Berbisdorf (noble family)
Berbisdorf is the name of an old noble family of the Margraviate of Meißen .
origin
The origin of the von Berbisdorf family is in the dark. The nobility name "von Berbisdorf" could have originated from an eponymous residence on Berbisdorf (Radeburg) or Berbisdorf (Einsiedel) .
It is certain that William I , Margrave of Meissen , on 18 September 1402 a court that Vorwerk and half of a village Berwigistorff as a basic rule of Elizabeth of Berwigistorff and her husband Jan von Berwigistorff with a knight's seat to feud was. Jan von Berwigistorff (also von Berwigsdorf) could have been the son of a Seifried von Schönfeld , which is unlikely according to the coat of arms. At that time, the names of aristocratic families were based on the place of residence, but the coat of arms only changed according to the rules that were valid at the time.
In the genealogical description of Valentin König from the year 1727: Genealogical-historical description along with their ancestral and ancestral tables of those von Berbißdorff , with a picture of the coat of arms, the stay of Andre von Berbisdorf around 1340 in Prussia and Livonia as an ensign in Army of the 22nd Grand Master of the Teutonic Order called Winrich von Kniprode . After participating in the Battle of Kham in Lithuania, he is said to have received the impressive coat of arms. In his introduction, König names a Bastian von Berbisdorff as the first verifiable bearer of the name, who is said to have been enfeoffed with Berbisdorf near Radeburg and whose descendants have settled in the Ore Mountains as mining entrepreneurs in the vicinity of the city of Freiberg and have become prosperous. This note: “In Livonia” - as far-reaching and possibly not entirely reliable as Valentin König's genealogical reports are - leads credibly to the time of the German Ostsiedlung and Christianization of the areas on the southern Baltic Sea. Of interest in this context would be the interpretation of the Berbisdorf coat of arms or a common or similar coat of arms with another noble family from this group of people. A similar coat of arms with crown and star shows today's town of Rakvere (German Wesenberg) at the foot of the former castle Wesenberg (Rakvere) in northwest Estonia .
Berbisdorf coat of arms
The shield of the coat of arms of those of Berbisdorf is split red and black. On the line of division there is a golden star, under it a golden crown, which is held by two human arms clad in mixed colors. Gem: The shield figure in front of an open, right red, left black flight. Blankets, black and red.
Residency at Lauterstein Castle in Saxony
The brothers Bastian von Berbisdorf (* around 1419), patricians of the city of Freiberg and Kaspar von Berbisdorf, are at the beginning of the secured line of the von Berbisdorf family . They were owners of mines and smelters and wealthy mining entrepreneurs in Altenberg in the central Ore Mountains in Saxony. Her descendants remained closely and successfully connected to mining in the Ore Mountains and were the owners of Lauterstein Castle near Zöblitz from 1434 to 1558 and had a family branch in the lordship in Bohemia and Hungary until 1621 . Information about the lineage of the noble family von Berbisdorf has been preserved and the family history of over seven hundred years can be recognized.
In 1434 Kaspar von Berbisdorf bought the manor Lauterstein with Lauterstein Castle, the town of Zöblitz, the castle in Forchheim , the associated Vorwerk in Lippersdorf , the Vorwerke in Geiselroda and Neudeck from the Burgraves Otto von Leisnig and Albrecht von Altenburg for 4,000 guilders , Usage rights in mining and escort duties (tolls) on the road that led through their territory over the Ore Mountains to Komotau and Prague in Bohemia.
Johann von Berbisdorf and his brother Christoph von Berbisdorf the elder of Ober- and Niederforchheim, who had married Barbara von Schleinitz from the Ragwitz family before 1535, owned Wegfahrt, west of Freiberg, from 1523 to 1542.
The couple Christoph von Berbisdorff and Barbara von Schleinitz had their son Johann (Hans) von Berbisdorf, who died on August 14, 1582 during a Reichstag in Augsburg . He was buried in the cloister of St. Anna's Church in Augsburg. His epitaph with the coat of arms of the Berbisdorf has been preserved in the north wing of the church. Hans von Berbisdorff, based in Forchheim and Wilberg, was a graduate of the Afra Princely School in Meissen, student at the universities of Leipzig (1551), Bologna (1559) and Padua (1559); in 1567 he was electoral Saxon assessor at the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer and in 1574 electoral Saxon court advisor . In 1581 he married Katharina von Mergenthal, a daughter of the couple Wolf von Mergenthal zu Hirschfeld, southeast of Nossen, and Anna Marschall von Bieberstein .
