Göler of Ravensburg

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Coat of arms of the Göler von Ravensburg after Siebmacher's coat of arms book

The Göler von Ravensburg family comes from an old noble family from Kraichgau that belonged to the Swabian imperial knighthood and whose ancestral seat, Ravensburg , is near Sulzfeld in Baden-Württemberg. It is related to the lords of Helmstatt and the lords of Mentzingen , who have similar coats of arms.

ancestry

The Ravensburg near Sulzfeld is the headquarters of the Göler von Ravensburg
Vineyards around the Ravensburg

The Göler family of Ravensburg is documented from the 13th century at their ancestral home. The majority of historians date the construction of the castle and the split of the three noble families with the raven in their coat of arms (Göler, Helmstatt, Mentzingen) to this period.

Raven de Wimpina zu Rappenau was an important Staufer Reichsministerial in Wimpfen , which was first mentioned in 1190. He is considered the earliest established ancestor of the three named noble families, who belonged to the core of the Kraichgau knighthood and who shaped the history of the Kraichgau from the high Middle Ages to the mediatization in 1806. The construction of Ravensburg Castle near Sulzfeld could essentially go back to 1220 by Raven de Wimpina. A Dieter von Ravensburg was mentioned as the son of Raven in 1222 , his brothers Conrad and Heinrich appeared in 1220 as Lords of Sulzfeld , and in 1233/34 as von Ravensburg . In 1231 a Raban the old from Ravensburg is mentioned as the fourth brother.

Sons of the Raven de Wimpina:

  • Raban "the old" became the owner of the Ravensburg . His son Berthold first called himself Göler von Ravensburg around 1250 and is considered to be the first bearer of the name and ancestor of the family that still exists today. A son of the same name of the "old" Ravan became lord of Menzingen through marriage into an old mansion and thus, as Ravan von Mentzingen, was the progenitor of today's lords of Mentzingen . The lords of Mentzingen were co-owners of the Ravensburg until 1409 and had other goods and rights in Sulzfeld until the late 15th century.
  • Conrad von Sulzfeld probably had his seat in a mansion on the site of today's Gölerschen Rentamt in Sulzfeld. His family line of the Lords von Sulzfeld died with Berthold von Sulzfeld, who was attested as councilor in Bretten in 1263 .
  • Heinrich von Sulzfeld came into the possession of the place Helmstadt through marriage and named himself after him. He probably remained childless as there were no other people with the name Heinrich in the early Helmstatt line-up.
  • Dieter von Sulzfeld had a son of the same name, Dieter, who, as Dieter von Helmstatt, became the progenitor of the Lords of Helmstatt . The property fell to him either through marriage or from the inheritance of his uncle Heinrich.

The epithet Göler (mostly still written Goler until the 15th century ) is probably derived from a typical regional name for the male raven, hence from the heraldic animal. The name is likely to have initially referred to Berthold I personally, who was called that, but has not yet sealed as a Göler. His sons then adopted the nickname in their seals.

coat of arms

Göler's coat of arms on an old tombstone in Daisbach.

All three families (Göler von Ravensburg, von Mentzingen and von Helmstatt ) have a black raven on a silver field as their coat of arms. The only difference between the three coats of arms is the crest:

  • Göler von Ravensburg : on black and silver blankets a raven neck with a golden comb, which is decorated with five garnet flowers.
  • von Mentzingen : on a black and silver blanket a silver swan with a golden beak and raised golden wings, the black wing feathers of which are sprinkled with silver linden leaves.
  • from Helmstatt to Neckarbischofsheim : two buffalo horns on black and silver blankets, the right one silver, the left one black. In contrast, the older branch of Helmstadt , which expired in 1694 , had the same helmet ornament as the Göler von Ravensburg.

