Heimburg (noble family)
Heimburg is the name of an old noble family from Lower Saxony . The lords of Heimburg belong to the primeval nobility of the Harz region . Branches of the family still exist today.
history
origin
According to legend, the ancestor of the Hanno family is said to have been the ancestor of the family who received Heimburg Castle from King Heinrich IV around 1062 because of his bravery and named himself after him.
The family was first mentioned in a document in 1134 with Annone cubiculario in a document from Emperor Lothar III. from Süpplingenburg. Later as Ministerialer of Duke Heinrich the Lion , Anno belonged to his inner court. He held the court office of the treasurer "camerarius" and was entrusted with the office of Vogts von Goslar . With him begins the line of the noble family von Heimburg, which is documented to this day.
Heimburg Castle , the ancestral seat of the family, is located near Heimburg in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt . According to Kneschke , the parent company was owned by the family from 1147 to 1242.
Spread
The oldest Calenberg fiefdom dates back to 1462. The Lords of Heimburg owned fiefdoms in the Principality of Lüneburg since 1539. Early fiefdoms also existed with the Halberstadt diocese and the Hildesheim monastery . At the court of the Dukes of Braunschweig-Lüneburg they received high offices and achieved great esteem. Anno IV of Heimburg was Vogt of Celle around 1270. His four sons were enfeoffed in Spechtshorn with a "domum" from the Counts of Wölpe until 1301 .
In the later Kingdom of Hanover , they belonged to the knightly aristocracy because of the possession of the goods Nordgoltern (until 1870), Landringhausen and Eckerde (today all districts of Barsinghausen ) in the Calenberg region and two goods in Wietzendorf in the Lüneburg region . The manor Eckerde is still managed by the family today.
During the 19th century and later, members of the family appeared in the royal Hanoverian but also in the royal Prussian army . One von Heimburg was adjutant to General von Schenck in Hamm in 1806 . Another was at the same time a lieutenant in the Magdeburg Fusilier Brigade and served in the "Kaiserlingk" battalion in Hildesheim . After the Battle of Leipzig he received the Iron Cross . Friedrich von Heimburg was colonel and commandant of Lüneburg in 1852 .
From 1903 until it was sold in 1937, Rammelburg Castle in Saxony-Anhalt belonged to a branch of the family.
coat of arms
The original coat of arms of the sex is carried by the Goltern line. It shows three red bars in gold. On the helmet with red and gold helmet covers two buffalo horns marked like the shield .
The coat of arms of the Eckerde line has a mistaken tinge and shows three golden bars in red. On the helmet with red and gold helmet covers two buffalo horns marked like the shield.
Heraldic motto : "straight paths - golden paths".
Known family members
- Emil von Heimburg (1806–1881), chief magistrate in Jever, member of the Oldenburg state parliament
- Erik von Heimburg (1892–1946), SS brigade leader and major general of the police
- Ernest von Heimburg (1896–1976), Vice Admiral in the US Navy
- Friedrich von Heimburg (1859–1935), German administrative and court official and parliamentarian
- Friedrich von Heimburg (general) (1839–1906), Prussian lieutenant general
- Georg von Heimburg (1863–1945), German general of the artillery
- Gustav von Heimburg (1828–1910), German administrative lawyer
- Heino von Heimburg (1889–1945), German naval officer
- Martin Friedrich von Heimburg (1690–1766), lieutenant general of the Electorate of Hanover
- Paul von Heimburg (General, 1836) (1836–1913), Prussian lieutenant general
- Paul von Heimburg (General, 1851) (1851–1936), Prussian major general
- York von Heimburg (* 1957), German manager
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Adelslexikon, Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN 0435-2408
- Georg Bode : The Heimburg in the Harz Mountains and their first family, the Lords of Heimburg. Wernigerode 1909, (digitized version)
- Friedrich Martin Paul von Heimburg: Outline of the history of the family von Heimburg. Verlag R. Sattler, 1901, (digitized version)
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Volume 2, 1898, published by WT Bruer, p. 63, (digitized version)
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 4, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1863, pp. 276–277, (digitized version )
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 2. Reichenbach Brothers, Leipzig 1836, p. 358, (digitized version)
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. 1906. Seventh year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1905, p. 288 ff.
Web links
- Information and literature on the von Heimburg family in the Wildenfels castle archive
- v. Heimburg family - Internet presence
- Coat of arms of the Heimburg family in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book around 1605
- The Heimburg am Harz and their first family, the von Heimburg
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 4, pp. 276–277.
- ↑ Georg Bode : The Heimburg am Harz and their first family, the Lords of Heimburg. Wernigerode 1909, p. 171.
- ↑ Otto Haendle: The vassals of Henry the Lion, work on the German legal and constitutional history. Volume 8. Stuttgart 1930, pp. 20f.
- ^ Herbert W. Vogt: The Duchy of Lothar von Süpplingenburg 1106–1125. Hildesheim 1959, p. 81.
- ↑ Castles and Palaces of the Harz Region / Volume 2, p. 22, 4th edition 2013, ISBN 978-3-8423-7730-1 .