Egloffstein (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Egloffstein

The von Egloffstein family is a Franconian nobility with the same name as the parent company in Franconian Switzerland in the administrative region of Upper Franconia . It appears for the first time in a document in 1187 with Heinrich called Stuchs , with whom the trunk series begins. It belongs to the Frankish imperial knighthood .

history

The von Egloffstein in Franconia

Egloffstein Castle
Kunreuth Castle
Johannisfriedhof hereditary cemetery in Jena

The Egloffsteiners were a powerful, influential and widely ramified noble family belonging to the Frankish imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Gebürg as well as in the knightly canton of Steigerwald .

In the 14th century they had their own castles not only in Egloffstein but also in Stolzenrode, Leienfels , Burggaillreuth , Neuhaus an der Pegnitz , Lauterbach, Wolfsberg , Wadendorf , Neunkirchen am Brand , Löhlitz and Henfenfeld as well as a moated castle in Kunreuth . The Egloffsteiners also donated the chaplaincy in Egloffstein with their own property .

They were related to the aristocratic families Lüchau and Rabensteiner zu Döhlau , among others .

Family members were involved in numerous feuds with the imperial city of Nuremberg .

Possessions in Bavaria

The Egloffsteiner Palais in Sulzbach-Rosenberg - to the right of the portal a relief with the coat of arms of the Egloffsteiner
Egloffsteinsches Palais in Erlangen

The Egloffstein were wealthy in Franconia and owned, among other things:

The von Egloffstein in the Ordensland

The Egloffsteiner had several possessions in what was then the order state , today Poland and the Russian exclave Kaliningrad .

A district of Gęsiki ( German  Meistersfelde ) in today's Poland was called Egloffstein (Polish Główczyno ) until 1945 . Also Łagodzin near Gorzów Wielkopolski (German Landsberg an der Warthe ) had this name before 1945.

After the end of the Prussian city war , German master Konrad von Egloffstein received the city of Domnau as a fiefdom for his military service. Konrad von Egloffstein built a new castle on an island in the river. The remains of the old castle were demolished in 1474.

Albrecht Freiherr von und zu Egloffstein had Arklitten Castle built in Arklitten between 1780 and 1782 in the late Baroque style.

The Counts of Egloffstein zu Arklitten and those of Egloff

On October 19, 1786, Baron Albrecht Dietrich Gottfried von und zum Egloffstein , Prussian Major General and Governor of East and West Prussia, and his brother Otto Friedrich Freiherr von Egloffstein, Prussian Major a. D., the title of Count, after the former had donated the Arklitten Majorate in East Prussia in 1783. The property included the Fideikommiss Arklitten , Gerdauen district , East Prussia, and from 1889 also the Upper Lusatian goods Kromlau and Groß Düben . The Prussian major Otto Friedrich Graf von Egloffstein on Arklitten had three natural children with Anna Barbara Digga called Stein, Friederike, Luise and Ludwig Stein, who were legitimized and ennobled on June 11, 1792 in Berlin by the Prussian king under the name of Egloff . Friedrich Ludwig von Egloff was part of the 1st Leib-Hussar Regiment during the Wars of Liberation and, as Rittmeister , captured Colonel Le Clouet, Colonel Le Clouet, the adjutant of French Marshal Ney in the Battle of Dennewitz in 1813 . The Leib-Hussar von Egloff earned several medals. He received the Iron Cross in 1813 for success in the battle near Luckau . In 1817 he was also a member of the Freemason's lodge for the three globes , as was Carl Friedrich Graf von Egloffstein. In 1836 he was a major in the 1st Hussar Regiment. His sister Friederike Barbara von Egloff was the wife of the Prussian landscape director Karl Otto Benjamin von Knobloch on Bansen in Warmia. Luise Gottliebe von Egloff (1782–1845) was married to the Prussian Major General Christian Friedrich von Mayer .

Together with the baronial line, the Counts Egloffstein owned the headquarters of Egloffstein Castle and Kunreuth Castle and, from 1861, the former Redwitz estates Schmölz Castle and (1862) Theisenort Castle . The fact that the Hussar Major Ludwig von Egloff's half-brother Leopold Graf von Egloffstein, Prussian chamberlain and senior thief, was entered into the count class of the nobility registers of the Kingdom of Bavaria on May 8, 1814, also stems from the co-ownership of the two headquarters in Egloffstein and Kunreuth .

Family association

A condominium foundation has been documented since July 13, 1358 , this sex association was re-established in 1505 by Canon Leonhard von Egloffstein and in 1911 it merged into a family association of the counts and barons of Egloffstein, a registered association. A family day now takes place every three years in different places that are related to the family.