Ravens and crows are typical regional birds of the Kraichgau. In his family chronicle, Johann Bernhard Göler I (1608–1652) traced the coat of arms back to a knight Raban Göler in the Kreichgau around 930, who is said to have chosen a bird as heraldic animal in honor of King Heinrich I , the bird maker. However, this traditional derivation is only a legend owed to the taste of the time in the 17th century.

history

The progenitor of the family is Berthold I. Göler von Ravensburg, who is mentioned several times around 1250. His son Raban I, mentioned around 1280, was governor in Swabia. With his sons Raban II. († 1320) and Berthold II. († 1335?), The sex divided into the Raban tribe , which died out in 1451, and the Berthold tribe , which is still flourishing today . The latter was also briefly threatened with extinction in the early 15th century after Albrecht Göler of Ravensburg fell in the Battle of Donnersberg in 1411 and his sons Albrecht IV and Hans died in Lorraine in 1431 . As the third son, Martin, was Canon of Speyer, he was the last male offspring of the family to receive exemption from clerical office at considerable expense in 1433 by Pope Eugene IV and continued the Berthold tribe. In 1694 the trunk split into the branches Friedrich and Ferdinand , which branched out again in the 18th century. In 1717 the Ferdinand'sche Ast owned three quarters of all Göler's fiefdoms, in 1745 these possessions were transferred to a family entrepre- neurship .

The Göler von Ravensburg possessions in over 30 places, mainly in Kraichgau. The Göler feudal lords included the Counts of Katzenelnbogen (and later, as their successors, the Landgraves of Hesse ), the Count Palatine near Rhine and the Electoral Palatinate , the Diocese of Speyer , the Counts of Oettingen and, to a lesser extent, the Margraves of Baden .

In a document from 1251, the sale of goods and rights in Oberderdingen , including vineyards, by Berthold I. Göler von Ravensburg and Liutfried von Helmsheim to the Herrenalb monastery is attested. Having owned vineyards since 1251, the family was considered the oldest wine-growing family in Baden until the sale of their winery in 2010 and was counted among the oldest wine producers in the world.

The Göler were from 1440 members of the tournament society of the lower ass , 1480 that of the upper ass. In the 16th century, the Göler in the knight canton Kraichgau were organized within the Swabian knight circle .

Within their knightly places, the Göler von Ravensburg had sovereign powers with lower jurisdiction , forest and hunting ban , religious ban and patronage law , police force and Jewish regal . The early modern local rule for a long time was owned by the Göler in Sulzfeld , where Bernhard Göler I. (1480–1554) and Albrecht Göler VI. (around 1480–1542) set up the village rules in 1529 , in Daisbach and Kieselbronn .

Bernhard I. Göler von Ravensburg and Bishop Georg von Speyer negotiate with rebel farmers in Herrenalb in 1525
Grave of the Göler von Ravensburg in Sulzfeld
Portrait of Julius Göler of Ravensburg (1814–1843). He died of his wound two days after the duel in connection with the Göler-Haber affair.

In 1522 Bernhard I. Göler of Ravensburg introduced the Reformation in Sulzfeld . This made the place one of the first congregations to convert to the Lutheran faith. During the Peasants' War , Bernhard Göler von Ravensburg took part in negotiations with rebel farmers in Herrenalb on April 29, 1525 as an advisor to Bishop Georg von Speyer . Thanks to his character described as balancing, he reached a compromise that caused the peasants to go back home.

After the imperial knighthood areas of Kraichgau passed to Baden at the beginning of the 19th century, the Göler and many other noble families lost their imperial immediacy and their sovereign rights, but as landlords still retained property and rights. After 1830, six members of the family moved into the I. Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly . Karl Friedrich Benjamin Göler von Ravensburg (1801–1868) was a member of the Chamber for almost 30 years and was at times Vice President of the Chamber. After 1806, there were also close ties between the Göler and the Grand Duchy of Baden . If members of the family had chosen a higher military career, they served almost exclusively the Grand Duchy. Only after the establishment of the empire in 1871 and the transition of the Baden military to Prussia can Göler military personnel also increasingly be found outside of Baden.

The marriage of Karl Göler from the Ferdinand'schen branch of Göler with Karoline Freiin von Zyllnhardt in 1826 was significant for the family's scope of property. In 1828 she was the heir to the property of her father, the Grand Ducal Baden State Councilor Karl von Zyllnhardt . As a result, the former Zyllnhardt estates in Bammental, Gauangelloch, Ochsenbach, Mauer and Schatthausen came into the possession of the Göler.

