Dürckheim (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Dürckheim

The lords of Dürckheim later Eckbrecht von Dürckheim belong to the Palatinate - Alsatian nobility and went to Bavaria as Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin and Dürckheim-Montmartin at the end of the 18th century .

Family history

The family has its beginnings in the late 12th century and apparently derives its name from the town of Bad Dürkheim in the Upper Palatinate (previously only Dürkheim), whose coat of arms is almost identical to that of the noble family.

It appears for the first time in 1185 with Algotus de Turencheim in the entourage of Emperor Frederick I and documented in 1220 with Ulrich and Ludwig de Turencheim . In 1247 the brothers Stephan and Konrad von Dürckheim (or Dürkheim) appear in Bad Dürkheim , who gave the Schönfeld monastery a piece of land in the town to build a hospital. The knight Konrad mentioned here is possibly identical to the Mainz canon Konrad von Dürkheim , who became Bishop of Worms in the same year and died soon afterwards.

A continuous line of ancestors of the family is passed down from the 14th century. It appears especially in the Upper Rhine and Alsatian area, initially only called von Dürckheim or Durenkeim , since about 1400 Eckbrecht Alheim von Dürckheim or only Eckbrecht von Dürckheim . The Kistel von Dürkheim , with a similar coat of arms and appearing in the same environment, seem to have been a sideline.

Fröschweiler Castle in Alsace

Fröschweiler in Alsace belonged to the family since the 14th century as a fief of the bishopric of Strasbourg ; there she built a new castle in 1407, consisting of a hall with two towers. Cuno Eckbrecht von Dürckheim introduced the Reformation in Fröschweiler in 1552 . The castle remained the family seat until a new castle was built around 1850, which Albert von Dürckheim had Gabriel von Seidl expand in 1890 . As a result, it changed hands.

In 1420, the Heuchelheim family acquired by Frankenthal as an inheritance. In 1442, Chun Eckbrecht von Dürckheim received shares in the Alsatian castle Neuwindstein as a fief, as well as a castle fief in Hagenau and parts of the tithes from Bad Dürkheim and Duttweiler .

Reinhard von Zweibrücken-Bitsch gave castle and rule to Schöneck in 1517 as a fiefdom to the knight Wolf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim. In the loan deed, Schöneck was referred to as a "dilapidated castle". Archbishop Wilhelm von Hohnstein therefore made his new feudal man the requirement to thoroughly repair the dilapidated castle. Wolf Eckbrecht was not the only tenant in 1517, because that year he concluded a truce with his brother-in-law Friedrich Steinhäuser zu Neidenfels . The Eckbrecht von Dürkheim continued the expansion begun under the Zweibrücker Counts, although they only used the castle temporarily as a residence, because the family usually resided in Fröschweiler. In 1680 the castle was besieged and blown up by the French; during the French Revolution the ruins were confiscated and declared national property.

Cuno IV. Eckbrecht von Dürckheim († 1555) appears as councilor and burgrave of Alzey . His son Cuno VI. In 1596 sold the family farm and the Weinzehnten in Wachenheim an der Weinstrasse to the Electoral Palatinate . At the outer choir of the local church of St. George there is an ornate, Gothic coat of arms of the family to this day. Hans Wolf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim (* 1595), Cuno VI. Son, officiated as court master of Count Palatine Johann Casimir von Zweibrücken-Kleeburg .

His son Johann Heinrich (1636–1710) became a Hesse-Darmstadt general and commandant of Gießen . His brother, Colonel Wolf Friedrich Eckbrecht von Dürckheim († 1696) from the Electorate of the Palatinate, owned the Lords of Schöneck and Fröschweiler in Alsace and founded the family line that is still flourishing today. The local coat of arms of Fröschweiler also corresponds to the family coat of arms of the Dürckheimers.

