Gemmingen (noble family)
The von Gemmingen family goes back to an imperial Alemannic knight dynasty that had its headquarters in Gemmingen ( district of Heilbronn , Baden-Württemberg ) in Kraichgau . The family, which has been documented since the high Middle Ages, is one of the most branched German aristocratic families, with widely scattered property in the Kraichgau, the Odenwald , Swabia and Franconia and beyond. As imperial barons, they exercised jurisdiction over their territories, which they held partly as allodial property and partly as fiefs of other princes. However, the family's goods did not form a closed territory, but were distributed in free float and were often administered as a condominium or Ganerbe .
In the 14th century, the family divided into two tribes that still exist today, named after their castles on the Neckar , Gemmingen- Guttenberg and Gemmingen- Hornberg . In the 16th and early 17th centuries, the family provided the bishops Johann Otto von Augsburg , Johann Konrad von Eichstätt and Uriel von Mainz , the latter also Arch Chancellor of the German Empire from 1508 to 1514 . The brothers Dietrich , Wolf and Philipp were important early supporters of the Reformation in Kraichgau in the 16th century . The family provided numerous chamber lords , councilors and high-ranking military personnel at the courts of Baden , the Palatinate , Württemberg , Brandenburg-Ansbach and other lordships. She belonged to the knight canton Kraichgau and the knight canton Odenwald . Reinhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg († 1750) was general director of the three knight circles, Philipp von Gemmingen († 1785) director of the knightly canton Kraichgau and Karl Friedrich Reinhard von Gemmingen († 1822) the last general director of the imperial knighthood . Eberhard Friedrich von Gemmingen († 1791) was the Württemberg government president.
In the 19th century the family was represented in the I. Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly and in the Württemberg Land estates . The composer Ernst von Gemmingen-Hornberg († 1813) and the writer Otto Heinrich von Gemmingen-Hornberg († 1836) became known musically . Members of the family also held important positions after the end of the monarchy. An important representative of the present is Eberhard von Gemmingen , who for many years was the head of the German-language editorial team at Vatican Radio . The family still owns large estates and today they still own several castles and palaces.
history
Lineage legends and early ancestors
In very old Gemmingen family chronicles ancestors are listed as far back as the Merovingian era around 600, later even, following a fashion trend, into the Roman era, and the family that was assumed to be Franconian at that time was interpreted as an elegant Roman. The latter, as well as the attempt to establish a relationship with a place Gemmingen in Friesland, are viewed as untenable in more recent representations.
Pastor Carl WFL Stocker , descendant of the Fürfeld branch of the family, sees the Lords of Gemmingen in his family chronicle, which was last revised in 1895, as a primitive Germanic family whose heads were at the head of a larger tribe, distinguished themselves in war and peace and gained such influence, that they were assigned the area around Gemmingen as booty when the land came into "German" possession. He continued that after the submission of the Alemanni by the Franks it was likely that some alemannische sexes, the Gemmingen, located hinüberretteten in the Frankish kingdom, where they retained the dignity and importance and at the latest by Frankish King Dagobert I in the early 7th century possessions received. Stocker also refers to a “tract from the pastor from Ulm,” which Reinhard the scholar had when he wrote his family chronicle in 1631, but which can no longer be found in the meantime (1895) and sees a Bodo “who is coming with King Dagobert in Germany be; Their parent company on the right is located 5 miles from Paris, called Gemmingen ... ”, Gemmingen was the first mentioned.
Johann Brandmüller describes the Gemmingen family in his lexicon from 1726 as an ancient noble family on the Rhine , in Franconia and in Swabia . As the first tangible ancestor he sees Ulrich in Gemmingen Castle in the lower Palatinate, who owned the ancestral seat of his ancestors around 872 and gave abundant gifts to the Murrhardt Monastery and, according to other sources, is also buried there. Brandmüller then refers to a Bernolph in Merseburg around 968 and mentions a Henricus who took part in a tournament in Zurich in 1165 . He points out that, as is often the case in tournament books, the year may not be correct.
Heinrich ( Henricus ), mentioned in 1165, is today the oldest reliable relative. At the Reichstag in Worms in 1182, Emperor Barbarossa elevated Ulrich and Bernolph to the rank of master . The family could have achieved the status of imperial baron this year. In 1191 a Gottfried von Gemmingen appears as abbot of Schonau. In 1233 Hertlieb and Albert de Gemmingen were mentioned in a document.
A multitude of lines developed from the early ancestors. The tribes that still exist today can be traced back to Hans von Gemmingen , who appeared in 1259 as the imperial governor of Sinsheim . The barons of Massenbach are also believed to be a Gemmingen branch. Both families know that they are related and also have the same coat of arms. Her progenitor is Heinrich von Gemmingen, mentioned around 1285, who later called himself von Massenbach. He was a son of Schelperus, whose relationship with the Hans mentioned in 1259 can no longer be clarified.
Family development
The sons of Bailiff Hans , mentioned in 1259 , each founded their own family lines, whereby those of Dieter (ext. 1274/1283), Maier von Wössingen , Herren von Hoven (an early sideline in Hoffenheim ) and Giener von Sinsheim as well as von Schweiker († 1297) founded Velscher and Kriegen von Stebbach between 1460 and 1552 all extinct again. Four main lines emerged among the descendants of Hans' son Albrecht (exp. 1268/77), which are named after their ancestral seat:
- Tribe A (Guttenberg)
- Gemmingen-Hagenschieß
later Gemmingen-Steinegg
progenitor: Diether V. († before 1428)
- Gemmingen-Gemmingen
later called themselves Gemmingen-Guttenberg
progenitor: Hans the Rich (around 1410–1490)
- Tribe B (Hornberg)
- Gemmingen-Bürg
called themselves from 1612 Gemmingen-Hornberg
ancestral father: Dieter the Younger († 1359)
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Gemmingen-Michelfeld
extinct with Weirich 1613
progenitor: Hans der Kecke , called Keckhans (1431–1487)
The family was already widely branched at their headquarters in Gemmingen . There were already three Gemmingen castles there in the 13th century. In the Thirty Years War , the oldest and the youngest of the castles were destroyed, so that today only the lower castle, which was renovated in 1592 , is preserved in the village. A little outside Gemmingen there is another medieval Gemmingen castle, Streichenberg Castle , which, however, soon came into the possession of other families. Gebwin II. , Mint master of Heilbronn, was married to a daughter from the Gemmingen house. The son born from this marriage named himself after his mother Gewin Gemminger (1389-1394). The name Gemminger also kept his two sons Gewin II. Gemminger and Hans Gemminger, who like his father was a judge in Heilbronn.
