Bernhardt (family)

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Coat of arms of the barons of Bernhard

Bernhardt , also Bernhard , is a patronymic surname derived from the old Germanic nickname Bernhard ( "strong as a bear" ) . It is a so-called multi-stemmed family name, which means that there are several families with the same name that do not have a common ancestor .

One of the families is the generation of Bernhard (t) consisting of the Westerwald originates and the stem assignable documented series with the gräflich westerwelle burg Leiningen- secretary Johann Bernhardt starts, the in 1724 Westerburg married. A line of this sex was included in the royal Bavarian aristocracy and baron class in 1830 .

history

Erolzheim Castle , which came into the possession of the Barons von Bernhard in 1830, in 2012

Friedrich (Ludwig) Bernhard came from the line of Johann Bernhardt zu Westerburg. His mother belonged to the wealthy von Kiesow family in Augsburg . He was born on July 22nd, 1801 in Düsseldorf and died on January 24th, 1871 in Munich as a royal Bavarian Privy Councilor and a retired university professor . D. He had Jura studied and it graduated . With several treatises (e.g. on "The Two Swords of God" ) he appeared as a champion of German jurisprudence.

On May 28, 1830, Dr. jur. Friedrich Bernhard, private lecturer at the University of Munich , accepted into the hereditary Bavarian aristocracy and baron class and enrolled in the baron class in the Kingdom of Bavaria on June 22 of the same year. On St. Georgentag 1831 he founded together with Friedrich Hoffstadt , Franz Graf von Pocci , Ludwig Schwanthaler and Hans Freiherr von und zu Aufseß a . a. in Munich the "Society for German Antiquity to the Three Shields" . In a house bought by Friedrich Freiherr von Bernhard in what was then Lerchenstrasse (now Schwanthalerstrasse) especially for this purpose, a number of versatile young men from various professional backgrounds got together with unprecedented enthusiasm to research prehistory in Germany.

In 1830 Friedrich Freiherr von Bernhard had acquired the rule of Erolzheim from his uncle Heinrich von Kiesow zu Augsburg , an old possession of the von Bömmelberg , which he had bought in 1826 for 200,000  florins as an allodium . Friedrich von Bernhard was since then the landlord and patron saint of the castle and estate Erolzheim. By royal Württemberg decree on January 18, 1832 he was granted the surrogate rights to the manor Erolzheim with Edelbeuren and Dietbruck, which had been granted to the knightly nobility. Heinrich von Kiesow bought then in 1834 by Eugénie de Beauharnais , the Stiefenkelin Emperor Napoleon I of France and granddaughter King Maximilian I of Bavaria , for 32,000 guilders , the Eugen mountain palace , which he in 1857 to the Count Wilhelm von Reichenbach Lessonitz , a son of Elector Wilhelm II of Hesse, sold. Friedrich Freiherr von Bernhard was married to Countess Amalia von Froberg called Montjoye (* Munich March 30, 1809; † Erolzheim June 23, 1838), a daughter of Count Johann Nepomuk Simon Joseph von Froberg called Montjoye (* June 19, 1763; † 7 December 1814) and Eleanor Laura Countess von Fürstenbusch , who gave birth to his daughter Elisabeth Freiin von Bernhard († Nordborchen September 7, 1872) on September 21, 1834 in Munich , who was determined to be the heir to the Mittenheim estate near Oberschleißheim and in Munich on August 23, 1860 Hermann von Mallinckrodt (* Minden February 5, 1821; † Berlin May 26, 1874) married and thus became the ancestor of the Princely Couple .

After the premature death of his first wife, Countess Amalia, Friedrich von Bernhard sold the Erolzheim property with the exception of the family burial in 1839 to the royal Württemberg state finance administration . Thekla Freiin von Bernhard , Elisabeth's half-sister, married, after Elisabeth's early death and only three months before his unexpected death, also Hermann von Mallinckrodt and then took care of the upbringing of the five orphaned children. The Bernhard − Froberg marriage also resulted in the son Heinrich Freiherr von Bernhard , who was married to Mathilde Freiin von Kreusser . The burial chapel of the baronial Bernhard family is located at the mountain chapel in Erolzheim in Upper Swabia .

coat of arms

Stained glass window in the burial place of those of Bernhard in the Froberg Chapel in Erolzheim , marriage coat of arms Freiherr von Bernhard - Countess von Froberg called Montjoye

According to the baron diploma of 1830: square , in fields 1 and 4 on a red background inwardly an upright black bear on a green three-hill, in fields 2 and 3 on a gold background three (1, 2) green clover leaves without stems; on the helmet with the red and silver covers the bear between the open flight of corners divided by red and silver . The coat of arms of the Barons von Bernhard in the Froberg Chapel in Erolzheim, however, shows the three clovers placed 2: 1 and with stems; on the shield two crowned helmets, both with red and gold blankets, on the inward facing right the bear, growing here , between a very silver flight, on the left helmet a silver pelican in a green nest, which soaks its three cubs with his heart's blood .

Name bearer

  • Johann Bernhardt (first documented mention in 1724), secretary of the Count of Leiningen-Westerburg
  • Friedrich Freiherr von Bernhard (* 1801; † 1871), Dr. jur., legal scholar, antiquarian, patron, professor at the University of Munich and royal Bavarian Privy Councilor

literature

  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 39 of the complete series, or Adelslexikon Volume I (Volume 53 of the complete series), CA Starke Verlag Limburg / Lahn 1967, or 1972, p. 349 f.
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser, Gotha 1876 to 1933
  • Genealogical manual of the aristocracy enrolled in Bavaria, Volume 5, Neustadt an der Aisch 1955 (Older Genealogy)
  • Johann Daniel Georg von Memminger, Description of the Oberamts Biberach , Stuttgart and Tübingen 1837, pp. 116–119 (Chapter 13: Municipality of Erolzheim )

Individual evidence

Mountain chapel in Erolzheim - part of the family's burial place
  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I (Volume 53 of the complete series), CA Starke Verlag Limburg / Lahn 1972, p. 349 f.
  2. ^ Hyacinth Holland:  Hoffstadt, Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 618 f.
  3. ^ Hyacinth Holland:  Pocci, Count Franz . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 331-338.
  4. ↑ Wikisource: Erolzheim in the description of the Oberamt Biberach from 1837
  5. ^ Catherine Bosshart-Pfluger:  Montjoye, von (also Froberg, 1743 Imperial Count). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 63 f. ( Digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Stammliste Fürst Paar
  7. ↑ Website of the municipality of Erolzheim: History ( Memento of the original from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erolzheim.de
  8. ↑ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, holdings E 105: contracts of Württemberg with its landlords and other nobles, 2nd purchase, exchange and compensation contracts between Württemberg and nobles, E 105 No. 79 (1839–1842): contract between the state finance administration and Dr. Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von Bernhausen (sic! = Freiherr von Bernhard) on the acquisition of the Erolzheim (Kr. Biberach) and Edelbeuren, G. Erolzheim (Kr. Biberach) manors by Württemberg
  9. ↑ GHdA, Adelslexikon Vol. I, Limburg / L. 1972, p. 350

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