Esebeck (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Esebeck

Esebeck is the name of an old noble family from Lower Saxony , which later also gained possession and reputation in Pfalz-Zweibrücken , Bavaria , Upper Austria and Prussia . The family originally belongs to the ancient nobility of Brunswick . There is no tribal relationship to the Soest patrician family Esbeck, which also has a different coat of arms (three silver rivers in red).

history

origin

Older genealogies put the beginnings of the family under the name Hasbeck, later Asbeck, back to the 10th century. King Heinrich I is said to have given the Esebecks their ancestral castle in recognition of their bravery during the battle of Merseburg .

According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the family first appeared in a document in 1188 with Ludolf von Esebeck . Ludolf was a ministerial officer to Duke Henry the Lion . In the certificate, Dietrich, Bishop of Halberstadt , gives the Ilsenburg monastery the bailiff over four Hufen land and three servants to Schwanebeck , which he previously bought from Ludolf. In another document, issued in the same year, Duke Heinrich approved the sale by Ludolf for 40 silver marks .

Esbeck , which gave the family its name, has been part of the town of Schöningen in Lower Saxony since 1974 . The place appears as early as 1012/1013 with the name Asbike. In the middle to the end of the 12th century Esbeck Castle was built as a moated castle, probably by the Lords of Esebeck, who are also believed to be the first owners. In 1260 Ludolf von Esebeck sold the family residence to Bishop Volrad von Halberstadt . The castle later became the property of the Brunswick dukes, who pledged it to various noble families. From 1454 it was owned by the von Hoym for almost 400 years .

Spread and personalities

At the end of the 13th century, Bertram de Esbeck appear as Commander of the Templar Order of Alemannia and Bohemia and Friedrich in 1297 as Commander of the Teutonic Order of Mewe . In the second half of the 16th century, Hans Asmus von Esebeck was lord of Groß Salza, Liebenau, Locherau and Jehmig. He married Anna Catharina von Wartensleben from the Brumby family. Their son Burkard von Esebeck commanded the knight horses in the Duchy of Magdeburg during the Thirty Years' War . Burkard married Rosina von Spitznase . The marriage had eight children. Son Hartwig Jordan von Esebeck fell as a captain during the Turkish wars in Hungary in 1698 .

Philipp Jordan von Esebeck († 1746), Lord of Liebenau and Locherau, was the chief stable master of Anhalt . He married Auguste Elisabeth von Einsiedel and had eleven children. From these came Johann Asmus von Esebeck (1711-1770), Lord of Ingweiler and on Grosse Salza, Liebenau and Locherau in princely Palatinate-Zweibrücken services and was elevated to the privilege of being a privy councilor and budget minister and, in 1740, a baron. In 1760, Count Palatine Christian IV gave him the Ingweilerhof and Ausbacherhof as inheritance. Ten years later the baron died on the Ingweilerhof and is buried there in the court chapel. The baronial family coat of arms can still be seen today above the entrance portal. Johann Asmus is the tribe of the baronial lines of the Esebeck family.

Of his sons from his marriage to Johanna Friederike von Göllnitz († 1771), Eberhard von Esebeck (1740-1817) was the royal French maréchal de camp . He married Catharina Girtanner von Luxburg . His brother Ludwig von Esebeck (1741–1798) was Minister of State, Oberjägermeister and Oberamtmann zu Trarbach ; Another brother Carl von Esebeck (1745-1810) was a Prussian general and head of a dragoon regiment, Lord of Siegelsdorf near Zörbig and married Wilhelmine Schönberg von Brenkenhoff.

Pfalz-Zweibrücker line

The Pfalz-Zweibrücker line came from Friedrich Ludwig Eberhard von Esebeck (1769-1852), son of the aforementioned Eberhard von Esebeck. He became a French lieutenant colonel and married Maria Anna Miss Atwell-Smith (* 1800) in 1818. The marriage resulted from Friedrich von Esebeck (* 1820), Bavarian Rittmeister . Friedrich married Therese von Fritsch (* 1830) and his sister Marie von Esebeck (* 1818) in 1849, the Bavarian State Procurator Max Loë.

