral chapter stipulated at least four noble ancestors of the two parents as a condition for admission, which the candidate also credibly put forward. As soon after the office of Worms cathedral dean , also on papal commission out to be occupied by Auwach by the brother Johann Wolfgang, doubts arose whether the candidate could actually have the required four noble ancestors. He was therefore refused the job. A protracted dispute developed between the Worms cathedral chapter and the von Auwach brothers about the noble worthiness of the two, in which, in addition to the Cologne nunciature , the emperor and the pope were included.
In 1685 it was finally determined that the grandfather Gerlach Auwach from Wittlich had apparently not yet had the title of nobility and that the nobility ranks of the two canon aspirants were therefore insufficient for the Worms chapter. The decision mainly resulted in a certificate from the knighthood of the Lower Rhine , which states that the documents did not contain any clear evidence of the noble origin of the Auwach family. That is why Johann Wolfgang von Auwach was not accepted as cathedral capitular and he took up a career as an officer; Hermann Lothar von Auwach was allowed to keep his canon position, which he had held for a long time, regardless of the result of the investigation, as this now enjoyed grandfathering.
Shortly after the dispute was settled, the von Auwach family was elevated to the status of baron of the empire.
An ornate coat of arms epitaph on the south side of the Speyer cathedral and the gatehouse of his otherwise no longer existing Speyer city palace, the so-called Auwach balustrade , are reminiscent of Hermann Lothar von Auwach, dean of the cathedral and prince-bishop government president in Speyer .
With his nephew Wilhelm Joseph Lothar von Auwach, who died on September 22, 1747 as Chamberlain of Kurmainz , the male line died out. He had appointed his mother's sister, Maria Eva Franziska Waldbott von Bassenheim -Olbrück, widowed Knebel von Katzenelnbogen, to be the universal heir of his family estate. Through them the goods came to the noble house of Kesselstatt .
coat of arms
In the red field a striding, crowned lion with an applied star. As a crest: between two buffalo horns, a human figure without arms, with a star over the head.
literature
- Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz: New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 1, Page 154, Leipzig, 1836; Digital scan
- Elisabeth Becker-Neuerburg: The Auwach family and their Adelshof in Wittlich , year book Bernkastel-Wittlich, 1998, pages 309-311
- Fritz Klotz: Domkapitularische Höfe, houses, house squares and gardens in Speyer, in the 18th century , pages 36-39, volume 14 of: Writings of the Diözesan-Archivs Speyer , 1991
- Franz Xaver Remling : History of the Bishops of Speyer , Volume 2, Mainz, 1854, various passages; Digital scan
- Andreas Graf von Thürheim: Field Marshal Otto Ferdinand Graf von Abensperg and Traun, 1677-1748: A military-historical life sketch , 1877, page 302; Excerpt from the source
Web links
- Website about Castle Schönecken, with mention of the Lords of Auwach as the Burgmann family
- Website with the family coat of arms
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat : Eiflia illustrata , Volume 3, 2nd section, page 371, Aachen, 1854; Digital scan
- ↑ Klaus Petry: Wittlich: The history of the city from the 14th century to the year 1815 , page 105, volume 6 of: Contributions to the history and culture of the city of Wittlich , Wittlich city administration, 2002, ISBN 3980590887 ; Excerpt from the source
- ↑ Newspaper article about Abbot Auwach, from the Trierischer Volksfreund , from January 9, 2013
- ^ Entry on St. Bartholomew's (pilgrimage chapel) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region ; accessed on March 2, 2016.
- ↑ PDF document with the church book entry from 1635
- ^ Website on a sale of goods by Johann Wolfgang von Auwach
- ^ The displaced centuries: Constance as an Austrian city, 1548-1806 , Städtische Museen Konstanz, 1996, page 68; Excerpt from the source
- ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat : Eiflia illustrata , Volume 2, 1st section, pages 36–39, Aachen, 1829; Digital scan
- ↑ Andreas Steinhuber : History of the Kollegium Germanicum Hungaricum in Rome , Volume 2, Herder Verlag, Freiburg, 1906, page 55; Excerpt from the source
- ↑ Declaration of sinecure awarded by Pontifical commission
- ^ Johann Friedrich Gauhe : Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon , 2nd part, Leipzig, 1747, columns 35 and 36; Digital scan from the source
- ↑ Digital scan with the text of the certificate of the Niederrheinischen Ritterschaft, from Robert Kolb: Aquila certans , Frankfurt am Main, 1687, page 151
- ^ Johann Michael von Seuffert : Attempting a history of the German nobility in the high ore and cathedral chapters , Frankfurt am Main, 1790, pages 193-196; Digital scan
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , 1st volume, page 152, Leipzig, 1859; Digital scan
- ^ Genealogical page about the parents of the last name bearer Wilhelm Joseph Lothar von Auwach
- ^ Johann Friedrich Schannat : Eiflia illustrata , Volume 3, 2nd section, page 208, Aachen, 1854; Digital scan