Griesheim (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Griesheim

Griesheim (including semolina Home, Grisheim) is the name of the Thuringian Uradelsgeschlechts from the mansfeldisch-merseburgisch-querfurtischen room, which was located in the Black TPF. The parent company of the same name Schloss Griesheim is located in Griesheim near Arnstadt an der Ilm.

history

The family is said to have appeared for the first time in 1050 with Wittilo de Grizheim, with which they claim the same ancestors as the noble family Griessheim for themselves. The family first appeared in a document with Widelo de Griezheim in 1133. In a register of the von Griesheim family from 1712, it says about his brother: “His brother Sitzo remained the Saracens during the war as Kayser's Lotharii dear faithful and land-graff Ludewig's brave affiftente near Arnstadt.” This document contains the family tree listed until 1642. Mentions about the family are often related to the Paulinzella monastery and the Counts of Schwarzburg.

In 2017, a grave slab from the 13th century was discovered in the floor of the upper church in Arnstadt, which shows the coat of arms of the Lords of Griesheim with the sword of a knight and a flower relief. The prominent place in the aisle chapel of the first building near the altar there allows to see in the buried an important donor of the Franciscan settlement in Arnstadt and their first church building.

On February 3, 1332 Heinrich von Griesheim, canon and provost of the Wechterswinkel monastery ( Rhön-Grabfeld ) testified in a document. The exhibitors are Johannes and Adelheit von Windheim , the recipients are the abbot and convent of Erbach Abbey.

The author Johann Heinrich Zedler writes in his Universal Lexikon (1732–1754) about the v. Griesheims: "In the past, the family also settled on the Rhine." Regesta A1 No. 236/1 and B3 No. 2 of the Hessian State Archives in Darmstadt could prove this statement. On June 2, 1252, Frankenstein Castle in Nieder-Beerbach in the Odenwald was first mentioned in a document. In this document u. a. listed as witnesses: Sigfrid and Johann von Griesheim, Burgmannen of Konrad Reiz von Breuberg . Sigfrid enters Dornberg Castle on May 17, 1257 in a document from Count Dither v. Katzenelnbogen as a witness. In the regests of the Counts of Katzenelnbogen, Vol. 1, Vol. 3, Vol. 4, other family members are named. However, recent research has shown that this is probably another noble family with the name v. Griesheim acts.

The uninterrupted line of trunks begins with Kurt Apel von Griesheim (1548–1626), on Griesheim and Dörnfeld an der Ilm. In the Fruit-Bringing Society , Heinrich Christoph von Griesheim was “The Input One” and Wolff Melchior von Griesheim was “The Ready One”. Conrad Heinrich (1629–1665) was court and judiciary and Merseburg cathedral dean, and Günther was Naumburg cathedral provost and Zeitzer councilor.

Grave slab of Günther von Griesheim (1635–1718) in the cloister of Naumburg Cathedral . The name of wife Sophie is already engraved, but her birth and death dates are missing.

possession

The sex was wealthy and a. in Ettischleben, Crottendorf, Dörnfeld, Drackendorf, Elxleben, Gleina near Zeitz, Heerda, Köckenitz, Libringen, Lichte, Merseburg, Netzschkau, Niedersynderstedt, Oberthau, Osthausen, Synderstedt and Wülfershausen.

From 1878 to 1945 the family owned the Falkenburg Castle in Pomerania with the associated estate (company size 3033 hectares, largest estate in the former Dramburg district). The last owner was Kurt-Apel von Griesheim (1899-1993). Falkenburg Castle was destroyed around 1970.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a black bar in gold, accompanied by two black roses. On the helmet with black and gold covers there are two buffalo horns, divided across the corner by gold over black, with alternating colors on both sides. The first known image of the coat of arms comes from a seal of Hermann von Griesheim from 1326 [3].

Blazon according to Johann Siebmacher : “A black bar on a white shield, above it two red (or black) roses inseminated with gold. On the helmet two buffalo horns divided across corners by gold and black, on the outside of which are covered with black or alternately gold and black linden or clover leaves. The ceilings are black and white. ”A particularly beautiful epitaph by Hans Melichor von Griesheim (1656–1690) with a family coat of arms is preserved in the church in Dörnfeld.

