Holtz (noble family)

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Coat of arms (19th century)

The Freiherren vom Holtz are a Swabian aristocratic family , the 13th generation of whom have lived in Alfdorf (since 1628).

history

What the Holtz name originally refers to is unknown. The family first becomes tangible in the first half of the 14th century in the area around Göppingen and Schwäbisch Gmünd .

Sifried von dem Holz, Ritter, and his sons Ritter Sifried, Hans der Brenner and Konrad der Phose sold a Hube zu Krummwälden and other goods to Benz Schirsich on March 17, 1337 .

Seifried vom Holtz was abbot of the Benedictine monastery Komburg from 1485 to 1489 , then provost of the monastery until his death in 1504. Before he entered there, he was a monk in Neresheim Monastery . His tombstone with ancestral specimen has been preserved, as is a stone dated 1494 with his coat of arms.

From 1533 a separate line of the family lived in a town house in Niedernhall . It died out during the plague of the Thirty Years' War in 1635. Hans Seifried vom Holtz was mayor in Heilbronn in 1544 and 1545 .

In 1628 Georg Friedrich vom Holtz acquired the Lower Castle in Alfdorf .

The von Holtz were involved in the knightly canton of Kocher : Georg Friedrich was knight captain from 1644/45 to 1666, Eberhard Maximilian from 1751 to 1762. The canton's councilors were: Georg Friedrich 1639 to 1644/45, Gottfried 1674–1692, Eberhard Maximilian 1731–1751.

In the 18th century, Gottfried vom Holtz took care of a huge mountain of debt that still burdened his descendants.

The family has held the church patronage of the Stephanuskirche (Alfdorf) since 1628 .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a black wooden box standing on four feet in silver.

photos

  • Coat of arms on an epitaph in Alfdorf

  • Lower castle in Alfdorf

literature

Web links

Commons : Holtz (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ landesarchiv-bw.de with digitized version .
  2. ^ Rainer Jooß: Komburg Monastery in the Middle Ages. Studies on the constitutional, property and social history of a Franconian Benedictine abbey (= research from Württemberg-Franconia. Volume 4). 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Thorbecke, Sigmaringen 1987, ISBN 3-7995-7629-0 , pp. 116, 126, 133.
  3. ↑ Figure
  4. ↑ inschriften.net Description of the Oberamt Künzelsau Wikisource (name form wood).
  5. ^ Description of the Oberamt Heilbronn 2 (1903), p. 166 Internet Archive . About his family environment: Document book of the city of Heilbronn 2 (1911), p. 140 Internet Archive (from 1526).
  6. ↑ Schulz p. 198.
  7. ↑ Schulz p. 199.
  8. ↑ Summary presentation 1831