Harsdorf from Enderndorf

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The coat of arms of the Harsdörfer

The Harsdorf von Enderndorf (historically also: Harsdörffer , Harsdorfer or Harstörfer) are an old patrician family of the imperial city of Nuremberg - first mentioned in 1377. The Harsdorf were, with short interruptions, from 1450 until the end of the imperial city period in 1806 represented in the “Inner Council” and, according to the “ Dance Statute ”, belonged to the “first admitted” sexes eligible for advice.

history

The Harsdorfers came from the ministry around Kulmbach , probably from the town of Harsdorf of the same name . Around the middle of the 14th century two Junkers Harsdorf settled in the imperial city of Nuremberg and accepted citizenship in 1377/80. When they were admitted to the "Inner Council" in 1450, they were accepted into the Nuremberg patriciate . From then on they provided numerous councilors and mayors.

They were probably wealthy early on, because by the beginning of the 15th century they belonged to King Ruprecht's financiers alongside Schürstab , Rummel , Stromer and Herdegen Valzner . They increased their wealth mainly through long-distance trade. The Harsdorfsche Handelsgesellschaft is documented in trade with Bohemian cities from 1460 and operated, together with the Tetzel von Kirchensittenbach , from 1466 a copper hammer with smelter in Enzendorf and was its sole owner from 1472 until the transition to the Ebner von Eschenbach . The Harsdorf were active as mining entrepreneurs in the copper districts of Thuringia and Saxony until the early 17th century and were closely associated with the Imhoff in the later phase . One branch went to the imperial city of Ulm and also provided mayor there.

Enrolled in 1813 as nobles of the Bavarian nobility, the Harsdorf von Enderndorf were elevated to the Bavarian baron status in 1841 .

Possessions

Harsdorf Castle in Fischbach
Enderndorf Castle

To this day in the possession of the Barons Harsdorf von Enderndorf are:

Former possessions (extract)

In the past, the Harsdörffer owned:

Foundations (extract)

  • Harsdörfer Altar : five altar wings for the altar of the Katharinenkirche from the workshop of Hans Traut the Younger (donated by Andreas Harsdorf and his wife Ursula Behaim , 1490/95), today in the Lorenzkirche
  • Mount of Olives group for the choir head of the Carthusian Church from the workshop of Adam Kraft (Peter Harsdorf, 1489/99)
  • Artelshofen altar by Wolf Traut (1514) with donor coat of arms, originally in the clothmaker's chapel of St. Lorenz in Nuremberg, from the 17th century in the patronage church of the Harsdorffers in Artelshofen (at that time replacement of the donor pictures), today: Bavarian National Museum in Munich

  • Harsdörfer Altar in the Lorenz Church , Hans Traut the Younger, around 1490–95

  • Mount of Olives group from Adam Kraft's workshop on the choir head of the Carthusian Church (donated by Peter Harsdorf in 1489/99)

  • Artelshofen Altar by Wolf Traut (1514)

Known family members

  • Ursula Tucher b. Harsdörfferin († 1504), wife of Hans Tucher (by Michael Wolgemut , 1478)

  • Wolfgang Harsdörfer (1502–1557), councilor, mayor

  • Bust of Anna Imhoff geb. Harsdörffer (1528–1601), by Johan Gregor van der Schardt , 1580, wife of Willibald Imhoff

  • Paul Harsdörffer (1546–1613), Senior Mayor

  • David Harsdörfer (1552–1615), councilor, mayor

  • Wolfgang Harsdörfer (1560–1624), councilor, mayor

  • Andreas Harsdörfer (1578–1632), councilor

  • David Harsdörfer (1584–1654), councilor, mayor

  • Paul Harsdörfer (1605–1666), councilor, weigher, captain of the city militia, war supervisor

  • Georg Philipp Harsdörffer (1607–1658), lawyer and writer

  • Christoph Andreas Harsdörfer (1610–1686), foremost Losunger

  • Johann Christoph Harsdörfer, bailiff

  • Sigmund Christoph Harsdörfer von Enderndorf, curator of the Mendelsche Twelve Brothers Foundation (1747)

coat of arms

In red on a golden three-mountain, a silver tower without a gate with three loopholes.

  • Round shield with the coats of arms of the three chief captains Volckamer , Harsdörffer and Tucher , 1590

  • Alliance coat of arms of David Harßdorffer, curator of the Mendel Twelve Brothers Foundation, and his wife Maria Örtel (1613)

  • Alliance coat of arms of Paulus Harsdörffer, curator of the Mendelsche Twelve Brothers Foundation, and his wife Barbara Löffelholz (1663)

  • Our Lady with Harsdörffer coat of arms, around 1460 (Liebieghaus, Frankfurt)

  • Gravestone of the mayor Georg Friedrich Harsdörffer (1646–1713) and his wife Magdalena Besserer ( Ulm Minster )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Riegelstein Castle

literature

See also

Web links

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