Münch von Mühringen (noble family)

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Common coat of arms of the Münch (Conrad Tyroff)
1731 increased coat of arms of the Münch (Conrad Tyroff)
1788 increased baronial coat of arms of the Münch (Conrad Tyroff)

The Münch of Aystetten, Mühringen and Filseck are on one of Frankfurt derived Patriziergeschlecht due. One in Augsburg living branch of the family was in the 1731 Empire peerage and in 1788 in the imperial baron charged.

history

On April 4, 1731, Emperor Charles VI. the Augsburg banker Christian I. Münch, who had served him several times as a financier and silver dealer, to the hereditary imperial nobility. Since then Münch has called himself Christian von Münch on Aystetten , Mühringen and Filseck after the gentlemen in his possession . His grandson Christian III. Münch was November 7, 1788 by Emperor . Joseph II put into the hereditary baron stand or in the on March 29, 1790 Reichsritterschaft added. At this point in time all of the other male descendants of Christian I. von Münch had already died.

On January 5, 1809, Christian III. Baron von Münch auf Mühringen and Filseck included in the royal Bavarian aristocratic registers. Christian III Baron von Münch had liquidated the bank a year earlier. He and his male descendants have lived at Hohenmühringen Castle since then and called themselves Barons Münch von Mühringen. Filseck Castle was only used occasionally. The family has since concentrated on managing their property. With the death of Oskar Karl Freiherr von Münch, it became extinct in the male line in 1920.

A relationship to other noble families of the name Münch ( Münch , Münch von Bellinghausen, Münch von Büren, Münch von Buseck, Münch von Landskron , Münch zu Münchhausen, Münch von Münchsberg, Münch von Münchenstein , Münch von Rosenberg and many more) is not evident.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms is divided by a red crossbar. Above, on a gold background, a growing bearded monk, turned to the right, with a robe and tonsure up to his knees is visible. He has an open book in his hands. The lower part of the shield is silver.

Increased coat of arms from 1731

The coat of arms, increased in 1731, is quartered and bears the family coat of arms in the middle shield . In the first and fourth fields of the main coat of arms, half a black double-headed eagle grows out of the division on a gold background . In the second and third fields there is a crowned golden lion leaping inward on a blue background, holding a branch of green oak in the right paw above and below in the left. On the coat of arms are two open tournament helmets with right black and golden, the left blue and silver helmet cover . On the first helmet there is a black eagle, on the second a lion grows, similar to that of the second field in the main shield.

Increased coat of arms from 1788

In 1788, a third, closed and forward introspective helmet was placed between the two tournament helmets, the two with the Saxons is adorned inwardly facing, divided in red and gold eagle wings. The monk of the family coat of arms is depicted between the wings. A ram was added to the right as a shield holder and an ibex to the left.

Aystetten Castle in 1740 (engraving by Johann Thomas Krauss)
Mühringen Castle and Rule 1718 (engraving by Gabriel Bodenehr)
Filseck Castle in 1683 (watercolor by Andreas Kieser)

Possessions

Christian I. von Münch bought the Aystetten estate with the village of Neusäß from Franz Octavian Langenmantel in 1729 . In 1740, he had Aystetten Castle expanded to double its size and redesigned. Münch also had the porcelain room , which is still preserved today and is kept in Rocaille style, furnished with his faience à la chinoise .

When Carl Magnus Leutrum von Ertingen, the owner of the Filseck Castle , went bankrupt in 1749 , Münch acquired the castle from the bankruptcy estate as his main creditor .

Besides Munch's wife had his father's reign, along with their eight siblings in 1735 Hohenmühringen and Niedermühringen with the villages meadow Stetten , Dommelsberg , mills and Egelstall as Fideikommiss inherited a purchase right at a set price. In the years 1748 and 1749 Münch was able to acquire additional shares from the co-heirs through this right, but did not acquire ownership of the entire rule.

Münch left his castles and estates as entails to his male descendants.

Christian II. Von Münch and Christian III. Baron von Münch acquired further shares in the Hohenmühringen and Niedermühringen dominions, so that these finally came completely into the hands of the Münch family.

Christian III In 1791, Baron von Münch formed a Fideikommiss in favor of his male descendants from the rule Hohenmühringen and Niedermühringen for the villages of Wiesenstetten, Dommelsberg, Mühlen and Egelstall.

Aystetten castle and estate were sold in 1858. After the death of the last male member of the family, the properties in Mühringen and Filseck passed to his only sister Gabriele Thusnelde Helene von Podewils, born in 1920 . Freiin von Münch, wife of Albrecht von Podewils.

Name bearer

literature

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  • Ludwig Heinrich Burry: The soulful immortality of the dead, who go there in the covenant of God, was very noble at the Christian and class-like corpse ceremony, Mr. Johann Thomas von Münch, on Aystetten and Vilseck, also Hohen- and Nieder -Mührinten etc. and a laudable city court all here assessors blessed memory of March 1st, 1758, dealt with in a written speech in the same house . Printed by Johann Michael Späth, Augsburg 1758. Digitized
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Web links

Individual evidence

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  8. ^ Royal statistical-topographical bureau (ed.): Description of the Oberamt Horb . Verlag H. Lindemann, Stuttgart 1865, p. 223 .
  9. ^ Anton Steichele: The Diocese of Augsburg. Described historically and statistically . tape 2 , The Agenwang, Aichach, Baisweil, Bayer-Mänching, Burgheim regional chapters. B. Schmid´sche Verlagbuchhandlung (A. Manz), Augsburg 1864, p. 20 .
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  11. ↑ Werner Litz: City history: The nobility lost the legend of Filseck with the imperial knighthood. In: swp.de. Neue Pressegesellschaft mbH & Co. KG SÜDWEST PRESSE, April 26, 2017, accessed on February 2, 2020 .
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