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The Ehenheim family was a Franconian noble family based in Enheim , formerly Ehenheim , near Martinsheim in the knightly canton of Odenwald .
origin
The eponymous village of Enheim was first mentioned in 1230 with its local nobility. The Ehenheim family spread from their lost ancestral seat as Hohenloher, later Würzburger and Ansbacher Dienstmannen far into Franconia (19 lines around 1350) and died out in 1645 in the male line. The place itself came from the Lords of Hohenlohe (1308) in 1448 to Brandenburg-Ansbach and was awarded to the von Ehenheim family by the margraves from 1474–1599, before it was administered from the Uffenheim office until 1806/1857 .
On the importance of the von Ehenheim family
The von Ehenheim family may have come from the service team of the noble free von Endsee , in the vicinity of which they initially appeared in 1231. The von Ehenheim family gained a certain importance as servants of the Lords of Hohenlohe, especially at their eponymous castle Hohlach near Uffenheim and at Burg Brauneck , and represented an important block, especially in the Uffenheim line. In the absence of a permanent court office , the von Ehenheim could They did not gain permanent employment with their first employers and were partly drawn into their bankruptcy. Even at the Hochstift Würzburg and the Counts of Castell only a few held important functions. Around 1400 the clan was one of the most important families in its core area, along with the Seckendorff and Seinsheim , so that the following motto has been recorded since around 1500:
"Seinshemii antiquissimi, Einhemii superbissimi,
Grumbachi mollissimi et Seckendorfii numeralissimi."
"The Seinsheimers are the oldest,
the Ehenheimers are the proudest,
the Grumbachers are the supple
and the Seckendorfer are the most numerous"
To the expansion of the von Ehenheim family
The von Ehenheim family first spread out in the area between the Maindreieck, Steigerwald and Frankenhöhe , as the first map shows by 1430. Within five generations, the number of men capable of feuding rose from three to 58. The von Ehenheim family flourished in 19 (!) Lines in the middle of the 14th century, making it the most branched aristocratic family in Franconia.
At that time the clan passed the first peak of its importance. In addition to economic crises, the feuds with the imperial city of Rothenburg and the defeat in the campaign in 1381 were probably a cause. Another reason for the emigration was the rivalry between the Bishopric of Würzburg and the Margraviate of Ansbach , which had increased since around 1438 , in whose combat zone the core area of the Ehenheimers was located. By 1470, two thirds of the lines died out, the majority of the rest moved away from the core area in various directions in Franconia . In the end, only the Ehenheim lines in Wallmersbach and Hohlach remained in the old center in Uffenheim Gau .
Due to the wide distribution, when the Frankish imperial knighthood was formed around 1500, the von Ehenheim family belonged to at least two areas: The important Geyern line (on the Ansbach part of Geyern Castle , in the condominium with the related Schenk von Geyern ) to Canton Altmühl and the Hohlach line to the canton Steigerwald .
In the middle of the 16th century, with the extinction of the lines Grumat zu Wallmersbach (1547), Willanzheim (1555), Steinfelder zu Feuchtwangen (1559) and Egerer zu Gleisenberg (1571), a significant decline began.
The rich legacy of the most important Geyern line was only able to gain a fraction of the last surviving evil line in Hohlach in 1599, as their representative Wolf Christoph von Ehenheim was still under guardianship. With the childless death of his son Anselm Christoph von Ehenheim in 1645 while serving in the war in Poland, the von Ehenheim family finally died out.
Line overview as of 2009
The family also became known through the “Family Chronicle” written around 1515/16 - a kind of family book that the Kiel historian Sven Rabeler has reworked and edited.
| line | Period |
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| Thin from Ehenhein | 1302-1408 |
| Egerer von Ehenheim | 1330-1571 |
| Line from Ehenheim | 1230-1404 |
| Line from Gattenhofen | 1271-1466 |
| Line from Geckenheim | 1309-1457 |
| Grumat von Ehenheim | 1283-1599 |
| Head of Ehenheim | 1310-1414 |
| Line from Holzhausen | 1255-1406 |
| Line from Klingenstein | 1325-1422 |
| Line from Meyenberg | 1304-1448 |
| Line from Ochsenfurt | 1285-1555 |
| Line from Pfahlenheim | 1320-1395 |
| Line from Reinsbronn | 1267-1442 |
| Line from Scheckenbach | 1231-1397 |
| Line from Steinsfeld | 1321-1559 |
| Evil of Ehenheim | 1318-1645 |
| Line from Wallmersbach | 1266-1389 |
| Weidner von Ehenheim from 1425 Weidner von Michelbach von Ehenheim later only Weidner von Michelbach |
1344-1433 |
| Wild from Ehenheim | 1326-1528 |
coat of arms
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Coat of arms of the community of Martinsheim
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Coat of arms of the district Enheim
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| The coat of arms of the Ehenheim family in Scheibler's book of arms | |
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Blazon : "The coat of arms of the Ehenheim family consists of a black shield with a horizontal, silver bar in the middle and the helmet ornament, which consists of a tubular structure from which a plume grows out." |
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ W. Stadelmann: A walk through the history of Enheims . Schwarzenbruck 1994, p. 5.
- ^ W. Stadelmann: Von Ehenheim zu Enheim (1230–2005) , documentation of the exhibition on the 775th anniversary of the village of Enheim and Adel von Ehenheim 2005.
- ^ Sven Rabeler: The family book of the knight Michel von Ehenheim (around 1462 / 63-1518) . Kieler Werkstücke E, Vol. 6, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-56847-7
- ↑ Document change of name Weidner von Ehenheim https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/K4HUE7U3P3OLAB52WYTE42S4MMEG6U2J & https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/7ZKDU7UT7UNZSKO7XWCMOAZ2FWJL