Prussian line

Carl II von Esebeck, son of the aforementioned Carl von Esebeck, came from the Prussian line. Carl II became a Prussian lieutenant general and was the lord of Reichenwalde. His first marriage was Friedrike von Saucken († 1830) and his second marriage in 1832 was Therese von Stülpnagel . Both marriages had four daughters and seven sons. All of the sons served as officers in the Prussian army. Of the daughters, Natalie von Esebeck (* 1810) married Hermann Freiherr Hofer von Lobenstein , Prussian colonel and regimental commander in 1833 . Of the sons, Rudolph von Esebeck (* 1812) became a Prussian major and Hermann von Esebeck (1816–1876) became a Prussian captain of the Landwehr and master of Wangnick, Katlack and Buchholtz. The latter married Laura von Studnitz (1821–1897) in 1843 and left three sons.

Possessions

Goods in Braunschweig could be acquired during the 13th and 14th centuries. In the 13th century the family came to the ore monastery of Magdeburg and from the 14th century to the Principality of Anhalt . In Magdeburg, Groß Salze , today Bad Salzelmen - district of Schönebeck , was their main property with Jehmig for a long time (until 1714). The family had large salt works built there.

From 1740 to 1793 the Ingweilerhof was the center of the family estate. At the beginning of the 19th century it was possible to acquire significant real estate in the province of Prussia , but also possessions in Salzburg . In the middle of the 19th century, Mammling and Sunzing near Braunau am Inn were owned or partially owned by the family in Upper Austria , the Peistenschen estates consisting of 22 villages in East Prussia and Albrechtau and Ernstwalde in Lithuania , later also Reichenwalde near Storkow in the Mark Brandenburg .

Status surveys

After Kneschke, Hans Asmus von Esebeck, Lord of Ingweiler and Grossen-Salza, Liebenau and Locherau, princely Palatinate-Zweibrücker Privy Councilor and budget minister, received the imperial baron status with a diploma during the Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian Vicariate in 1740 . Accordingly, all later royal Bavarian barons of the family were confirmation diplomas.

The widow of the mayor of Zweibrücken and former prefect of Mainz Karl Freiherr von Esebeck, who died in 1831, was enrolled in the baron class of the aristocratic registers in the Kingdom of Bavaria together with her sons on January 7, 1834. They also received an entry in the royal Bavarian aristocratic registers of the baron class on February 17, 1838, the Bavarian Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich Freiherr von Esebeck, son of the French Colonel Friedrich Freiherr von Esebeck of the same name, and the Bavarian Second Lieutenant Heinrich Freiherr von Esebeck on November 27, 1874.

Karl von Esebeck (1786–1871), Prussian lieutenant general at disposition , received the Prussian baron status in primogenitur on October 18, 1861 in Königsberg . An unlimited expansion of the Prussian barons for his descendants took place on March 6, 1869 by the highest cabinet order .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three red roses in a shield divided by blue and gold . On the helmet with blue-gold helmet covers an open black (also gold and blue) flight .

Baron coat of arms

The Bavarian baronial coats of arms awarded in 1834, 1838 and 1874 show the coat of arms of the family coat of arms. On the helmet with blue-gold covers on the right and red-gold covers on the left, an open gold-blue flight. The motto is: Omnia cum deodorant.
The Prussian baronial coat of arms awarded in 1861 is identical to the family coat of arms.

Known family members

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels Lexicon Volume 3, Leipzig 1861, pages 158–161
  2. ↑ Original in the archive of Wernigerode or Eduard Jacobs : Document book of the Ilsenburg monastery in the county of Wernigerode. Nos. 32-33; Publishing house of the bookshop of the orphanage, Halle 1875
  3. ↑ www.braunschweig-touren.de
  4. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: Neues Allgemeine Deutsches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 3, Leipzig 1861, p. 159 erroneously names the town of Ingweiler in Alsace instead of the Ingweilerhof and erroneously gives the period as 1540 to 1793.
  5. ↑ a b c d Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, pp. 180–181.