List of noble families from Eichsfeld
The list of noble families from Eichsfeld provides an overview of the knight and noble families who had their ancestral seat in the historic Eichsfeld area , who owned castles, palaces and possessions or who were appointed and resident in Eichsfeld as Kurmainzische officials.
List of noble families
| Surname | Period | Headquarters / Origin Notes |
Personalities | Coat of arms / seal |
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| Bodenhausen | 14.-19. century |
Burg Bodenhausen feudal taker in Lake Constance and part ownership of Heiligenstadt bailiffs at Burg Rusteberg and Burg Gleichenstein, jurisdiction over Freienhagen, Rohrberg, Streitholz |
Tribal affinity with those of Hanstein is suspected |
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| Bodenstein | 11th - 15th centuries | Bodenstein Castle | Konrad von Bodenstein |
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| Soilings | 12th century - today |
Flecken Bodungen Martinfeld Castle |
Anton von Bodungen |
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| Bültzing lions | 13th century - today |
Bilzingsleben Harburg Haynrode |
Siegfried (VIII.) Von Bültzingsleben |
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| Esplingerode | 13-14 century | Esplingerode |
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| Gieboldehausen | 13-15 century | Gieboldehausen |
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| Count of Gleichenstein | 1140-1294 |
Headquarters Tonna Castle Velsecke / Gleichenstein |
Henry III. (sold his Eichsfeld castles to Kurmainz) |
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| Hagen | 1148 - today |
Rüdigershagen moated castle Deuna |
Christoph von Hagen Ludwig Philipp von Hagen |
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| Hanstein | 1122/1236-today |
Hanstein Castle in numerous aristocratic residences in Eichsfeld from the 16th century |
Conrad von Hanstein Fritz Huschke von Hanstein |
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| Hanstein-Knorr | after 1838 - 20th century | Understone | Wilhelm Ludwig August Freiherr von Hanstein-Knorr |
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| Hardenberg | 13th century - today |
Hardenberg Castle Lindau |
Dietrich V. von Hardenberg |
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| Harstall | 13th century - today |
Gray castle in Mihla Diedorf, Katharinenberg |
Adalbert von Harstall |
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| Keudell | 1227 - today |
Keudelburg Schwebda Gut Keudelstein |
Bernd Keudel |
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| Noblemen of Kirchberg | 1134-1464 | Kirchberg near Dingelstädt |
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| Knorr | 1123-1847 | Burgmann on the Rusteberg various goods in the Eichsfeld |
Tribal affinity with those of Rusteberg and Uder suspected |
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| Leuthorst | 1389 - 18th century |
Lüthorst (Lords of Luthardessen) was enfeoffed and wealthy in Lindau from the end of the 14th century |
Nikolaus von Leuthorst magistrate in Lindau (1549–1579) |
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| Lentil singing | 1466 - today |
Jesberg Castle from the 15th century had jurisdiction over Birkenfelde, Burgwalde and the like in Eichsfeld . a. |
Friedrich von Linsingen, Vice Cathedral and founder of the Eichsfeld line |
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| Marchia | 12th - 14th centuries | Hugo von der Mark |
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| Minnigerode | 13th century - today |
Allerburg Castle Gieboldehausen Castle u. a. |
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| Proysis | 13th - 14th century |
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| Strap | 10th - 15th century |
Allerburg Bockelnhagen Castle |
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| Rusteberg | 12-15 century | Tribal affinity with those of Knorr |
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| Seulingen | 12-15 century | Seulingen |
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| Keyings | 13th century - 1751 |
Keyings Bernterode |
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| Westernhagen | 1258 - today |
Westernhagen Castle Teistungen u. a. |
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| Wintzingerode | 1209 - today |
Wintzingerode Castle Bodenstein |
Berthold XI. von Wintzingerode (1505–1575), lord of the castle of Bodenstein Ferdinand Freiherr von Wintzingerode (1770–1818), Russian general and Austrian lieutenant field marshal |
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| Wintzingerode-Knorr | approx. 1800 - today | Adelsborn | Levin Freiherr von Wintzingeroda-Knorr (1830–1902), historian |
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| wolf | 13th - 16th century |
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| Worbis | 13th - 17th century | Worbis Castle | Conrad von Worbis |
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| Zwehl | 17th - 18th century | Baltic States? Heiligenstadt |
Johann von Zwehl (1580–1652), Landschreiber des Eichsfeldes , raised to the nobility in 1633 |
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Further noble families from Eichsfeld
In many villages of the Eichsfeld there was a noble family in the Middle Ages. They came from the class of the free and mostly belonged to the lower nobility, by the end of the Middle Ages many of these noble families had already died out. The following list includes noble families or knight families who were only known for a short time or only a few documents and evidence are available.
