Hillesheim (civil servant family)

So-called "Hillesheim Cross" in Waldbröl from 1703

The middle-class Rhenish civil servant family Hillesheim has its origin in Waldbröl , where it can be traced for the first time in 1654 with Johann Hillesheim zu Bohlenhagen . In the 17th and 18th centuries she held the position of mayor there several times and was significantly involved in the re-establishment of a Catholic community. In Olpe / Westf. belonged a branch of the family to the leading citizenry.

In the second half of the 18th century, branches of the family were able to assume top social positions in Cologne as councilors and in the cathedral chapter, as well as in Munich in the Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian Court Council , which were recognized as equal to nobility or led to nobility .

Noble

Since around 1750, members of the Cologne branch of the family used the coat of arms of the Rhenish noble family von Merscheid called von Hillesheim (three vertically stumped black branches in gold) and claimed that the aforementioned Johann H. zu Bohlenhagen came from this family. There is no proof of this.

On September 28, 1815, Aloys Friedrich Wilhelm Hillesheim, who was born in Waldbröl , was entered into the nobility class of the royal Bavarian nobility registers.

Important representatives

Memorial plaque for Franz Karl Josef Hillesheim at the Alt St. Kathrina church in Cologne-Niehl

Franz Karl Josef von Hillesheim (1731–1803), professor of constitutional and canon law and rector of the University of Cologne , member of the Cologne cathedral chapter . Hillesheimstrasse in Cologne-Niehl was named after him.

Aloys Friedrich Wilhelm von Hillesheim (1756–1818), German Enlightenment journalist , economist and Illuminate

literature

Hillesheim . In: Walther v. Hueck (ed.), Adelslexikon , Vol. V (Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels 84), Limburg ad Lahn 1984, pp. 221–222.
Franz Josef Burghardt: About the origin of the Hillesheim patrician family in Cologne (PDF; 889 kB). In: Kölner Genealogische Blätter, Heft 2 (1975), pp. 7-17.
Franz Josef Burghardt: Nobility without documents? The Hillesheim civil servant family from Waldbröl . In: Communications of the West German Society for Family Studies, Vol. 46 (2013/14), pp. 130–137.
Gottfried Corbach: History of Waldbröl . Cologne 1973. ISBN 3-921232-03-1 . Pp. 112-114.

Individual evidence

↑ Today in Waldbröl, corner of Kaiserstraße / Nümberecht Straße. The cross (also called "Streitkreuz") was set up in 1703 in the garden of the Catholic Hillesheim family in the center of Waldbröl, which was then almost completely Lutheran, which led to bloody arguments between members of these two denominations; Karl Schröder: History of the Catholic Parish of St. Michael Waldbröl , Waldbröl 1966, pp. 34–36.
↑ Gottfried Corbach: History of Waldbröl , Cologne 1973, pp. 112-114. Franz Josef Burghardt: Officials of the Bergisch offices of Blankenberg and Windeck in the 17th and 18th centuries (PDF; 421 kB)
^ Karl Schröder: History of the Catholic Parish of St. Michael Waldbröl, Waldbröl 1966, pp. 34–36.
^ Franz Josef Burghardt: Family Research (PDF; 842 kB), Cologne 2003, p. 155
↑ Bavarian Main State Archives Munich, file Adel H 68
↑ In 1973, bones were found during excavation work in the church, which were assigned to Franz Karl Josef Hillesheim.
^ Arnold Stelzmann: Franz Carl Joseph von Hillesheim. A contribution to the Rhenish intellectual history of the 18th century . In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine 149/50 (1950/51), pp. 181–232. Merlo: Hillesheim, Franz Karl Joseph von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 428.

[1] Today in Waldbröl, corner of Kaiserstraße / Nümberecht Straße. The cross (also called "Streitkreuz") was set up in 1703 in the garden of the Catholic Hillesheim family in the center of Waldbröl, which was then almost completely Lutheran, which led to bloody arguments between members of these two denominations; Karl Schröder: History of the Catholic Parish of St. Michael Waldbröl , Waldbröl 1966, pp. 34–36.

[2] Gottfried Corbach: History of Waldbröl , Cologne 1973, pp. 112-114. Franz Josef Burghardt: Officials of the Bergisch offices of Blankenberg and Windeck in the 17th and 18th centuries (PDF; 421 kB)

[3] Karl Schröder: History of the Catholic Parish of St. Michael Waldbröl, Waldbröl 1966, pp. 34–36.

[4] Franz Josef Burghardt: Family Research (PDF; 842 kB), Cologne 2003, p. 155

[5] Bavarian Main State Archives Munich, file Adel H 68

[6] In 1973, bones were found during excavation work in the church, which were assigned to Franz Karl Josef Hillesheim.

[7] Arnold Stelzmann: Franz Carl Joseph von Hillesheim. A contribution to the Rhenish intellectual history of the 18th century . In: Annals of the Historical Association for the Lower Rhine 149/50 (1950/51), pp. 181–232. Merlo: Hillesheim, Franz Karl Joseph von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 12, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1880, p. 428.