The couple had two sons:
- Christoph von Berbisdorf the Younger (born May 16, 1581 in Dresden; † August 6, 1655 Oberforchheim), resident in Oberforchheim and Niederforchheim, was chamberlain to Count Palatine Georg bei Rhein for three years. In his will he gave the church in Forchheim, the burial place of his family, 1,000 guilders. An inscription in the church of Forchheim reminds of him and his wife Sibylla von Einsiedel, whom he married in Gnadstein in 1607. She was a daughter of Hildebrand von Einsiedel († 1647), resident in Gnadstein and Wolftitz, electoral Saxon district administrator and chief tax collector and his wife Sibylla von Kanne from the house of Klöden, granddaughter of Hildebrand von Einsiedel on Gnadstein, Wolfritz and Priesnitz, electoral Saxon district administrator and chief tax collector and his wife Sybilla von Ende from the Kayna house.
- Johann von Berbisdorf, student at the University of Jena in 1599 .
Hans von Berbisdorf and Christoph von Berbisdorf at Lauterstein Castle, mountain lords and owners of the Olbernhau manor, and Sebastian von Weitmühl zu Komotau († 1549) from the old Bohemian noble family of Krabice z Veitmile, promoters of mining in the Komotau district, adviser to the Bohemian king and later Emperor Ferdinand I , founded a mining company in the central Ore Mountains .
On September 29, 1558, Kaspar von Berbisdorf sold Lauterstein Castle and part of the surrounding manor, which is important for mining and forestry, with half of the war forest, Zöblitz, Rübenau, to the Elector August von Sachsen - forced by him - for the sum of 197,784 guilders Einsiedel in Saxony and Kallich in Bohemia. An electoral supervisory and administrative authority was established on Lauterstein. The property came to the House of Wettin .
After the sale of Lauterstein Castle and part of their large estates in 1559, the Forchheim Castle, Lippersdorf Manor , Nieder- Mittel- and Obersaida, Görsdorf , Oberhaselbach and Wernsdorf estate east of the Flöha River remained in the possession of the Lords of Berbisdorf . In 1559, members of the von Berbisdorf family moved to the castle in Forchheim and the architect George Bähr built the church in Forchheim on their behalf. The Berbisdorf coat of arms has been preserved in the boxes above the church entrance. In the "Berbisdorfer inheritance" in 1576, the place Forchheim was divided. Christoph von Berbisdorf received the area in the north of the Dorfbach and his brother Haubold von Berbisdorf the southern part.
Anna Magdalena von Berbisdorf (born January 4, 1619 in Oberforchheim, † in Freiberg on February 9, 1637 at the Blattern) was buried in the Nikolaikirche in Freiberg. Her epitaph has been preserved, she married on November 22, 1625 in Forchheim (parish registers Forchheim and Auerswalde) Caspar Rudolf von Schönberg (1600–1651), who was enfeoffed with Auerswalde in 1622.
Georg Wilhelm von Berbisdorf (* 1518; † June 20, 1596), a son of Georg von Berbisdorf auf Lauterstein, went to the soldiers at a young age, chose the war trade as his profession and left a description of his experiences. In the theaters of war of that time, he achieved the rank of field marshal in the service of France and Saxony in the course of his life. He was in contact with his comrade in arms Kaspar von Schönfeld all his life and is buried in the church of the Schweikersheim manor near Rochlitz, his retirement home.
Name bearers in the 17th and 18th centuries
In the 17th and 18th centuries, namesake of the widely ramified von Berbisdorf were among the Saxon and Danish-Norwegian officers and owners of goods in Saxony.
The manor Lippersdorf near Lauterstein in the Ore Mountains was owned by the Berbisdorf for 233 years (1434–1767). The epitaph of Caspar von Berbisdorf († 1613), electoral Saxon captain of the offices of Lauterstein and Wolkenstein, has been preserved in the church of Lippersdorf. During the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the castle, manor and village of Lippersdorf were almost completely devastated and burned down, and the survivors only gradually recovered from the atrocities of the war. In 1673, Christoph von Berbisdorf had the church rebuilt to stop the decay. Georg Heinrich von Berbisdorf had a new manor house built and died in 1767 without a biological heir.
