Falkenberg (Hessian noble family)
From the middle of the 13th century, the family of the Lords of Falkenberg appeared almost simultaneously in Central Hesse and in Ostfalen , today's North Hessian-Westphalian-Lower Saxony border area.
history
The Lords of Falkenberg first appeared in a document from 1250 and built the two Falkenberg castles at the same time, one near Wabern , the other above Zierenberg . The long-running disputes over the Falkenberg castles near Zierenberg and the neighboring Schartenberg castle probably prompted the Lords of Falkenberg to switch to the Herstelle castle on the Weser. Julius Graf von Oeynhausen has proven that the tribe from Falkenberg to Manufacture are the same as those from Falkenberg near Wabern.
The assumption that has been made again and again since Landau that the two Falkenberg lines are not blood related goes back to the fact that the lords of the Malsburg took over the Falkenberg castle near Zierenberg and called themselves von Falkenberg for a generation, but with their own coat of arms continued to run and Malsburgers stayed.
The coat of arms of those of Falkenberg-Wabern and Falkenberg-Zierenberg or of Herstelle and Blankenau is a striking key coat of arms that corresponds to that of the noble lords of Rosdorf . The agnatic connection between the two sexes is documented by two documents from 1521 and 1524. After the Falkenberg-Wabern family line of Hebel had died out in 1521, the Landgrave of Hesse enfeoffed Ludwig von Rosdorf with their fief. The other half of the fief was owned by the von Falkenberg family until 1524, who sold their part. Ludwig von Rosdorf and Tyle von Falkenberg had the same coat of arms with the two keys.
This document corresponds to another in the Westphalian document book in the Münster State Archives from 1294 about the sale of Moringen to the noble lords of Rosdorf. This relates to events between approx. 1250 to 1294 around the sale of the shares of the Lords of Rosdorf to Burg and Grafschaft Schartenberg to the diocese of Paderborn, which took place around 1269 . In addition, Bishop Otto confirms in the said document that Ludwig von Rosdorf initiated the castle manufacture for the diocese. This means that from around 1270 the Lords of Rosdorf had a lien over the manufacture. If the Lords of Falkenberg - who did not have the coat of arms of their parent company in Rosdorf by chance - move into the Herstelle Castle at the same time, it cannot be a coincidence. In this respect, the cited document not only proves that the von Falkenbergs were based at the Falkenberg Castle near Zierenberg, but also moved from there to Herstelle, clearing the way for the von Malsburgs to take over their castle. Although Ludwig von Rosdorf sold his share in Schartenberg Castle, von Rosdorf remained involved in and around the castle, as the acquisition of Falkenberg's outer bailey, the so-called Burg David, by Friedrich von Rosdorf and Hildebrand von Hardenberg around 1300 from the Archdiocese of Mainz shows . The tribe-related lords of Hardenberg also carried the common Rosdorf key coat of arms at this time.
The sideline from Falkenberg to Herstelle established several branches that settled in Silesia, Prussia and Scandinavia. Dietrich von Falkenberg came from Herstelle , who organized the defense of the city as a Swedish officer in the Thirty Years' War during the siege of Magdeburg in May 1631 and fell under Tilly and Pappenheim when it was stormed by imperial troops . His cousin Moritz von Falkenberg, fighting as a cuirassier officer on the imperial side, shot the Swedish King Gustav Adolf from close range in the battle of Lützen in 1634 , immediately before he was shot himself.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows two upright black keys in silver with the beard facing outwards. On the helmet with the black and silver covers an open flight marked with the keys .
Coat of arms (Paderbornsch knight's hall)
Epitaph of Raveno von Falkenberg (Paderborn Cathedral)
Coat of arms of the related lords of Rosdorf
literature
- Archive for the history and antiquity of Westphalia. Volume 7 Note Paul Wiegand on Burkhard von Falkenberg
- Westphalian archive. Volume 5, 1838 - Comments on Herstelle Castle and the Falkenberg-Burg family
- Landau: Hess. Knight castles. Volume 3, 1836, Falkenberg-Burg Castle
- Julius Graf von Oeynhausen: The von Falkenberg zu Herstelle and Blankenau in quarterly for coat of arms, seal and family history. 1876
- Karl Wittich : Dietrich von Falkenberg. 1892
- Westphalian magazine. Volume 112/13, 1962
- DC by Rommel: History of Hesse. Volume 4, part 1
Web links
- The gentlemen von Falkenberg on herren-von-rosdorf.weebly.com