Gravenreuth (noble family)
The von Gravenreuth family was originally a Frankish noble family . Since it is documented long before the 14th century, it belongs to the ancient nobility .
history
The eponymous headquarters was in the village of Grafenreuth, which is now incorporated into Thiersheim (Bavaria / district of Wunsiedel) . The manor, which was smashed between 1817 and 1832, probably emerged from a tower hill castle . At least the name temple , which has been handed down since 1643, for a location in the village indicates such a medieval fortification. Wernherus de Gravinruit, who appeared in 1180 as a witness to a gift from the Counts of Sulzbach , was sitting here . In addition to the Grafenreuth headquarters, the family owned properties in Tiefenbach , Seussen , Haag, Korbersdorf, Haingrün, Wölsau, Lorenzreuth and Oberredwitz for centuries . Branches of the family moved to the Upper Palatinate, where they were based in Trüglersreuth , Püchersreuth , Eberhardsbühl , Steinbühl , Calmreuth , Schlammersdorf , Guttenthau and Menzlas . The family estate Grafenreuth was sold by Christian Martin von und zu Grafenreuth, Brandenburg-Bayreuth general, privy councilor and thigh, in 1739 to his son-in-law, the chief hunter Philipp Sigmund von Schirnding .
The progenitor of the Gravenreuth family, which is still in bloom, is Johann Christoph Ernst, Herr zu Schlammersdorf, Guttenthau, Menzlas and Ernstfeld, Imperial and Royal Field Marshal Lieutenant, from whose marriage to Eleonore Sophie Euphrosine Freiin von Schirnding the sons Adam Ernst auf Guttenthau and Troschelhammer , Bavarian secretary Council, general and governor of Bayreuth († 1770) and Julius Ernst emerged on Schlammersdorf and Menzlas. The Schlammersdorfer line died out with Moritz Freiherr von Gravenreuth in 1845. Carl Ernst Freiherr von Gravenreuth from the Guttenthau line was raised to the rank of count in 1825 .
The von Gravenreuth family is related to other noble families, e.g. B. with the von Sparneck family . Gravestones can still be found in the churches of Trausnitz , Reuth or Püchersreuth . You can also be traced back to the Order of the Order of the Red Eagle shortly after its foundation at the beginning of the 18th century and are therefore close confidants of the Bayreuth Margrave Georg Wilhelm . In St. Georgen, today a district of Bayreuth , an oath sign in the religious order bears witness to this accession. At the end of the street is the collegiate church of the Gravenreuther Foundation .
Overall, the sex was widely ramified: the Schlammersdorf line , formerly Hofmark of a Gravenreuth line, has died out. The count's line died out in 1919. Other lines have continued to this day. The noble family of the Barons von Gravenreuth ( Karl Ernst von Gravenreuth ) bought the Hofmark Affing in 1816 and has been lord of the castle in Affing ever since . In the same year, Karl Ernst von Gravenreuth united the Hofmark Schönleiten (now part of the Petersdorf community) with his Affinger estate.
coat of arms
The Gravenreuth family coat of arms is a silver unicorn growing out of a rock on a blue background. The motif of the helmet ornament is also the unicorn.
With the consent of the von Gravenreuth family, the municipality of Affing bears the coat of arms as the municipality's coat of arms. The coat of arms of the district Korbersdorf (incorporated into Marktredwitz ) is divided into two halves and reminds of the two families von Gravenreuth and von Sparneck. The coat of arms of the village of Grafenreuth, a district of Thiersheim , includes the Gravenreuth coat of arms in addition to other elements. The charred branch in the base of the shield (below the unicorn) as a symbol of the clearing refers to the name of the place and its origin in a newly cleared area. The three-pointed rock is missing in this coat of arms.
Coat of arms of the former municipality of Korbersdorf, now part of Marktredwitz
Coat of arms of the municipality of Affing
people
Before 1800
- Georg Christoph Freiherr von Gravenreuth (1667–1736): Founder of the Gravenreuther Stift in St. Georgen in Bayreuth .
- Karl Ernst Freiherr von Gravenreuth (1771–1826): privy councilor, diplomat - Bavarian special envoy to Napoleon I's headquarters , raised to the rank of count in 1825
- Max von Gravenreuth : District judge, on August 26, 1796, he put 400 marauding French soldiers to flight who were crossing the Upper Palatinate in the course of the Franco-Austrian War .
After 1800
- Charlotte Freifrau von Gravenreuth: Author of the historical novel The child of the thief
- Karl von Gravenreuth (1858–1891): explorer and deputy Reichskommissar in German East Africa , German colonial officer in Cameroon
Karl von Gravenreuth, who died in 1891, is reburied in Douala , Cameroon ; 1895
Monument on the grave of Karl von Gravenreuth in Douala , Cameroon ; 1901
- Maximilian Joseph von Gravenreuth (1807–1874), lord of the castle and forest owner
- Maximilian von Gravenreuth (1851–1928), lawyer and member of the German Reichstag
- Sigmund-Ulrich von Gravenreuth (1909–1944), Lieutenant Colonel and Commander of Combat Wing 30 of the Air Force
- Günter Freiherr von Gravenreuth (1948–2010), lawyer and publisher
- Marian Freiherr von Gravenreuth (* 1949), Vice President of the Central Association of European Forest Owners (CEPF)
Other personalities
- A Baron von Gravenreuth appears in the film Der liebe Augustin (1941) .
Places with references to the Gravenreuther
Francs
- Grafenreuth near Thiersheim
- Seußen near Arzberg
Upper Palatinate
- Grafenreuth at Floß
- Hofmark Schlammersdorf
- Parts of the Püchersreuth country estate until 1702
- The Gravenreuther House in Regensburg
Swabia
- Hofmark Obergriesbach with Obergriesbach Castle (owned since 1831)
- Hofmark Affing with castle (owned since 1816), crypt chapel from 1833
- Franciscan monastery Mödingen (1806-1824)
More places
- The Villa Gravenreuth in Lochau in Vorarlberg on Lake Constance was built by the Count's line, which died out in 1919.
See also
literature
- Anonymous: The Gravenreuths . In: The narrator from Gabelmannsplatz . Supplement to the messenger from the six offices , Wunsiedel, June 23, 1955 (No. 12).
- Anonymous: The manor Grafenreuth is destroyed . In: Sechsämterland . Supplement to the six offices for the latest news , Arzberg 1953, No. 23, p. 258.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . 4th volume, Leipzig 1863, p. 14 f.
- Matthias Simon: Arzberger Heimatbuch . Arzberg 1926 (contains a tree of the family on p. 310, insofar as they lived on Grafenreuth).
- Friedrich Wilhelm Singer: To Grafenreuth in the temple . In: Sechsämterland . Supplement of the six offices newest news , Arzberg 1965, No. 4, p. 961 f.
- The district of Wunsiedel . Munich-Assling 1968, p. 244.
- Dietmar Herrmann, Helmut Süssmann: Fichtel Mountains, Bavarian Vogtland, Steinwald, Bayreuther Land. Lexicon . Ackermannverlag, Hof (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-929364-18-2 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Braun: The Lords of Sparneck - family tree, distribution, brief inventory. In: Archive volume for the history of Upper Franconia. Bayreuth 2002.
- ^ Aindling administrative community - parts of the community of Petersdorf .
- ^ Coat of arms of the village of Grafenreuth .
- ↑ From the history of the city of Kemnath ( Memento from April 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )