Kromsdorf (noble family)
Kromsdorf , at the time also Krombsdorff and Kromstorff , was an old Upper Saxon - Thuringian noble family that became extinct at the end of the 17th century.
history
The family first appeared in a document on October 22, 1150. The family's main seat was the eponymous town of Kromsdorf in today's Thuringia , where their manor was in the form of a small manor in the area of today's rectory. In 1580 Georg Albrecht von Kromsdorf had Kromsdorf Castle built south of the church in Renaissance style. When Johann Theodor de Mortaigne took over the castle in 1666, the second important construction phase began.
The family gained supraregional importance in the middle of the 16th century after the acquisition of the secularized Benedictine nunnery in Ottenhausen . Building on the income from this property, further manors could be acquired in the Electorate of Saxony .
Due to the childless death of the electoral chamber councilor Albrecht Christian von Kromsdorf , this noble family died out in the male line in 1684. The very last female representative was Anna Sabina Freiin von Werthern geb. vom Kromsdorf, who died in 1698.
Today, the church in Ottenhausen in particular commemorates the von Kromsdorf aristocratic family, who, with substantial financial support (total amount: 1000 thalers) from the family, were restored in the 17th century and equipped with a new pulpit, new organ and new bells.
coat of arms
Blazon : split, in the front in the golden field half a black eagle, in the back in the silver field three roses lying on top of each other.
Possessions
- Kromsdorf (1150-1660)
- Adelwitz (1376)
- Ottenhausen (1543–1687)
- Ottendorf (between 1661 and 1681)
- Lebusa
- Reichstädt
Important representatives
- Oswald von Kromsdorf († 1553), Electoral Saxon governor in Weißensee and Eckartsberga and owner of the secularized Ottenhausen monastery.
- Albrecht Christian von Kromsdorf († 1684), councilor of the Electoral Saxony, chamberlain, governor in Graefenhainichen and Annaburg and lieutenant colonel as well as owner of the secularized Ottenhausen monastery and owner of the manors Lebusa, Ottendorf and Reichstädt.
literature
- Of salvation. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 1, p. 1119.
- Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 1, p. 484.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Kahl : First mention of Thuringian towns and villages . A manual. 5th, improved and considerably enlarged edition. Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2010, ISBN 978-3-86777-202-0 , p. 154
- ↑ Lange u. Dreßler, p. 48
- ↑ The Kromsdorf Castle on the page “Tradition and Customs Maintenance in Thuringia” ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2005 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.
