Kemmaten (noble family)

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The lords of Kemmaten were a noble family in northern Franconia that died out in 1600.

Coat of arms of Kemmaten in Sonnefeld Monastery

history

The Kemmater formed a typical family of the lower nobility. They were qualified for the state and were fortunate with the Kemmaten ancestral estate near today's Neustadt near Coburg , Moggenbrunn Castle and in Oberlind near Sonneberg , where they owned a small manor that has no longer been preserved. They managed son and daughter fiefs of the county of Henneberg and later the Wettiner . The family appeared for the first time in 1225 with "Hermmannus de Kemenaten". In 1317 they appeared in Weißenbrunn vorm Wald as Henneberg feudal people and were enfeoffed with Wildenheid at the beginning of the 15th century .

A Dorothea II. Von Kemmaten was mentioned 1454-1455 as abbess in the Sonnefeld monastery .

The family died out in 1600 when the last kemmater was sentenced to death and executed for the murder of his only son in Coburg. Hans Eitel von Kemmaten was beheaded on April 26, 1600 on the Coburg market square. Years before, he had killed a farmhand and the schoolmaster of Weißenbrunn in front of the forest - at least one of these acts should be considered self-defense - and now in a rage he stabbed his own son with a bread knife. The family's coat of arms was broken and added to the burial site. The Kemmater estates fell to the feudal court of Sachsen-Coburg .

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Kemmater is preserved as a keystone in the Sonnefeld monastery. The coat of arms shows a stylized bower , a medieval, stately residential building, which is characterized by a hipped roof with filigree shingles and two striking chimney heads. The coat of arms is repeated in the crest. As the redrawings of the coat of arms by Leistner and, above all, the colored representations in the Franciscan Book of the Dead show, the blue coat of arms of the Kemmater shows a silver brick tower with a pointed roof and a golden tower button.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eva Herold, Robert Wachter: Moggenbrunn The golden village, the farmers and the castle . Meeder 1994, p. 36
  2. ^ Andrian-Werburg, Klaus von : The lower aristocratic Kemnater in Coburg. In: Yearbook of the Coburger Landesstiftung 30 (1985), pp. 97-136
  3. ↑ Ulrich Göpfert: The former moated castle Moggenbrunn
  4. ^ Prof. G. Brückner: Landeskunde des Herzogthums Meinigen , Volume 2: The topography of the country , Verlag Brückner and Renner, Meinigen 1853, p. 449 f.
  5. ^ Armin Leistner: Seal from five centuries in Coburg archives , in: Yearbook of the Coburger Landesstiftung 1982-1984
  6. ^ Church library in Neustadt / Aisch, MS 125 fol. 12 'u. ö.