Heynitz (noble family)

Coat of arms of those von Heynitz

Heynitz ( listen ^{? / I} ), sometimes incorrectly also Heinitz or Haynitz , is the name of an old Meissen noble family with the same ancestral home at Heynitz Castle in Heynitz near Meißen .

history

Origins

The family first appears in a document on January 21, 1338 with the knight Nycolaus de Heynicz and its line of tribe begins around 1400 with Nikol . According to Kneschke , Nicol von Heynitz appeared as Vogt zu Hayn (now Grossenhain ) and Ortrand as early as 1318 .

Expansion and possessions

The Heynitz belonged since the 15th century in the Bishopric of Meissen to the pin compatible families and were long over 600 years, until the expropriation in 1945, owned by its headquarters Castle Heynitz , the 1334 Heynicz was first mentioned. In 2004 the castle and the surrounding farm buildings were bought back from the community by the von Heynitz family (Förderverein Schloss Heynitz e.V.) together with the von Watzdorf family.

Branches later made their way to Prussia and Bavaria. In the Kingdom of Saxony , the goods Wunschwitz , Grötzsch, Miltitz , Kotitz , Weicha , Löthain and Kottewitz were owned or partially owned by the family. In the Kingdom of Prussia , Pritzen , Wüstenhain and the two castles Dröschkau (from 1656 to 1945) and Königshain (from the end of the 18th century to 1945, temporarily as Fideikommiss ), which are now part of Saxony again , belonged to the family property.

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  Heynitz Castle , around 1900

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  Heynitz Castle, 2016

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  Königshain Castle

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  Manor Dröschkau

Confirmations of nobility

• Enrollment in the Kingdom of Bavaria with the nobility class on January 12, 1815 for the Royal Prussian War and Domain Council a. D. Ferdinand Gottlob Benno von Heynitz zu Miltitz (today part of Klipphausen in the district of Meißen ), landlord of Töpen and others.
• Entry in the royal Saxon nobility book on November 1, 1913 for the royal Saxon major z. D. Ernst von Heynitz , landlord on Heynitz and Wunschwitz (today both districts of Nossen), and on June 15, 1918 for Adolf von Heynitz , fideikommissherrn on Miltitz.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms according to Siebmacher's coat of arms book

In red a forward-facing man with a silver cap, often divided by silver and black, holding up a green wreath in his right hand, and in his left a black staff standing obliquely in front of him ( herald with herald's staff). On the helmet with red-silver blankets, a round umbrella board surrounded by a green wreath, on the outside with six black rooster feathers between seven ostrich feathers alternately equipped with red and silver .

Known family members

Since Bishop Benno von Meißen is the patron saint of the von Heynitz family, the baptismal name Benno was traditionally given in this family .

• Benno von Heynitz (1500–1544), Electoral Saxon governor of Freiberg
• Gottlob Rudolph von Heynitz (1667–1728), commander of the Sonnenstein fortress in Electoral Saxony and owner of the manor
• Friedrich Anton von Heynitz (1725–1802), founder of the Bergakademie Freiberg and Prussian chief miner
• Carl Wilhelm Benno von Heynitz (1738–1801), mining captain of the Electorate of Saxony and curator of the Freiberg Mining Academy
• Ernst von Heynitz (District Administrator) (1799–1871), District Administrator in Fraustadt
• Ernst von Heynitz (politician) (1801–1861), politician
• Ernst von Heynitz (Johanniter) (1840–1912), Rittmeister and farm owner in German South West Africa
• Werner von Heynitz (1854–1928), Prussian lieutenant general
• Ernst von Heynitz (General) (1863–1927), German major general
• Benno von Heynitz (1887–1979), farmer, active in public relations and association work, member of the Anthroposophical Society, author
• Benno von Heynitz (1924–2010), lawyer, founder of the Bautzen-Komitee eV and initiator of the Bautzen Prison | Bautzen Memorial, author

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, p. 205, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN  0435-2408
• Benno von Heynitz: Contributions to the gender history of those von Heynitz. Self-published, 1938.
• Benno von Heynitz: Contributions to the history of the von Heynitz family and their goods. Self-published, volumes 1–3, Grömitz 1959–1962, volumes 4–7, Hannover-Kirchrode 1966–1970.
• Benno von Heynitz: The Heynitz house. Self-published, Hannover-Kirchrode 1977.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 4, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1863, pp. 364–365. ( Digitized version )
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 2, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, pp. 353–355. ( Digitized version )

Web links

• Heynitz Castle website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Main State Archives Dresden
2. ↑ New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 4, pages 364–365
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
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