Frankenberg (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Frankenberg

Frankenberg is the name of an ancient Silesian noble family who named themselves after the Frankenberg Castle near Frankenstein in the Principality of Münsterberg . Descendants of the Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf as well as Frankenberg and Proschlitz tribes still exist today.

The male line belonging to the von Lüttwitz line Frankenberg-Lüttwitz is described under Lüttwitz .

history

The family was first mentioned in a document on March 31, 1206 in Dresden with Henricus de Frankenberg as a witness to Margrave Dietrich von Meißen . The trunk series begins with Dietrich von Frankenberg, documented 1283–1323.

Status surveys

Lines

Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf

The Ludwigsdorf tribe named themselves after Ludwigsdorf (now Polish: Bystre) near Oels .

Counts line of Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf

Tillowitz Castle around 1860

This line, which became extinct in the male line in 1937, came directly from Hans Wolfgang Wenzel von Frankenberg, Baron von Schellendorf, who was drafted in 1700. To hers Graf Fred von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf, Freiherr von Schelldorf (1835-1897), on Tillowitz etc., royal Prussian Privy Councilor and Major a. D., member of the Prussian State Council and member of the Prussian mansion for life, Knight of Honor of the sovereign Order of Malta , who married Princess Luise zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen (1851–1920) in Slawentzitz in 1872 . She was the daughter of the royal Prussian general of infantry à la suite of the army , Prince Hugo zu Hohenlohe-Öhringen , Duke of Ujest , and Princess Pauline zu Fürstenberg . Their children were Count Konrad and Countess Luise. Count Konrad von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1877-1937) was the last male representative of this count's line.

Konrad Graf von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf

Count Konrad von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf (1877–1937) was a knight of honor of the sovereign Order of Malta and married Alice Friedmann (1879–1927), the daughter of a factory owner, who was born in Berlin in London in 1907 . There were no children from the marriage, but Countess Alice was first married to the divorced businessman George Solman, with whom she had two daughters, Yvonne Solman (* 1902 in Berlin; † 1946 in Cairo ) and Liselotte Solman (* 1903 in Berlin). They were adopted by Count Konrad as her second husband in 1926. That is why they used the names Countess von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf as their birth names. Yvonne von Frankenberg was married three times, first to Berlin's Berti Treek, then to music publisher Otto Fürstner (1886–1958), from whom she was divorced, and finally to the commercial attaché of the Egyptian embassy , de Nasr. Her sister Liselotte had been with Dr. jur. Clemens Graf von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg (* 1896), head of GEMA's legal department , married. She was divorced from him in 1931. In 1935 she married Ben Meigs in London and later lived in New York . The sister of the last Count von Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf, Countess Luise (1879-1941), married in 1901 in Tillowitz the on Castle Laer born Lubbert Graf von Westphalen zu Fürstenberg (1872-1932), the Royal Prussian Vice equerry and Major a. D., formerly à la suite of the army. The couple's final resting place is a mausoleum in the south-west cemetery in Stahnsdorf .

Frankenberg and Proschlitz

The Proschlitz tribe primarily provided officers. In the 17th and 18th centuries there were members of Omichau (from 1679 Dietrich von Frankenberg) and (until 1724) of Boroschau, and in the 18th century also Lessa, Buchwald and Klein Germans .

coat of arms

  • With the count's coat of arms Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf in the diploma of 1714 on the occasion of the name and coat of arms union with the barons of Schellendorf, who have died out in the male line, the main shield is four-sided and covered with a quartered middle shield , which in turn is covered with the family coat of arms as a heart shield ; Middle shield: in fields 1 and 4 in red three green mountains rising in steep peaks ( Counts of Hochberg ), 2 in black a golden crowned right-facing golden lion (also Count von Hochberg), 3 in black a left-facing silver fox (variant of the family coat of arms ornament ) ; Main shield ( Freiherren von Schellendorf ): 1 and 4 in silver a red bar, accompanied above and below by four blue alarm clocks, 2 and 3 in black an inward-facing, golden crowned golden lion. Three helmets; on the right and left a growing crowned golden lion (Barons von Schellendorf), on the middle with red and gold blankets a natural-colored fox sitting to the right with three red cock feathers in its muzzle (heraldic helmet).

Important representatives

Cardinal Johann Heinrich von Frankenberg (1726–1804), Archbishop of Mechelen

Frankenberg and Ludwigsdorf

Frankenberg and Proschlitz

literature

Web links

Commons : Frankenberg family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogical manual of the nobility . Count's houses A. Volume IV, Volume 28 of the complete series, c. A. Starke Verlag Limburg (Lahn) 1962, pp. 191-193.
  2. ^ Regest of the Breslau State Archives