Gabelentz

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Coat of arms of those of the Gabelentz

Gabelentz is the name of an old Meissen noble family . The Lords of the Gabelentz belonged to the fourth army shield . Branches of the family still exist today.

Since the place and family name Gablenz is relatively common, the von der Gabelentz family must not be linked to other old noble families of the same name in a genealogical context. For example, the Silesian Gablentz family and the Lower Lusatian Gablenz, who lived in Austria and Saxony , had different origins.

history

origin

The seat of the Lords von der Gabelentz at Poschwitz Castle

Presumably Godesalcus and Badericus de Gabelenze were members of the family, who appear in a document from Archbishop Adelgotus of Magdeburg as early as 1106. The Slavic headquarters that gave it its name and was destroyed in 1140 is said to have been near Plötzkau . Members of the family later moved to the Margraviate of Meissen under the protection of Burgrave Heinrich II of Magdeburg , who was also Burgrave of Leisnig . There they acquired an estate near Crimmitschau , to which they named Gablenz (today a district of Crimmitschau) and in 1276 the rule of Poschwitz , which is now part of the city of Altenburg . This new headquarters remained in family ownership until the expropriation in 1945.

After Kneschke , the family first appeared in 1221 with Georg von der Gabelentz , who was very popular with the Meissen margraves.

Theodoricus de Gabelence appeared as the first reliable member of the family in a document in 1273. He acquired the Nobitz estate by buying it . The secured trunk line begins with Albrecht von der Gabelentz auf Poschwitz, Burgmann zu Altenburg, who appears in a document from 1376 to 1392.

Expansion and possessions

The coat of arms known today with the fork iron in the tip appeared for the first time in 1394. Before that, the seals only showed the simple herald's image with the lowered tip. The family was wealthy in the Pleißenland .

Albertus von der Gabelentz was abbot in the monastery of Altenburg in 1436 . He also provided the Pforta monastery with several income. In 1438 Windischleuba became family property. In 1529 Georg von der Gabelentz sold the castle of Altenburg, which the family had owned since prehistoric times, to the Saxon elector Johann the Constant . Around this time, Hans von der Gabelentz became councilor of Kurbrandenburg . Among other things, he owned Kletzwalde and established a line of the sex in the Duchy of Prussia . However, it already went out in 1657 with the death of the royal Swedish and Polish lieutenant colonel Christoph Friedrich von der Gabelentz.

At the beginning of the 17th century, the Lemnitz rule could be acquired. The castle built there in the middle of the 18th century became the ancestral seat of the Lemnitzer line. Friedrich von der Gabelentz († 1794) came from this line . He was in command of the Hohentwiel Fortress and godfather of Friedrich Schiller . Lemnitz also remained in family ownership until the expropriation in 1945.

In 1712 Hieronymus Christoph von der Gabelentz had the Spree Castle rebuilt.

An important representative of the family was Hans Conon von der Gabelentz († 1874). He was a ducal-Altenburg minister and a well-known linguist. His first son Hans Albert von der Gabelentz († 1892) received on November 18, 1859 in Weimar from Grand Duke Carl Alexander von Sachsen-Weimar-Eisenach the approval to unite his name and his coat of arms with that of his mother (a born von Linsingen ) allowed to. His son, Hans Georg Conon von der Gabelentz († 1893), was a professor for East Asian languages ​​in Berlin . He continued his father's work.

On May 27, 1928, a family association was founded in Poschwitz .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a lowered red tip in silver , inside a three-pronged silver fork iron. On the helmet are two red and silver wings that are slanted inwards . The helmet covers are red-silver.

Name bearer

literature

Web links

Commons : Gabelentz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1921. Book a. Art print shop AG, Munich / Regensburg 1921. Page 29. However, this information cannot be correct, as the Archbishop did not yet rule in 1106.
  2. ^ New general German nobility lexicon Volume 3, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1861, page 415f.
  3. ↑ Saxon Main State Archives Dresden , number 250.