Falkenhausen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Falkenhausen

Falkenhausen is the name of a noble family, a morganatic branch line of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach from the house of Hohenzollern . Seven branches still exist today.

history

The progenitor of Falkenhausen is Margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1712–1757). The ancestor, also known as the "wild margrave", with his great passion, the hunt with falcons, had, in addition to his official marriage to Princess Friederike Louise of Prussia , a sister of Frederick the Great , one that lasted for many years until his death Relationship with Elisabeth Wünsch (1710–1757), the daughter of a falconer. From this connection there were four children, three of whom survived childhood.

He gave his lover the little Georgental hunting lodge , which is in the middle of his favorite hunting ground , but no longer there today . The young prince entered into a second marriage with her in 1734, tellingly under the name of a sergeant Falk, and appointed her wife von Falkenhausen.

He also gave the name of Falkenhausen to the children of this marriage. They were in 1747 or 1754 by decree of Emperor I. Franz in the realm baron conditions applicable. Sons Friedrich Carl (1734–1796) and Friedrich Ferdinand (1748–1784) founded the Trautskirchen and Wald lines, whose descendants now represent the family. Friedrich Ferdinand grew up in the household of his brother Friedrich Carl, who married Caroline von Beust on September 10, 1755 .

Friedrich Carl, born in Georgenthal in 1734 , was enfeoffed with the Trautskirchen manor . The descendants of this line emigrated to Silesia at the beginning of the 19th century because they did not want to take the Bavarian oath of allegiance , where they served their royal Prussian cousins ​​in high offices.

After the male line of the von Zocha family had died out in 1749, the Wald fiefdom fell back to the House of Brandenburg-Ansbach. This came in handy for the margrave Carl Wilhelm Friedrich to use it for the proper care of his younger son. Friedrich Ferdinand Ludwig (* 1748) was enfeoffed with the manor that had become vacant. It has remained in the possession of the Franconian barons of Falkenhausen until the present.

Wilhelm Freiherr von Falkenhausen, KK Rittmeister i. R., and Julius Freiherr von Falkenhausen on forest, royal Prussian lieutenant a. D., were enrolled in the baron class in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1813.

Friedrich Freiherr von Falkenhausen (1781–1840) on Wallisfurth, Bielau, Steinhübel, Mohrau, Eylau and Broslawitz, had with Benigna Freiin von Welczeck the natural son Friedrich. He legitimized him and so he received the Prussian nobility in 1836, but not until 1862 the Prussian baron, together with his four sons Friedrich, Konrad, Alexander and Ernst and their successors depending on the law of the firstborn in the possession of Wallisfurth (Friedrich), Bielau and Steinhübel (Konrad), Mohrau and Eylau (Alexander) and Broslawitz (Ernst).

Ernst Freiherr von Falkenhausen auf Bielau (1846-1897) married Elsbeth Friedenthal (1864-1897) in 1883, a daughter of the Prussian statesman Karl Rudolf Friedenthal (1827-1890) and Fideikommissherrin on Friedenthal near Neisse. In 1894 he obtained an increase in his name as Freiherr von Friedenthal-Falkenhausen , name and baron status inherited from Fideikommiss Friedenthal. Baron Axel Varnbüler took over the guardianship of the seven children of Baron Ernst von Friedenthal-Falkenhausen, who died in 1897. It was a matter of administering the possessions in Bielau, the Bielau sugar and oil factories and the Giesmannsdorf factories from father-in-law Friedenthal for the heirs. In this context, Günther von Falkenhausen was incapacitated in 1906 because of waste. In 1910 a division of the estate began, the stake in the newspaper "Die Post" was sold, but the estate regulation lasted until 1918.

coat of arms

In blue a triangular silver bar on which a golden armored natural-colored (silver) hunting falcon sits, whose head wears a red cap with golden bells and a red plume. On the helmet with the blue-silver helmet covers the falcon.

Name bearer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family homepage of Falkenhausen: family tree
  2. ^ Hermann Gackenholz:  Falkenhausen, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 11 ( digitized version ).
  3. ^ Barons von Falkenhausen: Genealogy
  4. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg: Holdings P 10: Archive of the Barons Varnbuler from and to Hemmingen