Horneck from Hornberg

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Family coat of arms of the Barons Horneck von Hornberg

Horneck von Hornberg (also Pfauen von Hornberg, Herren or Freiherren Horneck von Hornberg or Horneck von Hornberg zu Hochhausen ) is the name of a Swabian nobility with its headquarters in Hochhausen am Neckar . The gender is documented in 1238 and died out in 1734 in its Reformed Swabian line at Hochhausen in the male line , but branched out into Bavaria in its Catholic line until the 19th century . The delimitation of the sex from the noble families of the same name is still unclear.

history

Origin and headquarters

The Hornberg peacocks and the Swabian line

The family was first mentioned in a document in 1238 as Pfauen von Hornberg . As Lords Hornecken von Hornberg they received the place Hochhausen around 1300 as a fief of the diocese of Speyer . The Horneck von Hornberg zu Hochhausen family called themselves after this ancestral home, where they probably built the castle . Members of this sex are said to have been buried in the Notburgakirche Hochhausen between 1353 and 1498 .

Friedrich (the Tall One) is mentioned in 1337. At the same time, Arnold (the old man) was living . Ludwig and Reinhardi are mentioned later and are said to be descended from them. Around 1430 a Horneck zu Hornberg (the old man) got involved in an important feud with some princes and knights as well as Hans von Berlichingen , who at that time owned half of Hornberg Castle on the Neckar. It was about "murder, burn and singe", but ended with an amicable verdict from five referees who sentenced Horneck zu Hornberg to pay 3800 thalers .

From 1442 Horneck von Hornberg owned parts of Bartenstein Castle on the basis of a contract with Kraft von Hohenlohe . After disputes between Hohenlohe and Hornberg, the latter was supposed to vacate the castle in 1445. Since Kraft von Hohenlohe did not hand over their household effects, the Horneck family plundered the castle. Extensive documents about the inventory of the castle are available in the Hohenlohe Central Archive in Neuenstein . The feud lasted until 1454.

Ludwig is mentioned when the Freiburg Minster was completed in 1513 and Melchior was abbot of Gengenbach Monastery around 1535 . Eberhard von Horneck zu Hornberg with his wife Anna Nothaft , former abbess of the Gnadental monastery , is mentioned several times in 1538 because of a dispute with Count Albrecht and Georg von Hohenlohe. A Johann was around 1603 Princely Württembergischer Hofmeister and Badisch Durlachischer Jägermeister. At the beginning of the 17th century, Johann Albrecht Horneck von Hornberg (1565–1628) was the forester for the Margrave of Baden with his official residence at the Rohrburg moated castle near Durmersheim . A Rosina Barbara is mentioned as Abbess of Fürstenfeld towards the end of the 17th century; her brother Wolfgang Ernst died in 1682 as Rapollsteiner court and stable master.

The Bavarian line

In 1734 the reformed Hochhausener line of those von Hornberg died out, but there was still a Catholic line of the family in Bavaria, which after a few years returned the Hochhausener fief to the diocese of Speyer after denominational disputes. Until 1740 a Wilhelm Friedrich Horneck von Hornberg owned the manor, palace and castle (today: Helfenberg ruins ) in Helfenberg . Since he had no male descendants, this property passed to the current owner family von Gaisberg through the marriage of one of his daughters .

The Bavarian line of the Horneck von Hornberg is proven up to the 19th century, u. a. through matriculation (entry) in the barons class on July 27, 1813 for the royal Bavarian chamberlain and colonel à la suite Anton Freiherr Horneck von Hornberg, landowner on Dieterskirchen , as well as through real estate in Altendorf . The coats of arms of Dieterskirchen and Altendorf still show the Horneck-von-Hornbergsche Horn in memory of the former manor. The mother-in-law of the Bavarian Interior Minister Karl von Abel (1788-1859), Maria Magdalena Freiin von Pfetten , was born Horneck von Hornberg.

