Meyern-Hohenberg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the older line of Meyern

Meyern , Meyern von Hohenberg or of Meyern-Hohenberg is the name of a native to the Bohemian Vogtland originating noble family .

history

According to the older literature, the gender traces its origin back to the hammer gentleman Blasius Meyern in Graslitz ( Kraslice ), who was appointed mine director to Hungary by Emperor Rudolf II because of his experience in mining matters and in coinage . In 1592 he had to leave Hungary because of the Turkish invasion in the Long Turkish War and came to the Principality of Bayreuth . One of his sons bought property in Austria ; The Bohemian Counts of Meyern are said to have belonged to his descendants . According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the reliable family line begins with Hans Meyer (* around 1540; † 1604) in Hadermannsgrün .

Of the descendants living in the Principality of Bayreuth, the lawyer Johann Gottfried von Miegen / Meyern entered Hanoverian services and became a secret judicial councilor and archivist in Hanover. He became known through the publication of the Acta Pacis et Executionis Westphalicae and the Acta Comitialia Ratisbonensia . His father, Johann Simon von Meyern, was a Privy Councilor and Chamber Director in Bayreuth; he received imperial nobility in 1715 and founded the older line .

His cousin was the Bayreuth Reichspostmeister Johann Anton Meier, the founder of the younger line . Of his sons, Adam Anton von Meyern (1700–1774) was from 1738 to 1742 margravial Bavarian authorized minister at the imperial court in Vienna , then chamber director and minister in Bayreuth and from 1748 to 1752 official governor and curator of the University of Erlangen . His brother Johann Gottlob von Meyern was first a Bavarian chamberlain , court and landscape councilor, but then in 1763 he was appointed to Braunschweig and appointed to the land of the Weser district in Holzminden . From two marriages he left ten sons and nine daughters. Four of these sons were later in the service of Brunswick, Coburg and Prussia.

The four sons were: Heinrich von Meyern, Prussian major († 1810); Wilhelm Meyern von Hohenberg († 1848), Prussian major general; August von Meyern-Hohenberg, Saxony-Coburg-Gotha Major General, Herr auf Hohenberg, Krusemark and Germerslage ( Iden (Altmark) ), and Ferdinand von Meyern-Hohenberg, Saxony-Coburg-Gotha Privy Councilor and Oberhofmarschall.

August von Meyern-Hohenberg, from whose Gut Hohenberg (today Hohenberg-Krusemark ) , located in the Altmark , the family had adopted the name of Hohenberg , which had been an official part of the name since 1815, died in 1845 leaving a daughter and heiress, Pauline (* 1820). from the marriage with Auguste Countess von Görtz-Wrisberg , who married Friedrich Graf von der Schulenburg - Altenhausen in 1844 . She donated the Hohenberg and Krusemark family entails. In addition to their own descendants, possible beneficiaries included the descendants of their father's full brothers. Therefore, they also took the name of Meyern-Hohenberg .

Ferdinand von Meyern-Hohenberg continued the baronial tribe.

Status surveys

  • April 16, 1715 Imperial nobility for Johann Simon von Miere by Emperor Karl VI.
  • March 16, 1736 Imperial nobility for Johann Anton von Meyern (same coat of arms as before, but without crown)
  • 1748 Bohemian count for Lieutenant Field Marshal Johann Friedrich von Meyern and Daniel Joseph Mayer von Mayern (Count of Meyern), Archbishop of Prague
  • April 14, 1815 Enrollment in the Kingdom of Bavaria with the noble class for Sigmund Johann Philipp von Meyern, Royal Bavarian Major General a. D.
  • March 10, 1817 royal Prussian permission for August Wilhelm von Meyern, on the domicile Hohenberg in the Altmark Meyern von Hohenberg to name
  • January 10, 1854 Saxony-Coburg-Gothaic recognition of the baron class and the name form of Meyern-Hohenberg for the brothers Friedrich, on Hohenberg, royal British captain, Gustav , ducal Saxon-Coburg-Gotha cabinet councilor, and Leopold Meyern von Hohenberg, KK Hauptmann
  • May 31, 1854 Austrian prevalence of the baron class for Leopold von Meyern-Hohenberg
Coat of arms of the younger line (without crown)

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a crowned, growing red-tongued black eagle in a cross-sectioned shield above and a silver chevron in red below, accompanied by three (2/1) silver roses or calyxes . Three ostrich feathers (black, silver, red) on the helmet, surrounded by a red band with the three may flowers. The helmet covers are black and silver on the right, red and silver on the left.

Possessions

  • Palace in Bayreuth:
    • Posthalterei or Postei , Friedrichstrasse 15, built by Johann Anton Meier
    • Palais Meyern at the Rennbahn, built in 1746 by Adam Anton von Meyern, integrated into the New Bayreuth Palace in the 1750s
    • Palais Meyern, Friedrichstrasse 16, built in 1750 by Johann Gottlob von Meyern, today the Bayreuth Administrative Court
  • Meyernberg (named after Johann Gottlob von Meyern in 1753)
  • Hohenberg

  • Postei

  • Palais Meyern (administrative court)

  • Meyernberg

  • Hohenberg Castle ( Duncker Collection )

Known family members

  • Johann Gottfried von Miere

  • Louise Seidler : Louise von Meyern-Hohenberg (1834)

  • Gustav von Meyern-Hohenberg

Family archive

The family archive is kept in the Coburg State Archive .

literature

Web links

Commons : Meyern-Hohenberg (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (lit.)
  2. ↑ Meyern-Hohenberg . In: Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of baronial houses. 10th year: Baronial houses in alphabetical order ... to the year 1860 . Justus Perthes, Gotha, p. 553–555 , here p. 555 ( digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de ).
  3. ↑ Austrian Biographical Lexicon and Biographical Documentation
  4. ^ Family archive of the Freiherrn von Meyern-Hohenberg (inventory) , accessed on September 30, 2016