Leonrod (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Leonrod

Upstream tower of the Leonrod castle ruins

Epitaph of Phillip von and zu Leonrodt and Dietenhofen and to Drugenhofen († 1593) in the church of Dietenhofen

Painted window in Eichstätter Cathedral with reference to the burial place below

The Leonrodt (or Leonrod ) family was a Franconian - Swabian noble family that died out in 1951.

history

The family was based in Leonrod in Dietenhofen and was also later after the extinction of Dietenhofen in possession of Wasserburg Dietenhofen .

On the southwestern outskirts of Leonrod are the ruins of Leonrod , a Ganerbeburg and the ancestral seat of the noble family of the same name. The moated castle , built in the 13th century, survived the Thirty Years' War without being damaged, but burned down in 1651 when scrub in the moat was to be burned. The complex is owned by a community of heirs that dates back to the family that died out in 1951 .

In the church of Dietenhofen and in the pilgrimage church of Maria Kappel in Schmiechen there are burial places of those of Leonrod. You can still see epitaphs and death shields .

Burial place in the pilgrimage church Maria Kappel in Schmiechen

There is a central Leonrodplatz in Eichstätt . The family provided high spiritual dignitaries in the diocese of Eichstätt . In Eichstätter Dom there is a burial place and several epitaphs.

A square in Munich is also named after the family. A Leonrodstraße in Bayreuth existed until the 1970s.

Personalities

Johann and Simon von Leonrod, knights of the Teutonic Order
Philipp von Leonrod († 1593)
Franz Leopold Freiherr von Leonrod (1827–1905), Bishop of Eichstätt
Leopold Freiherr von Leonrod (1829–1905), lawyer and royal Bavarian Minister of Justice
Ludwig Freiherr von Leonrod (1906–1944), officer and resistance fighter from July 20, 1944
Sybilla Freifrau von Leonrod , b. Meilhaus (1814–1881), educator of King Ludwig II of Bavaria

coat of arms

The Leonrod coat of arms shows a red bar in silver . On the helmet with red and silver covers, two buffalo horns marked like the shield.

The coat of arms of the Leonrodt family in Siebmacher's coat of arms book
The coat of arms of the Leonrodt family in Scheibler's book of arms
Revolt shield of the Teutonic Knight Wolf von Leonrod (1495) in St. Jakob (Nuremberg)