Geymann
Geymann (also Geumann , Geymanner, Geymänner ) is the name of an Upper Austrian noble family that also belongs to the Lower Austrian rural nobility.
history
The family rose from the peasant class. Originally it was wealthy in the area of Rüstorf , Attnang and Swans and owned Gallspach from 1354 to 1633 and Trattenegg from 1463 to 1643 . A Hainricus Geuman de Swanse (Heinrich I), who appeared in documents in 1261 and 1277, was the first Geymann of the family, which was divided into two lines - one of which ( Heinrichs line ) died out around 1400 - to one of the leading knight families of the 14th to 16th centuries in Upper Austria. Two "Geymänner" appearing earlier, miles Conradus Geumann († around 1209) and Geumanus socer Conradi civis de Linz (1247) cannot be clearly assigned to the family.
The activity of several family members as carers and judges in the service of the Wallseer , Schaunberger and the sovereign is in the 15th and 16th. Century proven ( Trattenegg , Kammer , Wolfsegg , Starhemberg (near Haag am Hausruck ), Peuerbach , Grdoselo / Zèlengrad / Castelverde in Istria, etc.). The estate was continuously expanded and until 1600 also included the dominions of Schwarzgrub near Weibern , Oberweis (near Laakirchen ), Freyn (near Frankenburg ), Walchen (near Vöcklamarkt ), Wildenhag (near Straß im Attergau ) and Rossatz in der Wachau, as well as the one acquired in 1539 Freihaus am Hofberg in Linz (today Hofgasse 19).
On July 25, 1625, the brothers Hans Paul and Hans Ludwig Geymann were elevated to the status of gentleman with the title barons of Gallspach and Trattenek on Walchen and Wildenhag .
Nevertheless, because of their adherence to the Protestant faith, the family had to leave the region above the Enns ( Upper Austria ) from 1632 . Some family members moved to Lower Austria , Vienna , Pressburg or Regensburg and in some cases acquired considerable property again (e.g. Wolfpassing , Kronsegg-Schiltern , Niederfellabrunn , Gneixendorf ). The siblings Hans Ehrenreich and Margarethe , children of Hans Paul , succeeded in marrying into the Imperial Counts' Abensperg-Traun family around 1655 (they married the siblings Ernst and Susanna Regina von Abensperg and Traun, children of Johann Christoph , Count von Abensperg and Traun (1598–1654) and Ursula Freiin von Greiffenberg ).
At the end of the 17th century, all members of the Geymann family had returned to the Catholic faith. Some lived rather eventful lives as professional soldiers in the Turkish wars . Hans Geymann , a son of Hans Paul , took part in the battle of St. Gotthard and Mogersdorf an der Raab in 1664 . His son Hans Ernst was from 1690 to 1697 in command of the Niklas Palffy Hayduk regiment with the rank of lieutenant colonel and in 1691 participated in the Battle of Slankamen . A second son, Hans Carl († 1709), was promoted to Sergeant General and sat in the Court War Council in Vienna in 1704 . In 1702/03 he had a small palace ( Palais Geymann-Windischgrätz ) built by Christian Alexander Oedtl in what is now Renngasse 12 in Vienna . Hans Jakob Friedrich Geymann († 1746), son of Hans Ernst Geymann , initially served as Rittmeister in the Kriebaum and Steinville regiments, was Colonel Sergeant in the cuirassier regiment Johann Graf Browne Hautois in 1721, 1728 real kk chamberlain and from July 1730 commander of Stuhlweissenburg in Hungary. Hans Siegmund Geymann , son of Hans Ehrenreich , was accepted as a German knight in 1688 and in 1714 received the Carinthian representative office at the Inner Austrian Court War Council. With Hans Ernst Siegmund and Carl Geymann , both sons of Hans Jakob Friedrich , the male line died out around 1755.
Other important family members
- Heinrich II. , Married to Petrissa and his brother Hans I , married to Cunigunde (all † before 1356), can be regarded as the real ancestors of the two Geymann lines.
- Heinrich III: son of Heinrich II († 1363). Married to Ehrentraut Zinzendorf ; acquired in 1354 under feudal reservation, the Veste Gallspach including civil peace and church fief of Eberhard V of Walsee . Builder of the first parish church and founder of the rectory in Gallspach (1358). Buried in Gallspach.
- Heinrich IV: son of Heinrich III († around 1400). Married to Ursula von Aistersheim and Agnes Panhalm . Buried in Meggenhofen , where around 1380 the castle there temporarily fell to the Geymanns.
- Ortolph I .: son of Hans I, married to Gertraud († around 1395 by manslaughter). 1358 attendant at Trattenegg. Took part in the war of the Archdiocese of Salzburg against Bavaria in 1378 and 1383.