The barons of Egloffstein and their lines

  • I. (Captain) line
Ancestor: Karl Ludwig Ernst Franz von Egloffstein (1734–1773)
  • 1st branch;
Progenitor: Christian von Egloffstein (1764–1834)
1st branch
2nd branch: extinct in the male line with the sons of Wilhelm Freiherrn von und zu Egloffstein (1853–1929) and Elisabeth, born Freiin von Rotenhan (born May 2, 1865 in Rentweinsdorf; † October 29, 1948 in Eisenach) who died in World War II )
3rd branch: extinct in the male line with Camil von und zu Egloffstein (* December 18, 1850 in Mühlhausen; † December 5, 1919 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA)
  • 2nd branch
Ancestor: Friedrich Gottfried von und zu Egloffstein (1769–1848)
1st branch
Ancestor: Leonhard von und zu Egloffstein (1842–1904)
2nd branch
Ancestor: Paul Friedrich August Freiherr von und zu Egloffstein (1856–1903)
  • II. (Official) line
Progenitor: Ernst von Egloffstein (1748–1830)
  • 1st branch:
Progenitor: Wilhelm von Egloffstein (1803–1866)
with Camil Freiherr von und zu Egloffstein (* July 28, 1845 in Nuremberg, † July 23, 1924 in Kalksburg near Vienna) extinct in the male line.
  • 2nd branch:
Ancestor: Camill Ernst Carl Wilhelm Freiherr von und zu Egloffstein (1805–1868)
from this branch:
Moritz Jakob Albrecht Maria Freiherr von und zu Egloffstein (see above)
  • 3rd branch:
Ancestor: Karl von Egloffstein (born January 24, 1869 in Wunderburg; † March 18, 1929 in Bamberg), this third branch also went out.
  • 4th branch:
Ancestor: Eugen Freiherr von und zu Egloffstein (born July 25, 1863 in Bamberg) gave up names and nobility before 1900 and emigrated.
  • 5th branch:
Ancestor: Friedrich Freiherr von und zu Egloffstein (* May 18, 1824 in Egloffstein; † February 13, 1885 in Dresden)
extinct in the male line with Leon Clarence Freiherr von und zu Egloffstein (* May 9, 1889 - October 17, 1966)

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts of Egloffstein in Arklitten 1786
  • The family coat of arms has been proven since 1317. It shows in silver a right-facing, black bear head with a neck and a red tongue. On the helmet with black and silver covers the bear's head.
  • The Count's coat of arms from 1786 is squared: fields 1 and 4 in silver a right-facing head and neck of a red-tongued black bear, 2 and 3 in gold the crowned Prussian black eagle, facing inwards, with the clover stalks on the wings. On the shield there are three helmets crowned with counts' crowns. The right helmet with black and silver covers carries the eagle of the 3rd field, the left one with black and gold covers that of the 2nd field and the middle one with black and silver covers on the right and black and gold covers on the forward-facing black neck and bear head.
  • The coat of arms awarded by Egloff by the Prussian king in 1792, based on the family coat of arms of the count's ancestor, also has bearish content, but since the silver shield shows two natural-colored bear paws turned upwards, it can be described as diminished , just like the family name. On the helmet with black and silver covers a black flight.

The ruins of the Bärnfels castle in Egloffstein and the Bärenthal mill on the Trubach are reminiscent of the heraldic animal of the Egloffstein bear . The coat of arms of Egloffstein with inverted tincture reminds of this family.

Known family members

Johann I von Egloffstein , Prince-Bishop of Würzburg (1400–1411)
Julie Countess von Egloffstein (1792–1869), painter (self-portrait)
Henriette Countess von Egloffstein (1773–1864), writer

Varia

Ludwig Robert Oerthel was born in Dresden in 1894. In the 1920s he “worked” as a con man under the name of Freiherr von Egloffstein :

  • Baron von Egloffstein. Novel from the series Outsiders of Society . The Crimes of the Present of the 1920s

literature

  • Max von Egloffstein: History of the count and baronial house of Egloffstein. Nuremberg 1863.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility . CA Starke Verlag, Limburg / Lahn.
    • Nobility Lexicon . Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, 1975, pp. 94-95.
    • Genealogical handbook of the baronial houses. A 5, volume 30 of the complete series, 1963, pp. 47-63; A 10, volume 65 of the complete series, 1977, pp. 48-59.
    • Genealogical manual of the count's houses. A 1, Volume 2 of the complete series, 1952, pp. 137-139; A 5, volume 40 of the complete series, 1967, pp. 93-95; 8, Volume 63 of the Complete Series, 1976, pp. 107-108; 12, Volume 94 of the Complete Series, 1988, pp. 208-210.
  • The aristocracy enrolled in Bavaria. Volume 1, 1950, pp. 185-186 and 375-385; 6, 1957, pp. 111-113 et al. 195-204; 11, 1975, pp. 103-105 et al. 196-203; 19, 1992, pp. 105-108 et al. 261-270; 23, 2000, pp. 114-117 et al. 269-278; 15, 1984, pp. 100-102 et al. 217-225; 27, 2008, pp. 139-150, 301-311, 971.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses . Seventh year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1857, p. 153ff. ; Continued 1859–1940, including 1900, pp. 155ff.
  • Gustav Voigt: The nobility on the Upper Main. In: The Plassenburg. Writings for local history research and cultural maintenance in East Franconia. Vol. 28, Kulmbach 1969.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses. 1836 p. 165f , 1840 p. 169f , 1875 p. 231f.
  • Kate Lorenzen:  Egloffstein, barons from and to. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 4, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1959, ISBN 3-428-00185-0 , p. 340 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Egloffstein  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Castle Egloffstein
  2. ↑ Johannes Müllner: The Annals of the Imperial City of Nuremberg from 1623. Part II: From 1351-1469. Nuremberg 1972, z. BS 143, 203, 222, 225, 233, 235, 240, 293, 557.
  3. ^ Kunreuth Castle ( Memento from May 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ History of Oberndorf
  5. ↑ a b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. 1st volume: A – K. Publishing house TO Weigel, Leipzig 1852, p. 210f.
  6. ^ A b Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, Leipzig 1836, p. 108.
  7. ↑ a b c GHdA , Adelslexikon , Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, Limburg an derLahn 1975, p. 93.
  8. ^ Stiftung Deutsches Historisches Museum: Capture of the French Colonel Le Clouet, adjutant of Marshal Ney (accessed on July 3, 2019.)
  9. ^ Institute for German Aristocracy Research: Aristocratic German Freemasons in 1817 (A – L) (Retrieved on July 4, 2019.)
  10. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, p. 130.