Bernhausen (noble family)
The Imperial Knights and Barons von Bernhausen were a Swabian noble family from Bernhausen south of Stuttgart . Until 1499, the main residence was Bernhausen Castle in today's town of Filderstadt .
The Bernhausen in Swabia
The oldest representative of the noble family is knight Wolfram I von Bernhausen, who together with his son Wolfram II signed a document in 1027. In the vicinity of the family castle belonged u. a. Waldenbuch , Harthausen , Bonlanden , Plattenhardt and Grötzingen , which was sold to Württemberg in 1337 .
The descendants of Wolfram II continued the main line and his brother Friedrich donated the younger line of the zu Bonlanden . Wolfram's descendants were again divided into several branches, including the families of the Lords of Echterdingen and the Lords of Plattenhardt. The von Grötzingen family also seems to have been a branch of the Bernhausen family. In the 14th century these branch lines were all extinct.
When the ancestral castle was burned down in the South German city war in 1449, the Bernhausen on the Alb in the Horningen castle near Herrlingen and u. a. in Breisgau . In 1588 Dietrich von Bernhausen expanded Horningen Castle into Oberherrlingen Castle . The family also acquired Klingenstein Castle , on the foundations of which Baron Franz Maria Anton von Bernhausen built Klingenstein Castle in 1756 . Several daughters of the Bernhausen family became nuns in the Wald monastery . One of them, Maria Salome von Bernhausen (1614–1681) was elected abbess in 1660 and ruled until 1681.
Franz Maria Gebhard von Bernhausen, the last male member of the noble family of the Barons von Bernhausen, died in 1839. His daughter Caroline Antonie (1785–1871) was married to Count Joseph Gotthard von Andlaw zu Stotzheim (1784–1863).
The Bernhausen in Thurgau
Wilhelm I von Bernhausen from Breisgau settled in the Lake Constance region and, through marriage to Ursula Payer in 1504, came into the possession of Hagenwil Castle and Lordship , which together with Moos, Auenhofen and Hefenhofen formed its own court from 1600. In 1684 Hagenwil was sold to the prince abbey of St. Gallen .
Through his marriage to Maria Kleophea von Helmsdorf , Wilhelm II († 1555) obtained Eppishausen castle and rule in 1535 . From 1556 the Eppishausen rulership included the bailiwicks of Engishofen , Biessenhofen and Schocherswil , all of which remained in family ownership until 1698. The Bernhausen officiated, among other things, as episcopal-Constantine bailiffs in Güttingen and Bischofszell as well as administrators of other judicial authorities . In 1665 Wolf Christoph von Bernhausen was raised to the status of an imperial baron.
From the 18th century onwards, the southern German noble family no longer played a role in what is now Switzerland.
literature
Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book , Volume 1, Heidelberg 1898, p. 62 f.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Friedrich Cast: South German noble hero . tape 1 . JA Gärtner, Stuttgart 1839, p. 129-130 .
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^ A b c d André Salathé: von Bernhausen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
These sections are largely based on the entry in the Historical Lexicon of Switzerland (HLS), which, according to the HLS's usage information, is under the Creative Commons license - Attribution - Share under the same conditions 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). - ^ The dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz , p. 545.
- ^ City of Filderstadt: Bernhausen. In: Website of the city of Filderstadt. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
- ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch: Upper Baden gender book, Heidelberg 1898, p. 63. , Friedrich Cast: Süddeutscher Adelsheros, 1845, p. 39.