Bothfeld (noble family)
The von Bothfeld family , also spelled Bodtfeld , Botfeld , Botfelt , Bottfeldt , were an old Meissen noble family. The headquarters were in the town of the same name Bothfeld near Lützen .
history
The family with Gerhard von Bodtfeld was first mentioned in 1247. They were wealthy in the Merseburg Stiftsland and had their seats a. a. in Bündorf , Blösien , Körbisdorf , Burgwerben , Geusa , Machern , Plessen , Quesnitz . The family was u. a. related by marriage to von Rockhausen , von Görschen , von Bose and von Bünau .
The church in Burgwerben served von Bothfeld as a burial place. In the floor of the church of Burgwerben lies the heavily worn tombstone of Lord von Bothfeld from 1568, who was the owner of the manor there. On the inner north wall, covered by a church chair, is the epitaph of Melchior von Bothfeldt († 1570), with the coats of arms of those of Bothfeld and that of Burkersroda . With Sigmund von Bodtfeld († 1729), the male line died out.
coat of arms
The shield is split in red and black, with a white crossbar in front. Two buffalo horns on the helmet, the first drawn and tinged like the front field, the other like the back field. The ceilings are red, white and black.
literature
- Ancestral lines of the siblings Fischer, Volume 4, Ancestral lines of the families v. Bothfeld, by Fritz Fischer, 1984
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon, Volume 1, 1859, p. 513
- Otto Küstermann : Old georgraphic and topographical forays through the Merseburg Monastery, in: New Mittheilungen from the field of historical-antiquarian research, Volume 17, 1883, p. 387ff
- Heinrich Otte: Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the province of Saxony, 3rd issue, Weißenfels district, 1880, pp. 4–5