Cronegg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of Constantin Damian Friedrich Freiherr von Cronegg (Khronegg, Kroneck)
Portrait of Christoph Andreas Graf von und zu Kronegg

Cronegg (also Kronegg or Croneck ) is the name of a noble family of ancient origins in Carinthia and belonged to the Lower Austrian rural nobility .

history

origin

The old noble family of the von Cronegg were originally from Carinthia. Paul Cronegger , husband of Anastasia von Graben , is considered the progenitor (after Buccelini ), lived in Carinthia in 1429, and had a grandson named Christof Cronegger . Married to Regina von Sontheim, Christof fathered four sons, with Paul, Karl Christof, Anton and David , whereby all except the son Paul continued the tribe with numerous offspring.

Their sons Hans Wilhelm, Christof, Ferdinand, Jonas, Georg, Andreas, Albrecht, Hans Christof and Moritz followed .

Hans Wilhelm was married to Elisabeth Kremmer von Königshofen , and he came into the possession of Gut and Schloss Kröllendorf V. o. WW (1625 to 1631), his cousin Georg Andreas Freiherr von Cronegg , Moosburg, Glaink and Kollnitz, Waldreich V. o . MB The latter sold his property in 16390 to Constantin von Grundemann .

Emperor Ferdinand III. appointed him treasurer and secret councilor, and between 1649 and 1667 the Carinthian governor until he even received the status of imperial count from Emperor Leopold (diploma from March 12, 1663). Georg Andreas married Regina Elisabeth, Freiin von Dietrichstein , and fathered four sons with Wolf Theodor, Franz Anton, Andreas Ludwig and Joseph Wilhelm .

Emperor Leopold I employed Joseph Wilhelm as a treasurer and secret councilor and accepted him into the Lower Austrian gentry family. J. Wilhelm was married to Isabella Constanzia Freiin von Zinsendorf and fathered a daughter and three sons as family owners with Johann Christof , Karl Josef and Johann Friedrich . Johann Friedrich was known as a German poet (born November 2, 1731, died 1758).

Possessions

The Lords of Kronegg owned Vasoldsberg, Himmelau, Glanegg (Carinthia) , Moosburg (Neue Moosburg) , Reideben , Waldreichs , Aggstein and the Wertl von Wertlsberg Palace in Graz , but also the Kraiger Schlösser and Ratzenegg .

The Vasoldsberg Castle, which is now a listed building, is located in the municipality of Vasoldsberg in the Graz-Umgebung district in Eastern Styria in Austria . Hans the Younger von Vasoldsberg pledged Varsoldsberg Castle to Carl von Kronegg der Meierhof after 1578 after an arsonist had burned it down in revenge. Tax debts and constant quarrels with Sonnabenter , the pastor of Graz at the time, because Carl von Cronegg was considered a militant Protestant, shaped this time of the Croneggers, as did the acquisition of half of the rule in 1596 and 1603 as well as the forced departure of his sons for religious reasons Country. Vasoldsberg sold his sons to Hans Albrecht Freiherrn von Herberstein in 1628 .

Himmelau Castle is a property west of St. Michael im Lavanttal (locality) in the Austrian municipality of Wolfsberg (Carinthia) and has been a monastery of the Discalced Carmelites since 1902 . Hans Siegmund von Himmelberg was the former owner of Himmelau. He died around 1580 and his son Georg Christoph von Himmelberg sold the property to Hans Christoph von Kronegg . Since his grandson of the same name Hans Christoph [the younger] fought as a militant Protestant in the Swedish army against Habsburg in a battle near Rheinfelden and was killed, the Croneggers sold the rule and the castle to Georg in 1629, despite major modifications to the castle in the 16th century Adam Weiß from Schmelzhofen .

Johann Friedrich Freiherr von Seenuß sold Glannegg Castle, today the Glanegg Castle ruins , which is located in Austria in the Glan Valley (Carinthia) in the municipality of Glanegg , in 1621 to Count Wilhelm von Kronegg . His relative Georg Andreas Graf Kronegg had to sell the rule to Johann Weber von Ehrenthal in 1638 , who was also the owner of Ehrental Castle in Austria.

Ennobling and dynastic marriages

The aristocratic family called von Cronegg (Kronegg), together with the sons of Christof Cronegger, were initially raised to the baron status (barons from and to Cronegg) on ​​August 27, 1602 in Graz by Emperor Ferdinand II their sons Hans Wilhelm, Christof, Ferdinand, Jonas, Georg, Andreas and Albrecht, afterwards Hans Christof and Moritz the ennoblement in the countial rank to these and their descendants (hereditary title).

The former noble family of the von Cronegg formed a bond through dynastic marriages. a. with the following other noble families: Sontheim , Dietrichstein, Steinpeiss and Zinzendorf .

coat of arms

Blasonierung : The gemehrte crest of Freiherren of Cronegg according Tyroff (1831-1868) showing the escutcheon geviertet , the heart shield and fields 1 and 4 in the gold ausgebr. gold-crowned black eagles on threefold green hill , fields 2 and 3, in red a white, inward-looking ibex , growing; on the shield 3 crowned helmets , on 1 the crowned black eagle, 2 a golden crown on a green hill, surmounted by a small crown, 3 the white capricorn between two buffalo horns , the right one above red, below gold, the left above silver, below red; the helmet covers are gold and black on the right, silver and red on the left.

An epitaph with the coat of arms of Constantin Damian Friedrich Freiherr von Cronegg, Canon († 1765), is on the cloister in the collegiate church of St. Peter and Alexander in Aschaffenburg . This is followed by the blazon of the barons coat of arms described above, but without the heart shield and the crowned helmet in the middle. The alliance coat of arms ( stone relief ) of Anna geb. Croneggerin to Himmelau etc. (* 1593, † 1613) and Alexander Frey Berger at Renaissance portal on the south wall of the castle Reid plane in Reid Level 1, community Wolfsberg , District Wolfsberg , Carinthia, Austria, follows the crest of Constantin Damian Friedrich Freiherr von Cronegg. An alliance coat of arms (stone relief) of those of Kronegg and Zinzendorff, above the portal of Moosburg Castle in Austria, follows the barons coat of arms or the count's coat of arms with ibex and eagle, and also shows a crown in the heart shield of the coat of arms of the Counts of Cronegg.

Blazon: The increased coat of arms of the Counts of Cronegg after Siebmacher shows the coat of arms quartered, fields 1 and 4 in gold of the bred. gold-crowned black eagles on triple green hill 2 and 3, in red a white, inward-looking ibex, growing; 3 crowned helmets on the shield, 1 the crowned black eagle, 2 a gold crown on a green hill, surmounted by three peacock feathers, 3 the white ibex between two buffalo horns, the right one red above, gold below, the left one silver above, red below ; the helmet covers are gold and black on the right, silver and red on the left.

literature

  • Johann Evang. Kirnbauer von Erzstätt : The Lower Austrian rural nobility. Panels, A – R. In: J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms . Volume 4. Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1909, plate 31.
  • Johann Evang. Kirnbauer von Erzstätt: The Lower Austrian rural nobility. Text, A – R. In: J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms . Volume 4. Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1909, 59–60.
  • Johann Baptist Witting : The Lower Austrian rural nobility. Text, S – Z. In: J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms . Volume 4. Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1918, pp. 220-223.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Karl Wißgrill : Scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the gentry and knighthood , Volume 2, Vienna 1795, pp. 171–173.
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  14. ↑ Johann Baptist Witting: The Lower Austrian rural nobility. Text, SZ . In: J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms . tape 4 . Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1908, p. 220-223 .