Kurtzrock (noble family)

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Smaller coat of arms of the Counts of Kurtzrock

Kurtzrock is the name of an originally Thuringian noble family who held leading positions in the northern German postal system from the 17th to 19th centuries (Hildesheim, Hamburg and Lübeck). The family was in 1678 in the knightly Reichsadel , 1707 in the realm baron and the Austrian branch in 1819 in the rank of count charged. With the death of the son of the last Countess von Kurtzrock-Wellingsbüttel, the Prussian baron Hugo von Leonhart-Kurtzrock , the family died out in 1921 .

history

overview

The gentlemen, later barons and counts von Kurtzrock, were originally a Catholic Thuringian family, which Emperor Rudolf II confirmed as noble in 1587. Heinrich and Theobald von Kurtzrock received a coat of arms from Emperor Ferdinand on April 14, 1654. Theobald von Kurtzrock was first the prince-bishop Hildesheim bailiff in Ruthe and from 1676 imperial envoy in Bremen ; as such, he soon exerted considerable influence from Münster via East Frisia to Hamburg . He married the daughter of the Hamburg imperial postmaster Johann Baptista Vrints von Treuenfeld and in 1673 acquired the Wellingsbüttel estate , for which he and his descendants claimed imperial immediacy . With a diploma dated April 3, 1678, he received the knightly imperial nobility with the title of Edler von Wellingsbüttel . His sons Max Heinrich and Franz, like his brother-in-law, who was married to his sister, the postmaster Heinrich Bagen von Ehrenfeld, were enfeoffed by the prince-bishop of Hildesheim with the post office at the gates of the city of Hildesheim, once built by the Hinüber family.

Interior of St. Joseph (Hamburg-St. Pauli) (around 1850) with the high altar donated by Maximilian Heinrich von Kurtzrock in 1723

His son Maximilian Heinrich von Kurtzrock on Wellingsbüttel, Holstein Chamberlain , Imperial Court Councilor and resident of the Lower Saxon Empire, was appointed by Emperor Joseph I on l. September 1707 raised to the status of imperial baron. The Catholic family was one of the sponsors of the building of St. Joseph (Hamburg-St. Pauli) ; In 1723 Maximilian Heinrich von Kurtzrock donated the baroque high altar, which was removed in 1874, with the support of Prince Anselm Franz von Thurn und Taxis . In the 18th century, three members of the family received canon positions at Lübeck Cathedral ; two were also provosts of the collegiate monastery Hl. Kreuz in Hildesheim .

Clemens August von Kurtzrock (1745–1822) acquired property in Lower Austria and in 1777 was accepted into the Lower Austrian Landmannschaft . In 1806, after considerable military pressure from the Danish Crown Prince and Regent Friedrich VI. Sell ​​Wellingsbüttel to the Danish Crown. In 1819 he and his sons were raised to the status of counts in Austria as Counts of Kurtzrock-Wellingsbüttel . He was buried in the crypt of the St. Joseph Church (St. Pauli).

Leonhart short skirt

The daughter of the last Count of Kurtzrock, Carl Graf von Kurtzrock († 1874), Maria Theresia Alexandrine, married Aloys Wladimir von Leonhart in 1850. After his death in 1879, she and her descendants were raised to the Prussian baron class under the name Leonhart-Kurtzrock with a diploma on January 21, 1883 . The male line went out with her son in 1921.

Possessions

coat of arms

Large coat of arms of the Counts of Kurtzrock-Wellingsbüttel

The count's coat of arms shows a golden bell on red, the tail of which protrudes below and which is marked with a black cross, on the upper right a golden balance, on the upper left a golden, stretched measuring circle and below two green clovers with stems bent towards each other, one on the right, the other turned to the left. Above it a count's crown with nine visible points and pearls, and above it a crowned helmet with five red ostrich feathers . The helmet covers are red and gold. A virgin with flying hair, a golden breast cloth, long red robe turned up to the knee on the left, a blue, gold-trimmed cloak and laced gold sandals serve as a shield holder ; she holds a blue-bound book in front of her in her right hand, a gold cross in her left; on the left a wild man who is clad with a bearskin thrown over his left shoulder and a head attached to it, and who is pushing a club on the ground with his left hand. The Latin motto is: Religioni et labori (German: with / through piety and work ). a variant is the squared form of the coat of arms with the bell in the heart shield , the other fields show 1. the scales, 2. the compass, 3. and 4. the clovers.