- Stephan I : son of Ortolph I (around 1380 to around 1433). Married to Benigna Payss , daughter of the Vöcklabruck citizen and owner of the Mitterberg headquarters near Rustorf, Ulrich Payss. In 1396 he belonged with his brother Hans (II) to a mercenary army of the Salzburg state estates. In 1400 built the Schwarzgrub seat near Weibern ; was recorded as a nurse in Kammer from 1425 to 1428 and in Wolfsegg in 1432 .
- Stephan II : son of Stephan I (around 1410 to around 1465). Married to Barbara Schöngruber . Obtained market rights for Gallspach from King Albrecht II in 1439 . When the corpses are moved for the king, he and Christoph Grafenwerder lead the corpse horse of the County of Tyrol. In 1452 he was in the wake of Emperor Friedrich III. at his coronation in Rome and member of the reception delegation for the imperial bride Eleanor of Portugal .
- Gotthard : son of Stephan I († before 1463). Married to Katharina Oeder . Signed with 253 other nobles on December 12, 1451 the Mailberger Feste ( Mailberger Bund ) in the of Friedrich III. the release of his ward Ladislaus ( Posthumus ) from guardianship was requested. Around 1453 he was caretaker and district judge at Starhemberg Castle near Haag am Hausruck .
- Ortolph II .: Son of Christoph Geymann († around 1455) and grandson of Ortolph I, (around 1425/30 to around 1476). Married to Barbara Meurl from Leombach. Treasurer (head of the state finance administration) for Archduke Albrecht VI. 1455 prince carer in Trattenegg, 1464 carer in Neuattersee (Kogl), 1466 imperial tax collector.
- Bartholomäus : son of Stephan I († around 1468). Married to Regina , daughter of Walthesar Newnkircher . 1459 nurse and district judge in Pernstein, 1462–64 nurse and district judge in Starhemberg.
- Henry VI. : Son of Christoph and grandson of Ortolph I († around 1477). Buried in Wilhering. Married to Benigna Treutlkofer . Was involved in the dispute between Friedrich III as a Wallsee nurse in 1458. and his brother Albrecht VI. entangled. From Castelverde , the castle in Grdoselo (Gherdosello / Gardassel) north of Pazin / Pisino / Mitterburg in Istria , which has now disappeared , he attacked subjects of the emperor with robbery and plunder in 1458. In 1466/67 he was feuding with the city of Steyr, where he owned a house under the Brucken .
- Jörg : Son of Ortolph II. 1487 pastor of Gunskirchen , later canon in Würzburg and Augsburg .
- Johann (Hans III.) : Son of Heinrich VI (* approx. 1467; † December 23, 1533). Married to Margarethe von Trautmannsdorf . Carer in Maria Lankowitz and Voitsberg . Belonged to the will executors of Emperor Maximilian I. After the death of his wife in 1495 a member, 1499 commander, 1508 administrator and from 1518 second grand master of the Order of St. George , based in the Millstatt Monastery / Carinthia. Brought 8,000 guilders private wealth into the order. He died of the consequences of the plague in Gmünd / Carinthia and is buried in Millstatt. On his marble tombstone he was represented in full armor by Hans Valkenauer . The surrounding inscription has the following wording: Here buried the revered prince and han Johann Geuman / the other high master Saint Jörigen / ordes stiffter the eternal mess and liechts this capell died anno / 15th. Parts of the Abbey Church in Millstatt still bear witness to his building activities as a monastery superior: parts of the Gothic ribbed vault, the baptismal font with the Geymann coat of arms, the Geuman chapel and the Renaissance arcades in the courtyard. A panel (created after 1508) in the Landesmuseum Klagenfurt shows him kneeling with his family in front of the Mother of God.
- Balthasar : son of Ortolph II († 1522); married to Katharina Raming († 1521), daughter of the princely caretaker of Prauneggen (Bruneck), Hans Raming (Ramung) and his wife Magdalena Campani. From 1512 Schaunberg caretaker and district judge of Peuerbach . Buried in Gallspach .
- Hanns Heinrich : son of Balthasar Geymann († 1566). Married to Magdalena Hohenfelder († 1540), Salome Kölnpöck († 1552) and Brigitta Walewicz († 1567). Imperial Councilor, buried in Gallspach.
- Hans Christoph : son of Hanns Heinrich Geymann (1544 to 1600). Married to Juliana von Maming († 1576) and Elisabeth von Maming († 1615). Imperial Councilor and District Administrator. Worked on behalf of the estates from 1595 to 1597 in pacifying the rebellious peasants. From 1582 to 1598 he was appointed to the Upper Austrian knighthood. Enlarged the family property by purchasing the Freyn, Walchen and Wildenhaag lords. Through his second wife, the Rossatz family in the Wachau fell to. Buried in Gallspach. Fragments of his art-historically valuable epitaph from Friedrich Thön's sculptor's workshop have been preserved.