The family thrived and acquired numerous goods and rights in other places through purchases, marriages and pledges. The headquarters in Gemmingen became a center of education in the 16th century thanks to the Gemmingen Latin School founded by Wolf von Gemmingen in 1521 , but soon lost its outstanding importance for the development of the family compared to other Gemmingen branches such as Guttenberg , Hornberg , Bürg , Bonfeld , Michelfeld or Steinegg . The social advancement of the family was also less tied to the respective property, but rather to the network of relationships with the ruling courts of the respective time in the Palatinate , Baden and Württemberg as well as with the dioceses in Speyer , Mainz , Eichstätt and Augsburg . However, no territorial territory could develop from the severely fragmented property, rather a patchwork of goods and rights was created with a focus on the extremely fragmented Kraichgau ( Gemmingen , Rappenau , Bonfeld, Fürfeld , Treschklingen , Babstadt , Wollenberg , Adersbach , Siegelsbach , Hüffenhardt , Ittlingen , Hoffenheim , Michelfeld ). The various branches also acquired ownership in the Odenwald ( Fränkisch-Crumbach ), in the Neckar Valley ( Guttenberg Castle with Neckarmühlbach , Hornberg Castle with Neckarzimmern ), on Sulm ( Eschenau , Lehrensteinsfeld ), on the Jagst ( Widdern ) and Kocher ( Bürg , Presteneck ), in the Mainhardter Wald ( Maienfels ), in the Biet near Pforzheim ( Tiefenbronn , Steinegg , Gernsbach ), in the southern Palatinate ( Billigheim , Ingenheim ) and in the Spessart ( Unterbessenbach ). Smaller or short-term possessions in many other places include e.g. B. the Walderdorffer Hof in Bensheim , the Gans'sche Adelshof in Umstadt or the Lautenbacher Hof near Oedheim . The family also had various properties in Thurgau ( Weinfelden , Liebenfels ) from the middle of the 16th to the middle of the 17th century . The Gemmingen belonged early to the society with the donkey and later to the knightly canton Kraichgau , the knightly canton Odenwald and the knightly canton Neckar-Black Forest . 1560, the family was Emperor Ferdinand I in the realm baron conditions applicable.
On the occasion of the appointment of Otto Heinrich Reichsfreiherr von Gemmingen zu Hornberg in 1765 as the “real privy councilor with the rank immediately after the general field master”, the emperor wrote in the certificate of appointment: ... he (Gemmingen) belongs to an ancient, best-deserved dynasty in terms of the empire's monastery and among other things counted an Elector in Mainz, a Prince of Augsburg and a Prince of Eichstätt at the beginning of the 16th century and…. all of which, against the very highest of the same most glorious ancestors in the Holy Roman Empire and the most illustrious ore house of Austria, have achieved exceptional merits through their constantly demonstrated loyalty and devotion to their immortal fame.
After the mediatization of the knighthood, the Gemmingen were represented as permanent members in the Württemberg Land estates and the Baden Estates Assembly from the early 19th century and continued to hold high offices at the Baden and Württemberg courts. After the landlord's rights were replaced in the course of the 19th century and beyond the end of the monarchy, the family remained influential because of their land and estates or because of the position of individual prominent representatives.
Today the family is divided into two tribes, tribe A (Hagenschieß / Steinegg, Gemmingen / Guttenberg), the Guttenbergers (to Guttenberg Castle ) and tribe B (Treschklingen, Babstadt, Neckarzimmern), the Hornberger (to Hornberg Castle ). These trunks each branch out into many lines and these in turn into many branches. The more than 200 family members today are part of the “Familienverband Gemmingen e. V. ”, which holds family days every two years.
Tribe A (Guttenberg)
Gemmingen-Steinegg
Diether V. von Gemmingen acquired some goods from Messrs. Stain vom Rechtenstein in 1407 and thus founded the Hagenschieß line (after the Hagenschieß forest area on the northeast corner of the Black Forest , southeast of Pforzheim - although the territory was outside, south of the Hagenschießwald). His son Diether (VI.) Was able to increase and round off the property. The Gemming territory thus created consisted of the eight districts Hamberg , Hohenwart , Lehningen , Mühlhausen an der Würm , Neuhausen , Schellbronn , Steinegg and Tiefenbronn . It was under the feudal sovereignty of the Margraviate of Baden-Durlach ; the military and tax sovereignty lay with the Swabian knightly canton Neckar-Black Forest .
The former Gemming'sche area southeast of Pforzheim is still called area or Biet (probably from Gemming'sches dominion area ). This is the name of a local municipal water supply association for regional communities ; it is based in Tiefenbronn.
In the 1460s, Tiefenbronn became a headquarter of the family line, as evidenced by numerous magnificent tombs in the church of St. Maria Magdalena . In the 16th century the family line was divided into the branches of Steinegg and Mühlhausen , the family brought the prince-bishops Johann Otto von Gemmingen (1545–1598) and Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1561–1612), and later the Lindau princess Maria Anna Margaretha von Gemmingen ( 1711–1771). Starting with Hans Dietrich von Gemmingen (1516–1566), the branch in Mühlhausen owned for three generations in Thurgau , and later until the 19th century also various orientations to Austria.
Despite the suzerainty of Baden-Durlach, which had become evangelical, the eight towns in the Biet were not reformed. So it became a Catholic island in the Lutheran area. The property in the bid remained spread over various branches of the family until in 1805 Julius von Gemmingen-Steinegg (1774–1842), after the older Gemmingen-Steinegg line had died out in 1797, reunited the property. The existence of the small Gemming state ended in the Napoleonic era - it was incorporated into the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806.
In the 19th century the line converted to the evangelical faith. After the change of denomination, particular efforts were made to promote evangelical community life. In 1839, Julius' sons sold a significant part of the ancestral properties of the family line, including the manor in Tiefenbronn, to the Baden state and instead acquired property elsewhere. Joseph (1804–1873) and Gustav Johann (1808–1895) founded the branches in Gernsbach and Unterbessenbach .
