Brandenstein (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Brandenstein

Brandenstein is the name of an old Thuringian noble family whose ancestral seat was Brandenstein Castle near Ranis . The sex has the three tribes Oppurg-Ranis , Wernburg-Zöschen and Neudeck , the relationship of which has not yet been clarified.

history

Once widespread in Thuringia, Orlagau and Vogtland , the Brandenstein belonged to the Schwarzburg, Orlamündic and Lobdeburg vassals in the 13th century . The family first appeared in a document in 1282 with the knight Albrecht von Brandenstein at Brandenstein Castle near Ranis.

From the 14th century until 1945 the family sat on the Niedenburg in Neidenberga and also from the 14th century on the Oppurg and the Wernburg (1360 to 1704). In 1450 the brothers Hans, Eberhard, Heinrich and Georg sat on Rolitz . In 1463 they received Ranis Castle .

The Lords of Brandenstein were Thuringian aristocrats who subordinated themselves to the Wettins . This is evidenced by the trial against Caspar and Asse von Brandenstein at Castle Ranis and the Elector Moritz von Sachsen, as well as the brothers Johann Friedrich the Middle and Johann Wilhelm , dukes of Saxony, opened in 1549 at the Imperial Court of Justice . While the imperial fiscal authorities were of the opinion that the Brandensteiners were considered to be imperial directors and were therefore obliged to pay taxes to the Reich and the Court of Appeal , the von Brandenstein men proved their vassal status to the Wettins, who were entitled to make financial claims against them . However, the Brandensteiners refused to pay taxes to the emperor and empire.

In 1521 they built Neudeck Castle in Niederlausitz . In 1567 they sold their ancestral home in Brandenstein and in 1571 most of their Ranis rule to Melchior von Breitenbauch .

From 1602 the Knau manor was owned by the family for a century, from 1797 to 1840 the Goseck manor and the old Neidenberga family seat until 1945 .

It is not documented whether the Brandenstein Castle in Schlüchtern-Elm, Hesse, was a former ancestral seat of the family that still exists today, as it cannot be proven whether the Hermann and Konrad von Brandenstein who appeared there from 1278-1300 were related to the lines residing in Thuringia. The Württemberg officer Gustav von Brandenstein bought this castle in 1895, which is now owned by his great-grandson Constantin von Brandenstein-Zeppelin .

Alexander von Brandenstein (1881–1949) married the daughter Helene of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in 1909 and was raised to the rank of (primogenic) Württemberg Count von Brandenstein-Zeppelin in 1911 . Their son Alexander Graf von Brandenstein-Zeppelin (the younger, 1915–1979) married Ursula Freiin von Freyberg-Eisenberg-Allmendingen (1917–1985). From this marriage four children were born, u. a. Albrecht von Brandenstein-Zeppelin (* 1950), Lord of Mittelbiberach Castle in Upper Swabia, and Constantin von Brandenstein-Zeppelin (* 1953), Lord of Brandenstein Castle near Schlüchtern / Elm (Hesse).

Ranks

  • 1486 raised Emperor Friedrich III. Heinrich von Brandenstein on Ranis and his descendants in the imperial baron class .
  • Christoph von Brandenstein on Oppurg and Knau was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1630, his descendants died.

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are 13 entries by daughters of the von Brandenstein family from 1799 to 1902 for inclusion in the noble women's monastery in the Mecklenburg monastery of Dobbertin .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows on gold a soaring, natural wolf (also fox, lion), a red armored, fallen silver goose in the throat. On the crowned helmet with black and silver blankets the growing wolf with the goose in its throat.

Known family members

See also

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon . Volume 58, 1974.
  • Wolf von Brandenstein: History of the von Brandenstein family. 4 booklets (in 2 volumes), Magdeburg 1895–1905.
  • Heinz Kraft:  Brandenstein. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 517 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Sara Ronge: The historical development of the von Brandenstein family and their influence on the Knau manor in the 16th and 17th centuries. In: Home year book of the Saale-Orla-Kreis. Volume 16, 2008, pp. 48-52.
  • Bernd Wiefel: Genealogy of the Brandenstein family. In: Rudolstädter Heimathefte. Issue 9/10, 52nd edition, Riegg & Stapelfeld, Saalfeld 2006, pp. 271–275.
  • Bernd Wiefel: On the history of the Lords of Brandenstein on Ranis. Studies on the social history of Rani's rule, supplementary volume II, Olbernhau 2006 (self-published).
  • Bernd Wiefel: The story of the life and death of Hieronymus von Brandenstein on Graefendorf. Studies on the social history of Rani's rule, supplementary volume III, Olbernhau 2004 (self-published).
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1901. Second year, p. 135ff. ( digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de ).
  • from Brandenstein . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Third volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1899, p. 54-90 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
  • Brandenstein coat of arms. In: Ortenburger Wappenbuch. 1466 ( codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Brandenstein coat of arms. In: Book of Arms of the Holy Roman Empire. Nuremberg around 1554–1568 ( codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1901, first year, p.120ff

Web links

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