- Ortolph IV .: Son of Hans Christoph Geymann (around 1570 to 1620). Married to Anna Maria von Kirchberg . Studied in Jena , Padua and Bologna , was a decree of the Upper Austrian knighthood in 1611 and, as a Calvinist , took part in the aristocratic revolt against the prince in 1619/20. He died during or shortly after the Battle of the White Mountain near Prague , in which he was likely to have participated. His property was confiscated from the sovereign.
- Hans Paul : son of Hans Christoph (1579 to 1655). Married to Maria Salome Schifer . Studied in Tübingen and Strasbourg . 1620 ordained a knighthood. 1625 Elevation to the baron class . From 1628, because of his Protestant faith, he withdrew to Regensburg and later to Lower Austria (Rossatz), where he was accepted into the Upper Austrian gentry in 1636. His final resting place was found in 1655 at the “new cemetery in front of the Schottentor in Vienna”.
- Hans Ludwig : son of Hans Christoph († around 1638). Married to Gertraud Concin . Truchseß and pre-cutter with Emperor Matthias . 1610 ordained a knighthood. 1625 Elevation to the baron class .
coat of arms
Blazon : According to Johann Siebmacher, the old coat of arms after Siegeln shows a naked, wild, bearded man growing in a white shield, head and loin covered with oak leaves, in his right hand a mace wrapped around his shoulder, in the left an oak leaf.
Blazon : Coat of Arms II according to Siebmacher's Wappenbuch shows a black shield base with a notch in silver; from the latter a golden oak leaf growing straight up; on the crowned helmet two buffalo horns, divided with a notch of silver and black, each with three golden oak leaves on the outside; the helmet covers are black and silver and black and gold .
Blazon: Coat of arms III according to Siebmacher's Wappenbuch shows a shield divided by silver and black with a notch; from which three golden oak leaves grow out on a golden stem; Gem and helmet covers like the previous ones.
Blazon: The oldest image of the family coat of arms can be found on Heinrich III's gravestone. Geymann (1363) in the Gallspach parish church. It depicts oak leaves on a wall battlement. As a modified version, an oak leaf was also used, the stem of which stands in the middle of a trefoil, with the two side mounds protruding above the middle one (e.g. on Hans Geymann's tombstone in Millstatt from 1533).
literature
- Herbert Erich Baumert, Georg Grüll : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Innviertel and Alpine foothills. Vienna 1985 (2nd edition).
- Herbert Erich Baumert, Georg Grüll: Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Salzkammergut and Alpenland. Vienna 1983 (2nd edition).
- Georg Clam-Martinic : Austrian Castle Lexicon. St. Pölten / Vienna / Linz 1991.
- Norbert Grabherr : Castles and palaces in Upper Austria. Linz 1976 (3rd edition).
- Hugo Hebenstreit: The Geymann von Gallspach. 3 volumes, typed, Upper Austria. State Archives, 1968/69.
- Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck : The laudable gentlemen gentlemen estates deß Ertz-Hertz-Hertzogthums Austria ob der Ennß. 3 volumes, Passau 1727, 1732, 1747.
- Market town of Rossatz: 500 years of the market town of Rossatz 1462–1962. Krems 1962.
- Wolfgang Perr, Bertram Scharinger, Helmuth Wansch: Gallspach. 550 years of the market. Wiesner Publishing House, Wernstein 1989.
- Wolfgang Perr (peer): Hans Christoph Geymann von Gallspach and Trattenegg (1544–1600). In: Der Bundschuh 13. Ried / Innkreis 2010, pp. 52–62.
- Wolfgang Perr: Community chronicle of Gallspach in 3 volumes. Upper Austria. Landesarchiv Linz, Bad Ischl 2014, Online Volume 1: History of the Gallspach Rule , Online Volume 2: History of the Gallspach Parish , Online Volume 3: History of the Gallspach Market and its surrounding area .
- Johann Siebmacher : Large and general book of arms. Volume 4/5. Upper Austrian nobility. Edited by Alois Frh. V. Starkenfels. 1885-1904.
- Heinrich Wurm: The Geumann on Gallspach. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Volume 4, Issue 2, Linz 1950, pp. 112–125, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
- Alois Zauner : Vöcklabruck and the Attergau I. City and manorial rule in Upper Austria until 1620. In: Research on the history of Upper Austria. Volume 12, Linz 1971, 901 pages.
- Johann Evang. Kirnbauer von Erzstätt : The Lower Austrian rural nobility. Panels, A – R. In: J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms. Volume 4, Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1909, plates 61.
- Johann Evang. Kirnbauer von Erzstätt: The Lower Austrian rural nobility. Text, A – R. In: J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms. Volume 4, Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1909, p. 123 f.