In Gernsbach, Julius von Gemmingen-Steinegg (1838–1912) tried to evangelize, his daughter St. Clair von Gemmingen-Steinegg (1863–1951) began in 1928 with the reconstruction of Steinegg Castle , which has now been expanded into a youth camp. As a result of an inheritance from the barons of Rheinbaben (these in turn from the Elverfeldt ), the branch of the family in Unterbessenbach also has property in Westphalia, the old manor house Cotten in Bösperde and house Villigst in Schwerte , where several evangelical institutions have their headquarters.
Johann Otto von Gemmingen (1545–1598), Prince-Bishop of Augsburg
Johann Konrad von Gemmingen (1561–1612), Prince-Bishop of Eichstätt
Maria Anna Margaretha von Gemmingen (1711–1771), abbess of Lindau
Gemmingen-Guttenberg
Hans the Rich inherited property shares in Gemmingen and ten other villages from his father Dieter († 1414) and married an heir to the Landschad von Steinach family , who brought 24,000 guilders into the marriage. In 1449 he acquired Guttenberg Castle with Neckarmühlbach , Hüffenhardt , Siegelsbach and Kälbertshausen , and in 1476 Bonfeld too . His son Pleikard († 1515) was originally a canon , but after the childless death of his brothers he succeeded his father, inherited most of his father's property and in 1478 was one of the new founders of the knightly society with the donkey .
Pleikard's sons Dietrich († 1526), Wolf († 1555) and Philipp († 1544) acquired Fürfeld, shared their property in 1518 and brought young Reformation clergymen to their local churches in Gemmingen (1521), Fürfeld (1521) and Neckarmühlbach (1522). They were thus demonstrably the first to introduce the Reformation in the Kraichgau and therefore also to shape it. Other imperial knights followed this example, albeit in some cases years later. Time and again, pastors who had fallen into disgrace or were even persecuted found employment or shelter with the Gemmingen, for example the preacher Erhard Schnepf , who was expelled from Weinsberg and brought to Neckarmühlbach by Dietrich. At times, more than 20 persecuted pastors found asylum at Guttenberg Castle.
Wolf, who received Gemmingen when the estate was divided, continued the family line of Pleikard's sons. His brother Philipp, who had inherited Fürfeld and later acquired part of Eschenau , died childless in 1544 and the line established by the third brother Dietrich, who was well off Guttenberg and Bonfeld, died in the second generation in 1574. Wolf's grandson Wolf Dietrich (1550 –1595), who made a merit as a troop leader in Baden-Durlach's service and had the Gemmingen Lower Castle built in 1592 , soon reunited most of the possessions in Gemmingen, Bonfeld and Guttenberg. Among his sons, the main line split into the branches Bonfeld-Guttenberg and Gemmingen-Fürfeld in the early 17th century.
The branch Bonfeld-Guttenberg continued the Baden-Durlachsche Oberstallmeister Friedrich Christoph von Gemmingen (1670–1702), who died young in the battle of Friedlingen . His sons, who were very young when he died, attained the highest administrative positions. Philipp von Gemmingen (1702–1785) was director of the knightly canton of Kraichgau and inherited the Guttenberg. Friedrich Casimir von Gemmingen (1694–1744) was a Brandenburg-Ansbach court advisor and assessor of the Frankish imperial circle at the imperial court in Wetzlar and founded the Bonfeld-Oberschloss branch, named after the Bonfeld Oberschloss . His brother Reinhard von Gemmingen (1698–1773) was chamber president at the Baden and Brandenburg-Ansbach courts and governor of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, he founded the branch Bonfeld-Lower Castle, which was named after the Lower Castle in Bonfeld. Up to three Gemmingen castles existed at the same time in Bonfeld, and most of the property was administered in condominiums . In 1716 property in Wollenberg was added.
The second counter-ration of the Bonfeld-Oberschloss branch included Karl Friedrich Reinhard von Gemmingen (1739-1822), who was the last general director of the imperial knighthood. His great-grandson Sigmund Gustav Adolf von Gemmingen (1839–1918) was court marshal of Baden. With his son Hans (1878-1940) the Bonfeld-Oberschloss line died out. The castle was sold in the 1950s.
In the Bonfeld-Lower Castle branch , the first thing that stands out is the Knight's Councilor and Chamberlain from Baden, Ludwig Eberhard von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1750–1841), who had the Bonfeld Lower Castle renewed in place of a dilapidated previous building. In 1785 he inherited Guttenberg and the Dammhof from his uncle, the cantonal director Philipp (1702–1785), and thus occupied the Guttenberg branch, which died out with his uncle . Ludwig Eberhard's sons divided the property into the Guttenberg and Bonfeld-Dammhof lines, which were managed in the condominium until 1932. Gustav von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1897–1973) founded tourism at Guttenberg Castle by setting up a castle museum in 1949 and a castle tavern in 1950 and adding the German Greifenwarte to the castle in 1971 .
Turbulent scenes took place in the Lower Castle in Bonfeld during the Baden Revolution of 1849, when a scattered bunch of Baden military men was harassed by insurgents and only got away with their lives through the deployment of the Heilbronn vigilante group. A desperate soldier from Baden shot himself in the garden of the castle. After the soldiers withdrew, the castle was looted. The lord of the castle at that time was Karl Friedrich von Gemmingen (1779–1871), a son of the builder. Together with his brothers Ludwig Reinhardt and Philipp Albrecht von Gemmingen , he owned the castle as a condominium . Philipp Albrechts son Moriz von Gemmingen (1817-1883) cleared the nearby Breitlochwald from the lower castle in the 1850s and created the Eichhauser court there , which was run by his son Ernst Karl Friedrich von Gemmingen (1863-1939) and after the lower castle Destruction of the lower castle by a fire in 1956 was managed by his son Reinhard von Gemmingen (1908-2001) on the farm.
The Dammhof has been owned by the family since the 14th century, but was mostly managed by tenants before the former Stuttgart government councilor Ernst Ludwig von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1818–1880) renovated it in the 19th century and furnished it with a manor house. Today there is a riding facility in the Dammhof. Ernst Ludwig's brother Wilhelm von Gemmingen (1827–1920) was President of the Consistory of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg.
