Falkenstein (Vogtland noble family)
The von Falkenstein family was a noble family from the Vogtland or Meißn region .
Origin and Distribution
The family's ancestral seat is Falkenstein Castle . Initial name variants were Valckenstein or Walkenstein . They acquired the manors Magwitz and Planschwitz , which are now incorporated into Oelsnitz . The family was also wealthy in Röhrenhof , Schnarchenreuth , Döhlau , Köditz and Moschendorf . Lines were still in Braunschweig , Reuss , Saxony ( Frohburg Castle ) and Pomerania . Descendants of the Köditzer line migrated to Oettingen and Württemberg .
The von Falkenstein family acquired extensive possessions around Köditz Castle from 1666 and some of them were called von Köditz . It can be proven in Köditz until around 1785. Carl Erdmann von Falkenstein, high prince chamberlain and captain, had the Köditzer Leonhardskirche , which had suffered considerable damage in the Thirty Years' War , renovated together with other local nobility and exiles . Several coat of arms paintings were created. A family crypt was created.
The genealogist Johann Gottfried Biedermann describes the family as the "old Rhenish" family and names individual members of the related families without sketching their own family tree.
Falkenstein Castle rocks
Frohburg Castle
Relatives
- Louis von Falkenstein (1811–1888), Prussian lieutenant general
coat of arms
Depiction of the coat of arms in the Köditzer Leonhardskirche
The coat of arms shows a red cap with a silver ermine cuff on a gold background. Five black cock feathers hang down from a golden button from the bent tip of the cap. Such a cap is also included in the coat of arms of the von Würtzburg family . The helmet covers are red and gold. The crest repeats the cap that has just been erected here. A coat of arms can be found as a painting in the sacristy of the Köditzer Leonhardskirche .
literature
- Evangelical Lutheran Parish Köditz (Ed.): St. Leonhard Köditz - 1641 . Köditz 2009.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . 3rd volume. Pp. 202-204.
- Year book of the German nobility , first volume, Bruer, Berlin 1896, pp. 619–630
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Leonhard Köditz - 1641 , pp. 35, 40f.
- ^ Johann Gottfried Biedermann: Gender register of the praiseworthy knights in Voigtlande… . Kulmbach 1752. (Overview in the appendix "Second directory" )