Ebersberg called by Weyhers
Ebersberg called von Weyhers is the name of an old Franconian ( Buchonian ) noble family with the Ebersburg parent company on the Ebersberg of the same name in the Rhön, which has been destroyed several times . It belonged to the knight canton of Rhön-Werra .
history
No evidence has yet been found of the first traditions that Karl von Ebersberg is said to have fought against the Sorbs and Wends under Ludwig the Pious . However, its own history can only be traced back to the 11th century. As one of the oldest lines in the Buchonian Rhön they were closely related to the von Eberstein , the von Schneeberg and the von Steinau called Steinrück . The knightly dynasty owned an astonishingly large amount of land.
After they were defeated with other knight families in the power struggle with the Fulda monastery , the Ebersburg was after the fatal assassination attempt on Abbot Bertho II of Leibolz by Abbot Bertho III. Destroyed by Mackenzell in 1271 and was only allowed to be rebuilt more than 100 years later. From the first decades after 1300 the suffix “von Weyhers” can also be found as the sole name, which is also due to the increasing branching of the family. However, they succeeded with the castle Weyhers , the castle Poppenhausen build and Ebersburg another power triangle. After the Ebersburg was allowed to be rebuilt in 1396, they left it in 1450 because of its lost strategic importance and moved to a more comfortable castle in Gersfeld .
The male line died out in the middle of the 18th century.
Family coat of arms
The northern and southern lines had different coats of arms. The northern Ebersberger also have the lily on their coat of arms, as shown in Siebmacher's book of arms . However, this is a misinterpretation, as the representation should almost certainly show a stylized partisan . The separation of the lines, which took themselves for branches of a trunk, must have been before the Crusades , since shield signs were only introduced at this time and the coat of arms with the boar head depicted differed greatly from the northern one. Research is made more difficult by the fact that the southern line went out early.
The coat of arms shows a long-stalked partisan , which was later reinterpreted as a lily. This speaks for the old age of the knight dynasty and a presumable arrival in the Rhön with the Carolingians .
Coat of arms elements in municipal coats of arms
Eichenzell municipal coat of arms
Personalities
- Hermann von Ebersberg († 1270), his execution was the trigger for the fatal assassination attempt on the Fulda abbot Bertho II. Von Leibolz
- Otto Heinrich von Ebersberg (1553–1621), regent of the Ebersberg lordship, founder of the Gersfeld Middle Castle
- Sybilla von Ebersberg (1578–1622), daughter of Otto Heinrich von Ebersberg
- Ernst Friedrich von Ebersberg (1687–1762), regent of the rule of Ebersberg
See also
Web links
- The sex of those von Ebersberg in the "Rhönlexikon"
- von Ebersberg called von Weyhers in the Wildenfels castle archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Fritz Luckhard : Regesten der Herren von Ebersberg called von Weyhers in der Rhön , Verlag Parzeller, Fuldaer Geschichtsverein, 1963, p. XIII (introduction)
- ↑ Benjamin Rudolph, Aninna Hilfenhaus: The continuity of the unstable: the ruin Ebersburg (Rhön) between ruin and restoration, in Fuldaer Geschichtsverein: Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter , year 82 (2006), Rindt-Druck, Fulda, p. 12
- ↑ The family of those von Ebersberg in the "Rhönlexikon"
- ^ Gersfeld (Rhön), Middle and Upper Castle