In addition to Fürfeld, the Gemmingen-Fürfeld branch once owned half of Guttenberg Castle , Neckarmühlbach , Hüffenhardt and Kälbertshausen as well as Ganerbe shares in Bönnigheim and Erligheim , but experienced its financial ruin in the 18th century under the Kraichgau cantonal director Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen (1676-1757), so that large parts of the property were sold to other branches of the family and the place Fürfeld came under the compulsory administration of the knightly canton of Kraichgau. Many members of the Fürfeld branch married into middle-class families as early as the 19th century, while in all other branches marriages in aristocratic families predominated until the middle of the 20th century. Emil Otto von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1880–1945), Ministerialdirektor at the Reich Audit Office in Berlin, comes from the Fürfeld branch . The pastor and chronicler CWFL Stocker (1832–1900) is also a descendant of the Fürfeld branch. A Stuttgart sub-branch of the Fürfeld branch achieved high honors in the Württemberg service. Karl Ludwig Dietrich von Gemmingen (1772–1825) was the government director of the Black Forest District , his son Karl von Gemmingen (1804–1885) was a senior magistrate and honorary citizen in Heilbronn . His grandson Dietrich Alfred von Gemmingen (1879–1955) was court marshal of the abdicated King Wilhelm II of Württemberg .
Other important representatives of the line:
- Luise von Gemmingen (1862–1929), court lady of Württemberg
- Max von Gemmingen (1862–1924) , Württemberg officer and airship pioneer
- Max von Gemmingen (1868–1949) , Württemberg officer and chronicler of his regiment
- Olga-Marie von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1916–1990), landlady of Königsbach, honorary citizen of Pfinztal
- Gabriele von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (* 1935), politician (CDU)
Tribe B (Hornberg)
Gemmingen-Michelfeld
The commitment of Eberhard the Tauben († 1479) and his sons to the Electoral Palatinate in the late 15th century was significant for the family . His son Hans (Keckhans) von Gemmingen captured Ulrich V von Württemberg in the battle of Seckenheim in 1462 and made a decisive contribution to the victory of the Palatinate in the Mainz collegiate feud . He acquired the first shares in Michelfeld and founded the Gemmingen-Michelfeld family line there . His sons received high prelatures in Worms and Speyer through the support of the Palatine . Son Uriel (1468–1514) became archbishop in Mainz and was thus archchancellor of the German Empire and chairman of the electoral council . His brothers Georg and Erpho also achieved high church offices, and Georg in particular was remembered as a church reformer. Hans' son Orendel (1464–1520) was the chamber master of the Electoral Palatinate and shortly after 1500 was able to acquire all of Michelfeld. His son Weirich (1493–1548) introduced the Reformation there in 1525. The line went out two generations after Weirich in 1613 in the male line and their property came to the relatives of the Bürg line.
Uriel von Gemmingen , Archbishop of Mainz (woodcut)
Orendel von Gemmingen , his portrait is one of the oldest paintings by one of Gemmingen
Neckarzimmern-Burg
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The brother Hans of bold, Eberhard († 1501), founded in 1456, the line Bürg , the first in Bürg had the exclusive possession on its castle. From 1492 the Gemmingen also acquired the Ganerbenteile of Maienfels Castle , as well as property in Widdern and Presteneck . The branches of the family there died out in the first half of the 19th century. Their property, which Treschklingen had also been a part of since 1538 , came to their lineage relatives from Hornberg. From 1575 to 1614, the Bürg line also owned the castle and estate of Weinfelden in Thurgau.
In 1612 Reinhard the Scholar (1576–1635) bought Hornberg Castle with “Belonging” (Stockbronner Hof, Neckarzimmern, Steinbach). In the following years he also came to the property in Treschklingen and Michelfeld. Reinhard's son Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1608–1680) inherited Hornberg and later also Rappenau. The property was divided among the descendants. Son Reinhard (1645–1707) continued the line on the Hornberg and acquired shares in Beihingen through marriage , which the family later increased through acquisitions. Son Uriel (1644–1707) inherited Rappenau and came into possession of Hochberg through marriage . Son Weiprecht (1642–1702) acquired property in Franconian-Crumbach and founded a first line of the family there.
Reinhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1677–1750), son of Reinhard, who died in 1707, was general director of the three knight circles, moved the seat of the knightly canton of Odenwald to Kochendorf and received the imperial Kochendorfer castle loan, which remained in the possession of his descendants until the end of the imperial knighthood. His brother Eberhard (1688–1767), who had inherited Treschklingen, was the commandant in Luxembourg.
Eberhard's son Sigmund (1724–1806) was an Austrian Feldzeugmeister and had the old castle in Treschklingen replaced by the official building that is still preserved today. His son Sigmund (1777–1843) was the guardian of the Baden Princesses. Through marriage and inheritance, in addition to Treschklingen, he also acquired the family estates in Rappenau, Fränkisch-Crumbach, Bürg, Stein am Kocher, Widdern and Maienfels Castle. In 1830 he was made the fifth honorary citizen of Mannheim and had the crypt chapel built in Treschklingen in 1839 . His property was divided between the four sons Franz Karl (1806–1867), Gustav (1813–1894), Sigmund Reinhard (1819–1883) and Adolph (1822–1902). Franz Karl received Rappenau, but died without male offspring. Gustav received Bürg and after the death of his older brother also Rappenau, his great-grandson is the theologian Eberhard von Gemmingen , who was the head of the German editorial team at Vatican Radio for a long time . Sigmund Reinhard received Treschklingen and Adolph received Fränkisch-Crumbach, where he had the Sarolta Chapel built for his late wife Sarolta in 1892 . Sigmund Reinhard had no male descendants, so that after his death in 1883 the property in Treschklingen fell to the Franconian-Crumbach branch. The property in Treschklingen was soon leased and only managed by Gustav Freiherr von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1925–2005) from 1952 onwards. He was mayor of Treschklingen from 1954 to 1970 and was a member of the German Bundestag from 1967 to 1969.
Sigmund (1724–1806) bought together with his brother Otto Heinrich (1727–1790) Hoffenheim, which had previously been owned by the Gemminger branch of Hoven. Otto Heinrich had Hoffenheim Castle built in 1781 . His son of the same name (1755-1836) was a writer and participated in the flourishing Mannheim theater and educational culture in the 1770s. Well-known are his works Der deutsche Hausvater and Die Erbschaft as well as some translations from English and French. He was also a diplomat, Freemason, Illuminate and a friend of Mozart. The line died out in 1849 with the younger Otto Heinrich's son Karl Theodor Joseph (1780–1849), the property fell to the Treschklinger line, and the castle was sold in 1850.
