Koppenstein (noble family)
The Koppensteiner were a noble family from the Rhine Franconia that emerged as a sideline to the Counts of Sponheim and was later elevated to the status of baron .
Family history
Johann II von Sponheim-Kreuznach († 1340), Count of the Front County of Sponheim , intended to marry a wild countess . Due to close relatives, the marriage was not allowed and the count remained single. Later he had an illegitimate son named Wallrab with the daughter of a sponheim servant , whom he had legitimized by the emperor. In his archive for Rhenish history , the Koblenz archive director Karl August von Reisach (1774–1846), uncle of the cardinal of the same name , writes that the mother of the illegitimate offspring was a daughter of the count's water carrier .
With this count's son Wallrab , the Koppenstein family began in the 14th century, who were considered noble but did not have the dignity of their father or ancestors. Wallrab received various fiefs a.o. from his father's property . a. the castle Koppenstein in the Hunsrück , whose name the family carried from then on. The town of Mandel was given to the Koppensteiners as a fief by the eunuchs of Worms . There they built an aristocratic court ("Schloss Mandel") at the beginning of the 17th century.
The first name Wallrab (raven) of the ancestor became a key name in the family and was also included in the family coat of arms. This is derived from the parent company Sponheim, blue-gold box and leads to the top right, in red, a standing raven.
Members of the family often served as knights, clergymen or officials in the service of the local territorial lords. The Dominican theologian Johann Andreas Coppenstein († 1638) also came from the family.
With Jakob Adolf von Koppenstein, the male line died out in 1768. He had appointed his closest relative, Damian Freiherr Schenk von Schmidtburg , to whom the majority of the property fell, as heir . Jakob Adolf von Koppenstein had given the Sponheim family fiefs back to the County of Sponheim as early as 1759. They passed to his cousin Franz Karl Freiherr von Hacke . According to a pamphlet about a festival by Jakob Adolf von Koppenstein, in honor of the Trier bishop coadjutor Johann Philipp von Walderdorff , 1755, the aristocrat was chamberlain to Emperor Karl VII. And baron .
Relics of the family
The local coat of arms of the municipality of Mandel is based on the Koppenstein family coat of arms , of which a double coat of arms stone exists at the local castle. The same applies to the municipal coats of arms of Gehlweiler and Steinbach (Hunsrück)
In the Catholic parish church of St. Michael zu Kirchberg there are several epitaphs of the family. The church served as a hereditary burial for a line of the noble family.
In the castle church (Ingelheim) there are two Koppenstein epitaphs from the 16th century.
Wolfgang Friedrich von Koppenstein († 1658) lived as canon in Trier and had a splendid wayside cross with the family coat of arms built in Esch (near Wittlich) .
His sister Emilie Rosine was married to Johann Philipp von Auwach , bailiff at Manderscheid and Burgmann at Schönecken . She died in 1692 and was buried in the crypt of the Abbey Church of St. Michael in Siegburg , where her epitaph with an alliance coat of arms Auwach / Koppenstein is preserved. Her son Hermann Lothar von Auwach (1652–1722), dean of the cathedral in the Principality of Speyer , received an elaborate coat of arms epitaph on the southern exterior of the Speyer cathedral , on which the maternal family coat of arms "von Koppenstein" appears.
Further traces of the family can be found in the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul , Eltville am Rhein (epitaph for Agnes von Koppenstein), in the Protestant church of Kastellaun (epitaph for Barbara Römer nee von Koppenstein), in the Catholic parish church of St. Georg zu Sehlem (epitaph for the Elector of Trier Albrecht von Esch and his wife Brigitta née von Koppenstein), and in Bacharach , Protestant parish church St. Peter (ancestral coat of arms Koppenstein on the epitaph of Johann Friedrich von Wolfskehl zu Vetzberg).
literature
- Anton Joseph Weidenbach : Memorable and Useful Rhenish Antiquarian II / 17 Das Nahethal , Vol. II. Rudolph Friedrich Christian Hergt , Koblenz 1870, esp. Pp. 191–212 ( Google Books ); with family tree , p. 210 ( Google Books )
- Gabriele Schulz: Inventory of the Koppenstein and von Hacke family archives (1373-1803) , publications from archives in Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, Kleine Reihe, No. 47, Koblenz 1990
- Peter Meyer: Koppenstein , Simmern 1963
- Hans Rademacher: The early history of the lords of Koppenstein from their beginnings to the end of the Middle Ages , Mainz 1981
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian von Stramberg , Anton Joseph Weidenbach: Memorable and useful Rheinischer Antiquarius , 2nd section, Volume 17. Koblenz 1870, p. 18 Digitalscan
- ^ Karl August von Reisach: Archive for Rhenish History , Part 1, Page 199, Koblenz, 1835 Digitalscan
- ↑ Digital scan of writing
- ↑ Description of the coat of arms Gehlweiler ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Description of the coat of arms Steinbach
- ↑ Illustrated PDF document on the Koppenstein epitaphs in Kirchberg with a brief outline of the family history
- ↑ Illustrated website on the Koppenstein Cross in Esch
- ^ "Agnes von Koppenstein 1553, Eltville". Grave monuments in Hesse until 1650. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Illustrated PDF document on the Kastellaun church and the epitaphs ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Illustrated website for the epitaph in Sehlem
