Hessler (noble family)
The von Heßler (also Hesler, Heseler or de Heslere) were a ministerial family of the Landgraves of Thuringia , who belonged to the Thuringian nobility . They were of the same tribe as von Burkersroda . The family died out at the beginning of the 19th century.
Perhaps, however, the crest same originates letter noble Saxon family from Hesler from him.
history
The von Burkersroda and von Heßler families have the parent company of the same name in Burgheßler , probably on the castle (wüst) northeast of the village, northeast of Eckartsberga in the Haseltal on the castle hill. Heßler Castle probably got its name from the Hasel brook. From the castle, which existed from the 12th to the 14th centuries, only one well has survived.
The Landgrave Ministeriale Henricus de Heselere zu Burgheßler is mentioned for the first time in 1197 . In a document on August 7, 1239, the brothers Heinrico et Theoderico , sons of † Heinricus bone memorie senior de Heselere with their cousin Heinrico de Hartisleiben ( Hardisleben near Buttstädt ) are mentioned. In the same year, the brothers Georg and Hans , sons of Heinrich von Burckersrode , dropped the surname "von Burkersrode" and called themselves "von Hesler" after their new ancestral and knight residence, Hessler Castle .
In 1261, Berthold and Eckard von Heßler are documented as castellans of the Counts of Orlamünde . Towards the end of the 13th century belonged to Günther and Dietrich von Hesler to the vassals of in Wiehe resident counts of Rabenswalde . On November 25, 1333, a Hans Hessler passed on his fiefdom, which he had from the Landgrave in Heselere (Hessler), to the Counts of Orlamünde.
Hessler Castle was destroyed in the Thuringian Count's War in 1345 , not rebuilt and used as a quarry for the buildings of the village emerging in the valley. The manor, which remained in the possession of the von Heßler family until 1726, was built here. In 1539 a hereditary brotherhood and loan agreement was signed with von Burkersroda.
The Cistercian nunnery Klosterhäseler was donated by the von Heßler family in the middle of the 13th century. It was first mentioned in a document in 1318. In the course of the Reformation it was dissolved and in 1543 the von Heßler family bought it and merged it with the manor. This branch of the family died in 1771 with Hans Heinrich III. from Hessler. The estate went bankrupt.
After the death of Christian Moritz von Heßler in 1726, the Burgheßler manor fell to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar . In 1807 the property was acquired by August Wilhelm, Friedrich August and Wilhelmine Auguste Caroline von Burkersroda. Until the land reform in 1945 , Burgheßler remained in the possession of the von Burkersroda family.
In 1649, Lieutenant Colonel Hans Heinrich II von Heßler, Lord of Burgheßler and Balgstädt (owned by the family from 1616–1726), acquired Vitzenburg Castle . His son, Hans Heinrich III. von Heßler, lord of Burgheßler, Balgstädt, Vitzenburg and Großesnitz , had a manor built in front of the castle in Vitzenburg in 1665 . In 1695, War Commissioner Georg Friedrich von Heßler had the north wing of the palace expanded in baroque forms. Around the middle of the 18th century, under the direction of Hofrat Friedrich Moritz von Heßler, the Rentei was built on the north wing of Vitzenburg Castle , on which the alliance coat of arms Heßler-Lindenau with the year 1755 as well as Johann Moritz von Heßler and Henriette Margaretha von Zaschwitz are located. From 1764 to 1767 the castle and the former monastery were rebuilt in the baroque style under the direction of the district councilor Friedrich Moritz von Heßler. District Chamber Councilor Friedrich Moritz von Heßler , the last of von Heßler at Vitzenburg Castle, died childless on April 12, 1803. The royal Saxon chamberlain and governor Count Heinrich Moritz von der Schulenburg received his inheritance . As a condition and in memory of the testator, his descendants should use the name " von der Schulenburg called von Hessler".
The last representative of the Klosterhäseler feudal tribe, the 49-year-old retired lieutenant Friedrich Heinrich von Heßler (born October 27, 1756, son of the Polish-Saxon lieutenant colonel of Merseburg George Christoph von Heßler and the Johanna Henrike Freiin von Kottwitz ) died on 19. June 1804 in Blasewitz and was buried on June 23 in the local Johanniskirchhof. He left his widow Christiana Magdalena von Heßler, nee. Adam (possibly illegitimate from the Brunswick line of the noble lords of Eltz on Rethmar ), but no children, so that the feudal mass to the Elector Friedrich August III. fell from Saxony. The traces of his older brother Rudolph Adam von Heßler (born February 18, 1755), governor (1785), (⚭ 1784 with Marianna Konstancja Bojanowska , from an old Polish noble family) are lost in Silesia around 1800. His daughter Konstantine Johanna Friederike von Heßler (Häsler, Haesler), foster daughter of the District Administrator Hans Ernst von Stentzsch , Herr auf Prittag not far from Grünberg in Silesia , married in 1804 (as an orphan ) with the royal Prussian lieutenant general of the infantry Gustav Xaver Reinhold von Ryssel († October 17, 1845). She brought the Prittag manor into the marriage and still lived there as a widow around 1870.
