Merz von Quirnheim (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Merz von Quirnheim with blankets, helmet decorations and shield holders on the ceiling of the parish church of St. Oswald in Boßweiler.
For correct colors, see the letter of arms
Coat of arms without a crest on the high altar in Boßweiler

Merz or Mertz ( officials , burgraves , electoral Mainz councilors) is the name of an old knightly family that can be proven in the Mainz area. In medieval documents it was also written Merzen (Merzenis / Merzonis) and from the later modern period March . In 1351, the administrator of the Archbishopric Kuno von Falkenstein, together with the episcopal burgrave Johann Mertz and two other Kurmainzer officials, sealed an alliance agreement in support of the Archbishop of Mainz Heinrich von Virneburg .

Merz auf Quirnheim and Merz von Quirnheim ( Imperial Knight , Hofpfalzgrafen) are the nobility predicates that the emperor granted a branch of the electoral council family in 1675/78; this branch of the family had gained control of the two former Salian royal courts of Bosweiler and Quirnheimer Hof in 1671/72 . The ancient knighthood was confirmed to the family as early as 1674 .

Herr auf / zu Bosweiler and Quirnheim (Reichsherrn) or Freiherr auf Bosweiler was the additional title that was inherited exclusively to the owner of the two farms and was lost after 130 years due to the French Revolution with the Peace of Lunéville in 1801. In the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1820 a son of the last Lord of Quirnheim, who had settled in Franconia , was enrolled as regimental commander in the military aristocracy in the Bavarian knight class with the title of knight (of the Legion of Honor and the Order of Vladimir) and the title of Merz von Quirnheim . In 1839 his cousin was also included in the matriculation with this rating.

As barons on Nordstrand ( feudal counts ), the family were Holstein and Danish barons from 1690 to 1792 for over a hundred years. With the death of the Freins of Nordstrand in 1704, the landlord of the then larger lordship and his eldest son should also call himself liege count.

Family history up to the French Revolution

Mainz councilor family Merz

In 1442, a Johann Liesberg named Mertz , formerly a lay judge and court nobleman in the Worms cathedral monastery , was appointed to the inner council in Mainz as the successor to another Johannes von Mer (t) z († 1441). The origin of this Johann Mertz is not completely clear, it is assumed that they were of knightly or noble descent and the ancestors of the Mertz / Merz councilors and lay judges in Mainz.

The lineage traceable to this day begins with the council relative (literally: cives consules ) Schenk Johann / Jois Merz, who was named as heir in a document in 1594 . This is probably identical to a Han (n) s Mertz, who is counted among the honorable Mainz and appears both as a lay judge and as a witness, and a Johann Mertz named in 1586, who is the daughter of the honorable citizens Anna and Georg Becker (s) is listed. The Beckers patrician family (Aachen and Mainz) were related to the Aachen lay judges Peltzer and Braumann and the Freins in Holstein. Joi's son Johannes Merz, councilor in the then Papal State of Mainz and Jurat of the ecclesiastical court of St. Quintin , married Martha (or Maria) Hettich on May 4, 1604, daughter of the patrician Lubentius Hettich , authorized syndicus of the cathedral monastery and the elector Johann Adam and (later ) secular judge in Mainz. The marriage resulted in three sons and four daughters. Johannes, who was first born in 1605, died in the chaos of the Thirty Years' War , except for his baptismal certificate, nothing is known about him.

The second son Balthasar married Maria Catharina Gernsheimer, daughter of the distinguished Mainz citizen Johannes Philipp Gernsheimer. Balthasar took over the family-owned hospice “zur Engelskrone” for more than 3 generations, formerly located at Am Brand 9 in Mainz . This is already mentioned at the beginning of the 16th century as a meeting place for the humanists . Talks took place here between the young Archbishop Albrecht von Mainz and Ulrich von Hutten as well as Albrecht Dürer . As the elder of the Honorable Family, Balthasar inherited the offices of councilor and jurat. The Catholic military pastor Johann Peter Merz comes from this line .

