Grünthal (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Grünthal

The Grünthal (also Grüenthal, Grienthal) were an old Austrian noble family originating from Bavaria , which is named after their ancestral seat Grienthal, today Grünthal (municipality of Hagelstadt ), near Regensburg . In 1662 they were elevated to the status of Austrian baron , the male line died out around 1760.

history

Wikerus de Grüenthal is mentioned in 1179. The Grüenthaler resident in Regensburg were also called Grienthal (er) an der Chapel because of their house at the chapel of the holy grave next to the princely dynasty of Niedermünster .

Austrian line

Coat of arms of the Grienthall from Steyer (around 1450)

Andreas Grüenthal moved to Austria and lived in Steyr in 1430 , where he was city judge from 1464 to 1466. Through his marriage to Barbara Roth von Crembseck , Schloss and Gut Kremsegg (in Kremsmünster) came to his sons. There were two lines of his descendants, the younger one expired in the 17th century, the older one in 1760 with Baron Franz Joseph Ignaz, who died at the age of 19.

In the course of the conflict at the beginning of the Thirty Years War , some Protestant members emigrated to Germany. A Protestant line in Swabia descends from Baron Ludwig Grünthal, the youngest son of Wolf Dietmar.

Since the beginning of the 17th century the Grünthal were also wealthy in Eisleben , Voigtstedt , Zöllern, Hohenberg and Burkersdorf in Mansfeld . The progenitor (of the baron line from 1662) was Wolfgang von Grünthal, imperial councilor of Ferdinand I and Maximilian II. His son Jacob (us) von Grünnthall, Herr zu Kremsegg and Voigtstedt († 1626, ∞ Elisabeth von Pöllnitz) was electoral Saxon. Court war councilor and general commissioner, governor of Sangerhausen, as well as electoral Saxon. Supervisor and steward of the county of Mansfeld.

The family died out at the beginning of the 18th century.

Personalities

Name bearer

  • Wolfgang von Grienthal (* 1500; † 1576), son of Kolman and grandson of Andreas von Grüenthaler , Herr zu Kremseck, Prandthof, Winter and Haghof Ritter, Imperial Councilor of Ferdinand I and Maximilian II , obderenns. Vice Cathedral. Wolfgang traveled with Gabriel Graf zu Ortenburg as an imperial legate in Burgundy, Brabant and England and worked for the emperor in Bohemian mines and in coinage. For 34 years he was councilor and district administrator in Austria ob der Enns. In addition to the inherited Kremseck Castle, he owned Haghof / Wintern and Rohrwiesen and in 1538 bought the Veste Prandthof from the noble-veste brothers Sebastian, Thomas and Wolfgang Schaller. In 1548 he received the castle and rule of Waldenfels as a pledge. In 1534 he married Anna Enenckl zu Albrechtsberg († 1553) in the imperial courtroom in Innsbruck. His second marriage was in 1555 with Ursula Kölnpöck († June 17, 1601), she brought the Zeillern rule into the family. He had 25 children. His sons were
    • Julius (* 1542 - 22 January 1605, buried in Schleissheim), Mr. zu Kremseck, Dietach, Höhenerg, Zeillern and Achleiten. In 1566 he was ensign of the royal. Spanish army of Philip II and fought against the Turks in Naples and Apulia. In 1597 he was captain of a company of German servants of the upper east. Landscape. Julius took over the Dietach estate. In his first marriage he was with Anastasia Haiden von Dorff , in the second with Juliana von Oedt zu Getzendorf and Regina von Rödern, but had no children. Juliana then married Nicolaus von Rottenburg.
    • Philipp Jakob (* 1546; † February 17, 1596 in Zeillern Castle , welcomed St. Peter in der Au) Lord of St. Pantaleon and Zeillern. 1576 and 1578 Rentmeister, then Imperial Supreme Commissar of Provisions in Hungary, Vice-Captain of the rule Eisenstadt and the County of Forchtenstein in Hungary. He owned the lordship and castle Zeillern and the fortress house at St. Pantaleon, which he sold in 1593 to the noble fortress Lorenz Kirchhammer. In 1577 he married in Steyer Potentiana Kölnpöck zu Ottsdorf and Salaberg († 1582 in St. Pantaleon) and in second marriage in 1584 Margaretha Seemann († 14 February 1596 in Zeillern Castle, welcomed St. Peter id Au). On August 31, 1607, the sons Wolf Dietmar, Hans Georg and Hans Andreas jointly sold the Zeillern castle and estate to Wolf Friedrich Tattenpeck von Tattenbach.
    • Wolf Niclas (1565–1630) Lord of Kremseck, Achleiten and Dietach and on Zeillern, Reinsberg, Wangen and Windtern. From 1609 he was a regimental councilor, in 1613 he was ordained a knighthood, and in 1619 he was Reichshofrat of Ferdinand II. Rudolf II improved the coat of arms for him and his brothers and nephews and confirmed the old nobility.