The third brother of Sigmund and Otto was Friedrich (1691–1738), who in 1732 bought Babstadt . Babstadt Castle , built until 1911 in place of a previous building from the 18th century, is one of the youngest castles in the country. It was leased for some time and has been inhabited by the family again for a few years. Fritz von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1860-1924) from the Babstadter line was married to the daughter of the industrialist Gustav Siegle , from whose property the family acquired the ruins of Weißenstein , Poppenreuth Castle and Friedenfels Castle in the Upper Palatinate. Fritz 'nephew Ludwig von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1901–1978) acquired Woffenbach Castle in the Upper Palatinate in 1937 , where he was also the second mayor. He became an honorary citizen of Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate , where Woffenbach was incorporated in 1972.
The line at the headquarters on the Hornberg was continued by the fourth brother Ludwig von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1694–1771), who was Vice-President of the Higher Appeal Court in Celle . His son Ernst von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1759-1813), who was born there, was the last General Director of the Imperial Knighthood before it was repealed by the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . The family used Hornberg Castle for residential purposes until around 1740, and from 1657 they also had the New Castle (today's town hall) in Neckarzimmern. In the early 20th century, the Hornberg was made homely again, and the New Castle was sold in 1932. Like the castle of the Guttenberg tribe on the opposite bank of the Neckar, Hornberg Castle has been open to tourism for a long time with a restaurant and museum. The castle museum shows exhibits on Götz von Berlichingen , who was once a previous owner of Hornberg Castle.
Reinhard von Gemmingen zu Treschklingen (1645–1707)
Baron Ludwig von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1694–1771)
Otto Heinrich II Baron of Gemmingen (1755–1836), writer and diplomat
Sigmund von Gemmingen-Hornberg zu Treschklingen (1777–1843), honorary citizen of Mannheim
Present and former possessions
Were part of the property of the family and include not only lands, numerous mansions and other historically significant buildings and various farms. The following overview of such structures is incomplete, but it can give an impression of the wealth of property.
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Gemmingen Lower Castle | Built around 1274 by Schweiker, known as Velscher , as the third and only surviving castle at the headquarters in Gemmingen , renovated in 1592 by Wolf Dietrich von Gemmingen , still in family ownership today. | 1274 | |
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Streichenberg Castle | In the 13th century as a fief of the Counts of Öttingen owned by the Gemmingen. This or Schweiker von Gemmingen, known as Velscher , came to the Göler von Ravensburg through his daughter as a possible builder . | 1280 approx. | 1297 |
| Dammhof | Old family property, mostly given to tenants for management purposes. Today's manor house built in 1857, since then mostly managed by the family itself. Today used as a riding stables. | 1362 | ||
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Schlegler Castle in Heimsheim | Built around 1415, probably by Diether V. von Gemmingen († before 1428), who was married to Anna von Selbach. | 1415 approx. | |
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Burg Castle | After older shares in inheritance from 1456 in sole possession of the family, renewed in 1545 by Eberhard von Gemmingen zu Bürg . | 1456 | |
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Steinegg Castle | Built in the 15th century below an older hilltop castle, it was no longer inhabited from around 1840 and fell into disrepair before the restoration into a youth leisure center began in 1928. | ||
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Guttenberg Castle | High medieval castle of the Lords of Weinsberg, acquired by Hans the Rich in 1449 , never destroyed and continuously inhabited for almost 800 years, with castle chapel and family burial place. Opening to tourism under Gustav von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1897–1973), today the castle museum, restaurant and seat of the German Greifenwarte . | 1449 | |
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Michelfeld Castle | Headquarters of Gemmingen-Michelfeld , built in its current form in 1753. | ||
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Bonfeld Upper Castle | Bonfeld with the older castle on the site of the upper castle was acquired by the Gemmingen in 1476. New palace in 1748, later a tree nursery and an orchard, sold after the Bonfeld-Oberschloss line died out with the death of Hans von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1878–1940). | 1476 | 1951/58 |
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Maienfels Castle | For a long time it was owned by the family, only in the 18th century. | 1492 | |
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Fürfeld Castle | Dietrich († 1526), Wolf († 1555) and Philipp († 1544) acquired the place with the older castle in 1516. The castle was expanded under Philipp († 1544) and Pleikard (1536–1594). After the Thirty Years' War it was restored by Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen (1676–1757). | 1516 | |
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Eschenau Castle | Built in place of an older castle after the Gemmingen ruled Eschenau from 1518 at the latest. Sold 1650. | 1518 | 1650 |
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Neuhaus Castle | It was already in the possession of the Gemmingen in the 16th century, was renewed in its present form by the Degenfeld in the late 16th century, and came back into Gemmingen ownership in 1926/63 through the inheritance of Hertha von Degenfeld. | ||
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Lehrensteinsfeld Castle | Lehrensteinsfeld acquired in 1535 by Philipp von Gemmingen, who had the castle renovated in 1540. Came to Ludwig von Schmidberg in 1649 , whose descendants had the classicist south facade carried out around 1770 before the palace came to Charlotte Ernestine von Schmidberg, widow of Hans Weiprecht von Gemmingen , in 1788 . Since 1856 in the possession of the current owners, who run a winery there. | 1535 | 1649 |
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Lautenbacher Hof | Owned by the family for over four generations, but pledged to the Teutonic Order during the Thirty Years War and later occupied by it. | 1537 | 1621 |
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Presteneck Castle | Presteneck acquired in 1549 by Eberhard von Gemmingen zu Bürg († 1572), new palace built around 1580 probably by Hans Walther (around 1540–1591). Sold to the municipality of Stein in 1841 after the Bürg-Presteneck line died out. | 1549 | after 1841 |
| Buttenhausen Castle | Medieval castle, acquired by Eberhard von Gemmingen zu Bürg († 1572), no longer used from 1812 and in ruins. | 1569 | before 1812 | |
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Filseck Castle | Acquired in 1573 by Dietrich von Gemmingen (1526–1587), sold by his heirs soon after his death. | 1573 | 1596 |
