Hoheneck (Palatinate noble family)

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The Lords of Hoheneck , barons of Hoheneck from 1636 , were a Palatinate nobility that died out in 1808.

Family history

There are several German and Austrian noble families with this name, which also differ in terms of their coat of arms. The ancestor of the Palatinate dynasty is the knight Reinhard von Lautern , who was granted patronage rights in Ramstein in 1214 by the king and later Emperor Friedrich II. In 1216 he became the imperial school of Kaiserslautern . As a result, the ministerial family came to the Reichsburg Hohenecken , which they also got formally transferred as an imperial fief in 1277 and named themselves after them. Reinhard's sons Siegfried II († 1262) and Landolf von Hoheneck († 1247), Bishop of Worms , already had this new name.

To the castle belonged - also as an imperial fiefdom - the rule Hohenecken , which comprised several villages, in particular the valley community Hohenecken , which arose at the foot of the castle hill , as well as Erfenbach , Espensteig , Siegelbach and Stockweiler (today Stockborn) . Until the castle was destroyed, in 1689 in the Palatinate War of Succession , the Hohenecker family remained connected to their ancestral home, although other noble families were now also involved in the property.

Philipp Karl von Hoheneck (1735–1808), Mainz canon and privy councilor, last male offspring of his family

In the meantime, the Lords of Hoheneck had entered the margravial Baden , Electorate , but also increasingly in the service of the Archdiocese of Mainz , where their relatives can be found as senior administrative officials and numerous in the higher clergy.

The Kurmainzer Oberhofmarschall and Aschaffenburg Vice-Dom Johann Philipp von Hoheneck had received the elevation to the baron status for himself and his descendants, as well as for his brother Philibert, who was in the service of the Prince Diocese of Speyer and his descendants .

Johann Philipp von Hoheneck's great-grandson Damian Anton, Kurmainzer Oberamtmann in Miltenberg, was the last to reproduce the family. His son Philipp Karl von Hoheneck (* 1735), Mainz canon and privy councilor to Prince Bishop Karl Theodor von Dalberg in Frankfurt , died on May 16, 1808 in Vienna , childless, as the last male offspring of his family. His sister Amalia Maria (1736–1807) had married Count Joseph Dominik Fugger zu Kirchheim in 1757 . The family estates, the name von Hoheneck and the associated coat of arms fell to their descendants when his brother died in 1806 . They combined both family coats of arms, called themselves von Fugger-Hoheneck and von Fugger-Kirchheim-Hoheneck from 1808 and had this legal act entered in the Bavarian aristocratic registers.

Worms canon Johann Philipp von Hoheneck († 1743) donated the two side altars flanking the high altar of Worms cathedral , which also bear the Hoheneck coat of arms.

coat of arms

In red, in the middle a vertical silver post, to the right and left of it five golden, elongated shingles (narrow rectangles), next to the post three each on top of each other, towards the edge of the coat of arms two each on top of each other. A standing red dog (top) with five golden clapboards and a silver belly or face as a helmet ornament . Red and silver helmet covers .

The former Hoheneckische municipality Siegelbach derives its coat of arms from the noble coat of arms.

gallery

  • Heraldic shield of the family, in St. Burkard (Würzburg)

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Fugger-Kirchheim-Hoheneck, with Hohenecker heart shield

  • Hoheneck coat of arms in rococo representation ( Worms Cathedral , epitaph Bishop Landolf von Hoheneck)

  • Worms Cathedral, right side altar (Marienaltar), with Hoheneck coat of arms

  • Worms Cathedral, left side altar, with Hoheneck coat of arms

  • Coat of arms of the Palatinate community Siegelbach

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  1. ↑ Writings on the history of the city and district of Kaiserslautern , Volume 6, p. 18 u. 19, Arbogast publishing house, Kaiserslautern; (Cutout scan 1) , (Cutout scan 2)
  2. ^ Karl Heinrich von Lang : Adelsbuch des Kingdom of Baiern , Volume 2 (Supplementary Volume), p. 20, Ansbach, 1820; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Genealogisches Staats-Handbuch , Volume 65, p. 396, Frankfurt am Main, 1827; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ General German real encyclopedia for the educated estates - Conversations-Lexikon , Volume 6, p. 435, Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig, 1852; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ Genealogy page on Fugger-Kirchheim and Fugger-Hoheneck
  6. ^ Mainzer Zeitschrift, Verlag des Mainzer Altertumsverein, 1911, p. 47; (Detail scan)