Hagen (Thuringian noble family)
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Counts and Barons vom Hagen (also Hain, Hayn, Latin: Indagine ) is the name of a Thuringian nobility family who were wealthy in the Mühlhausen, Möckern and Quedlinburg area .
history
Legend has it that as early as 525 "German Saxon noblemen von Hagen " (Latin: Nobiles de Indagine , Thuringian: von Hain ) helped the Frankish king Theuderich I in the fight against the Thuringians and conquered the place divorces . The tribal warrior Hartugast is said to have made a decisive contribution in the decisive battle against the Thuringians in 531 and thus helped the allied Saxons and Franks to victory. As a thank you for this, he was given land in the Harz Mountains.
The Haynerburg, today's Rüdigershagen, was built north of Mühlhausen and became a hereditary fief. It consisted of the upper wall and the lower wall. This castle complex was documented on site as remains of the upper and lower walls when the monuments were recorded in the district of Worbis by the employees of the Weimar Museum for Pre- and Early History in Thuringia .
The first reliable documented mention of the von Hagen family - here in the Latin form of writing Indagine - can be found in February 1148: Cunnradus et Hermannus fratres de Indagine ... (the brothers Konrad and Hermann von Hagen ...) .
In the 12th century, Ernst de Indagine was also mentioned as a feudal lord on the Haynerburg. He had two sons, Dietrich and Heinrich. Dietrich settled in Düna (today's Deuna castle ), Heinrich stayed in Rüdigershagen.
In 1296 the brothers Rüdiger and Heinrich von Hagen and a Voigt Thilo von Proiken , possibly a representative of the Volkenroda monastery, sat on the castle estates in Mühlhausen .
At the beginning of the 14th century, the imperial city of Mühlhausen began to increasingly defend itself against attacks by the country nobility on its trade routes and the sovereign territory. Mühlhausen had co-founded the Thuringian three -city federation . Step by step, the numerous castles in the area were taken with great military superiority and, as a rule, destroyed. Around 1340 the von Hagen men were first forced to conclude an atonement agreement with the Mühlhausen city council, and their castles in Rüdigershagen had also been cremated.
The Deuna moated castle then became the family's new headquarters. With the ruins of the old castle , the gentlemen from Hagen had Hartwig von Knorr , who had acquired parts of the village as a pledge, build a farm in the area of the outer bailey.
In 1544 the time of the Lords of Knorr in Rüdigershagen ended when Christoph vom Hagen on Deuna bought back the goods there. This personality was one of the most important nobles of the Eichsfeld and was an early supporter of the reformer Luther . The family went into opposition to the Catholic Church and even forbade Catholic clergy from entering their property. In 1562 Christoph acquired the Niedergebra estate .
The castle in Rüdigershagen, built in 1590, was inhabited by Hans vom Hagen ; However, he died without an heir, and his property fell to his brother Christoph in Deuna .
Baron Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm (1754–1813) became the progenitor of the Count's branch from Hagen. In addition to Möckern Castle, he also owned the estates near Mühlhausen and Eichsfeld as a Fideikommißerbe. On July 10, 1803 King Friedrich Wilhelm III raised him . in the hereditary count class. Among other things, the Möckern estate with its forestry, arable farming, sugar factory and distillery remained in the family's possession until the expropriation in 1945. Hans-Dietrich Graf vom Hagen bought back parts of the Möckern estate after German reunification .
By Renata Countess vom Hagen, b. Countess von Wedel (1909–1974), heiress of the Westphalian Sandfort Castle , passed it to her adoptive son Friedrich Freiherr von Plettenberg , who took the name Graf vom Hagen Frhr. von Plettenberg accepted.
coat of arms
After a few changes over the centuries, the Counts of Hagen now only have the oldest symbol in their coat of arms: a black wolf's tang in white , a helmet with black and white blankets, and a silver open flight above it.
people
- Christoph von Hagen (died 1573), promoter of the Reformation
- Busso von Hagen (1665–1734), Brunswick imperial general
- Baron Johann Kaspar vom Hagen (1678–1757), governor in Duderstadt , deputy governor in Heiligenstadt (1732–1757)
- Georg Christoph von Hagen (1708–1762), Abbot in Siegburg
- Baron Ludwig Philipp vom Hagen (1724–1771), Minister of State of Frederick the Great
- Baron Christoph Friedrich Wilhelm vom Hagen (1754–1813), Lord of Möckern Castle , Prussian Finance Councilor, count since 1803
- Henriette Ernestine Christiane vom Hagen (1760–1794), German poet
- Baron Ludwig vom Hagen (1770–1842), district president of Cologne and Erfurt
- Freiherr Friedrich Josef vom Hagen (1827–1885), officer, author and translator
- Count Hilmar vom Hagen (1835–1900), Fideikommissherr on Möckern, member of the Prussian House of Representatives and Lords
- Freiherr Hugo vom Hagen (1856–1913), officer and first German photographer of an aerial photograph
- Count Rüdiger vom Hagen (1868–1947), Fideikommissherr on Möckern
- Countess Augusta ("Aga") vom Hagen (1872–1949) German painter, author and art patron.
- Marlis Countess vom Hagen (1911–2007), German politician (CDU)
- Romana Gräfin vom Hagen (1939–2018), German university manager
Noble families of the same name
It should be noted that there are various noble families with the name Hagen who are not related to each other, so in addition to the Thuringian barons and counts “vom Hagen” discussed here, the Hessian Reichsministeriale “von Hagen-Münzenberg ” , which died in 1255 , and the Brandenburg “ von der Hagen " , the New Mark-Pomeranian nobility " von Hagen " or the post-nobility " von Hagen " (Lieutenant General Ernst Heinrich Hagen, 1831–1905, son of the art historian Ernst August Hagen , was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1871). The various noble families with the name Hagen have founded a joint family association. There are also civil families with the same name, see listing at: Hagen (family name) .
literature
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon, Volume 2, pp. 315-316, digitized
- Edgar Rademacher: The coat of arms and seal image of the Obereichsfeld family from Hagen. In: Eichsfeld Jahrbuch Vol. 5 (1997) pp. 67-74, Mecke Verlag Duderstadt
- Otto Posse: The seal of the nobility of the Wettin region. Volume II, Verlag Wilhelm Baensch Dresden 1906, pages 49-54
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1915 p.337ff
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Martin Zeiller: Topographia Braunschweig Lüneburg : Rüdigershagen, Merian, Frankfurt am Main 1654, pp. 177–178
- ^ Edgar Rademacher: From the history of the village of Rüdigershagen . In: Kulturbund Worbis (Hrsg.): Eichsfelder Heimathefte . Issue 3. Worbis 1988, p. 216-227 .
- ↑ Paul Grimm, Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district . In: Kulturbund Worbis (Hrsg.): Eichsfelder Heimathefte . Special edition. Worbis 1969, p. 26, 27, 60-62 .
- ^ Aloys Schmidt: Document book of the calibration field. Number 640 . In: Historical sources of the province of Saxony and Anhalt . tape 13 . Magdeburg 1933.
- ↑ Edgar Rademacher (1988): ibid . S. 219-220 .
- ↑ Edgar Rademacher (1988): ibid . S. 221 .
- ↑ Laborious plowing on unsafe ground DIE WELT, March 23, 1998
- ↑ a b c Bernhard sacrifice man : shaping the calibration field. St. Benno-Verlag Leipzig and Verlag FW Cordier Heiligenstadt 1968
- ^ Website of the Hagen Family Association