Differentiation from other sexes

The origin of the family and their name is unclear. The von Horneck family , which in the 14th century had the title of baron and bequeathed the Horneck Castle in Gundelsheim to the Teutonic Order , does not seem to be related to the Horneck von Hornbergs . They were often also associated with the Swabian lords of Hornberg , who were recorded at Hornberg Castle on the Neckar until 1259, but died out shortly afterwards. It is also claimed that both sexes carried the same coat of arms. In old encyclopedias the early von Hornberg, the early von Horneck and the later Horneck von Hornberg are usually listed as three genders, but it is pointed out that they may be of the same parentage. There is also no connection to the Horneck von Weinheim in Weinheim an der Bergstrasse in the Electoral Palatinate .

Already around 1620 the Hornecken from Hornberg zu Hochhausen raised great doubts about their ancestry and strange naming, which u. a. is documented by written records from Reinhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg as follows:

The genealogy Horneck von Hornberg is strangely patched up, which makes me wonder, because there are three mountain castles on both sides of the Neckar, one is called Horneck, the other Hornberg, the third Hochhausen; this noble family is written from all three, as they pretended to be Hornecken von Hornberg zu Hochhausen; the first mountain castle is a German imperial residence, the second belongs to me, the third to this family. For my part, I cannot find out whether and when the first two were ever responsible for this sex, I have so much news that another sex was written by Horneck, that they were barons and bequeathed the said property to the Teutonic Order, and the coat of arms is still there to Horneck. In the same way, those of Hornberg wrote each other about the nobility of my house Hornberg without any additions, and they lived 300 years ago, that is, at the beginning of the fourteenth century.

Nonetheless, a Neidhard Horneck von Hornberg and Ulrich von Flehingen were brief co-owners of Hornberg Castle from 1481 to 1484, which does not explain the early name reference to Hornberg.

Name bearer

Swabian line

  • Friedrich (the Tall One) Horneck von Hornberg (lived around 1337)
  • Arnold (the old man) Horneck von Hornberg (lived around 1337)
  • Ludwig Horneck von Hornberg (lived after 1337): descendant of the two aforementioned
  • Reinhardi Horneck von Hornberg (lived after 1337): descendant of the two aforementioned
  • unb. (the old man) Horneck von Hornberg (lived around 1430)
  • Ludwig Horneck von Hornberg (lived around 1513)
  • Melchior Horneck von Hornberg (lived around 1535): Abbot of the Benedictine monastery in Gengenbach
  • Eberhard Horneck von Hornberg (lived around 1538): ∞ Anna Nothaft , former abbess at Gnadental Abbey
  • Johann Horneck von Hornberg (lived around 1603): Princely Württemberg court master and Badisch Durlach hunter master
  • Johann Albrecht Horneck von Hornberg (* 1565; † 1628): Forester of the Margrave of Baden with official residence at the Rohrburg moated castle near Durmersheim
  • Rosina Barbara Horneck von Hornberg (lived towards the end of the 17th century): Abbess of Fürstenfeld; Sister of Wolfgang Ernst
  • Wolfgang Ernst Horneck von Hornberg (*?; † 1682): Rapollstein court and stable master

Bavarian line (proven up to the 19th century)

  • Wilhelm Friedrich Horneck von Hornberg (lived around 1740): owned by Helfenberg near Ilsfeld (manor, palace, castle), without male descendants
  • Anton Freiherr Horneck von Hornberg (lived around 1813): royal Bavarian chamberlain and chief à la suite, landowner in Dieterskirchen and with real estate in Altendorf (Schwandorf district)
  • Maria Magdalena Horneck von Hornberg (lived in the 18th century): married Freiin von Pfetten, mother-in-law of the Bavarian Interior Minister Karl von Abel (1788-1859)

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms shows in gold on a red three-mountain a red Hifthorn (hunting horn) swept with the mouthpiece to the right with an upward-looped red cord. On the helmet with black and silver helmet covers, two buffalo horns divided across the corner by black and silver .

