Baumbach (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Baumbach

Baumbach is the name of an old Hessian noble family . The family, some of which still exist today, has been part of the Althessian knighthood from 1553 to the present day .

There is no relationship to the noble family founded by Franz Baumbach, the imperial-royal captain , who were raised to the hereditary-Austrian nobility with the title of Crown Sword by a diploma from 1821 .

history

The Tannenberg castle since the 14th century. Family seat
Großropperhausen Castle
Wappenstein at the Baumbach castle seat in Homberg (Efze)
Coat of arms at Siebmacher (1605)

origin

Sex with the first mentioned Ritter Herdegnus de Bombach (Hartdegen von Baumbach) in a Hersfelder document from the year 1246. With the knights and Burgmann (miles castrensis) to Rotenburg Heinrich von Baumbach, who appears in documents from 1295 to 1316, begins uninterrupted stem row .

Baumbach , the family home of the same name, is now part of the municipality of Alheim in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in Hesse. The current headquarters of the family is in Nentershausen, Hesse .

Expansion and possessions

In the first half of the 14th century two lines formed, one to Tannenberg (near Nentershausen) and one to Bebra . The line to Bebra already died out in the 15th century. The line to Tannenberg was still divided in the 14th century into two further branches named after their founders Helmrich and Ludwig, which were able to expand significantly over time. The houses at Nentershausen, Kirchheim , Freudenthal and Gilserhof , Amönau and Gemünden belonged to the Helmrich branch, the houses Nassenerfurth , Ropperhausen (today: Großropperhausen ), Lenderscheid and Siebertshausen belong to the Ludwig branch . Among the numerous possessions that the Lords of Baumbach acquired, Tannenberg Castle between Rotenburg and Gerstungen , which was owned by the family from the 14th century with interruptions until the 20th century, is one of the most important; the associated manor is still managed by the family today.

In more recent times the family has also owned in Thuringia zu Kamberg and Kleintöpfer in the former Mühlhausen district . Members of the family also owned Hanoverian fiefs in the Lüneburg area .

Jost von Baumbach was a member of the state council of Regency of Hesse when Landgrave Philip I was a minor . In 1530, Sebald von Baumbach was the envoy of the Hersfeld Abbey to the Diet of Augsburg . Ludwig (III.) Von Baumbach was envoy of the Protestant estates to Emperor Charles V in 1539 and was later entrusted with embassies to the French and English courts. Burckhard von Baumbach was the Landgrave of Hesse as a lieutenant colonel and land commissioner. Of his sons, Christoph Ludwig von Baumbach became royal French colonel , who served under Turenne , and Otto Christoph von Baumbach, lord of Nentershausen, ducal Württemberg privy councilor , mountain captain and chief bailiff of Nagold . He left several sons, one of whom died as an imperial colonel. Wolf Heinrich von Baumbach was 1704 Hessen-darmstädter secret government advice , Lieutenant General and Governor of all strongholds in Upper Hesse . The name "Hans Ludwig von Baumbach, General Lieutenant" can be found with the date 1728 above the south portal of the Protestant church in Ropperhausen (today: Großropperhausen), which was completed that year. This church was donated a chalice by Hans Erich Friedrich Arthur von Baumbach in 1855, on which there is a dedication inscription and Baumbach's coat of arms. Carl Johann von Baumbach (1736–1774) was a Brunswick chamber councilor and Moritz von Baumbach (1789–1871) was President of the Hessian High Court and Minister of Justice . In 1830 two gentlemen von Baumbach were elected to the constituent state parliament by the Hessian knighthood .

Johann Georg Estor wrote a genealogical family tree ( ancestral sample ) for Carl Friedrich Reinhold von Baumbach on the occasion of his acceptance into the Teutonic Order . A family association was founded on July 5, 1903 .

Status surveys

In 1846 there was a ducal Nassau recognition of the baron status . Theodor von Baumbach, Grand Ducal Court Marshal of Baden , received Baden recognition of the baron status in Karlsruhe on April 14, 1858 . However, the baronial lines are all extinguished.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in blue a lying , silver crescent moon with a golden star at each end . The shield figure on the helmet . The helmet covers are blue-silver.

Known family members

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 1, S-231
  2. ^ Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg
  3. ↑ a b c Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, p. 255.
  4. ↑ Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1930. P. 28.