Barons of Racknitz
Racknitz is the name of an in Heinsheim resident Baron Enge BadS that originated in the Styrian nobility has and after its parent Ragnitzegg in Great Saint Florian is named on the Laßnitz.
history
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The family originally comes from Styria , where it is first mentioned in 1180 at its ancestral home in Pernegg Castle . It is documented for the first time on October 1, 1224 with Heinricus de Rackniz and begins its line with Hermann von Racknitz , who appears in a document from 1374 to 1379. Around 1500 a Christoph von Racknitz was an advisor to the Roman-German king and later emperor Maximilian I.
Imperial Freiherrenstand Graz on March 14, 1553 for the brothers Gallus and Moritz von Ragknitz , Austrian baron confirmation and coat of arms association with that of the extinct von Perneck on August 21, 1570 for Christoph and Gallus von Racknitz, sons of the aforementioned Moritz.
In 1644, Moritz Freiherr von Racknitz, who was resident in Preßburg , moved with his family to the Viennese imperial court because of the plague that was rampant there ; contacts with the descendants of the former Reichspfennigmaster Zacharias Geizkofler may have been established there, since Moritz's nephew Septimius von Racknitz 1667 Ferdinand Geizkofler's widow Maria Polyxena, nee. von Täuffenbach, and Moritz's son Christoph Erasmus, whose daughter from their first marriage, Maria Elisabetha Geizkofler, got married. In addition to the considerable Geizkofler assets, the imperial-free rule of Haunsheim , located in Swabia, came to the Racknitz through this, who was the heir , in whose hands it remained until 1823. In 1675, Christoph Erasmus von Racknitz acquired the neighboring rulership of Bergenweiler from the related barons of Weltz .
Christoph Erasmus' son Philipp Wilhelm married the rule of Heinsheim in Baden in 1721 and acquired all associated rights from the diocese of Worms in 1727. He founded the line of the noble family that is still flourishing today.
Haunsheim, on the other hand, first came to the descendants of Christoph Erasmus' second son Johann Friedrich, and later to the grandson of Philipp Wilhelm from the Heinsheim line, Eugen Freiherr von Racknitz. His descendants sold Haunsheim in 1823 to the banker Johann Gottlieb Freiherr von Süsskind .
The Heinsheimer Racknitz acquired the neighboring Ehrenberg Castle and the village of Zimmerhof from the Landgrave of Hesse (the legal successor to the Worms Monastery) in 1805 . Heinsheim Castle and Ehrenberg Castle are still owned by the family who run a hotel in the castle and live in the castle's outer bailey. Family graves are located both at the Heinsheim mountain church and in the Haunsheim church.
The Heinsheim line was related to the houses of Gemmingen , Degenfeld , Löwenstein-Wertheim and Göler .
Laibach Castle has been owned by the family since 1777 .
Ehrenberg Castle on the Neckar
Former property of the Disibodenberg Monastery
coat of arms
- The tribe coat of arms shows the upper part of a silver donkey in red . Donkeys growing on helmets with red and silver covers .
- The coat of arms from 1570 is quartered and covered with a golden heart shield, inside a fire-breathing black panther († von Perneck); fields 1 and 4 show the family coat of arms, 2 and 3 in red a silver diagonal bar. Three helmets: on the right the trunk helmet, the middle helmet over black and gold blankets, the gold crowned black panther, whose back is covered with five natural peacock feathers († von Perneck), the left helmet with red and silver blankets two divided by silver over red across the corner Buffalo horns.
Significant family members
- Gallus Freiherr von Racknitz (* March 12 or May 12, 1590; † March 25, 1658 in Nuremberg ) studied in Leipzig and was Ferdinand II's companion in the election of Emperor in Frankfurt in 1619, whereby he was appointed councilor and chamberlain. As a Protestant he had to leave Austria in 1629 and settled in Regensburg , later in Nuremberg. In later years he published the collection of 45 hymns "Heart and Soul Music".
