Eichendorff (noble family)
Eichendorff is the name of an old noble family from the Archdiocese of Magdeburg .
history
The family first appears in a document in 1237 with Conradus de Eikendorp . It had its headquarters in Eickendorf near Calbe in the ore monastery of Magdeburg . It was located there until the middle of the 15th century.
Already in the 14th century a branch came to the Mark Brandenburg and in the course of time acquired rich property in Barnim , Lebus and Zerbow . While it died out again in Magdeburg in the 16th century and in Brandenburg in the 17th century, the lineage continued to flourish in Silesia and Moravia .
In Silesia, Deutsch Krawarn near Opava came into the possession of the family from 1634 to 1782, and Deutsch Krawarn Castle became the ancestral seat for many years. Johann Rudolf Freiherr von Eichendorff had the baroque building that still exists today erected between 1721 and 1728. After 155 years, Adolph Freiherr von Eichendorff sold the property Deutsch Krawarn in 1782 to the Oberhofmarschall Anton Graf Schaffgotsch; In 1783 he acquired the Radoschau estate from Major Karl Wenzel von Kloch, who became his father-in-law in 1784, and the Lubowitz estate from his mother-in-law in 1785 for 41,000 thalers , which she had bought in 1765 in a "devastated state". On Castle Lubowitz 1788 his son was Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff was born (1788-1857), the romantic poet lawyer , writer, Government and most important member of the family. All other barons of Eichendorff descended from him.
In 1655 Hartwig Erdmann von Eichendorff acquired the Sedlnitz estate in Moravia after his family had settled in Moravia during the Thirty Years War . Sedlnitz remained in the possession of the Eichendorff until the 19th century, the poet Joseph was a co-owner. In 1657, members of the family were accepted into the old Moravian knighthood and in 1679 they were elevated to the status of baron .
The male line died out in the male line with Rudolf Hartwig von Eichendorff on January 4, 1964, in the female line with Elisabeth von Eichendorff on September 13, 1976. Georg Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche and Camminetz (* 1940), confirmed by a resolution of the German Nobility Committee , and his family use the form of the name Freiherr von Eichendorff Graf Strachwitz von Groß-Zauche and Camminetz . He is the youngest son of Count Oskar Strachwitz (1889–1951) and Elisabeth Freiin von Eichendorff (1896–1976), great-granddaughter of the poet Joseph von Eichendorff , whose childless brother Rudolf Hartwig von Eichendorff adopted him to take the name Eichendorff in the family receive. His grandfather was Hartwig von Eichendorff (1860-1944).
coat of arms
The talking coat of arms shows a diagonal golden oak branch in red , with two golden oak leaves and a golden acorn above and below. On the helmet a closed red flight with the shield figure on the wing. The helmet cover is red and gold.
There are also depictions with a crowned helmet and without a flight and a branch leaning to the right, as shown in the shield (with two acorns above and one below, without leaves).
Name bearer
- Aloysia von Eichendorff (1792–1855), wife of Joseph von Eichendorff
- Hartwig Erdmann von Eichendorff (~ 1625–1683), governor, imperial and royal councilor in Upper Silesia
- Hartwig von Eichendorff (1860–1944), Prussian lieutenant general, grandson of Joseph von Eichendorff
- Hermann von Eichendorff (1815–1900), lawyer, biographer, editor and Prussian government councilor
- Johanna von Eichendorff (1726–1798), paternal grandmother of the poets Wilhelm and Joseph von Eichendorff
- Joseph von Eichendorff (1788–1857), German poet and author, an important representative of German late romanticism
- Karl von Eichendorff (1863–1934), Prussian lieutenant colonel, grandson of Joseph von Eichendorff
- Luise von Eichendorff (1804–1883), sister of the poet lawyers Joseph and Wilhelm von Eichendorff
- Wilhelm von Eichendorff (1786–1849), German poet and lawyer as well as Austrian ( kk ) civil servant
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Archives Magdeburg, Halberst. Domin. 53, in the document book of the city of Halberstadt 7 a 35
- ↑ Joseph Carl Benedikt Freiherr von Eichendorff ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
literature
- Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1926 . Book u. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1926.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon . Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1975, ISSN 0435-2408
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 3, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1861, pages 56–57. ( Digitized version )
- Augustin Weltzel : History of the noble and baronial family of Eichendorff . Self-published, Ratibor 1876; New edition 2010, ISBN 978-1-162-51873-2 .
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 2, Reichenbach Brothers, Leipzig 1836, pages 113-114. ( Digitized version )
- Editor: Eichendorff, Barons von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 369 ( digitized version ).
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1858. Eighth year, p.141f