Parents (noble family)

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Commemorative plaque with the coat of arms of those von Elterlein in knight green
Carl Heinrich von Elterlein (1747–1815), gavel and court lord of Pfeilhammer , Thalheim , Breitenhof and Erdmannsdorf
Coat of arms of Carl Heinrich von Elterlein above the portal of the Pfeilhammer manor

The von Elterlein family made a contribution to economic life in the Ore Mountains for centuries .

Progenitor

Johann ("Hans") von Elterlein was one of the most influential men in the Ore Mountains as a hammer lord in Elterlein , governor, governor, miner administrator and judge from St. Annaberg . On May 24, 1514 he received a civil coat of arms from the Count Wolfgang Steinberger . It was not until October 28, 1766 that Hanß Heinrich von Elterlein, consistorial councilor of the Meissen Monastery , was raised to the imperial nobility as the first family member . On April 24, 1783, the second (the Pöhlaer and Mittelschmiedeberger) and the third main line (the Rittersgrüner) were ennobled. The first main line (the Mildenauer, later in Niederlausitz) was one of the Prussian nobility without a diploma.

There is evidence that two children of Johann von Elterlein are known. Heinrich von Elterlein (1485–1539) was a mountain and hammer lord in Elterlein and tithe in Annaberg and Marienberg and married Ottilia Arnolt from Chemnitz . Katharina von Elterlein was the first to marry Paul Weiss, Handwerke in Annaberg, and after his death around 1516 Utz von Sulgau, councilor and city governor in Annaberg.

The coat of arms

The coat of arms awarded to Johann von Elterlein on May 24th 1514 led the bourgeois part of the family as well as the first main line, which did not receive a nobility diploma , but is still counted among the Prussian nobility. The members of the II and III who were raised to the imperial nobility in 1766 and 1783 The main line and their descendants lead a coat of arms that was newly awarded with the ennoblement.

Wappen (1514), version of the German Wappenrolle, Volume 19. Blazon: In a blue-gold split shield above a red-armored, gold-crowned looking lion, with its paws holding a gold-handled silver sword at an angle to the left; below a blue armor below. The lion of the upper half of the shield grows on the helmet with blue and gold covers.

Coat of arms (1766, 1783). Blazon: In a shield divided into blue and gold, a red-tongued, gold-crowned lion in confused colors holding a silver sword in its paws. On the helmet with the helmet crown and blue-gold blankets, the lion with the sword between the open flight, divided across the corner by blue and gold.

The work of those from Elterlein

One of the most important members of the Elterlein family was Heinrich's daughter Barbara Uthmann , who, as the widow of a businessman, achieved entrepreneurial success and a high reputation and became one of the most important personalities in the Ore Mountains.

From the 16th century onwards, the von Elterlein family made a name for themselves primarily through the operation of several hammer mills and reached their greatest economic boom in the 18th century. The Stammhammer Obermittweida is also called Hammer Löwenthal after the von Elterlein coat of arms . From here the family spread over the Erzgebirge and Fichtelgebirge . They united z. B. the two important Pöhla hammer works Siegelhof and Pfeilhammer as well as in Rittersgrün the Arnoldshammer with the Rothenhammer. In addition, the hammer works in Breitenhof , Neidhardtsthal and Wittigsthal as well as the wire and Zainhammer in Mittweida were temporarily owned by the family.

Another important sphere of activity for the von Elterlein family was the Preßnitz valley , where they owned hammer mills in Mittel- and Oberschmiedeberg as well as Schmalzgrube . Joachim Gustav Ferdinand von Elterlein was one of the last Elterlein owners of the hammers and still has descendants in the US state of Texas .

Other possessions were z. B. the hereditary court in Mildenau and Großpöhla as well as the manors Ober- and Unterdrebach , Erdmannsdorf and the Schützenhof in Geyer . The von Elterlein family owned hereditary burials in the churches of Grünstädtel (where Pöhla was parish) and Rittersgrün (where a plaque commemorates the family to this day).

After industrialization had reached the Ore Mountains, the centuries-old family tradition of iron and metal processing came to an end. In 1846, Carl Ludwig von Elterlein sold the last arrow hammer mill still owned by the family to third parties. The descendants turned to the merchant class, became civil servants and officers or left their German homeland.

Personalities

literature

  • Adolph Julius Haubold v. Elterlein: The exit of the von Elterlein family in the Ore Mountains . In: Communications from the Association for the History of Annaberg and the Surrounding Area, XI. Yearbook 1908–1910
  • Karl-Heinz Linkert: The work of the Erzgebirge hammer family "von Elterlein" between the 16th and 19th centuries in the valleys of the Western Ore Mountains , Rittersgrün 2006, ISBN 3-937190-11-2
  • Wolfgang Lorenz : The family of Friedrich Röhling and Juliane von Elterlein and their ancestors . Annaberg-Buchholz 1998
  • Bernd Schreiter : The von Elterlein family, ancestral list of an Erzgebirge hammer family . Issue series Weisbachiana, Issue 8, Verlag Bernd Schreiter, Arnsfeld 2005
  • Heinrich Harms zum Spreckel : Kurtzer genealogical-historical draft, together with the pedigree and pedigree of the old armed line of those Von Elterlein, handed over by M. Wilhelm Steinbach in 1720 . In: Mitteilungen des Rolands, 5 (1920), pp. 25–32, 39–41