Erdmannsdorff (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Erdmannsdorff in Saxony
Coat of arms of those of Erdmannsdorff in Prussia and Brandenburg (colors of the flight swapped)

Erdmannsdorff , also Erdmannsdorf , is the name of an old Saxon noble family . The family, some of whose branches still exist today, belong to the nobility of the Margraviate of Meißen and later also acquired property and reputation in Brandenburg and Upper Lusatia . Due to a morganatic marriage , one line carries the title Graf or Countess von Reina.

history

origin

The family with Wernherus de Ertmarisdorf was first mentioned in a document on March 30, 1206. Erdmannsdorf , the eponymous parent company, is today a district of the city of Augustusburg in the district of Central Saxony in the Ore Mountains . The village with its manor appears for the first time in a document in 1206 in connection with Wernherus de Ertmarisdorf. The manor was owned by Erdmannsdorff until the end of the 15th century.

Wernherus probably also built Nidberg Castle near Zöblitz . The family can also be traced nearby in Forchheim in 1299 and in Niederlauterstein at Lauterstein Castle in 1304 . At the turn of the 13th to the 14th century, the Lords of Erdmannsdorf also owned the Zschopau Castle, which was converted into today 's Wildeck Castle around 1545 .

The uninterrupted line of the family did not begin until 1480 with Asmus von Erdmannsdorff on Städteln and Gaschwitz (today both districts of Markkleeberg ).

Spread and personalities

Johann von Erdmannsdorff is mentioned as a witness in a document from the Dobrilugk monastery in 1272 . Menelius von Erdmannsdorff took part in the Landtag of Grimma in 1451 . He had fought valiantly against the Hussites and was knighted .

Hans Ernst Dietrich Erdmannsdorff on Bohlen, Ebersdorf, Steinbach, (1655 *) Kössern and Neukirchen, a descendant of ancestor Asmus in the 5th generation and son of Hans Dietrich von Erdmannsdorff and his wife Margaretha Catherine of Lohma out of the house Köckritz was royal Polish and electoral Saxon house marshal and chamberlain . He married Wilhelmine Katherine von Cornberg (1662-1722) and died in Dresden in 1720 . Of his sons, the younger Ernst Ferdinand von Erdmannsdorff (1690–1746) was the father of the important architect and architectural theorist Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff (1736–1800) during the Enlightenment. Johann Friedrich von Erdmannsdorff (1688–1763), the eldest son and heir of Hans Ernst Dietrich, in Rennersdorf, Elbersdorf , Strauch , Hirschfeld, Neukirchen and Steinbach, was a royal Polish and electoral Saxon court hunter and privy councilor . His son Karl Friedrich emerged from his marriage to Anna Sophie Countess von Hoym (1708–1769) in 1727 .

Friedrich Wilhelm von Erdmannsdorff (1736–1800)
Heinrich Ludwig von Erdmannsdorf (1776-1853)

Karl Friedrich von Erdmannsdorff (1739–1777) auf Strauch and Zschorna died as chamberlain from Electoral Saxony. He was married twice, his first marriage from 1765 to Charlotte Sophie von der Sahla (1740–1768) and his second marriage from 1769 to Erdmuthe Magdalena von der Sahla (1750–1836). The first marriage was childless, the second had four sons and a daughter. Erdmuthe Marianne von Erdmannsdorff (1775–1832), the only daughter, married Count Christian Reinhard von Wallwitz in Schweikershain and Gepülzig in 1798 , who died in 1835 as a royal Saxon chamberlain and secret finance advisor.

The eldest son Friedrich August von Erdmannsdorff (* 1772) became the royal Prussian district president of Liegnitz in Silesia . He married Louise Edle von Rappard (1781–1841), Lady of the Order of Louis , and left behind three daughters and a son. The son Gustav Adolf von Erdmannsdorff (1807-1880) died as a Prussian major . He last served in the 26th Infantry Regiment . His marriage to Emma von Reichenbach in 1837 resulted in two sons and seven daughters. His grandson Jacob von Erdmannsdorff (* 1879), the son of Gustav Adolf Maximilian and his wife Susanne Christmann, received a Prussian nobility legitimation from Wilhelm II , King of Prussia and German Emperor, on July 24, 1889 on board the yacht Hohenzollern .

Alexander Ferdinand (1774–1845), on Hohenahlsdorf near Jüterbog , the third son of Karl Friedrich, became royal Saxon forest and game master. His son Julius Bernhard Richard von Erdmannsdorff in Deutsch-Paulsdorf , Weißig and Zahmen in Upper Lusatia , was a royal Prussian chamberlain and district deputy for the district of Görlitz . His marriage to Therese Countess von der Schulenburg (1806–1876), entered into in 1830, remained childless. Julius Bernhard Richard's sister Therese Emma von Erdmannsdorff (1807–1848) married Prince Georg von Anhalt-Dessau in 1831 in a morganatic marriage . On the day of their wedding (October 4, 1831), Duke Leopold von Anhalt-Dessau raised her to the rank of count and was the ancestral mother of the later counts and countesses of Reina (see below).