coat of arms

Variant of the Gruenthal coat of arms
Family coat of arms
A black griffin claw in a gold shield with the white bone sticking out.
Coat of arms of the Grienthal in Steyer
In the shield, a clad mandl with light-colored envelopes and a cap grows out of a mountain of three, it holds the black griffin claw (without protruding bone). On the closed helmet a clothed arm with a cuff that holds the claw in the air. The tinctures are not known.
Variant of the coat of arms
In the silver shield, a red-clad Mändl with white envelopes grows out of a golden three-mountain and shoulder the black griffin claw. On the crowned helmet is an arm clad in red that holds the claw in the air. The helmet covers are silver and red.
Barons coat of arms
The coat of arms, which has been increased since 1603, shows a quartered shield, 1 and 4 the main coat of arms, 2 and 3 in silver an angled arm clad in red with a white envelope. Two crowned helmets, on the right the griffin claw overturned, on the left with a sleeveless man dressed in red with a white hat and white collar. Helmet covers right gold-black and left red-silver.

Hoheneck uses the similar coat of arms to establish a connection with the Stockach and Gabelkoven .

Tribe list of the Grünthal

The root list of the Grünthal covers the period around 1200 to around 1760.

literature

  • Johann Georg Adam von Hoheneck : “ The praiseworthy gentlemen estates Deß Ertz-Herzogthumb Austria whether the Ennß, as: prelates, gentlemen, knights, and cities or genealogical and historical description, of the same arrival, founding, building and fortification , Wapen, shield, and helmets, your monasteries, lordships, castles, and cities “Volume 1, Passau 1727, pp. 201–220 digitized
  • Damian Hartard von und zu Hattstein : The Highness of the Teutschen Reichs Nobility. Volume 2, 1751, p. 18 digitized
  • Franz Karl Wißgrill , Karl von Odelga: scene of the land-based Lower Austrian nobility from the lordship and knighthood from the 11th century on, except for the present , Volume 3, Vienna 1800, pp. 416-428.
  • Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon, or, Handbook on the historical, genealogical and diplomatic, partly also heraldic, genealogical and diplomatic, partly also heraldic news of the high and low nobility , Volume 1, BF Voigt, 1825, p. 468–469 digitized version
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 4, Leipzig 1863, p. 68 ff. Digitized
  • Siebmacher's Wappenbuch: Upper Austria, Austria IV.05. P. 76, plate 29
  • Valentin Preuenhueber : Annales Styrenses: together with its other historical and genealogical ..., around 1630, published by Johann Adam Schmidt, 1740 Nürnburg. Digitized

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The coat of arms of Hagelstadt shows the sleeveless man (here as king).
  2. ↑ More details in Johann Sigmund Brechtel: Descriptions of the family of those von Gruenthal… in Bavaria. around 1630 ONB
  3. ↑ Leaves for home history - monthly. Magazine d. AG f. Local history in the NSLB d. Local group Weida, February 1935, supplement to the Weidaer Zeitung, 2nd volume no.2
  4. ↑ Samuel Müller's Superintend. to Sangerhaußen Chronicka of the ancient mountain town of Sangerhaußen: Inside of its construction, location, size, public, clergy and secular buildings, churches, schools, rulers, clergy and secular authorities and officials, wars and other coincidences, bit to the year 1639 . is traded, 1731, pp 188 et seq. Digitalisat
  5. ↑ Valentin Preuenhueber: Annales Styrenses, p. 116
  6. ↑ described in Hoheneck, Volume 1, p. 201 as a variant of the old family coat of arms, which the Austrian line carried before the coat of arms of 1603.