  • Coats of arms in monuments and graves

  • Coat of arms of Hans Michael Horneck von Hornberg († 1498) and his wife Martha von Balzhofen († 1510), founder of a historical glass window, Notburgakirche Hochhausen

  • Two coats of arms of the Horneck von Hornberg, tombstone , Notburgakirche Hochhausen

  • Two coats of arms of the Horneck von Hornberg, tombstone, Notburgakirche Hochhausen

  • Tomb of the "Sibilla Rosina Horneckin von Hornberg", Notburgakirche Hochhausen

  • Family coat of arms of the Horneck von Hornberg, tomb, Notburgakirche Hochhausen

  • Family coat of arms of the Horneck von Hornberg, tombstone, Notburgakirche Hochhausen

  • Family coat of arms of the Horneck von Hornberg and other family coats of arms, grave slab, Notburgakirche Hochhausen

  • Coat of arms of the "Maria Josepha Horneck Reichsfreyfrau v. Hornberg "as part of an alliance coat of arms , St. Andreas Church, Altendorf (Schwandorf district)

  • Coat of arms of "Isabella Eleonora Honeckerin Freiin von Hornberg", b. Reichsfreiin von Schallenberg († November 18, 1740), as part of an alliance coat of arms, grave slab, St. Andreas Church, Altendorf (Schwandorf district)

  • Alliance coat of arms Murach and Horneck, epitaph of Joseph Matthias von Murach († 1767), Niedermurach, St. Martin's Church, interior

  • Coat of arms of Horneck von Hornberg (optically below left) and other coats of arms, epitaph, pilgrimage church in Hessenthal , Mespelbrunn , Aschaffenburg district

  • Coat of arms of Horneck von Hornberg (optically below right), epitaph, pilgrimage church in Hessenthal

Traces of the family coat of arms in today's municipal coat of arms

Elements of the family arms of the Horneck von Hornberg ( Hifthorn , Dreiberg ) can be found in the city arms of the communities Dieterskirchen and Altendorf , both in the Bavarian district of Schwandorf . The Vierberg im Schildfuß comes from the coat of arms of the Counts of Leonberg , as successors of the Bavarian Counts of Altendorf they called themselves von Leonberg-Altenbach.

literature

  • Hermann Ehmer: Horneck von Hornberg. Robber barons or victims of princely politics? In: Kurt Andermann : “Robber barons” or “righteous people from the nobility”? Aspects of Politics, Peace and Law in the Late Middle Ages. Sigmaringen, 1997, pp. 65-88.
  • Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book . Published by the Baden Historical Commission. 3 volumes. Heidelberg, 1898-1905. Vol. II, pp. 111–116 ( digitized version )
  • A. Joseph Schmid: Contributions to the genealogy of Upper Palatinate noble families: (v. Rosenbusch, v. Saurzapf, Erlbeck v. Sinningen, v. Sechsern, v. Wissinger, Horneck v. Hornberg, v. Saur, v. Pernklau etc.) (SA ad. publication of the historical association for Upper Palatinate, vol. 47). Stadtamhof, 1895
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility : Adelslexikon . Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 362.
  • Adolf Zeller : Hornberg Castle on the Neckar . Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig 1903.
  • Johann Brandmüller: Historical and geographical lexicon. Volume II., 1726.
  • Friedrich Wolfgang Götz Graf von Berlichingen-Rossach: History of the knight Götz von Berlichingen with the iron hand and his family . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1861.
  • Johann Friedrich Gauhe : Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexicon . Publisher: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1740.
  • Anne and Claus Reimann: Bartenstein as it used to be, by craftsmen, councilors and lackeys . Niederstetten 2009.

Web links

Commons : Horneck von Hornberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Ehmer in Oberrheinische Studien, Volume 13, Sigmaringen 1998, pp. 115 ff.
  2. ^ Walter Goetz :  Abel, Karl August von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 9 f. ( Digitized version ).
  3. ^ House of Bavarian History - Bavaria's municipalities. Retrieved January 27, 2020 .