Heinrich Ludwig von Erdmannsdorf (1776-1853), the fourth son of Karl Friedrich, became a royal Saxon chamberlain , chief forestry and game master. As the elected manor owner of the Meißnische Kreis , he belonged to the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament from 1833 to 1840 . Heinrich Ludwig married Helene Auguste von Houwald (1784–1836) with whom he had eleven children in 1802 . In 1849 he had to sell his manor Zschorna . Daughter Cora von Erdmannsdorff (1806–1881) was the founder of the Magdalenasyls "Talitha kumi" . The son Heinrich Otto von Erdmannsdorf took over Schönfeld Castle . Heinrich Otto (1815–1888), as royal Saxon chamberlain, was appointed for life by King Friedrich August II of Saxony in 1845 as a deputy in the first chamber of the Saxon state parliament. At the beginning of 1882 he sold Schönfeld Palace to Maximilian Dathe von Burgk . He and his wife Emma von Nostitz-Wallwitz , they married in 1840, finally settled in Dresden. The couple had five children. Heinrich Gustav von Erdmannsdorff (* 1852), the eldest son, married Gertrud von Schönberg in 1887 . He was the royal Saxon governor and Rittmeister in the 2nd Uhlan Regiment No. 18 . On August 10, 1904, he received an entry in the royal Saxon nobility register under the number 143. His son Gottfried von Erdmannsdorff (* 1893) was executed in 1946 as a major general in Soviet captivity. Hans Heinrich von Erdmannsdorff (* 1858), the second eldest son of Heinrich Otto and brother of Heinrich Gustav, received an entry in the royal Saxon register of nobility under number 144 on August 10, 1904. His son Otto von Erdmannsdorff (1888–1978), from his marriage to Johanna Charlotte Emma von Schönberg, became a civil servant in the Foreign Office .

Possessions

The headquarters in Erdmannsdorf in the Ore Mountains was owned by the family until 1484. In 1360 the von Erdmannsdorff also appear as owning to Dorfchemnitz , Friedebach and Voigtsdorf in Saxony. They were wealthy in Städteln from 1450, in Stolpen from 1482, in Güldengossa from 1473, in Gaschwitz from 1490, in Lobenz from 1435, in Großdeuben from 1600 and in Kösser and Böhlen near Leipzig in 1655. During the 18th century Elbersdorf (1720), Steinbach (1723), Neukirchen (1746), Strauch , Kirschfeld bei Meißen and Rennersdorf (all from 1763) were owned or partially owned by the family. In the middle of the 19th century, members of the family were wealthy in the Kingdom of Saxony at Schönfeld bei Hayn , Linz with Ponickau, Zschorna and Cunsdorf bei Reichenbach .

In the Kingdom of Prussia, Erdmannsdorff in Upper Lusatia were entitled to Reichwalde , Jahmen and Weissig in 1832 , Boxberg in 1847 and Paulsdorff in 1855. In 1810 Hohenahlsdorf near Jüterbog was owned by the von Erdmannsdorff family in the province of Brandenburg .

Count and Countess von Reina

Therese Emma von Erdmannsdorff (1807–1848), the daughter of Alexander Ferdinand von Erdmannsdorff, married Prince Georg von Anhalt-Dessau (1796–1865) in Dresden on October 4, 1831 in a morganatic marriage . Therese Emma was made Countess von Reina on the wedding day. They had seven children, three sons and four daughters, who carried the title Countess or Count of Reina.

Countess Helene von Reina (1835–1860), the couple's second eldest daughter, married Prince Friedrich Günther von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt (1793–1867) in a morganatic marriage in 1855 . Before the wedding, Helene was adopted by Wilhelm von Anhalt-Dessau , her father's brother , and thus carried the title Princess of Anhalt . Her son Sizzo von Schwarzburg Prince von Leutenberg, from 1896 Prince of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, from 1910 Prince zu Schwarzburg (1860–1926), was determined to succeed the last ruling Prince Günther Victor von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt . Due to the November Revolution that broke out in 1918 , he could no longer act as regent of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The coat of arms is split in gold and red. On the helmet with red and gold helmet covers an open flight , red on the right and golden on the left .

Coat of arms history

In Johann Siebmacher's book of arms. Plate 159 (1605) the shield is divided lengthways, golden on the right, red on the left, without a picture. On the helmet is an open eagle flight, the right wing of which is red, the left is golden. According to Valentin König Genealogical Nobility Calendar. Volume 2, p 371 (1729) is divided the arms of the Erdmannsdorff of red and gold, the golden right wing and the left red tinged . The helmet covers are raised with gold on the right, red on the left and recessed with other colors. Ledebur Noble Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Volume 1, p. 206 (1856) takes on the blazon from Siebmacher, as does Kneschke The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Volume 1, p. 143 (1855).

The New Prussian Adelslexicon Volume V, p. 149, (1839) by Zedlitz-Neukirch divides the shield lengthwise from black and red and colors the right wing red and the left black. Imprints of seals from the family partly confirm the information provided by König, Siebmacher and Zedlitz-Neukirch. In the register of arms of the royal, grand-ducal and ducal Saxon states . (1848) by Tyroff the left wing is incorrectly tinged in silver.

Known family members

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 3, pp. 136-137.
  2. ^ Original in the main state archive in Dresden
  3. ↑ a b c d Yearbook of the German Nobility . Volume 1, pp. 590-597.
  4. ↑ Historical place directory of Saxony
  5. ↑ M. Kobuch: The Lauterstein castle ruins. In: Sächsische Gebirgsheimat. Calendar 1978, sheet September 25, 1978.
  6. ↑ a b c d Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, p. 164.
  7. ↑ a b Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy. Volume 1, p. 206.
  8. ↑ a b The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Volume 1, pp. 123-124.