A genealogical connection to the still flourishing mailing nobility von Hesler , whose line can only be traced back to George Wilhelm von Hesler (1773–1830) and which carries the same coat of arms, cannot be proven according to the available sources. Extensive documents previously held by the family were burned in Dresden at the end of the war. On February 19, 1925 in Berlin the nobility law non-objection of the led nobility for the brothers Friedrich Wilhelm , Saxon captain a. D., and Albert von Hesler , Saxon first lieutenant a. D.
coat of arms
Hessler : The shield is split from silver and red to the tips, or shows four red storm stakes placed over a silver shield to the right. On the helmet a growing, forward-looking, crowned woman in red and silver clothing, holding a green wreath in her right, the crown decorated with seven alternating red and white flags. The helmet covers are red and silver.
Hesler : Three right red tips in silver. On the helmet with red and silver blankets a growing virgin in a dress split in red and silver, holding a green wreath in her right hand, her left hand propped on her side. On her head she wears a flat red hat with seven (4 to the right, 3 to the left) alternating red and silver flags on poles of mixed colors.
The Hesslers were related to the tribe and coat of arms of the nobles von Laucha (or von Luchow) and the lords of Burkersroda . (A similar coat of arms and possibly tribal community - with the same red and silver top coat of arms - existed between several Altmark families , including the Beust , Königsmarck , Moellendorff and Havelberg.)
people
- Heinrich von Hesler (lived around 1300)
- Hans Friedrich von Heßler (1610–1667), colonel and owner of the Burgheßler and Balgstädt manors
- Moritz Christoph von Heßler (1643–1702), principal tax collector in Saxony-Altenburg and owner of the Rabis and Möckern manors
- Hans Heinrich von Heßler (1648–1717), royal Polish and electoral Saxon major general and owner of the manors Klosterhäseler and Gößnitz
- Johann Moritz von Heßler (1677–1741), Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor and Hereditary Marshal administrator, owner of the Vitzenburg manor
- George Christoph von Heßler († 1774), colonel of the infantry from Electoral Saxony, regimental commander, knight of the order Pour le Mérite and manor owner
- Rudolph Adam von Heßler (1756-around 1800), governor of the Erzgebirge district in the Electorate of Saxony and aristocratic district tax collector
More families
It should be noted that there were two other noble families with the same name who were not related to the above.
Hesler in Silesia
The von Hesler, also Haessler, Hessler, Hesler were a noble family occurring in Silesia. The first were Niclas, Hancke and Peter von Hesler in 1353 and Fortunat Hessler was still alive in 1590. Her coat of arms was square in black and silver with a red shield head.
Hessler in Franconia and Hesse
The von Hessler were an old Frankish - Hessian family. In 1520 they can also be found in the imperial free Franconian knighthood in the knight canton of Rhön-Werra . Her coat of arms was diagonally square in gold and blue .
Haeseler from Magdeburg
There is also no relationship to the von Haeseler merchant family from Magdeburg , who were elevated to the Prussian nobility and later to counts in 1733.
literature
- Caspar Sagittarius : De Familia Heselerio-Burckersroda. 17th century.
- Johannes Sinapius: Silesian curiosities ... of the Silesian nobility .... Volume 1, Leipzig 1720, pp. 457–458.
- Valentin König : Genealogical historical description of the von Heßler. In: Genealogical aristocratic history or gender description of those in Chur-Saxon and neighboring countries of the oldest and most handsome noble families and counts' houses. Leipzig 1727, Volume 2, pp. 514-541 (digitized version )
- Johann Friedrich Gauhe : The Holy Roman Empire genealogical-historical nobility lexicon. 1740 Vol. 1, pp. 840-843.
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, p. 166, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN 0435-2408 , and: Adeligen Häuser Teil В, 1986, p. 134.
- Gustav Sommerfeldt : On the history of the von Hessler family in Thuringia , In: Deutscher Herold , year 46 (1915), p. 137
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon. Vol. IV, GK, p. 342 ff.
- Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein : The gentlemen von Burkersroda and von Hessler and Count von Zech, otherwise von Burkersroda. One family at Saale and Unstrut 1144-1945 . Self-published, Leopoldshöhe 2008.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 .