The third son Quirinus obtained a doctorate in law in Heidelberg and is proven on December 16, 1659 in Mainz at the law faculty as a professor. In the middle of the 17th century, as a member of the family, he could for the first time receive a court position outside of Kurmainz. Quirin Merz had been a privy councilor in the bishopric of Speyer since 1651 , was promoted to chancellor of Prince-Bishop Lothar Friedrich von Metternich-Burscheid on November 28, 1661 and was also his comitial envoy in the Reichstag on March 9, 1664 . When Metternich became elector in 1673 , Merz also became chancellor in Kurmainz.

Lordship of Bosweiler and Quirnheim

→ Main article: Dominion Bosweiler and Quirnheim

History of domination

The two noble farms Boßweiler and Quirnheim belonged to the Wormsgau at the time of the Salians . The house monastery of the Counts of Leiningen St. Peter in Höningen was represented in Boßweiler since 1143 and in Quirnheim since 1145. In 1247 the Rosenthal Abbey is mentioned as having property rights in Boßweiler. 1459 the pledged Convent of the Augustinian choir Women of St. Mary in Hertlingshausen the Quirnheimer yard to the staufer Burgmann and Knight Hans Menges. It can be assumed that the estate from this period also bears the name Hertlingshäuserhof . In the middle of the 15th century, Landgrave Hesso von Leiningen, who was raised to the rank of prince, received feudal rights over both courts.

Merzsche fief

Quirnheimer Hofgut, called Hertlingshäuserhof, castle (right)

In 1671 Quirin von Merz received the free estate in Quirnheim as a fiefdom, from 1672 as a gift, which he had owned as a pledge since 1663 as Chancellor and envoy to the Diet of the Counts of Leiningen ; In addition, in 1671 he received Lungenfeld property in Grünstadt and Neuleiningen as a church fiefdom as a reward for his involvement in the conversion of Count Ludwig Eberhard von Leiningen-Westerburg (1624–1688) and later his son Philipp Ludwig to the Catholic faith. After the approval of all the responsible Counts of Leiningen and the electoral Palatinate share was provided, the Merz family also received rule in Bosweiler in 1672. In 1673, a feudal contract also formally transferred the village of Quirnheim and all its accessories to Chancellor Merz.

Old knighthood and imperial lords

In Vienna , on June 1, 1675, the knighthood of the sex was established. Emperor Leopold raised the electoral Mainz secret council and chancellor Quirinus von Merzen Herr in Bosweiler and Quirnheim to the old knighthood for the empire and the hereditary lands , with the authority to name himself after the acquired goods ( privilegium denominandi ) and thereby the noble predicates of and on to use. In addition to the hereditary imperial nobility and the exemptio , exemption from all civil offices and courts, the imperial protection and shield as well as the black eagle privilege (Salva Guardia) were also awarded as part of the improved coat of arms. The granting of the privileges to father Quirin and son Johann Wilhelm ( real Reichshofrat ) was carried out personally by the emperor with a symbolic medal presentation. The title “Merz auf Quirnheim” was allowed to be used.

Mr. on Schierholtz

Baron of Quirnheim

When Quirin von Merz stayed further north as Herr / Dominus on Schierholtz to serve as budget and secret council at the court in Braunschweig , the village and the Bosweilerhof passed into the possession of his son Johann Wilhelm in 1678. In the same year as Braunschweig's secret council, he received the non-hereditary imperial permission to personally call himself Freiherr von Quirnheim in documents.

Court Palatinate and Imperial Barons

Johann Wilhelm Mertz von Quirnheim , an imperial deputy councilor of the knightly Order of Saint John and chancellor of the colonel master in "Teutschen Landen" , asked the emperor for the Palatinate and the title of Imperial Councilor . On February 14, 1685, Leopold I granted the Grand Comitiva and the requested title. The extent of the hereditary reservation rights is unknown.

