Kotzau

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Coat of arms of the von Kotzau family from Siebmacher's coat of arms book
Coat of arms in the Ingeram Codex

The Lords of Kotzau were a Franconian noble family that had settled in the immediate vicinity of the city of Hof .

history

origin

Oberkotzau Castle

The von Kotzau family came to the Vogtland , also known as Regnitzland , in the northern part of the Vogtland , in the wake of the Weida bailiffs , and became a ministerial in Oberkotzau and Unterkotzau in the Hof district in Upper Franconia . Possibly there is a genealogical connection to the Kocourov (Kotzauer?) Near Třebenice and to Kotzau near Altenstadt an der Waldnaab .

That of Kotzau in Regnitzland

It is uncertain whether the oldest confirmed mention of the von Kotzau surname in 1205 refers to the family of the same name based in the Regnitzland around Hof. Albertus de Kotzawe, who sold goods in Mochau near Nossen to the cell monastery on October 12, 1205 , is presumably part of the von Kötschau family . The first known bearer of the name, who named himself after today's place Oberkotzau in the district of Hof (Bavaria), was Conrad de Kotcawe, who in 1234 founded a soul mass for his son Albert, who died shortly before, in Speinshart Monastery , for the financing of which he took several goods to the monastery handed over to the surroundings of Hof. At the beginning of the 13th century, the von Kotzau appeared in the wake of the bailiffs von Weida and Plauen and often as witnesses during the notarization of legal acts. Since their ancestral seat Kotzau was an imperial fiefdom , King Albrecht I granted a Konrad von Kotzau his goods and fiefs as man and woman fiefs on November 18, 1298.

The von Kotzau family was wealthy in the vicinity of the city of Hof. Around the middle of the 14th century, one family branch appeared in Fattigau , Moschendorf and Wurlitz , and another in Rehau . Heinrich von Kotzau sold the reign of Rehau in 1394 to the burgrave Friedrich V of Nuremberg . In 1398 the seat and the village of Fattigau with the villages of Wurlitz, Langenbach , Schwingen , the desert Burg Heideck , the seat and the village of Moschendorf as well as individual estates in Seuckenreuth , Schwarzenbach an der Saale , Förbau , Stobersreuth and Gottwaldsreuth (today Wustuben) belonged to the Fattigau family branch ). The village of the same name, consisting of the districts of Kotzau, Saaldorf and Schwesnitz, the villages Woja , Autengrün , Kautendorf and Unterpferdt and the desert areas Lichtentanne, Seibothengrün and Wüstenbrunn belonged to Kotzau Castle .

The main line of the von Kotzau family seated at Kotzau Castle obtained King Sigismund's confirmation of the sanctuary , the ( right of asylum ) in Kotzau in 1424 and King Friedrich III's approval in 1444 . to hold a weekly market in the village of Kotzau . The privileges also included permission to settle Jews, whose residency as traders can still be seen in a former Jewish cemetery in the village. After the middle of the 15th century, the cousins ​​Nickel and Friedrich von Kotzau united the entire family property in Regnitzland in their hands. In 1468 the division of this property created the older and younger lines of the sex. In the Kotzau family palace, each line received half a share of the structure. The younger line went out on January 1, 1619 with the Bamberg cathedral dean Hektor von Kotzau. The last offspring of the older line, Wolf Christian von Kotzau, died in a duel in 1661 .

Distribution in the Regnitzland

Knight Christoph von Kotzau as a fully plastic epitaph in the church of Oberkotzau
Memorial plaque for the last rungs of the Barons von Kotzau at the cemetery church in Oberkotzau

The von Kotzau family left numerous traces in Oberkotzau. Resident at the castle there, they were mentioned as early as 1234. In the Oberkotzau church of St. Jakobus , which was rebuilt by the Kotzau in 1440, there are still nine tombstones of their relatives. (including from 1560, 1588, 1597, 1603, 1624), including that of Georg Wolf von Kotzau and Christoph von Kotzau as a man- high knight sculpture . The cemetery chapel was built over the von Kotzau crypt . It is the final resting place of family members of the younger line in Oberkotzau.

Eberhard von Kotzau zu Rehau and Heinrich von Kotzau zu Kotzau, known as Lange , bailiff von Hof, took part in the Guttenberg feud in 1380 . Longa von Kotzau was abbess at Himmelkron Monastery from 1411 to 1428 . Captain Hans von Kotzau defeated the Hussites in 1430 in the Battle of Katharinenberg near Wunsiedel . He was previously employed by the Burgraves of Nuremberg as a bailiff at Hohenberg Castle .

That of Kotzau in the Egerland

Nickel von Kotzau, a descendant of the older line of the family, resident in the Egerland in 1504 , was with Kunz Kraghaus (Kraghan) on January 6, 1508 seal witnesses of an original feud letter for Matell Sölch (* in Fischern; † 1538 in Rathsam, Parish Mühlbach) , “Sat on Rathsam” and captain of the city of Eger against the city's magistrate, in which he waived claims against the city for himself and his family from the city's feud with knight Jorg von Zedtwitz on Liebenstein. The original feud letter is in the state regional archive in Cheb .

