Marshal (Thuringian noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Marshal von Ebersberg

The Marschall von Eckartsberga family (also Ekersberg , Egersberg or Eckersberg ), von Ebersberg (also Ebersburg ) and von Altengottern are a Thuringian nobility . It exercised the hereditary office of marshal at the court of the Landgraves of Thuringia . Various lines of the ministerial family named themselves after other goods owned by them. The line of the Barons Marschall von Altengottern is the only one that still exists today.

history

The family is said to come from the family von Schlotheim auf Vargula , who were hereditary rulers of the Thuringian landgraves from the 12th to the 14th century . She derives her name from her inheritance as hereditary marshals of Thuringia .

The family is first mentioned in a document in 1190 with Marshal Heinrich von Eckersberg, son of Kunimund von Eckartisberg (archived 1186 † 1199). He was Marshal of Landgrave Hermann I from the Ludowing family and married Hedwig Schenk von Vargula , whose family held the inheritance of the Thuringian cupbearers . Whether this Marshal Heinrich is identical with a Marshal of the same name first mentioned in 1178 cannot be determined with certainty. He took his nickname from the landgrave Eckartsburg (the Altenburg in Eckartsberga ), where he probably served as a castle man .

It was not until 1207 that a marshal was also mentioned on the landgrave's Ebersburg . The grandchildren Heinrich II., Heinrich III., Hermann, Dietrich and Gerhard all still called themselves Marshals of Eckartsberga in 1251. They are not considered to be related to the Marshals von Eckersberg (sometimes also called von Eckartsberg) of the same name but with a different coat of arms , who probably also did ministerial service at the Eckartsburg in Eckartsberga. In 1246 the marshal, who lived on the Ebersburg, was replaced.

The following generations named themselves partly after the original sovereign castles Eckartsberga and Ebersberg, partly after newly acquired fiefdoms : Marschall von Ekersberg (approx. 1178) and Eckertsberge / Eckartsberga (1251), Ebersberg (1207), (Herren-) Gosserstedt (1282) ), Guthmannshausen , (Burg-) Holzhausen (1295), Großen- und Altengottern (1652–1945), Trebra (1293), Thomasbrück , Tröber.

Altengottern Castle was owned by the family from 1634 to 1945.

In the 17th century, Johann Adolf Marschall auf Schönstedt , Alten- und Großengottern was the district chief of the Electorate of Saxony, assessor of the court court of Leipzig and chief inspector of Schulpforte . In 1843 the royal Saxon chamberlain and forester Count Julius August was Marshal von Burgholzhausen and Altengottern Hereditary Marshal in the Landgraviate of Thuringia.

The Thuringian family of the Marschalle has expired except for the baronial line Altengottern formed in 1634 by Rudolph Levin Marschall in the male line. The Marshals von Altengottern were expropriated and driven out by the land reform in 1945 without compensation. Wolf Freiherr Marschall von Altengottern (1962–2013) returned to Altengottern after reunification.

Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book

coat of arms

The shield shows two upright red cloth scissors (or sheep scissors ) in silver . On the crowned helmet two buffalo horns divided by red and silver, which are decorated with four red and silver flags. The helmet covers are red and silver. The M. v. Holzhausen a lily and the M. v. Gosserstedt one (two) rose (s) to.

A coat of arms similarity exists with the Frankish von Giech , which also had two scissors in the coat of arms. The Thuringian von Schernberg and von Nordhausen and the Franconian von Scherenberg , on the other hand, only had a pair of scissors in their coat of arms.

Personalities

  • Rudolph Marschall (* around 1400 – around 1460), German knight
  • Wolf Marschall († before 1555), German court official of the Albertine Wettins and manor owner
  • Dietrich Marschall (around 1530–1604), Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia, councilor of the Electoral Saxony and manor owner
  • Georg Rudolph Marschall (around 1535–1602), Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia, imperial war council and colonel
  • Ludwig Ernst Marschall (1575–1652), Hereditary Marshal of Thuringia
  • Hans Wilhelm Marschall (* around 1598–1677), Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia, manor owner in Herrengosserstedt and member of the Fruit-Bringing Society
  • Hans Melchior Marschall (1602–1628), soldier in the Thirty Years' War, whose grave slab has survived
  • Rudolph Levin Marschall (1605–1673), Chamberlain of Electoral Saxony, Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia, manor owner
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Marschall (1622–1693), Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia and manor owner in Herrengosserstedt and Zöbigker
  • Wolf Friedrich Marshal of Burgholzhausen and Tromsdorf (1687–1752), Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia, Chamberlain of the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony as well as heir, feudal lord and court lord
  • Ernst Dietrich Graf Marschall auf Pauscha (1692–1771), Imperial Austrian General
  • August Dietrich Graf Marschall auf Burgholzhausen (1750–1824), Hereditary Marshal in Thuringia, Freemason and Illuminate
  • Rudolf Levin Baron Marshal von Altengottern (1820–1890), Chamberlain, District Administrator of Langensalza and member of the Prussian manor house (1877–1890)
  • Wolf Rudolf Freiherr Marshal von Altengottern (1855–1930), Prussian general of the cavalry and commanding general of the Guard Reserve Corps, knight of the Pour le Mérite with oak leaves
  • Wolf Freiherr Marschall von Altengottern (1962–2013): With him, the von Marschall family returned to Altengottern after the reunification. He was a farmer and forester, winemaker, member of the district council (CDU), president of the district synod of the Evangelical Church District Mühlhausen and the regional synod of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM), chairman of the Working Group on Agriculture and Forestry Companies in Saxony and Thuringia (ALFB )

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wilfried Warsitzka: The Thuringian Landgrave, Verlag Dr. Bussert & Stadeler, 2004, ISBN 3-932906-22-5 , pp. 196, 202-205