Günderrode
The Günderrode family was a noble patrician family from the imperial city of Frankfurt am Main.
history
The family originally came from Thuringia and settled in Freiberg in the second half of the 14th century . The first lord of the Frankfurt branch was Thielemann von Günderrode (1512–1550), who reigned as Chancellor at the court of Philip the Magnanimous , Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel in the 16th century . His second wife married the patrician Hans Bromm from Frankfurt. Thielemann's son Rudolf von Günderrode (1547-1601) married the patrician daughter Margarethe 1588 von Holzhausen (1567-1616) and was thus in the ganerbschaft Old Limpurg added. He settled in Schotten in the Vogelsberg .
Rudolf's son Hektor Wilhelm (1590–1647) married the patrician daughter Kunigunde Steffan von Cronstetten in 1618 , was admitted to the council in 1620 and elected junior mayor in 1625 . Most of the family members who may a. three city schools and eleven Frankfurt mayors were lawyers and court officials of the Landgraves of Hessen-Darmstadt and Hessen-Kassel .
The Giessen councilor Johann Maximilian von Günderrode married Susanna Maria von Kellner (1721–1757) in 1739, who owned the chain yard in Frankfurt am Main. Their fortune enabled Günderrode to purchase the rule Höchst an der Nidder with Günderrode Castle in 1756. This remained in the family's possession until the 1930s.
In the family's estates, the Solms land law was customary, the common law only if the Solms land law did not contain any provisions for a matter. It stayed that way in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . The Solmser land rights was here until 1 January 1900 by the same across the whole German Reich current Civil Code replaced.
Significant family members
- Hector Wilhelm von Günderrode (politician) (1590–1647) lawyer, lay judge, mayor and mayor of Frankfurt am Main
- Johann Maximilian von Günderrode (1713–1784), lawyer, Landgrave Hessian rent chamber director, secret government and chamber council, founder of the Günderrode collection in the old holdings of the University and State Library Darmstadt
- Justinian von Günderrode (1721–1802), lawyer, lay judge and senator in Frankfurt am Main
- Friedrich Justinian von Günderrode called von Kellner (1747–1785), Margravial Chamberlain of Baden, court and government councilor and writer
- Friedrich Maximilian von Günderrode (1753–1824), lawyer and politician, City School of Frankfurt am Main
- Hector Wilhelm von Günderrode called von Kellner (1755–1786), writer, father of Karoline and Friedrich Carl Hector Wilhelm von Günderode
- Carl Wilhelm von Günderrode (1765–1823), forest scientist and politician, 1820 senior mayor of the Free City of Frankfurt
- Friedrich Justinian von Günderrode (1765–1845), lawyer, privy councilor and judge as well as an important pomologist
- Karoline von Günderrode (1780–1806), romantic poet
- Friedrich Carl Hector Wilhelm von Günderrode called von Kellner (1786–1862), lawyer and politician, brother of Karoline
- Ludwig von Günderrode (1763–1841), officer, Nassau court marshal and Frankfurt politician
- Eduard von Günderrode (1795–1876), Hessian officer and member of the 1st and 2nd chambers of the state estates of the Grand Duchy of Hesse
- Philipp Maximilian Freiherr von Günderrode called von Kellner (1745–1814), minister and envoy
literature
- Wolfgang Klötzer (Hrsg.): Frankfurter Biographie . Personal history lexicon . First volume. A – L (= publications of the Frankfurt Historical Commission . Volume XIX , no. 1 ). Waldemar Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-7829-0444-3 .
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1858, p.226f
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arthur B. Schmidt: The historical foundations of civil law in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow, Giessen 1893, p. 106, as well as the enclosed map.