In 1511 Nickel von Kotzau sat at Krottensee Castle ( Mokřina ) near Miltigau ( Milíkov u Mariánských Lázní ) at the foot of the Imperial Forest. Looking to expand his property, he received from the Waldsassen monastery as a fiefdom in the neighboring Großschüttüber ( Velky Šitboř ). His grandchildren Gilch Rudolf and Wolf Nathan von Kotzau sold this property in 1586 to the Eger councilor Wolfgang Pachelbel. Her cousin Wolf Wenzel von Kotzau acquired the Haslau ( Hazlov ) estate , north of Eger, around 1580 . After the death of his only son Georg Adam in 1627, Haslau came into the possession of Veit Dietrich von Steinheim . Georg Adam's nephew, Hans Adam von Kotzau, died as the last bearer of this line's name in 1640 at the age of 20.

Re-establishment of the name of Kotzau by the Hohenzollern

The Barons von Kotzau come from the morganatic marriage of Margrave Georg Albrecht von Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1666–1703) with Regina Magdalena Lutz, the daughter of a Kastner, in 1699 . The sons from this connection, Friedrich Christian (* 1700; † 1739) and Friedrich August (* 1703) received from their father as an apanaged prince as their residence the Oberkotzau castle and associated goods with their income and the names and coats of arms of the lords, who died in 1661 Imperial Knight of Kotzau; In 1738 he was raised to the status of imperial baron, combined with an improvement in the coat of arms. The family crypt is located under the cemetery chapel in Oberkotzau . The descendants became extinct in 1976 in the name bearer line.

The crest

The coat of arms of the Lords of Kotzau in Scheibler's register of arms (around 1450)
Coat of arms of the Lords of Kotzau

The coat of arms shows a silver ram with its head turned back and golden horns on a red background. The helmet is crowned and the ram is on it again. The blankets are red-silver.

Coat of arms of the Barons of Kotzau
Coat of arms of the Barons of Kotzau

The increased baronial coat of arms carries the original coat of arms as a heart shield. The main shield is quartered and usually refers to property that has been acquired by other sexes. In fields 1 and 4 a red-tongued and armored black eagle is depicted, in 2 and 3 two golden oblique left bars in front of a red background. The coat of arms also shows the barons' crown and three crowned helmets: on the right there is the eagle with blue and silver covers, on the middle one with red and silver covers the ram and on the left with red and gold covers five golden lances with red and gold covers. golden flags.

Places with references to namesake of those from Kotzau

Regnitzland

The von Kotzau families were mentioned in the following places:

  • Church building in Kautendorf in 1498 by Hans von Kotzau

The following knight seats are known:

Other places with connections to the von Kotzau

Relatives of noble and noble families of bourgeois origin

According to the genealogist Alban von Dobenck , the family tree of the ministerial family of those von Kotzau was only very fragmentary in 1909. There are hardly any proven kinship relationships and information on marriage from the early period of the sex, and the late period up to the extinction in the male line in 1661 is comparatively little researched. There are family ties to the Aufseß , Boyneburg, Brandt (Brand), Dobenck , Falkenstein , Fronhoften, Graefendorf, Guttenberg , Haller, Herbilstadt , Herdegen, Hertenberg , Heßberg , Hirschberg , Kaufungen , Kunstadt , Lengefeld, Lüchau , Machwitz , Munk, Obernitz , Pappenheim , Peulnstein, Poschinger, Rabensteiner zu Döhlau , Redwitz , Reitzenstein , Schierstett, Schirnding , Schlick , Seckendorff , Sparneck , Stolz zu Haberspirk, Tettau , Thoß , Trautenberg , Truchseß von Wetzhausen , Waldenfels , Wirsberg , Zedtwitz , Zollner vom Brand . Marriages with the neighboring von Reitzenstein and von Zedtwitz families are particularly frequent.

Personalities

literature

  • Johann Gottfried Biedermann : Gender register of the laudable knighthood in Voigtlande… . Kulmbach 1752.
  • Alban von Dobenck : History of the extinct family of Kotzau. In: Archives for the history and archeology of Upper Franconia. Bayreuth 1909, pp. 1–111.
  • Hans-Ulrich Zeidler: The Oberkotzau market - a foray into local history . In: 750 years of Oberkotzau market - Festschrift of the Oberkotzau market for the 750th anniversary . Oberkotzau 1984
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser 1849 (Appendix) and 1941
  • Curt von Raab : Contributions to the history of the Vogtland nobility. Vol. 2: Those of Machwitz, von Gößnitz, Thussel von Taltitz and von Quing. (= Annual publication 6 of the Plauen antiquity association for the years 1886/1887)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. CDSR II.19, No. 30.
  2. ^ Regesta Boica II; 229
  3. ↑ Dobenck p. 10
  4. ↑ Eckard Lullies: The feud of the Guttenberg against the bailiffs and the nobility feud against Eger , today Cheb in West Bohemia , Kulmbach 1999. ISBN 3-925162-19-4 . P. 29–32 and family table IX.
  5. ^ Lineage Sölch from Zettendorf, Eger district in Böhmen, German Gender Book , Volume 214, 2002, CA Starke Verlag - Limburg an der Lahn, ISBN 3-7980-0214-2 , page 1009; Karl Siegl : The feud with knight Jorg von Zedtwitz on Liebenstein in: Communications of the Association for the History of Germans in Böhmen, 1908, page 11 and 49

Web links

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