Grießenbeck from Grießenbach

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Family coat of arms of the Grießenbeck von Grießenbach

Grießenbeck von Grießenbach , is the name of an old Bavarian noble family . The family, some of whose branches still exist today, belongs to the Lower Bavarian nobility.

history

origin

According to the Gotha Genealogical Pocket Book , the family was originally called von Hanreith or von Hohenreith, after the castle of the same name, which was destroyed by the Hungarians . Accordingly, the origins go back to Ludolf von Hahnreith , who is said to have built a castle and a chapel on the ruins of the castle near Postau in 1124 , which he consecrated to St. Stephan . He gave her the name Grießenbach, which he himself has led since then. In 1130 he designated most of his possessions to the foundation of the Biburg Monastery , a donation that his sons Heinrich and Amelbert confirmed and increased in 1153. Kneschke adopts this information in his New General German Adels Lexicon .

Grießenbach Castle and Hofmark with Hanreith Castle Stables, copper engraving around 1700 by Michael Wening
Florian Griespek von Griespach (* 1504; † 1588)

According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the family with Gotfridus de Grisoenbach was first mentioned in a document on September 4, 1240. Gotfridus is named in the document as a layperson . In 1280 Gottfriedus de Griezenbach appears in a document issued by Duke Heinrich of Bavaria as fidelis vir noster ( lat. Our faithful man) and miles (lat. Knight ).

The spelling of the family name alternates between Griezbeck von Griezbach, Griesbeck von Griesbach, Griezenbeck von Griezenbach, Griessenpoekh, Griessenbeck von Griessenbach, and Grießenbeck or Grießenbeck von Grießenbach.

Spread and personalities

Otto, a son of Gottfried († 1293) who appeared in a document in 1277, became abbot in Weltenburg Abbey . Gotthard, a grandson of Gottfried and son of Gottfried the Younger, was repeatedly knighted by Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian because of his bravery in the battle of Ampfing and Mühldorf (September 28, 1322) . After Ludolf von Hahnreith allegedly already had a gray (French gris ) griffin in the coat of arms instead of an originally black cock, the gray griffin is said to have been improved into a red griffin . Gotthard's son Ulrich appears in 1374 as a co-signer of the twelfth fire letter , an extensive body of law to punish thieves and arsonists. It was founded by Stephan II , Duke of Bavaria, together with his son and successor Stephan III. to secure the roads and the movement of goods.

With Gotthard's descendants, the family divided into numerous branches and twigs. Members of the family came to Tyrol , Austria , Vienna , Bohemia and the Rhineland . Georg, who was in the service of Emperor Friedrich III. stood and was knighted by him, founded the Bohemian line. He was charged with several estates in the Pilsener circle invested . Georg died in 1493 and was buried in the family's own chapel in Kralowitz , near the Plaß monastery .

On April 4, 1708, Anton von Grießenbach received confirmation of the old imperial knighthood with the predicate of Hahnreith , and Bavarian electoral recognition took place on May 27, 1709. In April 1739 he and his cousins ​​were raised to the Bavarian electoral baron status.

All but two of the lines died out early. The sons of Andreas Grießenbeck von Grießenbach, Johann Sigmund Simon and Georg Christoph donated two lines, of which the older Bavarian line became extinct with the death of Stephan Siegmund Grießenbeck von Grießenbach on December 11, 1853. His brother Johann Baptist Grießenbeck von Grießenbach died in February 1852. He was the owner of Schermau (today part of Dingolfing ) and, since his brother received Grießenbach, was compensated with money. Stephan Sigmund named the eldest son of Karl Ernst Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach (* 1787, † 1863), royal Bavarian major general and commander of the Bavarian Cadet Corps , Christian Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach from the second line of the Upper Palatinate , as the heir of the old family line Grießenbach .

Christian Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach died in Munich in 1853 as a royal Bavarian treasurer and chief accountant . His son Karl Sigmund Christian Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach (* 1844; † 1881) became a district judge in Landshut and was a member of the Bavarian Chamber of Deputies from 1875 to 1878 . In 1871 he founded a Fideikommiss from the Grießenbach family estate with Hahnreith . His first marriage remained childless from his second marriage in Koblenz in 1870 , with Theresia Freiin von Solemacher-Antweiler having four daughters. Christian's younger brother, Maximilian Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach, became the royal Bavarian post office official in Regensburg and the youngest brother Friedrich Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach served as an officer in the royal Bavarian army like his father .

Of the three brothers, only Maximilian Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach (* 1817, † 1886) was able to continue the line. He married Benigna Pfretzschner (* 1832; † 1889) in Regensburg in 1853. The marriage produced a son and a daughter. Son Karl Ernst Freiherr Grießenbeck von Grießenbach became royal Bavarian treasurer, senior government councilor, director of the regional insurance office in Regensburg and captain of the Landwehr . He married Friederike von Horstig called d'Aubigny von Engelbrunner in Munich in 1885 and left behind a daughter and two sons.

Status surveys

Felix Anton Grießenbeck von Grießenbach and Hahnreit, together with his cousins ​​Johann Franz Balthasar, electoral Bavarian councilor in Amberg , and Johann Heinrich Bonaventura, captain in the Count's Minucci regiment, were elevated to the status of electoral Bavarian baron on April 22, 1739 in Munich. Associated with this was an increase in the coat of arms . The enrollment in the baron class of the royal Bavarian nobility matriculation took place on November 19, 1812.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a red griffin in a shield divided by gold and black . The griffin growing on the helmet with the red and gold helmet covers .

Coat of arms of the Barons Grießenbeck von Grießenbach

Coat of arms increase

The increased coat of arms, awarded on the occasion of the ascension of barons in 1739, is square and covered with a heart shield divided by gold and black , inside a red griffin (family coat of arms of Grießenbeck von Grießenbach). 1 and 4 in gold on a green hill a striding, red-armored black rooster (coat of arms for the castle stable with the clearing name Hohenreith alias Hahnreith alias Hahnreuth near Postau and Grießenbach). 2 and 3 in red a silver bar covered with a red rose (coat of arms of the Ottenhofer (von Ottenhofen), Munich patricians, who died out around 1590 ). The coat of arms has three helmets with black and gold covers on the right and red and silver covers on the left. On the middle helmet the Greif (master helmet ornament of Grießenbeck von Grießenbach), between an open red flight (helmet ornament of Ottenhofer) covered with a bar as in the shield , on the two outer ones the cock (helmet ornament from Hahnreith).

The coat of arms of the Ottenhofer was taken over by their heirs, the Esswurm (Munich patricians), in the quartered shield. After the Esswurm died out in the thirties of the 17th century, the Grießenbeck von Grießenbach inheritors took over the Ottenhofer coat of arms in the second and third fields of their fourth coat of arms.

Griffins and cocks were depicted in the quartered coat of arms with two helmets as early as 1708 on the occasion of the confirmation of the status of imperial knight, but also by Michael Wening in the copper engraving by Grießenbach at the end of the 17th century .

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch Freiherrliche Häuser 1856, pages 249-251
  2. ^ A b New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 4, Pages 35–36
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, page 256
  4. ↑ Codex chronologico-diplomaticus episcopatus Ratisbonensis Volume 1, page 386; No. 401
  5. ↑ Otto Hupp , Munich Calendar 1919 (35th year)
  6. ↑ a b Johannes Baptista Rietstap , Armorial general , Gouda 1884 (Reprint Baltimore, Maryland 2003), p. 828 ( digitized version )
  7. ^ Ottenhofen historical picture sources
  8. ↑ Reinhard Heydenreuter, The coat of arms. An introduction with special consideration of the district of Erding

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