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Liebenfels Castle | Acquired in 1574 by Hans Christoph von Gemmingen (1544–1596), then in the possession of his son Johann and after his childless death sold by the heirs. | 1574 | 1654 |
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Ittlingen Castle | Erected in 1577 over the old building yard of the Lords of Gemmingen. | ||
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Treschklingen Castle | Renewed as a stone castle in 1598 on the site of an old manor house, destroyed in 1693. Rebuilt as an office building in 1802, but soon the family lived in again. | ||
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Bad Rappenau moated castle | Rappenau acquired in 1592 from Reinhard von Gemmingen (1532–1598). The castle in its present form was built around 1600 by Reinhard's son Eberhard von Gemmingen (1567–1611). Remained in the family until the 20th century, sold to the community in 1956 and later used as a town hall for a while. | 1592 | 1956 |
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Gemmingensches castle in Aries | Built around 1600 as the seat of the Widdern family branch, which owned about a fifth of the town's Ganerbe shares. Sold in 1863. | 1863 | |
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Hornberg Castle | Medieval castle, once owned by Götz von Berlichingen . Acquired in 1612 by Reinhard the Scholar (1576–1635). Still owned by the family today, with a restaurant and castle museum. | 1612 | |
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Old Beihingen Castle | The family had the first property on site through the marriage of Reinhard von Gemmingen (1645–1707) to Maria Elisabetha von Neipperg, later they acquired additional parts. | 1673 | |
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Manor house in Franconian Crumbach | Old possession of the Rodensteiner , came in 1693 to Weiprecht von Gemmingen (1642–1702) . | 1693 | |
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Babstadt Castle | Babstadt has been owned by the family since 1712. The castle in its current form was built from 1898 to 1911 according to plans by Carl Weigle on the site of a previous building. | 1732 | |
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Lower Castle (Talheim) | The family acquired a third of the town's inheritance shares in the 18th century. The lower castle was renovated in 1766/67 by Philipp von Gemmingen (1702–1785) in the Baroque style. | 1833 | |
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New Neckarzimmern Castle | Family seat, after Hornberg Castle was initially no longer used for residential purposes from around 1740, it was extensively renovated in the 19th century. When the family moved back to the Hornberg, they sold the New Castle in 1932 to the Neckarzimmern community, which now uses it as the town hall. | 1932 | |
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Rodenstein Castle | Medieval castle, gradually falling into ruin since the 17th century. Owned by the family since 1747. | 1747 | |
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Lehen Castle | The portal shows a coat of arms stone from 1553 with the coats of arms of Wolf Conrad Greck and Sibylla von Gemmingen († 1567), but the von Gemmingen family did not receive the castle as an imperial fief until 1749, after the death of the last imperial fief, Franz Karl Friedrich von Gemmingen-Hornberg was withdrawn from Württemberg in 1814 and given elsewhere. | 1749 | 1814 |
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Bonfeld Lower Castle | Built 1784–1787 below the older Bonfeld mansions. The lower castle burned down in 1956. its ruins were blown up in 1971. The area of the palace and palace gardens are now prepared as a public park. | ||
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Haigern Estate | Created from 1786 by Philipp von Gemmingen (1738–1800). The shell structures were finished by his death in 1800, but were sold for demolition in 1813 and removed again. Old components have been incorporated into the later development. The facility has been used as a children's leisure home for some time. | 1786 | 1813 |
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Maudach Castle | Temporarily owned by Otto Heinrich von Gemmingen-Hornberg . | 1791 | 1795 |
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Hoffenheim Castle | Built in 1781 by Otto Heinrich I von Gemmingen-Hornberg . After the death of Otto's grandson Karl Theodor Joseph von Gemmingen (1780–1849), the family's Hoffenheim property came to the Treschklingen line. The castle was sold in 1850 and later demolished. | 1781 | 1850 |
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Hohenhardter Hof | The Hofgut emerged from a small medieval castle complex. Acquired from Ludwig von Gemmingen (1793–1858) in 1828 , later a. a. leased to the Wiesloch sanatorium. Expropriated during the land reform after World War II. Prepared as a golf course since the 1980s. | 1828 | 1948/52 |
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Unterbessenbach Castle | Acquired by Gustav Johann von Gemmingen-Hagenschieß (1808–1895) in 1841 after the sale of the original Steinegger estates. | 1841 | |
| Hösselinshof | Gutshof bei Bürg | |||
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Eichhauser yard | Created in 1852 by Moriz von Gemmingen . In the 19th century mostly managed by tenants, later by the family themselves. Establishment of an orchard in 1929 by Ernst Karl Friedrich von Gemmingen (1863–1939), operated until 1989 by his son Reinhard von Gemmingen (1908–2001). The associated lands were sold and the farm is now the seat of a veterinary practice. | ||
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House Villigst | Goes back to an old manor, the main building was built in its current form in 1819. Family owned by marriage around 1900. | ||
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Friedenfels Castle | The old property of the Lords of Nothracht came to the von Gemmingen family via Gustav von Siegle , whose daughter Dora was married to Fritz von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1860–1924). | 1905 | |
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Poppenreuth Castle | The old property of the emergency came to the Gemmingen through Gustav von Siegle . | 1905 | |
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Weissenstein ruins | The old property of the emergency came to the Gemmingen through Gustav von Siegle . | 1918 | |
| Woffenbach Castle | Was acquired by Ludwig von Gemmingen (1901–1978) in 1937 and initially lived in, then acquired by the Red Cross, which set up an old people's home there. | 1937 | 1955 | |
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Gemminger Hof (Bad Wimpfen) | Historic town courtyard in the area of the former imperial palace Wimpfen . | ||
| Gemminger Hof (Heidelberg) | The Gemminger Hof in Heidelberg has been traceable since 1515 and was located in the upper part of Heugasse, opposite the Augustinian monastery. Later the rear buildings of the Jesuit church were built there. | |||
| Gemminger Hof (Heilbronn) | The Gemmingen had previously owned a farm in Heilbronn, so in 1577 they received permission from the city council to buy a new farm, which the city of Heilbronn acquired in 1608. | 1608 | ||
| Gemminger Hof (Bensheim) | The 16th century courtyard still existed in 1869 and was later demolished for the construction of the Liebfrauenschule. | |||
