Lindenau (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Lindenau

The von Lindenau were a Meissnian - Saxon nobility family with the headquarters of the same name near Lindenau (Leipzig) .

history

The von Lindenau are first mentioned in a document in 1181 with Didericus de Lindenowe .

Machern Castle (owned by the family from 1465–1806)

The secured trunk line begins with Albrecht († 1468), Herr auf Lindenau and Machern (from 1465), Polenz near Brandis, Ammelshain , Zeititz , Nieder-Glaucha, Weißig and Gerichshain . The brothers Sigismund and Caspar von Lindenau sold their headquarters in Lindenau, which was in a suburb of Leipzig, in 1527 to the Leipzig council and relocated the family seat to Machern, east of Leipzig. The older Machern line or Heinrich line goes back to Heinrich von Lindenau († 1505) and was based on Machern and Zeititz for seven generations until it died out in 1665; it was followed by the four generations of the younger Machern line or Wolf line , starting with Wolf von Lindenau (1634-1710). The two-wing renaissance castle from 1566 was converted into a three-wing baroque complex after the Thirty Years War and in the early 18th century.

The family had other estates in Eilenfeld, Gotha in Northern Saxony (1687–1766) and Kossen (sold 1761), Gößnitz in Thuringia, Niederschöna in Central Saxony (1603–1617). In 1739, Sophie Elisabeth von Lindenau, b. von Zehmen , the manor Windischleuba in the Thuringian Altenburger Land from her brother and in 1742 she inherited the nearby Nobitz and the Altenburger Pohlhof, built around 1400 . Windischleuba remained in the family until 1880.

Heinrich Gottlieb Graf von Lindenau (1723–1789), electoral Saxon Privy Councilor, head stable master and chamberlain (1723–1789) was elevated to the status of imperial count by Emperor Franz I. His son Carl Heinrich August Graf von Lindenau (1755–1842), Herr auf Machern, Zeititz, Gotha and Kossen and Bahrensdorf near Beeskow , sold the Machern headquarters with Zeititz in 1802 and acquired the Büssow estate near Friedberg in Neumark (today Buszów). The horse breeder and royal Prussian head stable master set up the veterinary school in Berlin, whose anatomical theater still exists today. He was also a friend of Goethe .

Bernhard von Lindenau (1779–1854), Saxon Prime Minister, astronomer

Bernhard von Lindenau (1779–1854), at Pohlhof, Nobitz and Windischleuba, was a Saxon statesman and astronomer (as director of the Seeberg observatory ); the asteroid (9322) Lindenau and the lunar crater Lindenau are named after him. From 1822 to 1827 he was in charge of government for Duke Friedrich IV in Gotha , then he moved to the service of the Kingdom of Saxony , where he was chairman of the entire ministry from 1831 to 1843 . The square in front of the Saxon state parliament is named after him, as is the Lindenau Museum in Altenburg, which exhibits, among other things, his scientific and art collections, which he bequeathed to the city of Altenburg under the name Lindenau-Zach Foundation . He also donated a share capital to promote young artists and technicians.

The Lindenau are tribal and coats of arms related to the von Leutsch from the village Leutsch near Lindenau. They are also related to those of Petrikowski-Lindenau . The von Trebra- Lindenau named themselves in the 19th century after the ancestral seat of the Lindenau family near Leipzig, when it belonged to them. Other well-known families with whom they are related by marriage were von Heßler auf Vitzenburg , von Scheidingen zu Delitzsch and von Rockhausen auf Kirchscheidungen .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is divided by silver and green, above it an uprooted linden tree of confused colors, the trunk of which is flanked by two red roses inseminated with gold and whose silver roots are covered with a rose inseminated with gold. On the helmet with red-silver covers two golden quivers, each with five (also six) ostrich feathers (red-silver-red-silver-red).

  • Family arms of the von Lindenau family in Siebmacher's coat of arms book 1605

  • Coat of arms of the von Lindenau in the church of Kirchscheidungen

  • Count's coat of arms of those of Lindenau

  • Coat of arms of those of Petrikowski-Lindenau

  • Coat of arms of those of Leutsch

Personalities

Tomb of Bishop Sigismund von Lindenau († 1544) in Merseburg Cathedral
Hans von Lindenau (1581 by L. Cranach the Younger)

literature

  • Valentin König : Adelshistorie , 3rd vol. Leipzig 1736, pp. 727–739
  • Johann Friedrich Gauhe : Of salvation. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon , Vol. 1, 1740, p. 1223
  • J. Schneider: The linden tree of the Lords of Lindenau , Leipzig 1754, which has been in bloom for 324 years
  • Samuel Schneider: Reliable histor. Treatise of the high nobility and now count. Lindenau villages and manor houses and their owners, in old and new times , In: Heinrich Gottlieb Francke : New contributions to the history of the state, feudal and private rights of the country , 1st part, Altenburg 1767. R pp. 275-317.
  • Samuel Schneider: Message from the noble Lindenau family older line to makers , In: Collection of mixed messages on Saxon history 6th vol. Chemnitz 1771. S. 169-220.
  • Samuel Schneider: Decision of the Lindenauische sex news from the house of Polenz , In: Collection of mixed news for Saxon history , 8th volume Chemnitz 1773 pp. 344–359.
  • August Wilhelm Bernhardt von Uechtritz : Diplomatic news concerning noble families , vol. II Leipzig 1791. pp. 64–68, vol. V 1793. pp. 102–106.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, pages 395-396, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN  0435-2408

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weimar State Archives - P. Kehr, Document Book of the Hochstift Merseburg 1, Halle 1899, No. 126
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series

Web links

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