Eller (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Eller
Coat of arms of the barons of Eller-Eberstein

Eller is the name of an old Rhineland and Westphalian noble family that died out in the 19th century. The original name in medieval documents was mostly von Elner , von Ellner or Latinized de Elnere or von Elnere .

history

From the 12th to the 14th century, the noble von Eller family was one of the most powerful aristocratic families in the area between Cologne and Düsseldorf with extensive property holdings. All available written records from this period concern people who lived in this area. The family branched out as early as the 13th century, as namesake can be identified in both Cologne and Düsseldorf. Towards the end of the 15th century, the headquarters moved to Westphalia.

With Gumpertus de Elnere as subordinate of a court near Hitdorf and his mother Gerdrude , the first mention of this family can be found between 1151 and 1153. The local importance of the de Elnere in the county of Berg in the 13th century can be seen from the fact that they are mentioned as witnesses in some important documents of the Counts of Berg. For example, Adolphum de Elnere is one of the witnesses cited in the agreement of 1247 between Countess Irmengard and her son Adolf on the division of the country estates and castles in the county of Berg.

In 1273 the knights Diederich and Heinrich de Elnere were named as forest counts of the Bilker and Reisholzer districts . In 1276 the knight Diederich was one of the witnesses in the document for the town elevation of Ratingen. In 1288, Ludwig de Elnere followed as a witness in the document for the city elevation of Düsseldorf . At that time they were probably one of the largest landowners in what is now the city of Düsseldorf and were not yet vassals of the Counts of Berg, but of the Counts of "Katzenelnbogen". It was not until 1292 that the nobles of Eller became vassals of the Counts of Berg. According to a document, Count Adolf V. von Berg exchanged “ Henzo von Gerhardstein ” for “ Theodoric de Elnere ” from Count Eberhard I. von Katzenelnbogen at this time . The high position of the "Lords of Ellner" in the Düsseldorf area can be seen, for example, from an agreement between Count Wilhelm I and the knights Theodoric the Elder and Theodoric the Younger von Ellner . In this 1303 agreement, benefices were set for the dean of the collegiate monastery of St. Lambertus Church in Düsseldorf in a ratio of 1/3 from Haus Berg and 2/3 from Haus Eller. In 1320 Arnold von Eller confirmed that the Counts of Berg were your fiefs. It was not until 1424 that Heinrich von Eller declared Eller Castle an open house for the Counts of Berg.

Evidence for the activities of the von Eller family in the area of ​​Cologne is Theodorich von Eller as a seal witness in 1247 in a comparison between the city of Cologne and Count Adolf von Berg, Konrad von Eller in 1431/32 as mayor of Cologne and another Konrad in 1490 as city count from Cologne.

The Knight of the Order Rüdiger von Elner was Order Marshal between 1370 and 1383 , then Grand Commander of the Teutonic Order .

Ernst Heinrich Kneschke named Eller in Hadamar as his parent company, but this is not certain. Its first verifiable seat was Eller Castle in Eller near Düsseldorf . As lord of this castrum Elnere , knight Diederich von Elner is mentioned for the first time in a document dated May 9, 1309. Weakened by frequent inheritance divisions, his descendant Heinrich von Elner had to sell Eller Castle in 1448. After that the family lived in Oefte , Reuschenberg and Laubach . In the Rhineland, a comparison between Wilhelm and Agnes von Eller with the von Quad brothers from 1548 is the last written evidence.

The last male descendant died in 1819. The name is continued by today's Barons von Eller-Eberstein on House Patthorst near Steinhagen (Westphalia) .

The von Eller family in Wermelskirchen - Dabringhausen

1689, on October 23rd, Colonel-Lieutenant Baron von Eller was allowed to build a grinding mill on his inheritance and the meadow near the Plettenburg house and the water flowing through it, which flows into the water below it called the Lennepe so-called Koenenmühle . This family was connected to the von Drisch family on the Dhünnenburg . She had a burial place in the Catholic Church of Wermelskirchen.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a red heart shield in twelve fields of blue and gold . On the helmet with blue-gold covers and a bulge a blue eagle flight on the right and a golden flight on the left.

Relatives

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Anton Fahne : History of the Cologne, Jülich and Bergisch families , Volume 1, Cologne 1848, p. 91. = Noble von Eller
  2. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine , Volume IV, 2nd half, Düsseldorf 1858, p. 773 f, No. 623.
  3. ↑ Academic contributions to Gülisch and Bergischen history, Volume 3, 1781, in: Urkunde LXXV , p. [313] 94.
  4. ↑ Lacomblet, Theodor Joseph, in: Document book for the history of the Lower Rhine or the Archbishopric of Cologne, Certificate No. 927 , 1846, Volume 2, p. [588] 550. Digitized edition ULB Bonn
  5. ^ Carl HA Mindel, in: Guide to Düsseldorf according to his earlier and current circumstances , Stahl, 1417, p. [94] 86. Digitized edition of the ULB Düsseldorf
  6. ↑ a b Anton Fahne, in: History of the Cologne, Jülich and Bergische Geschichte , Volume 1, 1848, p. [112] 92. = Noble from Eller
  7. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 3, 1861, page 83.
  8. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 2, 1836, pp. 122-123.
  9. ^ Blazon of the Eller coat of arms and illustration in the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility

Remarks

  1. ↑ A. Fahne states 1430 for the year “Mayor of Cologne”. In the Lemma History of the City of Cologne, however, 1431/32 is cited.

literature

  • Karl Fix: Wrong gentlemen from Eller? in: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , Wuppertal: Martini & Grüttefien 1952
  • Kurt Niederau : On the history of the Bergisch nobility: The von Eller auf Reuschenberg, Öfte u. Laubach in: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , Neustadt ad Aisch: Schmidt 1961
  • Heinrich Rösen: On the genealogy of the gentlemen to Eller from the family of Elner in: Communications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV , Volume XX, Issue 5/6, Cologne 1962, pp. 182–194
  • in addition: Kurt Niederau: On the genealogy of Mr. zu Eller from the von Elner family. Comments and additions in: Communications of the West German Society for Family Studies eV , Volume XX, Issue 7/8, Cologne 1962, pp. 270–282
  • Hans Schubert : Eller House near Düsseldorf. History of a noble seat in the Lower Rhine region . Düsseldorf: August Bagel 1911 (mainly contains material and documents on the von Eller family)
  • O. Schell: Wolff Ernst v. Eller, General in the service of the Great Elector in: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein , Elberfeld: Hartmann 1911