Enzenberg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Imperial Counts of Enzenberg zum Freien- and Jöchelsthurn 1764

The Imperial Counts of Enzenberg zum Freien- and Jöchelsthurn are a Tyrolean noble family.

history

The Enzenberg are a Tyrolean aristocratic family, which was mistakenly taken for a branch of the old Swabian von Enzberg family .

Eberhard Enzenberg, first mentioned in a document in 1481, is considered the progenitor of the Tyrolean family. On July 9, 1495, he received confirmation of his old nobility from Maximilian I and rendered faithful service to them in the Swiss War of 1498, later settled in Klausen, and married Christina Gremsin v. Gremsen from the Puster Valley and, with imperial permission, adopted their coat of arms, a chamois in gold.

His grandson Georg bought the Freienthurn farm near Mühlbach (South Tyrol) in 1578 and was given the nobility by Archduke Ferdinand II in Innsbruck on December 16, 1578 under the name of Enzenberg zum Freyenthurm , with confirmation of the ancestral coat of arms and with the opening of the helmet.

The latter's two sons, Michael and Ananias, founded two special lines, the older and the younger, of which the latter soon expired, but the former continued to flourish.

Michael's son, Georg, was promoted to the imperial knighthood on December 27, 1628, with an increase in the coat of arms with the three silver tips in red and his son, Franz, received the imperial baronage on July 14, 1671 with permission to withdraw from To be able to name and write Enzenberg to the Freyen- and Jöchelsthurm , since his father, Georg, had also bought the Jöchelsthurm in addition to the family's property, the Freyenthurm farm. At this elevation to the baron status, a middle shield with the coat of arms of the Swabian Enzberge was added to the coat of arms. He had two sons, Christoph and Ferdinand.

Christoph's grandson, Cassian Ignaz Bonaventura (* July 14, 1709; † September 18, 1772), received the title of imperial count from Emperor Franz I on April 4, 1746. He married Countess Schack von Schackeburg on May 31, 1746 (* September 15, 1707, † December 7, 1788).

When the Mühlbach line of the Enzenberg died out, the heirs sold the Freienthurn residence in 1790. The Jöchelsthurn residence remained in the family's possession. Franz Josef von Enzenberg (1747–1821) was a godson of Maria Theresa , married one of her ladies-in-waiting and in 1781 became chief steward of her daughter Maria Anna and, after her death in 1789, president of the court of appeal. As a country estate, he built the Upper Castle Singen around 1810 on a property of his wife.

Through the marriage of Count Franz III. von Enzenberg with Countess Ottilia von Tannenberg came in 1847 numerous North and South Tyrolean properties to the family, which they still own today.

Georg Graf Enzenberg (* 1926; † 2016) adopted the sons of his sister Antonie Countess Goëss and bequeathed them Tratzberg Castle, the Manincor and Campan residences in Kaltern, Liebeneich, Gassegg, Jöchlsthurn, etc.

coat of arms

Coat of arms for Georg Enzenberg von Freienthurm 1578

1628: shield quartered with central shield. In the crowned blue center shield a gold ring with a ruby ​​on top: 1 and 4 in gold a chamois (Grenns v. Grensen) jumping up on three mountains inwards and 2 and 3 in red three upright, standing side by side, reaching to the edge of the field , silver tips. (Increased coat of arms from 1628). The coat of arms of the Swabian Enzenberg was included in the coat of arms when it was raised to the baron class in 1670.

1764: shield with central shield. In the crowned center shield in blue a gold ring set with a ruby ​​stone. 1 and 4 in gold a chamois of natural color jumping inwards on three blue mountains (Swabian Enzberge). 1 and 3 in red are three upright silver tips reaching to the edge of the shield. Four crowned helmets on the count's crown. From the right helmet rise two buffalo horns, of which the right is divided by gold and black, the left by gold and blue; from the second a left-facing chamois grows; the third wears a right-handing golden sparrowhawk, which holds the ring of the central shield in its beak (according to some on three blue mountains), and on the left helmet there is a red eagle wing, on which the three points of the 2nd and 3rd field are repeated. The covers of the right helmet are black and gold, those of the rest are red and silver, and the shield is held by two black, outward-looking, crowned eagles

Personalities from the family

Franz Josef Count von Enzenberg (monument in Klagenfurt )

Possessions

  • The Freienthurn mansion in Mühlbach (South Tyrol) was acquired by the Enzenberg in 1578 and remained in the family's possession until 1790. Today it houses the Catholic school Herz-Jesu-Institut (Mühlbach) .
  • The Jöchlsthurn residence in Sterzing emerged from a medieval town tower, was acquired by the Enzenbergs in 1600 and is still in their possession today.
  • The Tratzberg Castle in Stans in the Inn valley came 1847 by marriage to the Countess Ottilia of Tannenberg (whose family had acquired in 1731) with Franz Graf Enzenberg in the possession of the family. The couple had the rather neglected castle completely restored and the furnishings added to it by 1879. It has been owned by Count Ulrich Goëss -Enzenberg since 1992 .
  • The Campan residence in Kaltern came to the Counts of Tannenberg in 1698 and to the Enzenberg in 1847. It serves as a residence for the family.
  • The Manincor residence in Kaltern was built in 1608. Since 1978 it has belonged to Count Enzenberg. With 50 hectares of vineyards, it is currently the largest winery in South Tyrol and is managed by Count Michael Goëss-Enzenberg.
  • The Enzenberg Palace in Schwaz was built in 1515 by Veit Jakob Tänzel for the Counts of Tannenberg and in 1846 passed to the Counts of Enzenberg by inheritance. After the bombing in December 1944, it had to be partially rebuilt in 1966-68 and is still family-owned.
  • The Neuhaus castle ruins and the Liebeneich residence in Terlan have been owned by the Tannenberg and Enzenbergs since 1733 . Hugo Graf Enzenberg secured the Neuhauser Bergfried from ruin in 1883. Georg Graf Enzenberg had the entire complex restored from 1990–1996.
  • In Pill , the Plankenhof and the Tannauerhof are still owned by the Enzenberg family.
  • In 1910, Count Anton Enzenberg acquired Boymont Castle . The ruins above the village of Missian were sold in 1977.
  • From 1911 to 2016, Hocheppan Castle in South Tyrol , which is important for the history of Tyrol, was owned by the family, was preserved with a lot of effort and made a popular excursion destination. The castle and the chalk tower 50 meters below are now owned by the municipality.
  • The mining history collection of the Counts of Enzenberg is on loan to the State of South Tyrol in the Kornkasten in Steinhaus ( Ahrntal municipality ), as part of the South Tyrolean Mining Museum . Its original location, the Gassegg residence, was set up in 1690 as the administrative center of the Prettau copper mine for the trades (owners) from the Sternbach and Tannenberg families and is now used by the Graflich-Enzenberg forest administration.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : " New general German Adels-Lexicon ", 3rd volume, Friedrich Voigt'sche Buchhandlung, Eberhard - Graffen, Leipzig 1861, p. 126ff.
  2. ^ A b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "New general German Adels-Lexicon", Volume 1, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1860, p. 219 f.
  3. ↑ Johann Christian von Hellbach : "Adels-Lexikon or manual on historical, genealogical, etc ...", Volume 1, printed by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau 1825, p. 333f.
  4. ↑ Konrad Tyroff : "Wappenbuch des Gesammten Adels des Kingdoms Baiern", Volume 2, Verlag Conrad Tyroffsches Wappen-, also Kunst- und Kommissionsbureau, Nuremberg 1818 T. 91
  5. ↑ Neuhaus Castle

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