Woellwarth
The barons of Woellwarth (also Woellwarth-Lauterburg or Wöllwarth ) are a south German noble family. They rose after 1363 through Georg von Woellwarth.
It is widespread, but not proven, that their ancestral castle was Wellwart Castle near Harburg . In 1418, starting from Lauterburg Castle , they came to estates in Essingen , and then to other property in the area. In 1538 Jörg Heinrich von Woellwarth acquired the patronage for the Essingen church from the Kirchheim am Ries monastery. 1544 gave them the Emperor Charles V , the blood jurisdiction , and in 1547 issued Jörg Heinrich von Woellwarth the "village rules" for Essingen. Probably only after the Peace of Augsburg did they accept the Lutheran creed. The village of Essingen has been Protestant since that time. In 1696/1697 Alexander Maximilian von Woellwarth sold a third of the village to the Counts of Degenfeld because of excessive indebtedness .
The Peace of Pressburg of 1805 and the Rhine Confederation Act of 1806 led to the loss of independence and the transfer of the territories of the family belonging to the imperial knighthood to Württemberg.
The lord of the castle in Essingen in 1957 was Konrad von Woellwarth-Lauterburg. The family's coat of arms is a red crescent moon in a white field.
Since 1981 Philipp Freiherr von Woellwarth-Lauterburg has been lord of the castle in Hohenroden Castle , located between Essingen and Lautern . The Hohenroden Castle Estate has been owned by the von Woellwarth family since 1401.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a lying red crescent moon in silver. On the helmet with red-silver helmet covers a gold comfortable red pillow under the red crescent moon.
family members
- Maria von Wildenstein , b. Woellwarth († February 26, 1599)
- Karl Ludwig Georg von Wöllwarth-Lauterburg (* December 17, 1750 - July 30, 1832) Minister of State and President of the Chamber
- Wilhelm von Woellwarth-Lauterburg (1802–1875), German lawyer, President of the Baden Evangelical Higher Church Council and High School Council, member of the Erfurt Union Parliament
- August von Wöllwarth-Lauterburg († 1908), Oberhofmarschall, Excellency, Major General à la suite, Chamberlain
- Georg von Wöllwarth-Lauterburg (1836–1919), manor owner and member of the German Reichstag
literature
- Hans-Wolfgang Bächle : The noble family of Woellwarth. Einhorn-Verlag, Schwäbisch Gmünd 2010, ISBN 978-3-936373-58-5 ( online ).
- Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser , Volume 6 (1856), pp. 773-778 ( Google ),
- Bohn, Heinz: The barons of Woellwarth. In: Essingen, history of a community between Albuch, Rems and Welland. Essingen municipality 2008. pp. 164–187 (ISBN 978-3-940606-34-1)
Web links
- Inventories of the archives of the Barons von Woellwarth in the State Archives Ludwigsburg: files and official books ; bills
- Entry Woellwarth family on the homepage of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Graf : Book review on Norbert Hofmann (editor): Archive of the barons of Woellwarth . Verlag W. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-17-011200-7 .
- ↑ Torsten Krannich u. a., Evangelicals on the Eastern Alb. A journey through the history of the Reformation of the Aalen deanery: Protestant church buildings in the Aalen deanery . Ed .: Evangelical Church District Aalen, Einhorn-Verlag + Druck GmbH. Schwäbisch Gmünd, ISBN 978-3-95747-042-3 , p. 183-186 .
- ↑ a b Wilhelm Aichele: The Remstal . Self-published, Schwäbisch Gmünd 1957, p. 61 ff .
- ^ Karlheinz Bauer: Aalen . Theiss, Stuttgart 1983, ISBN 3-8062-0321-0 , p. 150 .