- Aldendorf (1381 in Heiligenstadt)
- Amilii (1290, 1519) patrician in Duderstadt
- Asla (Orschel) (1225)
- Beberstedt (1281)
- Berlingerode (1288)
- Bernshausen (1241, 1369, 1428)
- Beuren (1128, 1261)
- Birkenstein (1206, 1256)
- Lake Constance (1321, 1519)
- Beuren (1128 Gothardus)
- Brehme (1324, 1436)
- Böseckendorf
- Desingerode (12.74, 1369)
- Diedorf (1253, 1334)
- Dingelstedt (1311, 1364)
- Ershausen (1381)
- Geisleden (1269, 1373)
- Gerbershausen (1362)
- Heiligenstadt (1123)
- Harburg (1246)
- Hüpstedt
- Küllstedt (1250)
- Learn (1355)
- Rengelrode (1193, 1339, 1486)
- Jump around
- Schadenberg (1333)
- Scharfenstein (1209)
- Seeburg (1319)
- Potter (1360)
- Volkerode (1376, 1641)
- Stone (1294)
- Uder (1189, 1209)
- Waxed
- Westhausen (1263, 1548)
- Wildungen (1316, 1440)
- Wollbrandshausen (1170)
Not only are many family relationships known, some are also believed to be directly tribal:
- Hanstein-Bodenhausen
- Rusteberg-Uder-Knorren
- Berlingerode-Hagen-Westernhagen
- Rieme-Minnigerode-Bockelnhagen-Esplingerode
- Wildungen-Brehme
- Mützschefahl -Seulingen
- Westernhagen-Marchia
- Proyse-Worbis
- Bodenhausen-Bodensee
Strap
Minnigerode
Esplingerode
Bockelnhagen
Weilrode
Immigrated noble families
List of aristocratic families who came from other headquarters in Eichsfeld temporarily or who were also permanently wealthy:
- Amelunxen (1603)
- von der Aue (1505, 1530)
- Bar field
- Bodenhausen
- Soilings
- Bültzing lions
- Entzenberg (1479, 1521) at Scharfenstein Castle
- Count of Everstein
- Harstall
- Kerstlingerode
- Kindehausen (1300, 1331 Friedrich Burgmann at Rusteberg Castle)
- Leuthorst
- Lentil singing
- Kaisenberg (1650, 1747, 1808)
- Chamberlain of Mühlhausen (1268) and Straussberg (1297)
- Children's houses
- Lauterberg
- Marchia (1189.1356)
- Plesse
- Hit
- Weberstedt
- Scharzfeld
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volumes 1-9, Leipzig 1859-1960
- Johann Wolf: Eichsfeldisches document book together with the treatise of the Eichsfeldischen nobility. Goettingen 1819
- Johann Georg Leuckfeld : Antiqvitates Poeldenses. Or historical description of the previous Stifft Voelde, Premonstratensian Order, what names of this Closter, time of the foundation, country area ... Compiled from rare archives and writings and ... explained. Wolfenbüttel 1707; (About the noble families Sulingen, Rieme, Bockelnhagen, Esplingerode pp. 124–141) Bavarian State Library, Munich .
- Dietrich Witte: The nobles from Hardenberg to Lindau and their relationship to the Reformation and Counter-Reformation in Wulften (Bilshausen and Lindau). In: Heimatblätter for the south-western edge of the Harz, issue 66 (2010), pp. 132-143
- A. Mindermann: "Item wat ek geborget unde neither bed old yeast." The two account books of the knight Otto von Kerstlingerode from the early 16th century. In: P. Aufgebauer, U. Ohainski, E. Schubert (Festgabe) Göttinger Forschungen zur Landesgeschichte 1, Bielefeld 1998, pages 241-264
- P. Buerschaper: The noble family of those von Lauterberg and the Eichsfeld. In: Die Goldene Mark Vol. 21 (1970) pp. 49-52
- P. Buerschaper: The noble family of those von Germershausen. In: Die Goldene Mark Vol. 20 (1969) pp. 43-47
Web links
Commons : List of noble families from Eichsfeld - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Müller: in Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, published by the Historical Commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 45 (1900), pp. 515-517, digital full-text edition in Wikisource, [1]
- ^ Johann Wolf: Eichsfeldisches Urkundenbuch together with the treatise of the Eichsfeldischen nobility. Goettingen 1819
- ^ Carl Duval: The Eichsfeld or historical-romantic description of all cities, castles, palaces, monasteries, villages and other noteworthy points of the Eichsfeld: a home book for school and home. Sondershausen 1845