In 1843, the Göler von Ravensburg family came into the media's field of vision in the wake of the so-called Göler-Haber affair , also known as the Haber scandal . The background was that the eldest son of the ennobled Jewish banker Salomon von Haber (1764–1839) from Karlsruhe , Moritz von Haber (1798–1872), was denied participation in a ball in Baden-Baden because he was one five years earlier alleged insult by Julius Göler von Ravensburg was not opposed. The scandal could not be resolved and there was a forced pistol duel between Julius von Göler and Haber's seconds von Werefkin. Here Julius was fatally hit by Göler. Dying and held half upright by his seconds, Julius von Göler managed to shoot von Werefkin after three misfires.

In 1989 Dieter Göler von Ravensburg handed over the family archive with documents and files from the period from 1367 to 1960 (a total of approx. 28 running meters), which had previously been in the Sulzfeld Rent Office, to the General State Archive in Karlsruhe.

In 2010 the family sold their traditional Burg Ravensburg winery including Göler'schem Rentamt in Sulzfeld to Heinz Heiler, the owner of Weingut Heitlinger GmbH. The castle itself is still owned by the family.

Former and current possessions

image place Notes on the story Acquisition loss

Adelshofen

Ownership of the Göler from around 1337 attested. Johann I. Göler von Ravensburg was enfeoffed in 1354 by Margrave Rudolf von Baden with Adelshofen and other goods. Raban Göler IV. Sold the property to Reinhard von Sickingen in 1429. 1337 1429
Bammental Karl Göler came into possession of various goods through marriage to Karoline Freiin von Zyllnhardt in 1826. The Bammentaler Allodwald is still owned by the family today. 1826
Cleebronn The Göler had shares in tithe and Gülten .
Daisbach-ruine-web.jpg Daisbach The Göler by marrying a ramming -Erbtochter from 1,497 local men. Bernhard Göler I. introduced the Reformation in the place. The fiefdom over Daisbach was confirmed several times by various emperors. The castle ruins in Daisbach with the estate and forests were owned by the family until 1983. 1497 1983
Daudenzell As in Daisbach, the possession of the Göler was also based on the marriage of Göler-Rammung in 1474 and the inheritance of 1497, as in Daisbach, Bernhard Göler I introduced the Reformation there too. Through the marriage of a Göler daughter to Wolf Friedrich von Gemmingen, the place came to the barons of Gemmingen in 1670 . 1497 1670
Of things The Göler had little property there until the 13th century.
Dühren The Göler owned the wine tithing in the 18th century.
Eberdingen Before 1372 the Göler had shares in the manorial estate. 1372
Elsenz The Göler owned it in the early 15th century.
Eppingen The Göler are mentioned in connection with a dispute over the Eppinger Hardt in 1329, later they owned shares in the tithe and in the patronage right.
Supplication The Göler owned the 1718 Freigut , later all the property was sold in Flehingen.
Gauangelloch By marrying Karoline Freiin von Zyllnhart in 1826, Karl Göler acquired property and the right of patronage. Associated with this were ownership shares in Ochsenbach, which belongs to Gauangelloch . The right of patronage and goods there are still owned by the family today. 1826
Gochsheim The family owned an estate until 1404. 1404
Güglingen The Göler had shares in the tithe in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Heidelberg The Göler owned a town house that was destroyed in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1693.
Hohenstein The Göler had the place as a fief in the 14th century.
Kieselbronn The Göler had possessions since 1518. They had local rule there, connected u. a. with school and parish patronage. The family has not owned any property there for a long time, but retained the right of patronage. 1518
Lehrensteinsfeld-schloss-we.jpg Lehrenstein field In 1822 the family came into possession of the former Gemmingen manor around Lehrensteinsfeld Castle , which the brothers Ferdinand Göler (1798–1873) and Karl Göler (1801–1868) sold in 1856 to Fritz Karl Ludwig von Hohenlohe-Bartenstein. 1822 1856
Maisbach The family has owned various grit since the early 19th century.
Wall Karl Göler became the landlord and patron saint through his marriage to Karoline Freiin von Zyllnhardt in 1828. The family owns forest estates and agricultural land there to this day. 1828
Mühlbach In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Gölers owned property in the neighboring village of Sulzfeld.
Pforzheim Engelhard I. Göler von Ravensburg received the former court forge at Schlossberg 12 as a town house in 1625 as a gift from Margrave Friedrich V. The house was destroyed in the Palatinate War of Succession and then rebuilt. The family sold the house around 1717, but bought it again later. The neighboring building at Schlossberg 11 was also temporarily owned by Gölerschem, and a building of the Kraichgau noble women's monastery was later erected in its place. 1625
Rohrbach am Gießhübel In 1252 the Göler owned two farms.
Schatthausen-schloss-web.jpg Shadows Through Karl Göler's marriage to Karoline von Zyllnhardt in 1826, the family again came into possession of the castle, manorial estate and patronage rights. The Schatthausen moated castle and the right of patronage are still owned by the family today. 1826
Castle-streichenberg-tor.jpg Stebbach In 1369 the Göler co-owners of the castle Streichenberg , which later came to the family members of Mentzingen.
Sulzfeld-schloss.jpg Amalienhof in Sulzfeld The Ravensburg (Sulzfeld) , which fell into ruin in the 19th century, but was partially expanded again in the 1950s and set up as a restaurant, is located at the headquarters of the Göler family . The associated winery was sold in 2010 by the Göler community of heirs. Furthermore, the rent office and the Amalienhof are located here as stately homes.