According to Heinz Reif , around 1700 all families of the imperial knighthood were given the title of imperial baron by the German emperor . Whether and when Johann Wilhelm or Quirinus were raised to the status of imperial baron can no longer be proven by a nobility diploma, but can be considered proven by repeated mention at the highest court in the Roman-German Empire. The first documented mention of the baron that can be found can be found in the old church registers in Grünstadt in 1699, this fact is confirmed in a text from 1836. Reich Chamber Court documents from the years 1791, 1798 and 1805 and official documents from 1799, 1814, 1817, 1863 and 1870 attest to the baronate .

Reign North Beach

With the death of Johann Daniel von Freins-Nordstrand in 1683, after an inheritance dispute with the Freins brothers and brother-in-law Kai Graf von Ahlefeld, a large manor with a noble court was added to Nordstrand . Due to the sufficient possession of property in Holstein and Denmark, Johann Wilhelm Merz was able to claim the title of Danish baron as a scion of an old knightly family without major formalities. With the death of the Freins-Nordstrand dynasty , the Merz inherited further rulership rights in 1704 and remained feudal counts and barons of Nordstrand until at least 1792 .

Family history from the French Revolution

Loss of domination

During the period of the bourgeois French Revolution , which led to the occupation of the areas on the left bank of the Rhine from 1790, the Palatinate property was expropriated in 1792 and all noble rights and titles were revoked. At that time, a large part of the Merz family left the expropriated land for Franconia. With the decline of the Old Kingdom in 1806, territorial and reservation rights became finally obsolete. Baron Karl Josef Merz († 1802 in Quirnheim) was the last Merz from and to Quirnheim and Freiherr auf Bosweiler .

Foreign status surveys

The Bavarian officer Karl Albert Merz von Quirnheim was elevated to the Russian knighthood of the Order of Saint Vladimir and the French knighthood of the Legion of Honor until 1814 .

Bavarian knight class

In Franconia, Karl Albert Merz von Quirnheim on April 28, 1820 and Karl Josef von Merz (born December 31, 1789 in Rodenbach ; † February 2, 1846 in Ansbach ) on December 12, 1839 were enrolled as a Bavarian knight class with the title Merz von Quirnheim . Albrecht Merz von Quirnheim, the son of Karl Josef, decided to use the historical Mertz spelling . The spelling March can also be found later in Bavaria.

Grave place of the Merz family

Parish Church of Boßweiler
Metal epitaph in the cath. Parish Church of St. Oswald in Boßweiler (Quirnheim district)

The old parish church in Quirnheim should remain Protestant. So let Hofpfalzgraf Johann Wilhelm Merz medieval Catholic Oswaldkapelle in the near Boßweiler 1699-1707 in an appealing Baroque parish and pilgrimage church with a crypt expand. The baroque church was placed in the atypical north-south direction, so that the choir is now in the south. The old, Gothic Oswald's Chapel, whose choir was in the east, was taken over as a transept in the new building, as it was a historical, religious center of the region with an extremely unusual and rare patronage . There was a traditional pilgrimage there to the seldom revered plague and cattle patron St. Oswald of Northumbria and the church has a skull relic of the king to this day . The choir of the ancient Oswald Church protrudes from today's church as the eastern transept like a chapel. The parish church of St. Oswald in Boßweiler hides the burial place of some members of the family , which is now inaccessible, and bears several coats of arms of the family. a. above the main portal, on the church ceiling and on the high altar. A modern metal epitaph (see picture) was dedicated to the agnates and wives buried in the church . It also reminds of Albrecht Mertz von Quirnheim , a member of the family from Franconia, who died as a resistance fighter against National Socialism in 1944 .

Personalities

coat of arms

June 1, 1675
Coat of arms with the trans. Inscription: Johann Wilhelm Merz von Quirnheim Dominus on Bosweiler Paladin of the Holy Roman Empire Council of the Elector of Mainz

There is no evidence of the actual family coat of arms for the Kurmainzer period (from the 15th century) . In the dossier of 1674 these are referred to as the " ancient knighthood " with a lion as a seal. The probable family coat of arms should resemble the coat of arms of Balthasar Merz (councilor): in blue a two-tailed (crowned) lion.

