Langwerth from Simmern

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Coat of arms of the Langwerth von Simmern

Langwerth von Simmern , also Langwerth zu Simmern , is the name of an aristocratic family from the Middle and Upper Rhine , which also settled in Hanover from the middle of the 18th century.

history

origin

The family with Cuno de Simeren is first mentioned in a document issued on January 29, 1215. The secured trunk series begins with Nikolaus Langwerth von Simmern († 1449), who appears in a document from 1417. Around 1411 he inherited the castle in Hattenheim in the Rheingau .

According to Kneschke , the family originally came from the Wetterau and spelled Langerte or Langete . Wiegand and Albrecht von Langerte are said to have also belonged to the family , who appear in a document from 1343. Likewise Werner and Ulrich von Langerte , who only had the lily in the coat of arms in 1394 . A short time later, a relative settled on the left bank of the Rhine, in Lorraine . According to the language used there, the G in the name was replaced by a U , so that the pronunciation Languert or Langwirt arose.

Spread and personalities

Hattenheim Castle
Stockheimer Hof with the Freiherrlich Langwerth von Simmern'sches Rentamt winery in Eltville am Rhein
Wichtringhausen manor, manor house

The son of the progenitor Nikolaus, Johann, became princely Palatine Chancellor in Simmern . His son Georg moved into Hattenheim Castle as his main residence from 1463. His fourth generation descendants were Johann Adolph and Georg Christoph, sons of Hans Georg from his marriage to Philippine von Grorodt.

In 1711 the family moved to the Stockheimer Hof in Eltville , which has since been the seat of the Freiherrlich Langwerth von Simmern'sches Rentamt winery and has been called the Langwerther Hof ever since . Johann Adolph († 1700) became Commander of the Teutonic Order of Ober-Flörsheim , Electoral Mainz Chamberlain and Colonel and Commander of Erfurt . Georg Christoph († 1702) accepted the Protestant faith and, as the eldest son, became the heir to the family estates. He married a daughter of the imperial judge Wolf von Gemmingen . Of the children of this marriage of the elderly, remained Gottfried Langwerth of Simmern (* 1669), a Catholic and entered the clergy. He was ordered to Regensburg , the ordination was a canon in the Bishopric of Regensburg and died in 1741 as Bishop of Regensburg. The younger son, Philipp Reinhard, married to Susanne von Gemmingen, gave up his father's castle Hattenheim , which had been devastated in the War of the Spanish Succession , and bought the Sanecker Hof in Eltville on the Rhine . The estate was owned by the family for a long time as a fief of the Counts of Nassau .

Of his four sons, only Georg Reinhard (1713–1778) was able to continue the line permanently. He entered the service of court and chancellery in Hanover and in 1742 married Melusine Sophie († 1792), daughter of the Hanoverian general von Campen. Later, the Camp'schen estates in Egestorf, Neustadt and Wüstrof could be acquired with the patronage of Bodenau. Georg Reinhard Langwerth von Simmern acquired the Wichtringhausen manor in Calenberg for himself in 1743 . His younger brother Ludwig Christian Langwerth von Simmern became captain of the Middle Rhine knighthood . One of her five sisters, Caroline, married Carl Philipp Freiherr von und zum Stein and became the mother of the important royal Prussian state minister Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein (1757-1831).

Ernst Freiherr Langwerth von Simmern became a royal British general of the German Legion . He was killed in 1809 at the Battle of Talavera . His son, Baron Friedrich Langwerth von Simmern (* 1802), Lord of Wichtringhausen, came from his marriage to Julie von Ahlefeld († 1821) in 1796 . He became a royal Hanoverian appellate judge . His brother Adolph Freiherr Langwerth von Simmern, who died in 1846, was a royal Hanoverian major . He married Isabelle Freiin von Bülow-Bothkamp in 1831.

During the 18th century the Barons Langwerth of Simmern for possession of the goods ganerbschaft Nieder-Saulheim (one seventh) and the ganerbschaft Schornsheim (one fifth) members of the imperial knights in Ritter Canton Upper Rhine of the Rhenish knights circle . Members of the sex were also enrolled in the knight canton of Mittelrheinstrom . By owning the Wichtringhausen manor and the Leeste manor in Hoya, the family belonged to the knightly nobility of the Calenberg and Hoya landscape in what would later become the Kingdom of Hanover .

The Wichtringhausen manor is still managed by the family. and Hattenheim Castle is still owned by the family. The Langwerther Hof winery (formerly Stockheimer Hof) in Eltville was given up in 2018 and the property was sold. Georg-Reinhard Freiherr Langwerth von Simmern is now leasing several areas of land, including 15 hectares, to the Corvers-Kauter winery, which now manages historic vineyards such as Erbacher Marcobrunn , Hattenheimer Nussbrunnen and Rauentaler Baiken . Another five hectares of vineyards were sold to the Dotzheimer Weingut Höhn.

Status surveys

The family has been using the title of baron since the 18th century . A nobility law non-objection to the use of the baron title took place on September 23, 1952 for Adolph Freiherr Langwerth von Simmern auf Wichtringhausen, Prussian district judge out of service , by resolution of the committee for nobility issues of the German nobility associations .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a golden lily in black , raised by a three-lobed blue tournament collar . On the helmet with black and gold helmet covers, the lily between two ibex horns.

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Princely Salm-Horstmarisches Archive in Anholt
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, page 174
  3. ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 5, Page 395
  4. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 360.
  5. ↑ Jens Priewe: Corvers-Kauter takes over Langwerth from Simmern on weinkenner.de, accessed on October 26, 2018
  6. ↑ Oliver Bock: New owners for remaining vineyards in: FAZ.net from September 2, 2018, accessed on October 26, 2018
  7. ↑ Rheingau top locations leased on meininger.de, accessed on October 26, 2018

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