Barth (patrician family)

Barth coat of arms

The Barth family (also Bart , Barth zu Harmating or Barth von Harmating ) was a wealthy Munich patrician family who were raised to the nobility in 1596 as Barth zu Harmating .

history

The family, probably from Augsburg , appears there for the first time in 1239. The first documentary mention in Munich comes from around 1272, when a Ludwig Barth traveled to Rome with two other representatives of the citizenry to see the division of the parish of St. Peter and the simultaneous one Confirmation of the elevation of the Marienkapelle to the parish of Our Lady .

Michael Wening : Engraving from Harmating Castle around 1700 with the Barth coat of arms

The Barth belonged to the wealthy Munich patricians such as Dichtl , Katzmair , Ligsalz or Pütrich , who built their castles on the lakes in the foothills of the Alps in the 15th and 16th centuries. 1533 decided Caspar Barth pin Dechant bey of Our Lady in Munich , the 1360 acquired by the family castle Harmating to Familienfideikommiss to appoint. In Kempfenhausen, where the Barths had owned property since 1273, Kempfenhausen Castle was built for Arsatius Barth from 1515 to 1520. In 1596 , Emperor Rudolph II granted the members of the family noble freedom together with the lower jurisdiction . In 1681 the Barth were raised to the baron status. The Barth family included the Munich mayor and landscape chancellor Ferdinand Barth, who owned Harmating Castle from 1689 to 1705, and Carl Anton von Barth , who also became Munich mayor and landscape chancellor. Hermann von Barth (1845–1876), who became known as an alpinist and explorer and who made outstanding contributions to the exploration of the Allgäu Alps , Wetterstein Mountains and Karwendel , spent his childhood at Harmating Castle.

The Barth zu Harmating died with the Bavarian major general a. D. Hugo von Barth zu Harmating in 1935 in the male line . The Barth zu Kempfenhausen had already died out in 1623.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Barth zu Kopenhausen in the Siebmacher 1605

The talking coat of arms shows a bald, bearded man's head on a black background . On the helmet with black and gold (or black and silver) blankets, a black-clad man's torso with (gold collar and) head as in the shield.

Known family members

• Carl Anton von Barth (1758–1797), Munich mayor and landscape chancellor
• Ernst von Barth zu Harmating (1849–1934), Bavarian infantry general
• Ferdinand Barth, Mayor of Munich and Landscape Chancellor
• Hermann von Barth (1845–1876), mountaineer
• Hugo von Barth zu Harmating (1849–1935), Bavarian major general

Honors

The city of Munich named Barthstrasse in Munich's Westend after the family.

literature

• Helmuth Stahleder : Contributions to the history of Munich citizenship. The beard (until around 1630). In: Upper Bavarian Archive. 125/1 (2001), 289-391.
• Helmut Stahleder: Barth zu Harmating, noble family. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria. ( Online ), accessed May 17, 2016.
• Leopold Auburger: From the family history of those von Barth zu Harmating and Pasenbach: Munich, Pasenbach, Perlach. 2015, ( digitized version )
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser. 1921. Seventy-first year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1920, pp. 37–38.

Individual evidence

1. ^ German biography, Barth von Harmating (also Part, Parth) , accessed on May 28, 2016
2. ^ Michael Wening : Historico-Topographica Descriptio. Volume 1 (1701), pp. 257 f.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Otto Titan von Hefner: The seals and coats of arms of the Munich families: with 1 plate. Munich 1849. ( Online )