Goose from Otzberg

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Family coat of arms of the goose of Otzberg
Coat of arms at the Burgmannenhof of the goose from Otzberg in Otzberg-Hering . Left (heraldic right) the silver goose on a red background. Alliance coat of arms with the Lords of Bettendorff .
East view of the formerly free aristocratic "house and yard on Münchberg" of the Provost Graslog of the Höchst monastery , later Burgmannenhaus of the goose from Otzberg. The alliance coat of arms at the entrance to the stair tower.

The noble family of the Gans von Otzberg (also Gans von Erlenbach , Gans von Werde , more rarely: Ganß von Otzberg ) is probably the best known of eight families who name themselves after the fortress Otzberg on the northern edge of the Odenwald . In addition to the unusual name, this is due to a long history and extensive relationship. The knightly goose from Otzberg died out on May 25, 1694 in the male line . However, the sex continues to flourish in a bourgeois member that can be traced back to Boppo Ganß von Otzberg .

history

The family is already tangible as a goose from Werde in Wörth am Main before 1300 . In 1357 Diether I. Gans von Werde was accepted as Burgmann zu Otzberg by the Fulda abbot Heinrich VII von Kranlucken . As early as 1362 he appeared there as a bailiff. In 1384 he was called "Dieter Gans von Werde, Vogt zu Otzberg". It was only under his son Dieter II and his descendants that the name "Gans von Otzberg" came into use from 1391 until the extinction of the family with Johann Pleickhardt in 1694. The former archivist Georg Brenner from Groß-Umstadt created a family history table based on templates in the state archive .

The goose of Otzberg appeared as fiefs for the larger sovereigns in numerous localities in the front Odenwald. In addition to the Fulda Abbey, these were the Lords and Counts of Hanau , the Landgraves of Hesse-Darmstadt , the Schenken zu Erbach and the Electoral Palatinate . As part of the imperial free knighthood , they had been organized in the knightly canton of Odenwald since 1550 .

In the village of Hering, below the Otzberg Fortress, they owned a Burgmannshof ( today's address Am Burgmannenhaus 1) , of which parts from the 16th century including some coat of arms stones are still preserved. The goose of Otzberg also took the nearby Naus Castle as a fief. Around 1500 there was a division into two lines, one to Nauses and the other to Hering. In Groß-Umstadt at the beginning of the 17th century they acquired an aristocratic court in the south-eastern corner of the city ​​wall , which was later named Gans'scher Adelshof . Today the cultural monument can be found at Brunnengasse 14.

Alliance coat of arms of the rascals of Bergen (right, heraldic left) and the goose of Otzberg (left) at the moated castle Schloß-Nauses .
The Zum Schwanen brewery in Groß-Umstadt was owned by the bourgeois descendants of the noble family.

According to documentary evidence in the Hessian gender book, a civil line Ganss without exception was written by Ganß and branched off from Boppo Ganß von Otzberg around 1450 . This evangelical-Lutheran bourgeois branch of the Ganß provided the city ​​schools and judges of the Umstadt district court in Groß- Umstadt.

Diether Gans von Otzberg verifiably acquired a share in the free aristocratic farm in Lengfeld around 1578 .

In 1632, the Electoral Mainz Chamber Chancellor Michael Ganß submitted a request for majesty through Anselm Casimir Wambolt von Umstadt, who was then elector and archbishop of Mainz . In this he asked for his father the Electoral Mainz Count of Ostheim Bernhard Ganß as well as his two cousins ​​the Landgrave Hesse-Darmstädtischen Stadtschultheiß to Umstadt Hans Georg Ganß and Carl Rudolf Ganß for the elevation to the nobility. The elector had approved the application for the ennoblement of the Ganß. On November 25, 1636, the application for nobility was submitted in Regensburg . However, the actual award of the nobility diploma is ultimately unknown.

The son of the same name of the aforementioned city schoolmaster Hans Georg Ganß was a beer brewer and in 1672 the founder of the Ganß brewery in Umstadt. In addition, the Schwanenbrauerei had been owned by the Ganß family since 1849 .

coat of arms

The family's coat of arms shows a silver, sometimes golden goose in red . The crest is a red flight with the goose. The helmet covers are red and silver.

The coat of arms of the goose von Otzberg have been preserved at the Burgmannenhaus in Hering. Above the entrance portal of the main building on Nordflügen is the alliance coat of arms of the goose with the coat of arms of the Gayling von Altheim and the year 1539. In addition to a single coat of arms in the east wing from 1549 there is also an alliance coat of arms with the Lords of Bettendorff from 1572. At the gate tower The Naus Castle is a heavily weathered alliance coat of arms, the heraldic left of the Otzberg goose is still relatively easy to recognize. On the stair tower of the main building there is an alliance coat of arms with that of the rascals from Bergen .

