Heider (noble family)
Heider (rarely also Heyder or Haider ) is the name of an old, first Protestant , later Catholic, patrician and aristocratic family from Württemberg . The Heider lineage begins with Hans Heider (* around 1460 in Leutkirch ; † 1539 ibid). The family is then divided into two branches, one from Lindau and one from Biberach . The Lindau branch received the letter of arms already on May 24th, 1566 by Imperial Vice Chancellor Johann Ulrich Zasius zu Augsburg , and was transferred to Regensburg on April 26th, 1641 by Emperor Ferdinand III. raised to the nobility. On 23. March 1708 a noble confirmation and crest improvement is made by Emperor Joseph I. The Biberacher branch of the family Heider received on 28. October 1732 by the Hofpfalzgrafen Rudolf von Schönborn the crest letter and was on 22. August 1795 in Vienna by Emperor Franz II. In raised the knightly imperial nobility.
history
The origin of the Heiders is likely to be in St. Gallen, where a Heitaro is mentioned as early as 798 . Several personalities with the name Heitar subsequently worked as advocati for the abbots in St. Gallen. In the 13th century the family began to expand on the north side of Lake Constance, in 1261 a Conrad Haider was mentioned in a document in Amberg. In Upper Silesia , further branches of the family can be identified by 1500 at the latest. Today descendants of the family can be found mainly in southern Germany and Austria .
Lindau branch
The Lindau branch of the Heider family was founded by Georg Haider , a mayor of Nördlingen around 1550. Already on May 24th, 1566 he received the letter of coat of arms from Imperial Vice Chancellor Johann Ulrich Zasius zu Augsburg . His grandson Daniel Heider is 1601 appointed council Counsel in Lindau. His son Valentin Heider was a delegate from the cities of Lindau , Kempten , Esslingen , Hall , Nördlingen, Weißenburg and Leutkirch to the Peace of Westphalia . Valentin Heider becomes the most important member of the family and a well-respected gentleman, as contemporary sources show. Senftenau Castle , owned by Messrs. Funck von Senftenau , served as the seat of a branch line .
Valentin Heider's eldest son was Johann Andreas Heider (January 6, 1639, † June 28, 1719), who acquired the Gitzenweiler Hof estate around 1700, after which he and his line called themselves “from Heider to Gitzenweiler”. He was council syndic of the imperial city of Lindau and ducal Württemberg secret council . In 1708 he received an imperial confirmation letter of the knightly nobility of his family, together with an improvement in the coat of arms .
The son who survived him was Gottlieb von Heider zu Gitzenweiler (1679–1753), who sometimes called himself “Theophil” in the Latin translation of his nickname. He was also a lawyer, ducal council of Württemberg, senior mayor and president of the church and school council of his hometown Lindau. Although he survived his two unmarried brothers Daniel and Johann David, who died in 1700 and 1706 respectively, but since each of his three marriages had remained childless, he died in 1753 as the last Heider in Gitzenweiler. The original coat of arms of those from Heider zu Gitzenweiler can still be seen today on the Gitzenweiler manor house and in Lindau / Bodensee on the old town hall (top right on the dial).
Valentin Heider in Anselm van Hulle : Les hommes illustres qui ont vécu dans le XVII. siecle: les principaux potentats .. , 1717.
Johann Andreas von Heider zu Gitzenweiler
Gottlieb von Heider zu Gitzenweiler
Biberach branch
The Biberach branch of the Heider family was founded relatively late with Georg Christian von Heider, who in his function as a real councilor and the imperial city of Biberach was the first councilor and hospital nurse for himself and his legitimate descendants of both sexes by Emperor Franz II on August 22nd 1795 was raised to the nobility in the Holy Roman Empire. The Lauben Castle and surrounding fiefs near Leutkirch , which is still owned by the family today, established themselves as the headquarters of this branch .
Name bearer
- Ursula Haider (1413–1498), abbess in Valdunen and Villingen , mystic
- Daniel Heider (1572–1647), Council Syndicate in Lindau
- Valentin Heider (1605–1664), envoy to the Peace of Westphalia , councilor in Lindau
- Georg Christian von Heider (1727–1805), real councilor and hospital nurse in Biberach from the Palatinate
- Gustav Freiherr von Heider (1819–1897), Austrian art historian
- Paul Freiherr von Heider (1868–1936), clergyman and theologian , Grand Master of the Teutonic Order between 1933 and 1936
- Maria von Heider-Schweinitz (1894–1974), German painter of expressive realism
coat of arms
1641 : In the golden shield a moor striding to the left with a silver apron and forehead band and with a raised lance, wearing a round shield on his left arm. The moor appears growing on the helmet, otherwise as in the shield.
1708 : square; I. In gold, a moor striding to the right with a silver apron and forehead band and with a raised lance, wearing a round shield on his left arm. II. Black sloping bars tapering towards the center in gold. III. Black diagonal bars in gold tapering towards the center. IV. In gold, a moor striding to the left with a silver apron and front bandage and with a raised lance, wearing a round shield on his left arm. In the middle a black shield with a golden bar. The moor and two ostrich feathers appear again growing on the helmets.
1795 : obliquely square; Above in silver two red rafters, in front in black a gold star, behind in black a waxing golden moon and below in silver growing out of black threefold a black-clad moor with gold buttons, a tanned neck collar and head band, in each raised hand holding a naturally fertilized bilberry branch . On the helmet with black and gold covers a closed golden flight, covered with black diagonal bars, in which a golden star appears.
literature
- Karl Kiefer: The Lindau branch of the Haider family, von Heider and von Haider zu Gitzenweiler. A genealogical sketch , in: Writings of the Association for the History of Lake Constance and its Surroundings , 36th year 1907, pp. 154–164 bodenseebibliotheken.eu
- JA Gärtner Heider , in: Historical and genealogical book of nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg , 1st volume 1839, p 225 f. Bavarian State Library
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907 ff. ULB Düsseldorf
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen houses , Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907 ff. ULB Düsseldorf