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Gans'scher Adelshof (Groß-Umstadt) | Temporarily owned by Anna von Gemmingen († 1577). | ||
| Wolfskehl-Gemminger Hof (Oppenheim) | Erected in the 17th century, first owned by von Wolfskehl, then by Gemmingen. Acquired by the municipality of Oppenheim in 1857 and converted into an office building. | 1857 | ||
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Walderdorffer Hof (Bensheim) | It was owned by the family from around 1630 to 1710. | ||
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Gemmingen House (Gernsbach) | In 1872 Julius von Gemmingen-Steinegg , landlord on Watthalden near Ettlingen , bought the building for his then underage daughter St. Clair von Gemmingen-Steinegg . In 1873 the family gave up the management of the Watthalden estate and moved into the building in Gernsbach. Julius von Gemmingen-Steinegg ran a printing house for Christian writings there. Daughter St. Clair sold the building in 1919 a few years after her father's death, but retained the right to live in the attic until her death in 1951 . | 1872 | 1919 |
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House Kotten (Bösperde) | In 1900 came into the possession of the family through the marriage of Elisabeth Freiin von Rheinbaben (1880–1960) with Hans Dietrich von Gemmingen-Steinegg (1869–1958). | 1900 | |
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Villa Gemmingen (Stuttgart) | Built in 1910/11 for Fritz von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1860–1924), later the seat of the Baden-Württemberg State Monuments Office. | 1910 | |
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Eulenhof (Ehrstädt) | Came into the family's possession together with Neuhaus Castle in 1926/63 through the inheritance of Hertha von Degenfeld, possibly. like Neuhaus Castle, also an older property. | 1926 | |
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Rauhof (Adersbach) | Acquired in 1928 by Eberhard von Gemmingen (1883–1952), today the seat of the administration for Neuhaus Castle and the Eulenhof. | 1928 | |
| Hofgut Rineck (Elztal-Muckental) | Came from the possession of Wilhelm Scipio in 1953 by inheritance to Eberhard von Gemmingen (* 1926) | 1953 |
Significant burial places
As an old and widely branched family, the von Gemmingen family left important burials at many of their seats. Listed here are the places where their own tombs were built, where their own castle cemeteries exist, where there are significant unique tombs or where there are a large number of family members buried.
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Gemmingen | old church and cemetery | historical burial in the old church (renewed in 1846/47), numerous historical grave slabs near Gemmingen lower castle |
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Neckarmuehlbach | Castle cemetery with castle chapel near Guttenberg Castle | with numerous burials, tombstones dating back to the 16th century, an important epitaph for Friedrich Christoph von Gemmingen (1670–1702), documented by the Gemmingen-Guttenberg line to the present day |
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Neckarzimmern | Church and castle cemetery with castle chapel near Hornberg Castle | Church in the village with numerous burials, grave slabs dating back to the 17th century. The crypt chapel on the castle cemetery above Hornberg Castle was built by Ludwig Eisenlohr and Carl Weigle in 1884. The castle cemetery is still occupied by the Gemmingen-Hornberg line to this day. |
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Tiefenbronn | Church of St. Maria Magdalena | important historical tombstones of the Steinegg line |
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Citizen | Evangelical Church and Cemetery | Significant epitaphs in the church, burials from the late 18th century in the cemetery |
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Bonfeld | Evangelical church and cemetery with baron district | historical burial in the old church, since the church was renovated in 1774/76 in the cemetery, 23 burials |
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Fürfeld | old church and cemetery | historical burial in the old church (converted into a barn in 1874, demolished after 1970), historical grave slabs in Fürfeld Castle , more recent burials in the cemetery |
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Babstadt | graveyard | numerous burials, grave monuments up to the 18th century. |
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Franconian Crumbach | Sarolta Chapel , Church and Cemetery | Sarolta Chapel built in 1892 by Adolph von Gemmingen (1822–1902) as a mausoleum for his wife, the epitaph for Baron Ernst-Ludwig von Gemmingen-Hornberg in the church, and a resting place with other burials in the cemetery |
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Tresch blades | Crypt chapel | built in 1839, 18 burials until 1991 |
| Dammhof | Hofgut cemetery | Eight members of the family were buried in the cemetery belonging to the estate between 1857 and 1967 | |
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Mainz | Dom | Tomb for Bishop Uriel von Gemmingen (1468–1514), unknown master in the style of Hans Backoffen or Franz Maidburg |
coat of arms
Blazon : two golden bars in blue. On the helmet with its blue and gold covers stand two buffalo horns labeled like the shield. In the Zurich coat of arms it appears as a golden shield with blue bars.
Family coat of arms
Coat of arms of the Gemmingen in the Zurich coat of arms roll (approx. 1340)
Coat of arms of the Lords of Gemmingen
Scheibler'sches Wappenbuch
1450-1480
Alliance coat of arms of Wolf Dietrich von Gemmingen (1550–1595) and Maria von Gemmingen-Bürg from 1592 at the Gemmingen lower castle
Alliance coat of arms of Reinhard von Gemmingen (1532–1598) and Helene von Massenbach from 1582 on the church in Treschklingen
Coat of arms of the Gemmingen above the main gate of Hornberg Castle
Coat of arms of the Gemmingen over the gate of Maienfels Castle
Gemmingen coat of arms from the family archive
Coat of arms
Some coats of arms still show the former Gemmingen possessions by their blue and yellow composition. The local coats of arms in their current design were determined by the general management of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives in the 20th century and often use the coat of arms of the respective local nobility. The manor in Bockschaft did not belong to the gentlemen of Gemmingen, but to the Kraichgau noble women's monastery , which housed several unmarried Gemmingen daughters, and was also given Gemmingen colors by the archives.
Family coat of arms
Local coat of arms of Massenbach
Local coat of arms of Wollenberg
Coat of arms of Daudenzell
Ittlingen's coat of arms
Hüffenhardt's coat of arms
Hoffenheim's coat of arms
Angelbachtal's coat of arms
Local coat of arms of Bockschaft
Coat of arms of Steinegg
Hamberg's coat of arms
Neckarmühlbach local coat of arms
Bonfeld coat of arms
Community coat of arms of Franconian-Crumbach
Bad Rappenau city arms
Town coat of arms of Bürg
Coat of arms of Adersbach
Coat of arms of Mühlhausen an der Würm
Friolzheim's coat of arms
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Chronicle of the Gemmingen Chronicles
The Gemmingen family has repeatedly been the subject of genealogical research.
