Kottwitz from Aulenbach

Family coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book

Full coat of arms from an epitaph in the church in Treis an der Lumda

The Kottwitz von Aulenbach family was a Frankish noble family .

history

The Kottwitz family , the same name as their possessions, the Silesian Kotowice or the Bohemian Kottwitz , are considered to be the family line. From a Moravian, Silesian descent, Kottwitz, striving towards the west, developed into the Frankish line, Kottwitz von Aulenbach. As part of this development, they carry a coat of arms that the von Dürn , von Fechenbach and von Adelsheim families also have . Because of their possessions, they were represented in the knight cantons of Odenwald and Rhön Werra . There is an epitaph in the Würzburg Cathedraland a bronze plate of the clergyman Johann Konrad Kottwitz von Aulenbach († 1610), in the church of St. John the Baptist in Mönchberg , in the bell house, the tombstone of Katharina von Aulenbach, who died in 1605. The tombstones of the married couple Johann Philipp Georg Kottwitz von Aulenbach († 1697) and Anna Maria Kottwitz von Aulenbach, née von Dernbach († 1693) are in the church of Urspringen . They were the parents of Maria Sidonie Philippine von Sickingen, born Kottwitz von Aulenbach. The family in Klingenberg am Main provided Mainz officials (see also Clingenburg ). The male family died out in the 17th century. In 1693 the von Mairhofen family , whose line then referred to itself as "Mairhofen von Aulenbach", was the successor to the Oberaulenbach area and castle . Via Maria Sidonie Philippine Kottwitz von Aulenbach, married since 1697 to the later Minister of the Electoral Palatinate, Johann Ferdinand von Sickingen (1664–1719), many family estates also fell to the von Sickingen family . Mainly these were Würzburg fiefs, including the castle and town of Dingolshausen , Stadelhofen and Mühlbach Castle near Karlstadt .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a black, vertical ibex horn in silver, the tip at the top, the lower end in the shape of a clover leaf. The crest consists of two black and silver divided ibex horns. The helmet covers are black and silver. The coat of arms is very similar to that of the Fechenbach and Adelsheim families .

See also

• List of Frankish knight families
• Kottwitz (noble family)

gallery

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  Grave slab of Katharina von Aulenbach († 1605), parish church of St. John the Baptist (Mönchberg)

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  Grave slab of cathedral dean Johann Konrad Kottwitz von Aulenbach († 1610), Würzburg Cathedral

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  Maria Sidonie Philippine von Sickingen, born Kottwitz von Aulenbach, wife of the Minister Johann Ferdinand von Sickingen

literature

• Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (list of the canton Odenwald from 1550, StAL B 583 Bü 191.) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 . Pp. 214/215.
• New Prussian nobility lexicon . Pp. 163-165.
• Würzburg Diocesan History Sheets (PDF; 2.3 MB), Volume 57, special edition, 1995, Diocese of Würzburg, pp. 107–145

Web links

• Coat of arms representations in Franconian coat of arms roll
• Family history website  ( page no longer available , search web archives )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Website with photos of the grave slabs in Urspringen
2. ↑ Michael Benz: Johann Ferdinand von und zu Sickingen (1664–1719) , in: Blätter für Pfälzische Kirchengeschichte und Religiöse Volkskunde , 53 year, 1986, pp. 255–264
3. ↑ Image website for Mühlbach Castle
4. ^ Johann Konrad Kottwitz von Aulenbach in Würzburg Wiki