Sigmund von Berbisdorf (* 1560; † Zeitz 1616) Oberhofmarschall, Kammer- und Bergrat.
In 1598 August von Berbisdorf bought the Zölsdorf estate near Altenberg in Saxony.
In 1607 the Landjägermeister Sebastian von Berbisdorf, Georg von Berbisdorf and Hans Caspar von Berbisdorf received the Mahlis manor in the Döllnitz Valley as a fief from the Saxon Elector Christian II .
Caspar von Berbisdorf, mine supervisor, was enfeoffed by the Saxon Elector Christian II with the Kühnheide estate in 1608 and received permission to build an ironworks, churches and schools in Rübenau. In 1610 the church he built in Rübenau was consecrated.
In 1743, a family from Berbisdorf bought the crumbling Crimmitschau Castle, now known as Schweinsburg Castle , and had it converted into a baroque style castle.
In 1659, Heinrich Samuel von Berbisdorf, in the service of Friedrich Wilhelm , Duke of Saxony-Altenburg, sold the Pichau estate, which had come to him from his grandmother Veronika von Berbisdorf, née Loss, to Heinrich von Taube, secretary of the Saxon Elector Georg II.
Kannawurf Castle and Gut Protzig were either managed or owned by a Berbisdorf family from 1769 to 1839.
Resident in the USA
Georg Friedrich von Berbisdorf was a soldier in the East India Company in Cochin in 1714 with several stays in Tranquabar and in 1721 in Berlin in school service. It is very likely identical with Georg Friedrich von Berbisdorf in the ship list Palatine Ship Albany from Rotterdam under Captain Lazarus Oxmann, List A and B of September 4, 1728.
Residency in Bohemia and Hungary
In 1571, the brothers Georg Wilhelm von Berbisdorf and Christoph von Berbisdorf were granted the right to reside as legal lords in Bohemia.
Georg Wilhelm von Berbisdorf, on Hrussow in the Skykov municipality in eastern Slovakia, formerly in the Kingdom of Hungary . The castle Hrussow with two outer castles was in the defense area of the Christian-Habsburg armies against the attacks of the Ottoman-Turkish armies and their auxiliary peoples in the 16th and 17th centuries. Georg Wilhelm von Berbisdorf was married to Esther Benidek von Wewerzy, widowed Bilsky von Karzissow from an ancient noble family in Moravia, daughter of Mathias Greinar von Wewerzy ( Veveří Castle , also called Eichhornburg), 10 km north of Brno, the capital of Moravia , and on Mysletin. In 1615 (Landtafelinstrumentenbuch) in the Bohemian gentry.
Anton von Berbisdorf, a brother of Georg Wilhelm von Berbisdorf auf Hrussow, was married to Eugenie von Ronow (Hronovice, Krineczky von Ronow) from the Ronovice dynasty with the sloping tree branch coat of arms. The couple had the daughter Esther von Berbisdorf, the second wife of Brycius von Stampach (Steinbach) on Kneschitz in the Saaz district.
Ehrenfried von Berbisdorf, the sixth son of Georg von Berbisdorff († on Gut Langenau (Lunov) near Hohenelbe (Vrchlabi) in Eastern Bohemia), married to Magdalena von Trütschler, was the royal Bohemian forester in Pardubitz in Eastern Bohemia, resident on Zumberg, 1621 General Provisioner of Royal Bohemian Protestant estates, which in 1609 had been assured by Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg (1551–1612) in a letter of majesty the right to freely practice their religion and to build churches and schools. When Rudolf II was forced to abdicate by his brother, Emperor Matthias von Habsburg (1557–1619), who promoted Catholicism , the conflict between the Evangelical Reformed rulers in Bohemia and the Roman Catholic members of the ruling class began to escalate. After a protest meeting in the Carolinum of Charles University in Prague , in which Ehrenfried von Berbisdorf took part, this led to a subsequent protest march to Prague Castle and the Prague lintel .