The identity of the coat of arms and name is likely to be coincidental in this case, but not an indication of a relationship with the Prignitzer Gans zu Putlitz .

The civil coat of arms shows a golden goose in red. On the helmet with a red and gold cover the goose between an open red flight.

literature

  • Hessian gender book . Volume 12 - Volume 107 of the complete series of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families , Starke Verlag, Görlitz 1939, ZDB -ID 2252-4 , pp. 158-182, 693-702.
  • Elisabeth Kleberger: Territorial history of the rear Odenwald (Grafschaft Erbach, Herrschaft Breuberg, Herrschaft Fränkisch-Crumbach). Self-published by the Hessian Historical Commission Darmstadt 1958 ( sources and research on Hessian history 19 ), p. 151f.
  • Alfred F. Wolfert: Groups of coats of arms of the nobility in the Odenwald-Spessart area. In: Winfried Wackerfuß (Ed.): Contributions to the exploration of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes II. Festschrift for Hans H. Weber. Breuberg-Neustadt 1977, pp. 325-406, here pp. 355-357.
  • Von Otzberg: Overview of aristocratic families who call themselves after Otzberg Castle on the northern edge of the Odenwald. In: Alfred F. Wolfert: The Odenwald. Zeitschrift des Breuberg-Bundes, Issue 1, 1990 pp. 3–11.
  • Dieter Krieger: Hessisches Wappenbuch , 3rd part. Family coat of arms, volume 1. Starke, Limburg 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0002-6 , p. 61.
  • ( Goose from Otzberg and from Erlenbach ). In: Walther Möller: Genealogical contributions to the history of the Odenwald and the Bergstrasse (continuation). Archive for Hessian History and Archeology New Series, Volume XXIV, 1952, 2/3. Issue pp. 142–149.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Baur (Ed.): Archives for Hessian history and antiquity . tape 6 . Publishing house of the historical association for the Grand Duchy of Hesse, Darmstadt 1851, p. 265 ( digitized version ).
  2. ↑ According to Wagner even documented since 1246; see. here p. 265
  3. ↑ Digitized: Family table copy from 1963  In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  4. ^ Kurt Andermann: Imperial Knighthood, Canton Odenwald. In: Historical Lexicon of Bavaria . Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , October 18, 2011, accessed on June 17, 2020 (German).
  5. ^ Alfred F. Wolfert: Groups of coats of arms of the nobility in the Odenwald-Spessart area. In: Winfried Wackerfuß (Ed.): Contributions to the exploration of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes II. Festschrift for Hans H. Weber. Breuberg-Neustadt 1977, p. 357.
  6. ↑ Dieter Krieger: Hessisches Wappenbuch, 3rd part. Family coat of arms, Volume 1. Starke Verlag , Limburg 1999, p. 61.
  7. ↑ Bernhard Koerner (ed.): Hessian gender book . tape 12 - volume 107 of the complete series of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families. Starke Verlag, 1939, ZDB -ID 2252-4 , appendix. Goose. , S. 695, 698 .
  8. ↑ Bernhard Koerner (ed.): Hessian gender book . tape 12 - volume 107 of the complete series of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families. Starke Verlag, 1939, ZDB -ID 2252-4 , Ganß, from Groß-Umstadt in the Hessian Odenwald , p. 159-160 .
  9. ↑ Digital copy : HStAD inventory A 1 No. 142/3:  In: Archivinformationssystem Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen).
  10. ↑ Bernhard Koerner (ed.): Hessian gender book . tape 12 - volume 107 of the complete series of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families. Starke Verlag, 1939, ZDB -ID 2252-4 , Ganß, from Groß-Umstadt in the Hessian Odenwald , p. 163 .
  11. ↑ Bernhard Koerner (ed.): Hessian gender book . tape 12 - volume 107 of the complete series of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families. Starke Verlag, 1939, ZDB -ID 2252-4 , Ganß, from Groß-Umstadt in the Hessian Odenwald , p. 160-173 .
  12. ↑ De Signatio on the origin and descent and coming of the noble family of the goose from Gansenhofen and Otzberg. (PDF) burgmannenhaus.de, archived from the original on May 9, 2009 ; accessed on October 28, 2017 .
  13. ↑ Bernhard Koerner Koerner (Ed.): Hessisches Geschlechtbuch . tape 12 - volume 107 of the complete series of the Genealogical Handbook of Bourgeois Families. Starke Verlag, 1939, ZDB -ID 2252-4 , Ganß, from Groß-Umstadt in the Hessian Odenwald , p. 158 .

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