Lesche from Mühlheim
Lesche von Mühlheim is the name of a knight family who owned an estate in Mulenheim, the predecessor parish of Hermannstein .
history
The Lesche were castle men at Burg Kalsmunt and Burg Gleiberg .
As early as 1258, a Gerlach Lesch was mentioned as a witness about goods in Mulenheim. He is likely to be the same Gerhard Lesch who was a knight and castle man at Kalsmunt Castle in Wetzlar in the 1260s . In 1283 he was appointed forester for the forests of the Wetzlarer Stift.
At the beginning of the 15th century Werner and Gottfried Lesch bought shares in ganerbschaft Vetzberg and were thus vassal of the Count of Nassau-Saarbrücken . They were also feudal men of the Hessian landgrave . The Vetzberger Ganerbe were robber barons who plundered merchants on their way between Cologne and Frankfurt. In 1444 Gottfried Lesch apologized to the City Council of Frankfurt for attacking Frankfurt wagons. 1454 Vetzberger Ganerben with the Frankfurt closed truce of Vetzberg, the hen also signed Lesch of Mohlenheim.
In the second half of the 15th century, Lesch von Mulenheim was a bailiff in Meerenberg. Through his wife Kunigunde von Rodheim he received property in Rodheim-Bieber , including the Schmitte-Hof , a former forest smithy. This farm was later named by Mohlheim , probably as a reminder of the place of origin of the Lesche.
In 1532 Marx Lesch, the son of Henne Lesch, was enfeoffed with a farm in Rodheim. He should be identical to Marx Lesch, mentioned in 1538, who was Vogt in Wetzlar and Hessian colonel and bailiff in Königsberg. Marx Lesch was a friend of the Hessian Landgrave Philip I and a supporter of the Reformation . He presented the first Protestant pastors in Rodheim, took part in the peasant wars and became bailiff there in 1525 after Fulda was conquered. In 1534 he took part in the fight against the Swabian Confederation in Württemberg . After the victorious battle of Laufen, Marx Lesch became Obervogt von Wetzlar and bailiff in Königsberg. In 1541 he was able to acquire the castle and village of Königsberg from Landgrave Philip of Hesse as a fief for 5000 guilders . He was married twice and had eleven children when he died in 1573.
The once rich legacy melted mainly due to the eldest son's extravagance.
The second son, Hans Philipp, was Grand Prior of the Order of St. John from 1599 to 1601 and as such Prince of Heitersheim .
In the following centuries the Leschen did not manage to regain their former importance. In 1779 Friedrich August and Georg Moritz Lesch von Mühlheim sold their goods in Krofdorf and Gleiberg to the Nassau-Saarbrückische Hofkammer.
The last fiefdom holder of the family, Karl Eduard Lesch, sold the rest of the inherited family property in Krofdorf to the Wetzlar district administrator of Sparre in 1843. The Lesch von Mulenheim family died out with him.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows in silver three pedestrian-shaped assembled red round cut Seeblätter . On the helmet with red and silver covers an open flight marked like the shield .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bernhard Peter: Wappensammlung (19) -Middle Rhine and Moselle
literature
- Maria Mack: Chronicle of the congregation Hermannstein - Part I. Published by the Ev. Hermannstein parish, Hermannstein 1991.
- August Nies : The Lesche von Mühlheim: documentary contribution to the Upper Hessian knighthood and local history , 1925