Carbene (noble family)
The lords of Carben (also: Karben ) were a knightly noble family who were particularly wealthy in the Wetterau and today's city of Karben . They provided several mayors to the Free Imperial City of Frankfurt am Main and Burgraves of the Imperial Friedberg Castle .
history
The sex can only be documented at the beginning of the 13th century with Ruprecht von Carben, who died in 1217 . Under his grandchildren, the family split into a younger, Hartmutsche line, which died out again in the 15th century with Werner von Carben , provost of Ilbenstadt . The older Rupertian line shows a regionally widespread relationship and is documented with branches to Karben, Burggräfenrode , Birklar and Staden .
The Dugel von Carben family (also: von Carben called Dugel ) must be distinguished from the Lords of Carbene . It can no longer be determined today whether these were related to each other or just happened to be named after the same place.
The decline of the von Carbene family with the extinction of several branches of the family began around the time of the Thirty Years War . In 1622 the oldest Karben line died out with the twelve-year-old Eustach Konrad . His brother Johann Adolf Gottfried died a year earlier at the age of 18 in Bohemia . The line to Birklar died out shortly after 1638 with Conrad Wilhelm von Carben . The lines to Burg-Graefenrode and Wisselsheim followed one after the other, so that only the line to Staden remained until the 18th century. Franz Emmerich Lothar Burkhard Adolf von Carben died as the last male member in 1729. The son of his sister Frobenius Ferdinand Josef Freiherr von Wetzel received imperial approval in 1775 to combine names and coats of arms. The family has been called von Wetzel, called von Carben , ever since .
coat of arms
- The older Rupertian line had a split coat of arms, above in gold a red growing two-tailed lion, below in blue a silver lily. On the helmet with red and silver blankets, a silver tucked red hat, on it a golden ball, tipped with a black cock plume.
- A two-part coat of arms is also known from the younger Hartmut line, with a lily on top (sometimes growing) and a bar below.
Coat of arms of those of Carben in the Ingeram Codex of 1459
Grave slab of Philipp Emmerich von Carben zu Staden on the basilica in Ilbenstadt , the complete Carbene coat of arms in the middle
Grave slab of Franz Emmerich Lothar Burkhard Adolf von Carben on the Ilbenstadt basilica, the coat of arms is depicted overturned because the von Carben family died out with it in 1729.
Coat of arms of the Barons von Wetzel Carben
possession
- In Groß- and Klein-Karben they each owned a Hube of land as a fiefdom of the County of Hanau-Munzenberg . Today's Leonhard Castle probably goes back to an earlier noble seat of the Lords of Carben . In Okarben , two and a half hubs were added as a fiefdom of the Limburg an der Haardt monastery .
- Burg-Gräfenrode with the local castles had since the time of the Lords of Münzenberg undivided fief in the hands of the lords of carbene. However, the ownership situation became considerably more complicated in the following centuries as a result of the Munzenberg inheritance .
- Melbach came to the von Carben family as pledge from the Reichsburg Friedberg . Due to the transition to the Catholic von Wetzel family, there were considerable conflicts with the Protestant village population.
- Property in Birklar fell to Conrad Quirin von Carben in the middle of the 16th century through his marriage to Sibylle von Muschenheim .
- They owned Wisselsheim and the salt springs there as a joint fiefdom with the Lords of Döringenberg .
- A partner in the ganerbschaft Staden with share in the castle Staden they were the extinction of since the beginning of 1405. With Lords of Stockheim and gentlemen of Büches they inherited their shares so that they in their extinction in 1729, almost half of ganerbschaft possessed.
- Castle and village of Höchst an der Nidder as co-heirs of the Lords of Büches . The Friedberg burgrave Ruprecht von Carben together with Konrad von Büches founded the Engelthal Monastery in 1268 in the Höchst district .
- Burgmannshof with a share in the Reichsburg Friedberg .
- Permanent house in Nieder-Rosbach .
- further free float in Erbstadt , Bornheim (later Stalburger Oede ), Echzell , Berstadt and Utphe as well as various temporary castle loans.
Castle and village of Höchst an der Nidder
Bornheim (later Stalburger Oede )
Significant family members
- Rupert von Carben (Friedberger Burggraf 1239–1243, also mayor in Frankfurt)
- Rupert von Carben (Friedberger Burggraf 1265 / 66–1280 / 82)
- Friedrich von Carben (Friedberger Burggraf 1284–1287)
- Rupert von Carben (Friedberger Burggraf 1288–1290)
- Rupert von Carben (Friedberger Burggraf 1311)
- Friedrich von Carben (Friedberger Burggraf 1346, previously mayor in Frankfurt 1330)
- Emmerich von Carben (Friedberger Burggraf 1483–1502)
- Emmerich von Carben, 1503 Vice Cathedral of Mainz , 1511 Electoral Mainz Council
- Johann Eitel von Carben (1571–1574 mayor of Frankfurt)
- Wolfgang Adolf von Carben (Friedberger Burggraf 1632–1671)
literature
- Heinrich Bingemer: The Frankfurt coat of arms booklet. 2nd edition, Kramer, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-7829-0348-X , p. 14 plate 8.
- Carl Carben: The knightly families of Carben. In: Friedberger Geschichtsblätter 2, 1910, pp. 15-25.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility Lexicon , Volume 2, 1860; Reprint 1996, ISBN 3-89557-020-6 , p. 220.
- Rüdiger Frhr. von Preuschen, The Sponheimische Burg in Osterspai in the dispute between those of Carben, Steinkallenfels and Waldenburg over the legacy of the last Liebensteiner 1637-1793 , in: Nassauische Annalen, Volume 126 (2015), pp. 155-176, ISSN 0077-2887