Kevernburg (noble family)
The Counts of Kevernburg , also spelled Keverburc, Keverenberc, Keverenberg and today Käfernburg , descend from the Sizzonen . The family died out in 1385.
family
→ for the prehistory see sizzonen
The Counts of Kevernburg, the Counts of Schwarzburg and the Counts of Rabenswalde - Wiehe have the Sizzonen as common ancestors. Their eponymous headquarters was the Kevernburg, today's Käfernburg near Arnstadt . The counts belonged to the Thuringian aristocracy in the early Middle Ages .
Sizzo III. (* approx. 1093; † 1160) was first mentioned in 1103 and called himself both Graf von Kevernburg and Graf von Schwarzburg. The count is the progenitor of the House of Kevernburg-Schwarzburg. His son Heinrich I (around 1130–1184) owned the Schwarzburg , the other son Günther II (around 1135–1197) owned the Kevernburg, half of the Arnstadt dominion and the Wiehe or Rabenswalde dominions . Günther II was the founder of the Count's House of Kevernburg in 1160. After the death of his brother Heinrich I, Günther II inherited the Schwarzburg and the possessions were reunited. His son Heinrich II. (* Around 1150, † 1236) inherited the Schwarzburg, the other son Günther III. († around 1221) the Kevernburg. Günther IV. († around 1269), the son of Günther III., Was the founder of the special line Kevernburg. At the same time, the Rabenswalde line was formed, which is why the former is called the special Kevernburg line. With his grandchildren, the younger line Kevernburg (1280–1302) and the older line Kevernburg (1280–1385) emerged from the special line Kevernburg.
The importance of gender in the East Saxon-Thuringian area was shown, among other things, in the fact that they were twice able to appoint the Archbishop of Magdeburg . The Kevernburg died out in 1385. The last count was Günther IX. (XIV.) Von Kevernburg, who died without descendants during a crusade in Palestine . His land was sold by his mother, Countess Sophia von Schwarzburg, and his wife Mechthild on May 29, 1387 to Landgrave Balthasar von Thuringia . On July 15, 1394, he pledged the palace and rule of Kevernburg to his younger brother Wilhelm. After the Landgraves of Thuringia died out in 1446, the areas came to close relatives of the Kevernburger, the Counts of Schwarzburg, with whom most of the area remained as offices of Arnstadt and Gehren in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen until the founding of Thuringia in 1920.
Kevernburg County
The county of Kevernburg was a secular domain in central Thuringia , which existed as an independent domain from the early Middle Ages until 1302, when Count Günther VIII died without male descendants. Initially this fell to his sons-in-law Heinrich von Hohnstein and Otto IV. Von Orlamünde , who sold parts of the domain to the Counts of Schwarzburg .
The rulership mainly comprised lands around the cities of Arnstadt and Ilmenau in what is now the Ilm district, as well as a few smaller enclaves that were scattered throughout Thuringia between Rennsteig , Saale and Unstrut . Neighboring counties and principalities were Schwarzburg, Gleichen , Henneberg and the Längwitzgau . The diocese of Erfurt founded by Boniface also played a role in the early phase. Ancestral seat of the Counts of Kevernburg was the Kevernburg of the same name, now called Käfernburg, southeast of Arnstadt near the town of Angelhausen-Oberndorf . The castle was first mentioned in writing on November 8th, 1141. Today, hardly any remains of the foundations of the castle have survived, but the associated church still exists. Today it serves as the village church of Oberndorf. The castle ruins represent a ground monument . Its walls were torn down in the 16th century and the material was used for renovation work in 1661 at the Arnstadt Neideck Castle .
When Ilmenau was first mentioned in 1273, the Kevernburg lords were over the city. They also granted it town charter and the right to mint coins in 1341. In 1343 the Kevernburger sold the city of Ilmenau with the associated lands and the kitchen village of Oberpörlitz to the Hennebergers .
coat of arms
Blazon : "On blue a silver or gold crowned lion looking forward."
Representative
- Sizzo III. von Schwarzburg-Kevernburg (* 1093 - 19 June 1160), ancestor of the House of Kevernburg-Schwarzburg
- Günther II of Kevernburg (Schwarzburg) and Hallermund; (* 1129/35; † 1197), son of Sizzo III., Founder of the Kevernburg line
- Günther III. von Kevernburg (* around 1150; † around 1221), son of Günther II.
- Günther IV. Von Schwarzburg († around 1269), son of Günther III., Founder of the special line of Kevernburg
- Albrecht I of Kevernburg , Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1205 to 1232
- Wilbrand von Kevernburg , Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1235 to 1253
literature
- Friedrich Apfelstedt : The House of Kevernburg-Schwarzburg from its origins to our time: shown in the family tables of its main and secondary lines and with biographical notes on the most important members of the same , Bertram, Sondershausen 1890
- Friedrich Apfelstedt: Additions and additions to the family table of the kevernburg-Schwarzburg house , In: Volume 3 of Heimathskunde for the residents of the Principality of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen, Sondershausen 1856, History of the Kevernburgers: page 5 ff., New e-book edition in Thuringian Chronicle Verlag , Müllerott, 1994
- Counts of Kevernburg and Schwarzburg in the first half of the 13th century, with excerpts from JF Böhmer: “Regesta Imperii”, Vol. 4 to Vol. 6 for the period from approx. 1200 to 1286 in short regalia.
- Counts of Kevernburg-Schwarzburg to Heinrich II. (D. 1236) with excerpts from Dobecker's "Regesta Thüringica" in short rainbow form about the Counts of Käfernburg and Schwarzburg from the beginning to approx. 1236
- Johann Wilhelm Driver: About the origin of the old Lords of the Counts of Kevernburg and the current Lords of Princes v. Schwarzburg , 1787 E-Book
Dorbencker: Thuringian document books Eberl: Die Schwarzburger, Thuringian State Museum Heidecksburg-Rudolstadt State Exhibition 1995, ISBN 3-910013-16-3 B. Hauser: Origin of the Counts of Einsiedel-unpublished
Web links
- The Counts of Schwarzburg-Kevernburg
- Pierer's Universal Lexicon (1857–1865)
- Kevernburger genealogical table