Haim (noble family)
The Haim and Haym zum Reichenstein (also Haimer, Haym, Haymb, Hoym) were an old Austrian aristocratic family that was raised to the baron class in 1582 and accepted into the lower Austrian gentry class in the same year .
history
The Haim were rich citizens of Vienna, Otto the old is mentioned in a document in 1231. Otto, the son of Haymo, is named as city judge in Vienna in 1259 and 1272 in a document from the St. Peter monastery in Salzburg. Otto Haymo was the city judge of Vienna in 1290 and 1292 and was made a knight by Duke Albert I for his services . Otto built a chapel in his house (today Salvatorkapelle ) and then bequeathed this house to the city (today part of the old town hall ). Benedict (Benusch) Haym or Haimb, Obrister , last general of the Emperor Ludwig IV , Duke of Bavaria and Palatinate, received a coat of arms in 1345. He still lived in 1350, his sons Johann and Andreas Haim (Haymer) lived in Bavaria in Landshut in 1367 and 1389 . Knight Heinrich Haymer, son of Johann, moved to the Steyermark and is mentioned there in 1400 and 1411.
Knight Andreas II the Haymer was Emperor Frederick's prince caretaker of the Schwanberg rule in Steyermark in 1479 . Johann (Hanns) Haimer zu Friedberg (* 1482; † March 16, 1567 in Graz) fought in his youth under Emperor Maximilian I against the Venetians, afterwards he was Emperor Ferdinand I and Archduke Karl II. Inner Austrian Court Councilor zu Grätz . Hanns had 13 children with six wives and died in Graz at the age of 85.
Christoph II. Haimer (from Haimb zu Reichenstein Upper Austria, Haimberg and Friedberg in Steyermark) (born January 31, 1517) was the noble boy of Queen Maria Infanta of Hispania at the court of Ludwig II , king in Hungary and Bohemia. Christoph moved to the Netherlands and served in the royal bodyguard. As a cuirassier cavalry master, he fought against France and the Turks and in November 1565 became Emperor Maximilian II of Lower Austria's Chamber Councilor in Vienna. Christoph bought the Herrschaft and Veste Reichenstein in the valley of the Waldaist near Pregarten from the brothers Georg, Wolfgang and Johann Herren von Liechtenstein . On December 4th, 1568, Emperor Maximilian II confirmed to him the ancient knightly imperial nobility of his family, increased and improved his coat of arms with the Pernerian coat of arms inherited from his wife (a golden bear in the black field). In 1569 he was also responsible for the unmarried Colonel Provision Commissioner's position for a time; In 1570 he owned a house in Vienna on Weihburggasse. He died in Reichenstein on June 6, 1571, shot from an ambush during the Reichensteiner robot uprising.
Johann III. (Hanns) Haym zu Reichenstein, his brothers Georg, Christoph, Stephan and Dietrich and then the cousins of the name and tribe were accepted into the Lower Austrian knighthood on March 25, 1575. Hanns, Georg, Christoph and Stephan die Haym zum Reichenstein were elevated to the status of imperial barons on January 8th, 1582 with the entire descent of Emperor Rudolph II , and in the same year they were accepted into the lower Austrian gentry.
Personalities
- Christopher III. Baron von Haim zu Reichenstein (born April 18, 1552 Seckau, † August 25, 1611 Vienna), 1585 Lower Austrian Chamberlain, 1591 Colonel and Commandant zu Canischa , 1593 Commander of 500 German soldiers of the Upper Austrian estates
- Johann III. (Hans) Freiherr von Haim zu Reichenstein, St. Margarethen / Vienna, Nickolsdorf (* February 12, 1544 Reiffenstein, † April 19, 1616 Vienna), Lower Austrian government councilor, emperor. Reichshofrat, 1578 emperor. Kammerhofrat, from 1603 to the end of 1605 Governor of Austria ob der Enns, baron in 1582.
coat of arms
Oldest coat of arms on seals
The oldest coat of arms (according to existing old seals) was a shield crossed six times (or four times), on top of a closed stech helmet two buffalo horns.
Coat of arms of the knight Benedict 1345
In a white shield, an armored arm protruding from a cloud, which holds a golden pusikan in its hand.
Knight coat of arms
(from the coat of arms of the Lower Austrian knighthood) is a squared shield; Field 1 and 4 in a silver field protruding from a blue and white cloud on the right is an armored arm that holds up a golden pusikan with his bare hand, from which a golden chain hanging down around the arm is lost in the cloud; Field 2 and 3 in the black field is accompanied by an ascending golden bear. Two crowned open helmets: on the first front helmet stands a high plume of four blue and three white ostrich feathers, on the other helmet the golden bear turned inwards. The helmet cover is silver and blue on the right, gold and black on the left.
Barons coat of arms
four fields and a heart sign. Fields 1 and 4 are divided sideways twice black and twice white, an upright golden bear appears turned inwards; in fields 2 and 3, which is also alternately divided across eight times in silver and blue, a golden royal scepter stands up in the middle between two outward-looking golden eagle heads with their identical collars. The silver heart shield shows the armored arm with pusikan as in the knight's coat of arms. Three crowned open helmets: on the front helmet the rising golden bear appears growing between two black and white eagle wings that are tinged across two bars; On the middle helmet is a high plume of three blue ostrich feathers and three white ostrich feathers between them; on the third to the left the golden scepter is set up straight between two spread eagle wings, which are tinged eight times silver and blue like the second and third fields, and are covered with the golden eagle heads with their collars. The helmet cover is gold and black on the right, silver and blue on top, blue and gold and white on the left.
literature
- Franz Karl Wissgrill, Karl von Odelga: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from ..., Volume 4, Vienna 1800, pp. 65–73.
Web links
- Document: Documents (1075-1912) 1303 I 15 - 22 (Certificate from Otto "hern Haymen eninchel" from January 1303) in the European document archive Monasterium.net .
- on the Haim coat of arms (in Hartberg Castle), see also welt-der-wappen.de