Known family members

  • Albert von Griesheim was a canon and canon of Naumburg between 1212 and 1237. He and Vicar Walung were responsible for the construction of the Naumburg church (chapter house and dormitory, probably on the north side of the cathedral). Its seal from 1229 is still preserved.
  • Johann Heinrich Günter von Griesheim (1635–1719), privy councilor and councilor in Zeitz, provost and senior of the Naumburg / Saale monastery.
  • Benigna von Griesheim (1562–1633), was married to Sebastian Schaffalitzky von Muckadell , Obervogt in Brackenheim. The wedding sermon given in Stuttgart on May 13, 1585 is kept in the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel. The grave slab of the two is in the Johanniskirche in Brackenheim - Baden-Württemberg. Her son Bernhard , who lives in Freudental and in Freihof Faurndau near Göppingen, was a. a. Major general in the army of the Swedish Field Marshal Gustaf Horn. In this role he was u. a. involved in the battle of Nördlingen . His cousin was Heinrich Christoph von Griesheim; this relationship saved him from conviction as a spy.
  • Heinrich Christoph von Griesheim (* 1598, † after 1652), publicist and statesman; Among other things, he wrote a report on the final battle of the Thirty Years' War on September 6, 1634 near Bopfingen-Nördlingen. He was also Oberamtmann of Eichsfeld , and was previously in the service of the Elector of Trier, the Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and also of General Johann Tserclaes Graf Tilly. In 1637 he took the crew of the Swedish Colonel Hans Wachtmeister by surprise and recaptured Heiligenstedt in one stroke.
  • As a Kurmainzischer Truchsess, Frantz Morian von Griesheim took part in the coronation and the coronation celebrations of Emperor Leopold I in Frankfurt / Main in 1658. See: Description and illustration of all royal. and Churfürstl. Ein -züge, Wahl und Corönungs Acta: Kurmainzischer Einzug, with copper engraving by Verlag Caspar Merian.
  • Günther von Griesheim (1635–1718), Saxon-Zeitz collegiate council, canon in Naumburg (Saale) and manor owner.
  • Philippine von Griesheim , born in Köthen in 1790 in the building of today's Löwenapotheke), bride of Albert von Wedell. He was one of the 11 Schill officers who were executed on September 16, 1809 in Wesel. The letters of a bride from the time of the German Wars of Independence 1804 - 1813 tell about the love story between her and Albert ( ISBN 1-147-32268-6 ).
  • Konstantin von Griesheim (1797–1881), Prussian major general
  • Gustav von Griesheim (1798–1854), Prussian major general and influential conservative military politician
  • Karl von Griesheim (1799–1878), Prussian general of the cavalry
  • Adolf von Griesheim (1820–1894), factory owner, partner in the Ermen and Engels textile factory in Wuppertal Barmen. He was married to Anna Engels (1825-1853), the sister of Friedrich Engels .
  • Anna von Griesheim (* 1966), German fashion designer

swell

literature

Unprinted sources

  • Paulinzellaer Documents, Sign. 2; 40: 73, Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt
  • Documenta Regislacensia, Königseer Documents 1346-1681, Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt
  • Thuringian State Archives Gotha, Secret Archives QQ I d No. 7 and 12
  • StABamberg / Langheim, Regest 1345 V 13 to Heinrich von Griesheim, prior of Saalfeld

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt, File No. 1133.
  2. ^ Friderich Rudolphi and Hans Basilius von Gleichenstein: Gotha diplomatica. Part 2, Verlag Gensch 1712.
  3. ↑ The document is kept in the State Archives in Würzburg, signature: Kloster Erbach Urkunden 1332 February 3.
  4. ↑ Large complete universal encyclopedia of all sciences and arts. 64. Vol. Halle / Leipzig 1732–1754.
  5. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogiscehs Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser. First year, 1900, p. 351.
  6. ^ Description of the coat of arms by Bernhard Peter
  7. ↑ Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, Prussian Province of Saxony, to the Magdeburg-Mansfeldischen Griesheim.
  8. ↑ The Swedes on the Breitwang, a contribution to the history of the city of Bopfingen and the battle of Nördlingen in 1634. Vlg. Steinmeier Nördlingen, ISBN 978-3-936363-47-0 .