- In 1544 Philipp von Gemmingen-Guttenberg left an unfinished chronicle.
- From 1584–1594, Sebastian Burggrav from Speyer used this preliminary work in his work on the Gemmingen family.
- From 1596 to 1634 David Pistorius, pastor in Gemmingen, started a chronicle, but did not finish it.
- In 1631 Reinhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg finished a nine-volume chronicle after 30 years of work. It is considered to be the most important and most detailed of the old chronicles, even though the attempt, later rejected, was made to trace the family back to the Romans.
- Around the same time as Reinhard, Johann von Gemmingen , the prince-bishop's council in Augsburg, wrote a large family chronicle of the Hagenschieß line.
- Around 1760, Philipp von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1702–1785) wrote the Guttenberg Chronicle .
- In 1770 Reinhard von Gemmingen wrote his biography and some memoranda.
- In 1864 a family tree of Amalie von Gemmingen (1801–1865), the wife of August Karl Franz Johann von Gemmingen, appears .
- Until 1884 Eduard von Gemmingen-Steinegg had tombs drawn in Tiefenbronn and did family research.
- 1865–1880 Pastor Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker wrote a three-volume chronicle. He was the son of a Gemmingen daughter from the American house of the Fürfeld sub-branch of the Gemmingen-Guttenberg line and was married to Karoline Luise Wilhelmine Emilie von Gemmingen (* 1833) from the German house of the same sub-branch. A revised one-volume chronicle from his hand was published in 1895.
- In 1925/26 Ernst von Gemmingen brought out a continuation of Stocker's Chronicle, the sources of which are mainly based on the knowledge of other family members.
- 1934 brought out Herrmann Römer Steinegg, a family book with a focus on the Hagenschieß line.
- In 1949 the family association brought out the lineage and family tree of the barons of Gemmingen 1910–1949 .
- In 1966 an article by Dr. jur. Hans-Lothar von Gemmingen , who already dealt with the family history and updated the lineage and family trees between 1920 and 1949.
- In 1977 Reinhold Bührlen wrote the history of the Gemmingen family and their estates .
- In 1991 the family association Gemmingen e. V. published a chronicle compiled by the family researcher Maria Heitland and Wolf-Dieter von Gemmingen-Hornberg.
- In 2003 Lupold von Lehsten wrote the genealogy of the Barons of Gemmingen for the 19th and 20th centuries.
See also
- Root list of the barons of Gemmingen
- List of Frankish knight families
- Gravestone of Felicitas von Gemmingen
Individual evidence
- ^ Stocker quotes Brandmüller with a Heinrich
- ^ Gemmingen family chronicle from 1991.
- ↑ Helmut Seel: Otto Freiherr von Gemmingen. Biography ( source study of the research lodge QUATUOR CORONATI No. 808, No. 40). Bayreuth 2001.
- ^ Kurt Andermann: On the income conditions of the Kraichgau nobility at the turn of the Middle Ages to the modern age. In: The Kraichgauer Knighthood in the Early Modern Age, ed. by Stefan Rhein, Sigmaringen 1993, p. 67.
- ↑ Dr. JPJ Gewin, Bloom and Decline of the High Nobility in the Middle Ages, 1957, p. 26
- ^ Adolf von Oechelhäuser: The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden (Volume 8.2): The art monuments of the Heidelberg district (Heidelberg district) , Tübingen 1913, p. 300.
- ^ Carl Jäger: History of the city of Heilbronn in its former area, Heilbronn 1828, p. 184/185.
- ↑ D. Blüm: If stones could tell ... , publisher of the weekly newspaper "Der Bensemer", 1996.
- ↑ Architectural Review, 4th year 1888, issue 10, plate 76/77.
- ^ A b c d e Franz Josef Mone : Sources collection of the Baden regional history , Volume 1, Karlsruhe 1848, p. 96. Online
- ↑ Stocker 1895, p. 110.
- ↑ Stocker 1895, p. 94.
literature
- Gemmingensches studbook and tournament book . Hornberg Castle Archive
- Johann Brandmüller: Historical and Geographical Lexicon Volume II. 1726.
- Johann Friedrich Gauhen: Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexicon . Publisher: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1740.
- Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Chronicle of the Gemmingen family and their possessions . 3 volumes. Heidelberg 1865–1881 (not viewed)
- Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Stocker: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Heidelberg 1895 (updated one-volume edition of its previous publications) ( digitized version )
- Ernst von Gemmingen: Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen Continuation of the Chronicle of Stocker 1895 . Babstadt 1925/26.
- Hans Lothar Freiherr von Gemmingen-Hornberg: lineage and family tree of the barons of Gemmingen 1910-1949 . Brausdruck GmbH, Heidelberg 1949.
- Günther Schuhmann: Gemmingen, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 178 f. ( Digitized version ).
- R [einhold] Bührlen: History of the family v. Gemmingen and its possessions. [Neckarzimmern] 1977.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Volume 67, 1978, Adelslexikon
- Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen - continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 . Gemmingenscher Familienverband e. V. 1991.
- Gerhard Kiesow: Of knights and preachers. The Lords of Gemmingen and the Reformation in Kraichgau. regional culture publisher, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, ISBN 3-929366-57-6 .
- Kurt Andermann : The documents of the Freiherrlich von Gemmingen archive at Guttenberg Castle above the Neckar (Regesten). 1353-1802 . Special publication no. 6 of the Heimatverein Kraichgau e. V., Sinsheim 2001, ISBN 3-89735-182-X .
- Bernd Röcker: Otto von Gemmingen, the German householder . Heimatverein Kraichgau episode 17. Eppingen, 2002.
- Lupold von Lehsten: Genealogy of the barons of Gemmingen in the 19th and 20th centuries. Bensheim, 2003.
Web links
- Gemmingen . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 7 . Altenburg 1859, p. 135-136 ( zeno.org ).
- Lecture on the Lords of Gemmingen
- Guttenberg Castle of the Gemmingen-Guttenberg family
- Hornberg Castle of the Gemmingen-Hornberg family
- History of the Gemmingen community
- Gutsarchiv Beihingen of the Barons von Gemmingen Hornberg in the State Archives Ludwigsburg: inventory of files ; Inventory of the volumes
- Pedigree of Rudolf Johann Wolfgang Rainer Freiherr von Gemmingen 1846 at monasterium.net