Name bearer

  • Theobald von Kurtzrock († 1682), imperial envoy in Bremen, son-in-law of the Hamburg imperial postmaster Vrints von Treuenfeld; Brother-in-law of the Hildesheim postmaster Bagen von Ehrenfeld
  • Maximilian Heinrich von Kurtzrock († 1735), Reichshofrat and imperial resident of the Lower Saxon Reichskreis in Hamburg, owner of the post office in front of Hildesheim as a prince-bishop's fief
  • Eugenius Alexander Peter von Kurtzrock, canon in Lübeck, provost of the monastery of the Holy Cross in Hildesheim, district councilor and treasurer of Cologne
  • Maximilian Gunther von Kurtzrock (1726– after 1756), Cathedral Chapter in Lübeck
  • Clemens August von Kurtzrock (1745–1822), Chief Postmaster in Hamburg
  • Carl Josef Graf von Kurtzrock (1839–1865), Austrian officer in the Mexican service, died at Ahuacatlán
  • Theobald Graf von Kurtzrock (1785–1856), kk real chamberlain, Austrian consul general and Thurn-und-Taxischer post director in Lübeck
  • Carl Graf von Kurtzrock (1790–1874), married to Louise Freiin Testard de Montigny since 1825; he acquired Dattenfeld Castle before 1850
Leonhart-Kurtzrock family grave in Königswinter
  • Maria Theresia Alexandrine (1829–), married to Aloys Wladimir von Leonhart since 1850 (* 1816 in Komerau / Bohemia as the son of a noble officer in Prague); The couple had the Villa Leonhart, originally conceived as a country house , built in Königswinter am Rhein in 1893 ; The family crypt is also located in Königswinter; In 1935 daughter Sophie died, and with her the family died out; The marriage resulted in two daughters and a son:
  • Hugo Clemens Alexander Ladislaus Maria von Leonhart (1866 in Mainz – 1921 in Bonn), since 1883 Prussian baron with the name of Leonhart-Kurtzrock ; Herr auf Dattenfeld, Kesselbodengut (Tyrol), Marienhof, Züllinghoven and Berkum; married Victoria Agnes Karoline Johanna Maria (* 1888) in Graz in 1915, daughter of the Colonel-Hereditary Postmaster of Bozen, Johann Egid Hermann Graf von Taxis-Bordogna ; the marriage had remained childless and the widow sold Dattenfeld Castle in 1921

literature

  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Band 1: A-K . TO Weigel, Leipzig 1852 ( full text ), p. 495 f.
  • Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons. 1864, pp. 139f.
  • Hartwig Fiege: History of Wellingsbüttels - From the Holstein village and estate to the Hamburg district. Neumünster 1982, ISBN 3-529-02668-9 , pp. 27-63
  • Wolfgang Prange : The Canon Maximilian Gunther von Kurtzrock. In: Ders .: Bishop and cathedral chapter of Lübeck: Hochstift, principality and part of the country 1160-1937. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 2014, ISBN 978-3-7950-5215-7 , pp. 547-570

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Genealogical Handbook of Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1989, p. 99, by the way, does not mention any such confirmation of the nobility from 1587 or an originally Thuringian origin, but Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , Deutsche Grafen- Houses of the present in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation , Volume 1: A − KTO Weigel, Leipzig 1852, p. 495 f., Writes that the family lived in Erfurt until the 16th century and confirmed the nobility by the emperor in 1587 got.
  2. ^ Thomas Lau: Diplomacy and Law. The role of the imperial residents in inner-city conflicts in the imperial cities of the early modern period. In: Anja Amend (ed.): The imperial city of Frankfurt as a legal and judicial landscape in the Roman-German Empire. Munich: Oldenbourg 2008, ISBN 9783486579109 , pp. 97–106, here p. 106
  3. ^ Contributions to Hildesheim History , Volume 3, Hildesheim 1830, p. 186 f.
  4. ^ Leberecht Dreves : History of the Catholic communities in Hamburg and Altona. A contribution to the history of the Nordic missions. Hurter, Schaffhausen 1850, p. 139
  5. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 1989, p. 99
  6. ↑ St.Joseph Altona: Festschrift 1594-1994 ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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. P. 20 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.st-joseph-altona.de
  7. ^ Andreas Steinhuber : History of the Collegium Germanicum-Hungaricum in Rome. Volume 1 Herder, Freiburg (Breisgau) 1896, p. 240
  8. ^ Johann von Gudenau: Count Carl Kurtzrock-Wellingsbüttel: A youth picture. Vienna: Sartori 1868
  9. ^ Hartwig Fiege, Count von Kurtzrock-Wellingsbüttel and descendants at Dattenfeld Castle , in: Yearbook of the Alstervereins e. V .; 68.1992, pp. 12–15 ( digitized version  in the German Digital Library )
  10. ↑ Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock: Works and Letters 1783-1794. (Works: Volume 2) Berlin: de Gruyter 1999, ISBN 9783110142815 , p. 648