- Gallus Maximilian von Racknitz (1711–1758)
- Joseph Friedrich Freiherr von Racknitz (born November 3, 1744 in Dresden; † April 10, 1818 there) was court marshal in Dresden and exposed the so-called Chess Turks in a pamphlet from 1789 . He also owned an important mineral and insect collection with over 5,000 exhibits, which was bought by the Saxon State Museum in 1805 and is still part of the Treasury Museum in the Dresden Zwinger . Author of a sketch of a history of the arts, especially painting in Saxony , Walther'sche Hofbuchhandlung, Dresden, 1811 ( online , SLUB Dresden). ( online , NDB ).
- Elisabeth Luise Freiin von Racknitz (1732–1757) married August Christoph von Degenfeld-Schomburg.
- Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Racknitz (born June 11, 1756 - † November 25, 1819) was a royal Bavarian chamberlain and founded the line of the Barons von Racknitz in Baden with Charlotte Luise von Wacks (1765-1827) .
- Eugen Freiherr von Racknitz (born September 1, 1759 in Ludwigsburg , † June 13, 1815 in Haunsheim ) was married from 1781 to 1788 and again from 1801 to Karoline Countess von Löwenstein-Wertheim (1754-1830). The wedding in 1781 took place in Wertheim, the remarriage in 1801 in Heinsheim. In between he was married to Sophia Luisa Freiin von Woellwarth (1770–1800). He also had two illegitimate children, one of whom, Johannes Freiherr von Racknitz, founded the first German colony in Mexico ( Tamaulipas ). Eugen Freiherr von Racknitz was the progenitor of the Barons von Racknitz in Württemberg .
- Carl Freiherr von Racknitz (born November 11, 1783, † April 7, 1868) planned the palace garden in Heinsheim, which was laid out in 1810.
- Karl Freiherr von Racknitz (born June 29, 1827 in Ziegelhausen; † 1905), married to Sophie Emma Auguste Freiin von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (a daughter of Karl Weiprecht Reinhard von Gemmingen ) since 1860 , was the landlord of Heinsheim and a member from 1887 to 1894 the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly .
- Karl Freiherr von Racknitz (born November 4, 1871 in Heinsheim; † October 25, 1944 in Bad Rappenau), married to Caroline Freiin Göler von Ravensburg since 1915 , was King. prussia. Major in 1st bathroom. Body Dragoon Regiment 20 in Karlsruhe and Ordonnanzoffizier of Prince Maximilian von Baden .
- Hans-Lothar Freiherr von Racknitz (* 1925 in Heinsheim; † 2005) was the owner of the Disibodenberg monastery ruins in Odernheim am Glan , which was transferred to the foundation in 1989. Luise Freifrau von Racknitz-Adams and Matthias Adams have been rebuilding the family's winery since 2003, which had been family-owned for 200 years and whose vineyards were located around the Disibodenberg monastery ruins . The winery was dissolved in 2015.
Picture gallery
Font by Joseph Friedrich Freiherr von Racknitz
Racknitz grave complex at the mountain church Heinsheim
Racknitz epitaphs at the Heinsheim cemetery chapel
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rein monastery near Graz, Styria. Document book No. 219
literature
- Municipality of Sontheim adBrenz (publisher): Heimatbuch Sontheim an der Brenz , Sontheim adBrenz 1984.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Vol. 7, Leipzig 1867, p. 313 f. .
- Werner Meyer: The Art Monuments of Swabia , Vol. 7: District of Dillingen an der Donau, Munich 1972.
- City of Bad Rappenau (Ed.): History of the City of Bad Rappenau , 1978.
- Rackwitz, an old noble family. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 30, Leipzig 1741, column 499.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISSN 0435-2408
- Neue Deutsche Biographie, Vol. 21. Berlin 2003, pp. 78-80 (Werner Wilhelm Schnabel).
- Friedrich Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg (South German noble hero, volume 1,1). JA Gärtner, Stuttgart 1839.
Web links
- Family archive of those from Racknitz zu Haunsheim in the State Archives Ludwigsburg
- Colonizer Johannes von Racknitz