After the Battle of White Mountain near Prague in 1620 with the victory of the Catholic League, Ehrenfried von Berbisdorf was ostracized and sentenced to death in absentia, was able to flee and took refuge with the Evangelical Swedish Army under General Axel Gustavson von Oxenstierna in Silesia and Prussia found, was their colonel and in 1633 was major general and commander in Coesfeld in North Rhine-Westphalia. Ehrenfried von Berbisdorf's first marriage was to Hedwig Zaruba von Hustirzan on Zumberg, south of Königgratz in Eastern Bohemia. She comes from a Bohemian nobility, died in 1617 and was buried in the old Bethlehem Chapel in Prague. From this marriage he had two daughters, Constantia and Margaretha von Berbisdorf. In his second marriage he married Margarethe von Seydlitz , in the third marriage Anna von Billerbeck on Jagow in the Uckermark and in the fourth marriage Anna von Polentz from the house of Langenau in Prussia.
swell
- Saxon State Archives - Main State Archives Dresden. Files from the Kleinnaundorf estate and the Radeburg and Berbisdorf estate.
Manuscripts
- Pedigree of the Berbisdorf aristocratic family until 1787, Lindner Genealogical Collection, Bavarian State Library, Munich.
- Aristocratic family genealogy Berbisdorf 16th to 19th centuries, Genealogical Collection Jakobi'sche Manschrift III, Bavarian State Library, Munich.
- Family archive Brusch, Bruscha, Bruschius, Brusch von Neiberg, Brusch Edle von Bruschen. Ancestors, descendants and spouses of the former patrician family in Eger in western Bohemia. Ulm on the Danube, 2009.
literature
- Siebmacher's Great Book of Arms. Volume 30: The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility. Neustadt an der Aisch 1979, p. 215, plate 93.
- Valentin König : Genealogical-historical description In addition to the family and ancestral tables of those of Berbißdorff. Genealogical aristocratic history, Leipzig 1736, part 3, page 20ff
- Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families . Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, p. 361. (Zaruba von Hustirzan lineage)
- Johann Friedrich Gauhe : The Holy Roman Empire Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexikon. Volume 1, 2nd edition. Berbisdorf, 1740, columns 78-83.
- Heinz Verlohren: Service data of all officers in the service of Saxony (period 1670–1910) with brief military vitae. In: Root register and chronicle of the Electoral and Royal Saxon Army from 1670 to the beginning of the 20th century. Berbisdorf, Leipzig 1910, p. 121.
- Martin Kessler: The ancestors of the pastor Gustav Kessler / (1833 to 1918). Contributions to the Central German genealogy. (= German Family Archives . Volume 66). Neustadt an der Aisch 1977, pp. 124, 125, 146, 147, 166, 173, 188, 169, 219, 221 and 268.
- Wenat von Schönfeld-Werben: History of the von Schönfeld family. Hanover 1935.
- Karlheinz Blaschke: History of Saxony in the Middle Ages. Munich 1990, p. 219.
- Hubert Maximilian Ermisch : Document book of the city of Freiberg in Saxony. Volume 1. Giesecke & Devrient, Leipzig 1883, p. 511.
- Walter Bogsch: The leadership layers in the Saxon ore mining between 1430 and 1740. In: Herbert Helbig : Executives of the economy in the Middle Ages and modern times. Part 1: 1350-1850 . Limburg an der Lahn 1973, pp. 89–197.
- Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae . Main part 2, volume 12: Document book of the city of Freiberg in Saxony . Edited by Hubert Ermisch. Leipzig 1883, p. 211.
- Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae . Main part 1, section B, volume 2: Documents of the Margraves of Meissen and Landgraves of Thuringia 1396–1406 . Edited by Hubert Ermisch. Leipzig 1902, p. 542.
- Lothar Kaubisch, Wolfgang Kotte, Wolfgang Trebst, Rolf Puchat, Rika Wagner: 650 years of Berbisdorf - Festschrift; a local history. Radeburg 2007.
Web links
- Coat of arms of those of Berbisdorf in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book (around 1605)
Individual evidence
- ^ Emil Meyen: Bibliography of the Germanness of the colonial immigration in North America - especially of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. Leipzig 1937.