The Rentamt is also called Middle Castle or Pforzheim Castle . The name "Pforzheimer Schloss" goes back to Engelhard Göler von Ravensburg, who was in the service of the Margrave of Baden in Pforzheim. The rent office was devastated by insurgents during the Baden Revolution of 1848/49, with many files and documents on the history of the family and the Ravensburg being destroyed. It was sold in 2010.

The Amalienhof was built in the 17th century as the third manor in Sulzfeld and was named after Amalia von Göler (née von Reck) in the 19th century. It was also owned by the family until 2000.

The Göler also exercised patronage over the local Protestant church in Sulzfeld, where their burial place with numerous historical tombs is also located. Of the several stately residential buildings on the Ravensburg, only the remains of the palace that Hans Friedrich von Göler had built in 1607 still exist today. However, the heraldic panels and portal frames of the demolished houses are still there.

Zaisenhausen The Göler held the bailiff's rights in the 14th century. In 1540 the Württemberg town was pledged to the Göler who introduced the Reformation there. Even after the return of the pledge to Württemberg in 1551, the Göler still had property on site.
Zwingenberg After the Lords of Hirschhorn died out in 1632, the Göler claimed the place. Delayed by the Thirty Years' War and subsequent political events, the heirs of Engelhard Göler I briefly came into possession of Zwingenberg in 1746, before the place came to Baden in 1751. 1746 1751

The Göler had other possessions in Brackenheim, Dürrenzimmern, Leonbronn, Nordheim, Schwaigern, Stockheim, Frankenbach, Böllingen and Braunsbach.

Family chronicles and genealogical works

Chronicle from 1858

The oldest known account of Göler's family history was made towards the end of the 16th century. She was by Hans III. Göler von Ravensburg wrote and bears the title: Genealogia Nobilium de Goeler von und uff Ravenspurg . This chronicle was continued by Johann Bernhard Göler von Ravensburg in 1631. In 1858, Captain Louis Göler von Ravensburg wrote a family history that continued until this year, which was continued in 1958 by Albrecht Göler von Ravensburg. The Heimatverein Kraichgau published in 1979 Die Göler von Ravensburg - Origin and development of a family of the Kraichgau knighthood . The authors were Dieter and Ravan Göler from Ravensburg. The latter completed the genealogy of the Göler von Ravensburg in 1997: a two-volume work that far exceeds the scope of the previous chronicle. In 2002 a second, revised and expanded edition was published.

