Dog from Saulheim

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Coat of arms of the dog of Saulheim

The Hund von Saulheim , also Hundt von Saulheim , were an aristocratic family from Rhineland-Hesse that died out in 1750 and had their headquarters in Saulheim .

history

Around 1300 there were six noble families in Saulheim, which differed in their first names, but all had the addition "von Saulheim" . In addition to the Hund von Saulheim , the Erlenhaupt von Saulheim , the Mohn von Saulheim , the Hirth von Saulheim , the Kreis or Ring von Saulheim and the Salentin (Seltin) von Saulheim . All of them had a similar coat of arms with three crescent moons, in different tingings , which suggests a relationship.

They joined in the 14th century as a rich free knight on a ganerbschaft together and were allowed to manage their residence together, speak local law and commonly have taxable income. Every two years a noble Ganerbe was elected mayor. The Saulheimer Ganerbe belonged to the knightly canton of Upper Rhine , which represented their interests and had its seat in Mainz . The Archbishop of Mainz and Imperial Arch-Chancellor , to whom they were connected in a special way as a nobility directly connected to the empire , also sat there.

The Hund von Saulheim were in Kurmainzer's service as ministerials from the start . They first appeared in documents in 1311, then again in 1338, as Archbishop Heinrich III. von Virneburg appointed Hermann Hunt von Saulheim as bailiff at Gieselwerder Castle . In 1360 a family member was appointed hereditary castle man at Gernsheim Castle by Archbishop Gerlach von Nassau . In 1471 the Saulheim dogs are in the Palatinate Burgmann register of Alzey and Oppenheim . After the family was enfeoffed with Lörzweiler by the Elector of Mainz , a family line moved into the castle there in the 16th century. By marrying the heiress Anna Dorothea Hundt von Saulheim with Georg Adolf von Hettersdorf († 1711) the local rule passed to the barons of Hettersdorf . Her son Franz Rudolph von Hettersdorf (1675–1729) was cathedral capitular in Worms and the coat of arms of the dog of Saulheim is depicted on his grave slab in Worms cathedral . At the church of St. Michael (Lörzweiler) there is still a Gothic tabernacle and a choir arch with the family coat of arms.

In the Simultankirche Bechtolsheim the epitaph of the knight Hans Hund von Saulheim, who died there as a Ganerbe in 1595, is preserved. In the 16th century Jörg Hund von Saulheim officiated as Commander of the Teutonic Order in Frankfurt . Johann Friedrich Hund von Saulheim († 1635) was Prince of Heitersheim and Grand Prior of Germany of the Order of Malta from 1612 until his death .

The Mainz and Speyer canon Johann Christoph Hund von Saulheim († 1624) resigned from the clergy in order to maintain the family line in 1581 with papal dispensation and married Christina von Dienheim, niece of the Speyer prince-bishop Eberhard von Dienheim . He was episcopal Speyer bailiff and Vogt on Marienburg Traut in Hanhofen and built himself a noble residence in Saint Martin (Pfalz) , the so-called old castle (now Weingut Schneider) in the Maikammerer 5-7. Several of his coat of arms stones are preserved there.

Her sons were the Mainz cathedral provost Adolph Hund von Saulheim († 1668) and the Speyer cathedral dean Johann Reinhard Hund von Saulheim († 1630). Adolph Hund von Saulheim had an aristocratic residence built in Kiedrich in 1660/61 , today's Bassenheimer Hof . In addition, in 1665 he donated the so-called Saulheim Altar for Mainz Cathedral , an altar of Mary, which is now located in the penultimate chapel of the north aisle (Barbarakapelle) and bears his image.

Johann Christoph's sister Katharina Hund von Saulheim married Reinhard von Sickingen (1545–1607), the grandson of the famous Franz von Sickingen .

A Johann Adolf Hund von Saulheim was in 1660 as Lieutenant Colonel Kurmainzer in command of Königstein Castle . His grandson Adolph Hund von Saulheim (son of the Mainz privy councilor Johann Christian Hund von Saulheim) died in 1750 as provost of the cathedral in Fulda . With him the sex died out in the male line.

coat of arms

In silver, three red, standing crescent moons (two above, one below). In the middle between them is a black six-pointed star (shown here and there in gold). On the helmet with red and silver blankets, a lying red crescent moon, set in the middle with a bush of black (or silver) rooster feathers.

Historical representations

Family coat of arms on the old castle St. Martin

  • St. Martin, Altes Schlösschen, alliance coat of arms of the dog of Saulheim and Dienheim

  • St. Martin, Altes Schlösschen, alliance coat of arms of the dog of Saulheim and Dienheim (1587)

  • St. Martin, Altes Schlösschen, alliance coat of arms of the dog of Saulheim and Dienheim (1592)

  • St. Martin, Altes Schlösschen, Wappenstein dog from Saulheim and Dienheim, Partenheim on the right

Well-known family members

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Illustrated website for the old castle in St. Martin
  2. ^ Website on the Bassenheimer Hof in Kiedrich with mention of Adolph Hund von Saulheim and his ancestors
  3. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler , Volume 10, p. 597, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1984; (Detail scan)
  4. ↑ Friedhelm Jürgensmeier : Die Bischofskirche Sankt Martin zu Mainz , J. Knecht Verlag, 1986, p. 76, ISBN 3782005341 , (detail scan )
  5. ^ Genealogical website about the couple