Great from Trockau
The family of the Gross von Trockau belongs to the Franconian nobility . It is related to the coat of arms and tribe with the Pfersfelder and the Lochner .
history
The sex was first mentioned in 1287 with "Poppo called the great" in a document from the Ebrach monastery .
The ancestral seat of Castle Trockau came to the Groß family around 1300 through marriage of the Lords of Trockau. In 1307 she entered the service of Konrad von Schlüsselberg , a close confidante of the later Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria . From around 1390 the castle became a fiefdom of the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg . Destroyed several times, it was rebuilt in 1769 to become today's baroque palace, which is still owned by the family. Tüchersfeld came to the Groß von Trockau in 1329, first the Niedere Burg , which they owned until 1959, and from around 1422 to 1628 also the Obere Burg . From 1608 they also owned Kohlstein Castle and from 1767 Gleisenau Castle , both until the 20th century.
The Groß von Trockau belonged to the knightly canton of Gebürg in the Franconian Imperial Knighthood and in 1737 the Groß von Trockau were directly empowered by the Imperial Court Council decision . After the end of the Old Kingdom in 1806, they were enrolled in the baron class of the Kingdom of Bavaria on June 23, 1813 .
The family presented with Heinrich III. Groß von Trockau (from 1487 to 1501) a prince-bishop of Bamberg and with Adam Friedrich Freiherr Groß von Trockau (from 1821 to 1840) a bishop of Würzburg.
coat of arms
“A red bar in a shield split by silver and blue . On the helmet with red-silver covers two buffalo horns , the right one silver, the left blue, each covered with a red bar and topped with one and on the outside with three silver heron feathers (ostrich feathers). "
Personalities
- Henry III. Groß von Trockau , Prince-Bishop of Bamberg (1487 to 1501). He commissioned Tilman Riemenschneider to build a high grave for the canonized imperial couple Heinrich and Kunigunde in Bamberg Cathedral .
- Christoph Adam Groß von Trockau (1649–1724); In 1676 he set up the Auditorium publicum in Erlangen , which was expanded into a knight academy in Erlangen in 1699 ; this facility is the forerunner of the University of Erlangen .
- Johann Gottfried Groß von Trockau (1687–1750), auxiliary bishop in Eichstätt
- Karl Ludwig Kasimir Wilhelm Groß von und zu Trockau , under him the new headquarters of the Trockau Castle
- Otto Philipp Erhard Ernst Groß von Trockau , builder of Gleisenau Castle in the town of the same name
- Adam Friedrich Freiherr Groß von Trockau (1758–1840), Bishop of Würzburg 1821–1840
- Joseph Heinrich Groß von Trockau (1766–1850), Commander of the Teutonic Order , Councilor, Oberamtmann and Chamberlain in the Prince Diocese of Bamberg
- Auguste Groß von Trockau (1845–1915), writer under the pseudonym Jutta Berthen
Possessions
- Castle Trockau , ancestral seat of the family in the village of Trockau (since about 1300 until today)
- Tüchersfeld : from 1329 to 1959 Niederntüchersfeld Castle , from 1422 to 1628 at the latest Oberntüchersfeld
- Kohlstein Castle (1608 to 1961) with the town of Kohlstein
- Gleisenau Castle (built from 1767, the baroque castle from 1772 for Otto Philipp Erhart Ernst Groß von Trockau)
- Heuchelhof estate near Würzburg
- Unterbaar Castle (since 1962)
- Zeulenreuth Castle (built around 1640)
See also
- List of Frankish knight families
- Grave place with grave monument from 1831 in Westheim, district of Kitzingen
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria . Volume 1, page 437
- Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria . Volume 7, page 204
- Johann Gottfried Biedermann: Genealogical tables, Ritterorts Gebürg . Nuremberg 1748
Remarks
- ^ Johann Gottfried Biedermann, genealogical register of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood of the Landes zu Francken, lobbied locality Gebürg, 1747, reprint 1984, tabula XCIX and C, there written lines reuth.