The lineage of the Göler von Ravensburg was also published in the following works:

  • Gabriel Bucelinus : Germania topo-, chrono-, stemmatographica. 1655-1662
  • Johann Gottfried Biedermann : genealogy of the knighthood in Voigtlande… . Kulmbach 1752
  • Friedrich Cast: Book of nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden. Stuttgart 1845
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch ( Gotha ) 1855–1942
  • Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Stamm-Tafeln of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Baden-Baden 1886
  • Walther Möller: Family tables of West German noble families in the Middle Ages . 1932-1936
Albrecht V. Göler of Ravensburg († 1503)
Barbara Göler of Ravensburg, Abbess († 1535)

Well-known representatives

A large number of other family members are shown in the article Ravensburg (Sulzfeld) .

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  • Friedrich Göler of Ravensburg (1610–1665)

  • Maria Regina Göler von Ravensburg, b. Böcklin von Böcklinsau. Wife of Friedrich 1661

  • Wilhelm Friedrich Göler von Ravensburg (1717–1773) Lieutenant Colonel of the Electorate of the Palatinate as well as Castle and City Governor of Heidelberg

  • Anna Christina Sydonia Göler von Ravensburg, b. von Pardon, wife of Wilhelm Friedrich

  • Karl Wilhelm Albrecht Göler von Ravensburg (1728–1794) with wife Christina Frederike, b. von Gaisberg-Schöckingen, and children

  • Ludwig Frhr. Göler von Ravensburg (1787–1849) Colonel in Baden and district commander of the Landwehr in Heidelberg

  • Julius Frhr. Göler von Ravensburg (1814–1843) fatally wounded in a duel

  • Sigmund Frhr. Göler von Ravensburg (1834–1906), major and adjutant wing of Grand Duke Friedrich I of Baden

  • Julie Freiin Göler von Ravensburg (1842–1927) lady-in-waiting of Princess Katharina von Württemberg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 13.
  2. ↑ a b Göler von Ravensburg 1979, pp. 13/14.
  3. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, pp. 18/19.
  4. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, pp. 16-18.
  5. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 8.
  6. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 22.
  7. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 41.
  8. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, pp. 22-24.
  9. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, pp. 24-26.
  10. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, pp. 27/28.
  11. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, pp. 37/38.
  12. ^ Leonard Müller: Course and background of the "Haber scandal" , look into the story No. 77 from December 21, 2007 ( online in the official website of the city of Karlsruhe karlsruhe.de ).
  13. ↑ According to the Kalliope network , Moritz von Haber died on January 2, 1872 in Frankfurt, other sources give the year of death 1874 without any further details.
  14. ^ Alfred Georg Frei, Kurt Hochstuhl: Pathfinder of Democracy: The Baden Revolution 1848/49. The dream of freedom , Springer Verlag, pp. 21–30, ISBN 978-3-7650-8168-2 ( online )
  15. ↑ Georg von Sarachaga: Complete presentation of the dispute between Baron Julius Goeler von Ravensburg and Mr. Moriz von Haber , G. Macklot, Karlsruhe, 1843 ( digitized ).
  16. ↑ Moritz von Haber: The pure truth about the dispute between Mr. Moritz von Haber and Baron Julius Göler von Ravensburg , Schmidt and Grucker, Strasbourg, 1843 ( digitized ).
  17. ↑ a b c Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 43.
  18. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, pp. 43/44.
  19. ↑ Hartmut Riehl: Castles and palaces in Kraichgau. 2nd Edition. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 1998, ISBN 3-929366-51-7 , pp. 38-40.
  20. ↑ a b Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 44.
  21. ↑ a b c d e f g h Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 45.
  22. ↑ a b c Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 46.
  23. ↑ a b c d Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 48.
  24. ↑ a b c d Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 49.
  25. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 53.
  26. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 54.
  27. ↑ Göler von Ravensburg 1979, p. 55.

literature

  • Johann Friedrich Gauhen: Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexicon . Publisher: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1740
  • Franz Gehrig : The raven as a coat of arms . In: Kraichgau , volume 2/1970, pp. 173–179
  • Louis von Goeler: Family history of the barons Goeler von Ravensburg. 1858
  • Dieter u. Ravan Göler von Ravensburg: The Göler von Ravensburg. Origin and development of a family of the Kraichgau knighthood . Published by the Heimatverein Kraichgau (special print No. 1), Sinsheim 1979 (2nd edition 2008)
  • Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume 74, 1980
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Volume 107, 1994

Web links

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