His great-grandson Karl Ludwig Eckbrecht of Dürckheim (1733-1774) was in 1764 as Councilor of Emperor Francis I in the imperial counts collected and entered as a Privy Councilor , and ambassador to the imperial court in Vienna , in Wuerttemberg services. He married Luise Friederike von Montmartin, the only child of the Württemberg Prime Minister Count Friedrich Samuel von Montmartin (1712–1778). In order not to let his wife's family name become extinct, he adopted it as a name affix, which is why the noble family has been called Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin ever since . He also inherited from his father-in-law Thürnhofen Castle near Feuchtwangen , where the family settled and the grandson Ferdinand Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin (1812-1891) was born, who returned to the old estates in Alsace, where he worked as a high French official left notable memoirs. His great-nephew Alfred Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin (1850–1912) was in the rank of Bavarian infantry general and became famous as a wing adjutant and last confidante of King Ludwig II when he was arrested in 1886.

Major Friedrich Wilhelm von Dürckheim-Montmartin took over Hagenberg Castle in Upper Austria through marriage in 1867 , which remained in the family until 1936.

Dürckheim-Montmartin from Ketelhodt

Christian-Ulrich Freiherr von Ketelhodt , * 1944, son of the late Gerd Freiherr von Ketelhodt and his first wife Hildegard, b. Countess Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin, since 1963 adoptive son of the Major of the Reserve ret. D. Hartwig Count Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin, on Steckby in Anhalt ( expropriated in 1945 ), received on September 4, 1970 in Marburg an der Lahn by resolution of the committee for nobility law issues a nobility law non-objection as Count Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin Baron von Ketelhodt . Most of the time he is shortened to Christian Graf (von) Dürckheim (-Ketelhodt) .

Strauss-Eckbrecht-Dürckheim

The line of the barons Eckbrecht von Dürckheim has expired in the male line . Baron Franziska Luise Eckbrecht von Dürckheim, daughter of Baron Philipp Ludwig Eckbrecht von Dürckheim zu Fröschweiler, was married to Karl Friedrich von Strauss.

On July 26, 1820, Erasmus Maximilian von Strauss from Danish aristocracy, Grand Ducal Baden Rittmeister in the 2nd Dragoon Regiment, was raised to the Baden baron status and the names and coats of arms were unified with the expired Barons Eckbrecht von Dürckheim as Baron von Strauss-Eckbrecht-Dürckheim .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a black wall anchor in silver . On the helmet with black and silver covers an open flight on both sides with wall anchors .

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Original in the Ratsarchiv Colmar or in the Deps archive in Strasbourg, printed in the Rappoltsteiner Urkundenbuch, Vol. I, Nos. 43 and 60
  2. ^ Michael Frey : Attempt at a geographical-historical-statistical description of the royal Bavarian Rhine district Volume 2, p. 405, FC Neidhard, Speyer, 1836; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Website on the history of Heuchelheim
  4. ^ Regest for a renewal of fiefdom in 1545  in the German Digital Library
  5. ^ Regesten zur Familie, from the 15th century
  6. ^ Genealogical page on Hans Wolf Eckbrecht von Dürckheim
  7. ^ Genealogical page on Ludwig Karl Eckbrecht von Dürckheim
  8. ^ Entry on Thürnhofen Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  9. ^ Paul Wentzcke:  Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin, Ferdinand Graf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 285 ( digitized version ).
  10. ^ Biographical website on Alfred Eckbrecht von Dürckheim-Montmartin
  11. ↑ Neues Deutschland , organ of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, issue of June 16, 1978, column What else happened (accessed on July 27, 2014)
  12. ↑ GHdA , Adelslexikon Volume III, Limburg an der Lahn 1975, p. 42
  13. ↑ Die Zeit online on June 27, 2011: The big night in the auction house (accessed on July 27, 2014)
  14. ↑ Die Welt online on May 8, 2011: It doesn't get any better (accessed July 27, 2014)
  15. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine on May 26, 2014: Luxury hotel: Finninger speculate about investors ( memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.augsburger-allgemeine.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 27, 2014)
  16. ↑ Geneall: Pedigree Franziska Luise Eckbrecht von Dürkheim (accessed on July 27, 2014)
  17. ^ GHdA, Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Limburg an der Lahn 2003, p. 198 f.