Kageneck (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Kageneck

Kageneck is the name of an old noble family from the Upper Rhine . The Lords of Kageneck were among the oldest knightly families in Alsace . One branch of the family still exists today.

history

origin

The von Kageneck family are related to the Achenheim, Blumenau, Ottfriedrich, Reimböldelin and Rümelnheim family. All families can be traced back to the progenitor Dominus Cuno inter mercatores or his father Erbo. Nikolaus von Kageneck, he lived between 1230 and 1306 and was the eldest son of Cuno, was a knight, Stettmeister (also city master, member of the city council) of Strasbourg and feudal man of the bishops of Strasbourg . The Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility names him as the progenitor of the Kageneck.

According to the heraldist and genealogist Gustav Adelbert Seyler , one of the first members of the Gotzlin von Kageneck family is mentioned in a document as early as 1212. It appears as “magister civitatis Argentinensis” in a certificate from Emperor Friedrich II. Von Hohenstaufen . The ununterbroche regular series of sex starts Ernst Heinrich Kneschke the Knight Claus von Kageneck of the 12th century in the second half.

In the early days, members of the family can mainly be found in the free imperial city of Strasbourg. They soon belonged to the most influential families in the patriciate of the city. Among other things, they had the right to mint and in the course of time they held the office of Stettmeister of Strasbourg 15 times.

The name Kageneck probably comes from the Kagenecker Bruch, which at that time was outside the city gates of Strasbourg and in which the Kagenecks owned some properties. Today's Kageneck Strasse in Strasbourg is a reminder of this. The castle Hageneck in Alsace can not - have been the headquarters of Kagenecks because the family of Hageneck is mentioned there documented in the 13th century - as often called.

Lines and possessions

The descendants of the progenitor Claus founded several lines, but all of them, except for the Ramoldt branch, became extinct.

The brothers Hans and Moritz von Kageneck were knighted on June 22, 1472, the day of the Battle of Murten . In the battle, contingents from Strasbourg, together with troops from other Alsatian and Lorraine cities and counties, supported the Confederates against Charles the Bold , Duke of Burgundy . Moritz's younger son was the progenitor of a line that was settled in Alsace until the French Revolution . A short time later, after losing their possessions, they settled in Baden .

Because of the partial ownership (one third) of Hipsheim , acquired in 1399, and other goods, the Lords of Kageneck were members of the Imperial Knighthood in Lower Alsace during the 18th century .

Munzingen Castle
Stegen-Weiler Castle

A branch of this line came to the Breisgau as early as the middle of the 17th century and settled in Munzingen through the inheritance of several estates from the von Pforr family . Johann Friedrich von Kageneck (1633–1705), governor of Emperor Leopold I in Upper Austria and from 1671 imperial baron, had the Munzingen Castle built and in 1682 also acquired Bleichheim and in 1702 the rule of Stegen with the Stegen-Weiler Castle . The manor house in Bleichheim was built in 1728.

Members of this branch were able to increase their property considerably by buying and lending them from the ore house of Austria . In Breisgau the Kagenecks owned besides Munzingen, Stegen and Bleichheim also Schloss Umkirch (from 1740), Waltershofen and from 1788 Wildtal .

The two sons of Heinrich Hermann Graf von Kageneck († 1790) established two lines of the count. The founder of the older line is Heinrich Hyazinth Graf von Kageneck, owner of the Munzingen Fideikommisses . His younger brother, Philipp Joseph Graf von Kageneck, was the founder of the von Stegen line. Maximilian Graf von Kageneck, landowner of Stegen and Unteribental , came from the younger line . In 1859 he married Countess Friederike von Königsegg-Aulendorf . Stegen-Weiler Castle was sold in the 20th century. The Munzingen winery is still run by the family today.

Status surveys

Johann Friedrich Freiherr von Kageneck (1633–1705)

Johann Friedrich von Kageneck (1633–1705), vice governor in the western Austrian provinces and the four cities on the Rhine, was the son of Wilhelm von Kageneck (around 1587–1652) and his wife Helene Zorn von Bulach († 1634). Because of his services to the House of Habsburg, Emperor Leopold I raised him to the status of imperial baron on September 22, 1671 in Vienna . One of his sons was Heinrich von Kageneck († 1744), Landkomtur of the Teutonic Order and in 1722 governor of the Duchy of Neuburg an der Donau . The baronage was recognized on August 6, 1773 at Compiégne by the King of France and extended to the entire family.

Friedrich Fridolin Count von Kageneck

Johann Friedrich Freiherr von Friedolin Kageneck, imperial chamberlain, received on 8 January 1771 by Emperor Joseph II. By diploma the imperial counts . He was the father of Beatrix Antonie Aloysia Countess von Metternich-Winneburg , the mother of the future Prince Klemens von Metternich .

Franz Graf von Kageneck in Pfaffendorf (District Office Ebern , Lower Franconia ) was enrolled on July 20, 1888 in the count class of the nobility matriculation in the Kingdom of Bavaria .

coat of arms

Kageneck coat of arms from Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book (1605)

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a silver diagonal right bar in red. On the helmet a bearded man's torso, the clothing of which repeats the sign, covered with a silver pointed, gold-tipped red pointed hat. The helmet covers are red-silver.

Count's coat of arms

The imperial count's coat of arms, awarded in 1771, shows the shield of the family coat of arms with two helmets and red and silver helmet covers. On the right the trunk helmet, on the left three (red, silver, red) ostrich feathers. As a shield holder, two inward-facing armor sets with helmet with open visor and three red ostrich feathers. Carrying the sword on a red sash and in the right or left a flag on a black pole with a golden tip, the right in blue three (2, 1) golden larks and on the left in gold a gold-crowned black double-headed eagle with a blue breast shield with three (2, 1) shows golden Romans.
The motto is: In valore virtus.

Known family members

Epitaph for Johann Heinrich von Kageneck (1668–1743) by Johann Friedrich Funk (1753) in the Munzingen Church of St. Stephan

literature

Web links

Commons : Kageneck family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Strasbourg document book. Volume 1, No. 220 and Volume 3, Appendix.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, p. 87.
  3. ^ Strasbourg document book. Volume 3, No. 441.
  4. ↑ a b Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1904. P. 29.
  5. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 4, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1863, pp. 618–620, full text in the Google book search
  6. ↑ a b Irmgard Christa Becker: Front Austria - only the tail feather of the imperial eagle? The Habsburgs in the German southwest. Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-88294-276-2 , p. 275.
  7. ↑ Info / ahnenfjpvr / ahnenfjpvr.htm Philipp von Kageneck (No. 764)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the pedigree of Friedrich Johann Peter von Restorff on von-restorff.de. Retrieved August 10, 2016.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.von-restorff.de  
  8. ↑ Kageneck. In: Fr. Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Kingdom of Württemberg , JF Cast, Stuttgart 1844, p. 120, full text in the Google book search
  9. ↑ Hermann Brommer : Johann Heinrich Hermann Reichsfreiherr von Kageneck (1668–1743). On the 250th anniversary of the death of the Teutonic Order Landkomtur - a supplement to the biography. In: Schau-ins-Land: Annual issue of the Breisgau history association Schauinsland , Freiburg im Breisgau 1994, pp. 73–90, digitized
  10. ↑ Look into the country under point 13
  11. ↑ Profile at n-joy.de, accessed on May 31, 2015.