Kinckel (noble family)

The barons of Kinckel (v. Kinkel) were a south German noble family. The family came from Undingen , was originally a middle-class family and was initially called Künckelin . From the 16th century, the family lived in Schorndorf , where they provided two mayors, Johann Georg Künckelin (1655–1728) and his son Georg Thomas Künckelin (1680–1720). Georg Thomas Künckelin's son August Wolfgang Künckelin (1710–1768) was appointed syndic of the knightly canton of Odenwald and in 1752 as baron von Kinckel was raised to the nobility. His four sons entered the service of the lords of Pfalz-Zweibrücken , Pfalz-Sulzbach , the Kingdom of Bavaria and the United Netherlands . However, they had no legitimate offspring, so that the family with Heinrich August von Kinckel died out in the male line in 1821.

history

The oldest known ancestor of the family is a Hans Künckelin, who lived in Undingen in the 15th century. His son Jakob, born in 1467, and his son of the same name, who died in 1571, still lived there. Bartlin Künckelin, born around 1528 as the son of the younger Jakob in Undingen, married Katharina Heutlin in Schorndorf in 1555. Their son Johann Jakob Künckelin was born in Undingen around 1563, but the family then moved to Schorndorf, where Bartlin died around 1578/79 and Johann Jakob is recorded as a barber . His son of the same name Johann Jacob Künckelin (1601–1664) became a pastor and was most recently active in Welzheim , where his son Johann Georg Künckelin (1655–1728) was born, but whose center of life was again in Schorndorf, where he was a trader and mayor . His second wife Anna Barbara Argricola, w. Walch , whom he married in 1689, had led the uprising of the Schorndorfer women in 1688 . Johann Georg's son from his first marriage, Georg Thomas Künckelin (1680–1720), was also a merchant and mayor of Schorndorf.

The two sons of Georg Thomas Künckelin did not stay in Schorndorf. The younger son Wolfgang Thomas Künckelin (1714–1789) became a trader in Heilbronn , followed by his son Carl Friedrich August Künckelin (1748–1805), who left no male offspring. Carl Friedrich August Künckelin's daughter, Wilhelmine Carolina Sidonia Künckelin (1779–1855), married the Mayor of Heilbronn in 1798, Johann Gottlob Dietrich Strauss (1768–1805).

Wolfgang Thomas Künckelin's brother August Wolfgang Künckelin (1710–1768) entered the service of the knightly canton of Odenwald, which at that time also had its cantonal administration in Heilbronn. He married Rosina Elisabetha Pancug, the sister of Heilbronn's mayor Georg Heinrich von Pancug . In 1751, Emperor Franz I gave the small Palatine to August Wolfgang Künckelin, in the following year Künckelin was raised to the hereditary nobility and called himself Baron von Kinckel .

August Wolfgang von Kinckel and his wife had ten children, of whom four sons and two daughters reached adulthood. The eldest son Carl August Heinrich von Kinckel (1739–1790) was adjutant general in the Duchy of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, the second oldest son Georg August Heinrich von Kinckel (1741–1827) royal Bavarian chamberlain and lieutenant general. The third eldest son Friedrich August von Kinckel (1745–1788) was a member of the Pfalz-Sulzbach government and electoral Bergrat in Mannheim . The youngest son Heinrich August von Kinckel (1747-1821) entered the Dutch service and was first a naval officer and later diplomatic envoy. The brothers remained without any legitimate offspring. The younger sister Sophia von Kinckel (1756-1830), who married the Württemberg State Councilor Johann August von Reuss (1751-1820), remained childless. Only the older sister Rosina Elisabeth von Kinckel (1736–1808), who was married to the Mayor of Esslingen Johann Andreas Harpprecht von Harpprechtstein (1706–1771) and her second marriage to the Mayor of Heilbronn Georg Heinrich von Roßkampff (1720–1794) was, had a daughter Elisabeth Johanna Margarethe (1770–1834), who entered into a marriage with the Baden Chamberlain Friedrich Wolfgang Rüdt von Collenberg (1757–1825), with no offspring .

The family had a close relationship with the city of Heilbronn since 1734, where two generations of the non-ennobled branch of the family worked as merchants and where all of August Wolfgang von Kinckel's children were born. The family belonged to the upper class of the city, which explains the family connections with other patrician families in Heilbronn. Heinrich August von Kinckel acquired the Trappenseeschlösschen in Heilbronn in 1784 and had it rebuilt in its present form. The building was owned by the family until the death of the last descendant Elisabeth Johanna Margarethe in 1834 and then passed to the family of Elisabeth's deceased husband, Messrs. Rüdt von Collenberg .

The family also managed or managed various other estates, including the Messbach manor near Dörzbach , the castle in Dirmstein and the Rennhof near Hüttenfeld .

literature

• Karl Hugo Popp and Hans Riexinger : On the history of the Heilbronn family Künckelin / von Kinckel . In: Historischer Verein Heilbronn, year book 30, 1983, pp. 145–166.