Gaisberg (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Gaisberg

Gaisberg (also Gaisberger ) is the name of an old Swabian noble family .

history

The family with the "honorable man" Friedrich Gaisberger , with whose father of the same name the family line begins , is mentioned for the first time in a document . He sat in Kirchberg an der Murr and in 1352 acquired a manor in Bottwar from the widow of Albrecht Hummel von Lichtenberg . His son Fritz appears in 1392 as Vogt zu Schorndorf and is enfeoffed as such by Count Eberhard von Württemberg in 1393 with today's Schorndorf district of Weiler. His descendants stayed in the Schorndorf area. They held high offices at the court and in the service of the Counts of Württemberg and became feudal men of the Counts of Württemberg.

The coat of arms of the von Gaisberg family shows a curved black ibex horn in a golden shield and was confirmed on October 6, 1499 in a letter of arms by the Roman-German king and later Emperor Maximilian I for the brothers Niclas and Hans Gaisberger . A great-grandson Peter von Gaisberg received in 1570 with further special privileges from Emperor Maximilian II a permit to name himself after his seat Altensperg and Planhoven ( privilegium denominandi ).

In the 16th century, Schnait in the Remstal became the family seat of the family. The two main lines to Schöckingen and Helfenberg were formed , which were able to expand the family property considerably over time. In 1660 Schöckingen Castle came into the family's possession as a Württemberg fief . In 1678 Schaubeck Castle and in the same year Hohenstein Castle were acquired, and in 1686 the Helfenberg rulership near Heilbronn . While most of the goods were lost again, Schloss Großheppach , Gut Neudegg and some of the castle in Schöckingen as well as Obermönsheim Castle are still family-owned.

During the 18th century, the Lords of Gaisbach belonged to the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Kocher because of the ownership or partial ownership of Helfenberg (from 1740), Castle and Gut Hohenstein (1678 to 1738), Gut Schnait (from 1633) and the dominions of Kleinbottwar and Schabeck of the Swabian knight circle. Because of the possession of Graneckschen estates, from 1599 members of the family were also registered in the knightly canton Neckar-Black Forest , to which members of the Gaisberg zu Schöckingen line still belonged in 1805. From 1785 to 1800 Benjamin von Gaisberg was briefly registered as a personalist in the knightly canton of Odenwald in the Franconian knight circle .

On November 19, 1824, King Wilhelm I of Württemberg confirmed the status of a baron for the entire family, based on membership of the imperial knighthood. On August 26, 1907, approval was given to name the two main lines of the family in connection with their former knighthood seats as barons of Gaisberg-Helfenberg and Gaisberg-Schöckingen. A branch owned by Gut Neudegg in the Kingdom of Bavaria was registered in 1854 with the barons' class of nobility .

coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms shows a curved black ibex horn in gold; on the crowned helmet the horn is bent to the left; the helmet covers are black and gold.

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Frhr. v. Gaisberg-Schöckingen: On the history of the barons of Gaisberg; Sheets for Wuerttemberg Family Studies, issue 44/46, 1931

literature

Web links

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