Scratch from Scharfenstein
The Kratz von Scharfenstein and Cratz von Scharfenstein were a Rhenish-Moselle aristocratic family who named themselves after the Scharfenstein Castle near Kiedrich ( Rheingau ).
Family history
The family emerged from the House of Scharfenstein with the stones , the other related noble families on the Kurmainzer resided Scharfenstein Castle.
Heinrich, one of the five sons of Heinrich von Scharfenstein with the stones, had the different family name Kratz von Scharfenstein from around 1390 .
His son of the same name, connected to Irmgard von Metzenhausen , had 3 children (2 daughters and a son). The younger daughter is the blessed nun Margaretha Kratz von Scharfenstein († 1532). Eva, the elder, married the nobleman Friedrich von Löwenstein zu Randeck († 1463), whose grave slab is preserved in the Protestant parish church in Sobernheim . The son Heinrich continued the family line with Margaretha von Sötern. Her child was Caspar Kratz von Scharfenstein, bailiff von Simmern († 1513).
Caspar's son Philipp Kratz von Scharfenstein, trier bailiff of Koblenz , as well as a sponheim bailiff of Trarbach and Kastellaun , married Anna von Schönenberg, sister of the Worms and Trier bishops Georg von Schönenberg and Johann VII. Von Schönenberg . Your marriage coat of arms is displayed at Marienpforter Hof in Waldböckelheim . Caspar's daughter Ursula († 1584) married Johann von Dienheim († 1570), councilor and bailiff of Kreuznach . One child from this connection was the Speyer bishop Eberhard von Dienheim († 1610).
Philip's son Hugo scratch Scharfenstein (also scratching of Simmern), provost in Speyer , and provost at St. Paulin in Trier, was in 1582 archdeacon , 1588 Domdekan and 1623 provost of Trier . He died in 1625 and was buried in the Trier Liebfrauenkirche , where his grave altar with a full figure has been preserved; his coat of arms with initials is also on a lintel of the school of Kyllburg , which stands on the site of the former castle palace . The brother Philipp Kratz von Scharfenstein (1540-1604) was cathedral capitular from 1572 and from 1585 cathedral dean of Mainz . In 1594 he became cathedral propst in Worms . In May 1604, the Worms Cathedral Chapter elected him Bishop of Worms . Without having received the papal confirmation or the episcopal ordination, he died on July 13 of the same year in Mainz. He is described as a deserving man of Catholic reform . Both sister Katharina Kratz von Scharfenstein married the Palatinate nobleman Peter V. Nagel von Dirmstein († 1610) and in 1588 they had a magnificent stone with their alliance coat of arms and two ancestral coats of arms attached to the Nagelschen Hof in Freinsheim (Hauptstrasse 27).
Friedrich, the youngest brother of these siblings, was an Elector Colonel and commandant on Ehrenbreitstein . He continued the family line. His grandson Hugo Eberhard Kratz von Scharfenstein († 1663) became Bishop of Worms . His brother Johann Philipp Kratz von Scharfenstein , served as a general first in the imperial and then in the Swedish service as a field marshal and was therefore executed in Vienna in 1635 for high treason. A few years earlier he had received the dignity of an imperial count .
His daughter Eleonore (1629–1680) married Count Johann August zu Solms-Rödelheim in 1654 . Her son was Major General Georg Ludwig zu Solms-Rödelheim (1664-1716); her great-granddaughter Maria Luise Albertine zu Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg (1729-1818) became the grandmother and educator of the future Prussian Queen Luise . As a result, the German emperors from the House of Hohenzollern and their descendants of the noble family of the Kratz von Scharfenstein come from. Johann Philipp's son Johann Hugo Kratz von Scharfenstein was canon in Mainz, Trier and Speyer. The younger son, Count Johann Anton Kratz von Scharfenstein, was a privy councilor and court marshal in Trier .
The latter's son, Count Hugo Ernst, electorate privy councilor, as well as Oberamtmann zu Boppard , died in 1721 as the last male offspring of the family (various sources also mention 1718 as the year of death) and was buried in the Bornhofen monastery , where a burial place of the Kratz von Scharfenstein was.
The inheritance fell as the rule of Kratz von Scharfenstein to the county of Solms-Rödelheim .
In Longuich near Trier there is the Kratzenhof and the Kratzenhofstraße , named after the Kratz von Scharfenstein family who were wealthy here.
coat of arms
Divided across, a red bar in silver, accompanied by 13 black shingles, above 4 and 3 in two rows, below 3, 2, 1 in three rows one below the other. As a crest a flight tinged like the shield. Red and silver helmet covers. Two helmets have also appeared since 1589 ; Helmet 1 as described above, helmet 2 a golden arm in armor, wielding a sword.
Personalities
- Margaretha Kratz von Scharfenstein (around 1430–1532), superior of the Maria Engelport monastery, venerated as a blessed
- Philipp II. Kratz von Scharfenstein (1540–1604), Prince-Bishop of Worms
- Hugo Everhard Cratz von Scharfenstein († 1663), Bishop of Worms
- Johann Philipp Cratz von Scharffenstein (around 1590–1635), Swedish field marshal
literature
- Johann Samuelersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts , 21st part, Leipzig, 1830, p. 433 u. 434; (Digital scan)
- Johann Christian von Stramberg : Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius , 2nd section, 11th volume, pp. 740–744, Koblenz, 1863, (digital scan )
Web links
- Website on the Moselle nobility
- Website for the grave slab of a sister of Bishop Philipp II. Kratz von Scharfenstein, in the Evangelical parish church Kastellaun (with details of the parents)
- Entry for Hof der Kratz von Scharfenstein (Longuich) in the database of cultural assets in the Trier region .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scharfenstein Castle. Support group Kiedricher Geschichts- und Kulturzeugen, accessed on September 19, 2016 (with a mention of the family).
- ↑ Sobernheim, Evang. Parish church. In: German inscriptions online - inscription catalog: Bad Kreuznach. Academy of Sciences and Literature, accessed on September 19, 2016 (with photo of the grave slab).
- ^ Waldböckelheim, Marienpforter Hof. In: German inscriptions online - inscription catalog: Bad Kreuznach. Academy of Sciences and Literature, accessed on September 19, 2016 (with photo of the coat of arms).
- ^ Grave altar of Hugo Cratz von Scharffenstein. In: Image index of art and architecture. German Documentation Center for Art History, accessed on September 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Christian Schmidt: Graves of ancient Eifel noble families of cultural and historical value in the Kyllburg collegiate church. (No longer available online.) City of Kyllburg, May 29, 2011, archived from the original on September 17, 2016 ; Retrieved September 19, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Heinz-Günther Borck (Ed.): Injustice and Law: Crime and Society in Change from 1500–2000: joint state exhibition of the Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland archives . tape 1 . Landeshauptarchiv, Koblenz 2002, ISBN 3-922018-70-X , p. 435 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Bornhofen Franciscan and Pilgrimage Monastery. Retrieved September 19, 2016 .
- ↑ Sights. Longuich community, accessed September 19, 2016 .
