Berga (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Berga

Berga is the name of a Thuringian - Franconian noble family , arose from an old noble patrician family in Erfurt , who owned noble estates in Wechmar near Gotha and Kleinvargula . Because of the further ownership of the Zwernberg manor , the family of the Frankish imperial-free knighthood , knight canton Altmühl , was incorporated . The male line died out in 1805. The last Agnatin died in 1825.

history

The headquarters at Kyffhäuser

The alleged parent company was Berga near Kelbra . The jurisdiction lay with Heinrich von Berga. Later she worked as same MOORISH ' fiefdom owned by the marshals of Holtzhausen to Erfurt, who at the 1344 provost of St. Peter's monastery sold.

Gut Wechmar comes to Berga

Melchior von Wechmar auf Wechmar und Roßdorf († 1461) was married to Adelheid von Berga from Ruprechtshausen. His heir, Katharina, brought Gut Wechmar to his family through her marriage to Christoph von Berga.

Sigmund von Berga at Koenitz Castle

Sigmund von Berga, heir to Wechmar (* 1583), Count of Schwarzburg Wittumsrat and bailiff at Koenitz Castle , died there in 1631 and received his grave in the church at Koenitz . He was married to Anna Sibylla Marschall.

Georg Otto von Berga and his descendants

Georg Otto von Berga to Wechmar, Vargel and Weidensee was gräflich hohenlohe-neuensteinischer Council and the bailiff to Ohrdruf . His wife was Anna Margaretha von Thüna from the Molzdorf house. One daughter, Franziska Eleonora Ernestine († 1745), married Georg Ernst Sigmund Holzschuher von Aspach auf Harrlach (* 1708), ducal Saxon-Gotha captain , in 1733 .

Georg Otto's son Georg Heinrich von Berga, a Saxon-Gotha colonel , heir to Wechmar, Vargel and Weidensee, submitted a request to his liege lords , the Count of Hohenlohe, in 1735 for a feudal consensus to take up a capital on his share in the feudal estates of Wechmar . This was followed by a permit to take on a debt of 2000 guilders on the Hohenlohe fief.

Georg Otto's other son, Johann Justus (Jost) von Berga, was the royal Hohenzollern chief hunter in Hechingen . He left behind a son conceived out of wedlock who was legitimized by the later marriage of the mother : Johann Heinrich Cyriacus von Berga. In 1735 the Counts of Hohenlohe refused to grant the Berga and Weidensee fiefs at Wechmar.

Wolfgang Ernst von Berga in the service of Württemberg

Wolfgang Ernst von Berga (1645–1731) was the ducal chamberlain of Württemberg under Eberhard Ludwig and chief stable master at the Collegium illustrious in Tübingen . His wife Christiana Elisabeth von Diemar died in 1705 when the Duke's mistress, Wilhelmine von Graevenitz , was offered to marry the Duke's mistress, Wilhelmine von Grävenitz , after the year of mourning by the Württemberg court marshal Johann Friedrich von Staffhorst , in order to give her an externally solid existence through the formal marriage at the Stuttgarter Hof. Wolfgang Ernst von Berga turned down this dubious honor and instead entered into a second marriage with Philippina Louisa Bidembach von Treuenfels . The Duke, however, married his mistress on the left in 1707 and gave her the title of Countess of Urach . Since his wife, the Duchess, had never consented to a divorce, this connection had to be broken again and the Graevitz was banished from Württemberg under imperial pressure, but was brought back by the Duke in 1710 and pro forma with the old Bohemian Count Johann Franz Ferdinand von Würben and Freudental († 1729) married, who thus received the title of Wuerttemberg court master , with which the Duke's mistress moved to the head of the court in terms of protocol.

Wolfgang Ernst's descendants

The head stable master Wolfgang Ernst von Berga was the father of five sons: Johann Ernst (I.), born in 1684, had already died in 1696. The other son Friedrich Ernst (* 1685) died as an imperial-royal lieutenant at Villa Franca. Christian Ernst (* 1692) died as a canon of Arlesheim near Basel . The youngest son was also called Johann Ernst (* 1696) and was a royal chamberlain and master of the Ansbach family . His wife was Auguste Sophie von Gemmingen . From their marriage came three daughters and a son, who died young.

Carl Friedrich von Berga auf Zwernberg inherits the line on Wechmar

Wolfgang Ernst's son Ludwig Ernst von Berga (1687–1735) had married Sophia Dorothea von Wackerbarth .

