Breitenbuch (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Breitenbuch

The von Breitenbuch family is an old Thuringian noble family from the village of Breitenbach . In the course of time the following spellings were used: de Brethenbuc , de Breitinbuch , von Breitenbauch, von Breitenbuch (spelling since 1906)

history

origin

The progenitor of the family was Cuno de Brethenbuc , who first appeared in documents in 1154 as Nobilis under Margrave Konrad von Meißen in Naumburg . More precisely, however, it is Conradus de Breitenbach , who is named as a witness in a certificate issued by Margrave Konrad von Meißen on April 1, 1154 in Naumburg. In the following, 1157 Cuenradus de Breitenbuoch, Conradum de Brethenbuc , 1169 Heinricus de Breitenbach , 1191 the brothers Theodoricom and Heinricum de Britenbuch as episcopal Naumburg ministers, 1234 Theodericus camerarius de Breitenbuch . Heydenricum is mentioned in a document in 1269/71 and Hermann de Bretinbuch de novo Castro dictus et ipse de Baldestete (commanding burgrave of Neuchâtel and Lord of Balgstädt ) on November 4th, 1287 .

The uninterrupted line of trunks begins around 1349/1350 with Otto de Breitenbuch et Petzold, frater suus .

Despite the similar spelling, the family is not related to the " von Breitenbach " family, with which it is often confused in literature.

Own the family

The name-giving place of origin is the desert castle Burg Breitenbach southwest of Zeitz, which was first mentioned in 1138. It was probably built into an older complex (from the 10th / 11th century) by the family and remained their ancestral home from the middle of the 12th to the end of the 13th century. In the first half of the 13th century it came into the possession of the Naumburg bishopric.

Further goods and seats of the family were in Baumersroda , Brandenstein (from 1584), Bucha (from 1614), Ebersroda , Gröst , Klein-Corbetha, Ludwigshof in Ranis, Lützkendorf , Möckerling , Oechlitz , Oeglitzsch (1740–1780), Petzkendorf, Pretzsch (1700–1701), Ranis (from 1571), Schkortleben , Sankt Ulrich (1528 to 1764), Sankt Micheln , Stöbnitz , Taubenheim , Zöbigker , Zorbau .

The main seat of the family was Ranis Castle from 1571 to 1942 . In 1942 the von Breitenbuch family sold Ranis Castle to the German Red Cross . The Ludwigshof estate, which was in front of the castle and therefore easier to manage, remained in family ownership until 1945. Ludwigshof, the neighboring Brandenstein Castle with possessions and Bucha fell under the land reform in 1945 and were expropriated, as was Kromsdorf Castle , which was not inherited until 1943 .

After 1945 the estate of Remeringhausen near Stadthagen came through inheritance from Hans Georg Freiherr von Münchhausen and the Münchhausen'sche Rittergut in Parensen near Nörten-Hardenberg through inheritance from Siegfried Leberecht Crusius , son of Anna von Breitenbuch and stepson of the poet Börries Freiherr von Münchhausen , both located in Lower Saxony, owned by the family.

After reunification in 1990, the von Breitenbuch family bought back the Saxon estate Rüdigsdorf south of Leipzig, which had belonged to the Crusius family from 1810 to 1945, also Gutsland in Benndorf bei Frohburg, which had been in the family since the late 1920s, and Wald in Gersdorf near Roßwein. Gut Neustädtel near Panschwitz-Kuckau in Upper Lusatia has been family-owned since 1921. The neighboring Gut Bocka near Burkau was bought in 2007.

coat of arms

Two red rafters in blue. On the helmet with blue and red covers, two buffalo horns divided across corners by blue and red.

Because the heraldic rule of colors says: "Metals must not border on metals, colors not on colors." it can be assumed that the blue colored surface was previously a blank, bluish shimmering silver surface.

Coats of arms are in Weischütz am Gutshaus, in Ortisei (Müelte) at the old water mill and on the archway of the castle park as well as the alliance coat of arms of the von Heßler and von Breitenbauch on the tomb in the crypt of the church in Vitzenburg .

They are related to the von Balgstedt family in their tribal and coat of arms.

Well-known namesake

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Original in the Zeitz Abbey Archives, communicated by H. Fechner in Research on German History 5, Göttingen 1865, pages 429-430

literature

  • August Wilhelm Bernhardt von Uechtritz : Diplomatic news concerning noble families: ... as those v. Berlepsch, v. Breitenbauch, v. Bünau, v. Dürfeld, v. Einsiedel, v. Erdmannsdorf ... concerning , Volume 2, Verlag Hamann, 1791
  • Otto Adalbert Posse : The seals of the nobility of the Wettin region up to the year 1500 , 5 volumes, Verlag des Apollo, Dresden 1903/17, Volume 2, 1902 p. 73ff
  • Clementine (Mense) von Breitenbuch: Family tree of the Breitenbuch family at times called von Breitenbauch , 1913
  • Fritz Fischer: Ahnenreihenwerk Geschwister Fischer, on the genealogy of the primitive noble families Wettiner Lande , part LVI, on the genealogy of the von Breitenbach family , 1978
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume XXV, page 124, volume 117 of the complete series, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Clementine von Breitenbuch, Asta von Breitenbuch, Matthias Donath, Lars-Arne Dannenberg: Red rafters on a blue background. The von Breitenbuch family (Breitenbauch) in Saxony and Thuringia (= nobility in Saxony, volume 8), Meißen 2016.

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