The coat of arms awarded with the old imperial knighthood of June 1, 1675 is described as follows:

Emptied; 1 and 4 split, field 1 in front of silver and blue split and divided twice crosswise in mixed up colors, behind a crowned, gold-armored, black, half double-headed eagle at the gap, in field 4 the field halves mixed up and starting from the rear half of the divisions with blue, 2 in blue a two-tailed golden lion, 3 in red a two-tailed, silver lion inside. Two crowned helmets with black and gold covers; in front between an open flight of wings divided by blue and silver, on the left by gold and black, a black double-headed eagle with a Roman imperial crown , behind with blue-silver covers a growing, golden lion , the one divided by silver and blue and split twice in confused colors Holding the banner in his paws.

It cannot be proven whether the depiction of the coat of arms on the church ceiling of the Grablegekirche in Boßweiler corresponds to an improvement in the coat of arms between 1699 and 1706, whether the instructions of Johann Wilhelm Merz were followed, or whether the artist interprets the artist as an artist. There is no explanation in the relevant literature as to why a black double-headed eagle with a Roman imperial crown and false ceiling colors are not shown.

In Bavaria a simplified coat of arms with the recognition of knights was registered in 1820 and corresponds to the following description (also with inverted lions ):

Shield quartered: 1 divided lengthways: on the right in three rows, each with two fields, set in silver and blue and on the left in gold a half, crowned, black eagle; 2 in blue an inward-facing, double-curved, golden lion and 3 in red a silver lion and 4 divided lengthways: on the right in gold a half crowned eagle and on the left in three rows, each set in two fields of blue in silver.

Similar coat of arms:

Mansions and possessions

Merzsche Castle

In addition to the hospice in Mainz, the family had long-established property in Mainz ( Bodenheim and Hechtsheim ), Olm and Worms (Heppenheim) in the 16th century . The second marriage of Quirinus Merz brought the estate in Schierholz and fiefs, which were given to him by the Calenberg prince of Hanover , into possession. In 1683 Johann Wilhelm Merz inherited Oktroy shares with an estate on Nordstrand and a house in Schleswig , these Danish lands were owned by the family until at least 1792. He acquired other goods in Bruchsal . In 1685 a villa was leased or bought in London .

Individual noble courts

  • Hertlingshäuserhof with church of the Virgin Mary and Saint Martin (Neue Str., Quirnheim), also called Quirnheimer Hof with Merzschem Castle , originally going back to a Salian royal court mentioned in 950, in the Middle Ages as an open space in the fiefs of various monasteries, since 1459 by the Hohenstaufen Burgmann Hans Menges used as a manor, western castle pledge / fief until 1672, then family allod, rebuilt in baroque style in the 18th century
  • Bos (s) weiler (hof) with Oswald's chapel, mentioned in the tenth century as the second Salian royal court in the then capital Boßweiler, partly destroyed in the 30 Years War or, like the village Boßweiler itself, "perished", in 1673 half of it was in Liningian and a quarter Electorate of the Palatinate and a quarter lent directly to the empire, the chapel was extended around 1700 to become the family burial place and "Villa Wilhelmina" was built.
  • Warsberger Hof (Emmeransgasse D.163 or former Sonnengäßchen, Mainz), formerly ancestral home of the patricians of the Pilgrim , until 1657 Freihof von Warsberg , partly rebuilt by Quirinus Merz in 1675–80, main residence of Johann Wilhelm Merz, incorrectly also Marsberger or Warsteiner Called court
  • Manor in Schierhol (t) z (near Minden), dowry of the second wife of the Pfeil-Raddestorff family of Quirinus Merz and his later headquarters as Braunschweig privy councilor.
  • Noble mansion with a large stable or knight estate on Nordstrand, from 1683 after the death of Hans Freins-Nordstrand in the possession of Johann Wilhelm Merz (as heir of his wife), after the death of all of Frein's sons all Danish noble rights and Title 1704 about the eldest daughter, the first wife, to Johann Wilhelm.

literature

Web links

Commons : Merz von Quirnheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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