Their son was Carl Friedrich Benjamin von Berga († 1771), heir to Wechmar, Klein-Vargel , Zwernberg and Weidensee. He was enfeoffed with Wechmar in 1760 and 1764 after the line there had expired. As early as 1756, together with his aforementioned uncle, Johann Ernst von Berga, Ansbach chamberlain and stable master, an electoral Saxon fiefdom was issued over "half the village of Wenigen-Vargula" ( Kleinvargula ).

The male line died out in 1805.

The last from Berga

The aforementioned Saxon-Hildburghausen 's chamberlain Carl Friedrich Benjamin von Berga († 1771), heir to Wechmar, Klein-Vargel, Zwernberg and Weidensee, was married to Anna Margaretha von Ziegeler from the Ingersleben family, who in 1773 was married to the Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Volgstädt auf und zu Wechmar († 1783) married. There were several children from his marriage to Carl Friedrich Benjamin von Berga, but the sons only survived two daughters, who finally took over the paternal inheritance at Wechmar. The older of them, the last Berga, Charlotte Friederike Wilhelmine Ernestine (1762-1825), married in 1789 with the princely Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ' Hofrat Johann Christian Hellbach , who in 1819 received a nobility renewal and a coat of arms union with the von Berga. The couple lived on the Berga'schen Gut zu Wechmar and Arnstadt , but had no descendants.

Coat of arms of those of Berga

Coat of arms of those of Berga
 Blazon : “The coat of arms shows a black bar on a shield divided by silver and red, covered with a gold-banded silver greyhound. On the helmet with (red) black and silver covers, two silver, black and red divided ibex horns (also a silver one on the right, one red on the left, each with a black band in the middle). "

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , Neues Allgemeine Deutsches Adels-Lexicon Volume 1 (1859), p. 337 f.
  2. ^ According to Johann Christian von Hellbach , the sex of his wife was baronial : Johann Christian von Hellbach, Adels-Lexikon Volume 1 (1825), p. 532 f.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Gerhard Friedrich Albrecht : Genealogisches Handbuch (1776), pp. 10-12
  4. ^ A b Johann Christian von Hellbach, Adels-Lexikon Volume 1 (1825), p. 124 f.
  5. ^ A b Friedrich August Schmidt, Bernhard Friedrich Voight, New Nekrolog der Deutschen (1828), pp. 880–882
  6. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , New Prussian Adels Lexicon (1839), p. 33
  7. ↑ Heimatblocken, Official Gazette of the Günthersleben-Wechmar community, 14th year, No. 1 (2011), p. 3 (accessed on August 29, 2014)
  8. ^ Johann Christian von Hellbach , Adels-Lexikon Volume 2 (1826), p. 692
  9. ↑ CERL Thesaurus: Berga, Sigmund von (1583–1631)
  10. ↑ Christian body sermon and memory of honor about the word Pauli Rome. 14. verse 7. (1631)
  11. ^ Johann Gottfried Biedermann , genealogical register of the noble patriciate in Nuremberg (1748), plate CXCII ( From the gentlemen Holzschuher von Aspach )
  12. ↑ State Archive Baden-Württemberg , Dept. Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein , GL 35 Bü 194
  13. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein, GA 20 drawers. XIII No. 10 (files)
  14. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein, GL 35 Bü 193
  15. ↑ Wolfgang Ernst von Berga, Gantz re-invented and through long experience with great benefit practicirte Reit-Kunst , Tübingen, Cotta 1725 ( SLUB Dresden : Werkansicht, edition of 1755 ), cf. Carl Gräfe, The Posture and Seat of the Rider , p. 365
  16. ^ Karl Waechter (ed.), Ludwig Timotheus Freiherrn von Spittler's entire works , Volume 12 (1837), p. 327
  17. ↑ Sybille Osswald-Bargende, The mistress, the prince and power: Christina Wilhelmina von Grävenitz (2000), p. 105
  18. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hohenlohe-Zentralarchiv Neuenstein, GA 20 drawers. XIII No. 19 (files)
  19. ↑ State Archive Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein, GL 35 Bü 195
  20. ↑ Lot-Tissimo, August II., Document with signature , resp. Catalog VI. Manuscripts - Documents - Reiss & Sohn oHG, position 665 (Kleinvargula (Thuringia). - August II., King of Poland) ( Memento from September 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 29, 2011