Minnigerode (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Minnigerode

Minnigerode is the name of an old noble family from Lower Saxony . The family, some of which still exist today, belongs to the Eichsfeld nobility .

history

origin

According to a legend, the original name of the Rieme family and ancestor of the Romans was Don Otto Corrigia (from Latin corrigia : belt). As a reward for his bravery, he is said to have received the Allerberg court in the county of Schwarzburg (now in Zwinge ). His descendant John II. Received the late 13th century by the Abbess of Quedlinburg in the Eichsfeld villages Mingerode (or Minnigeroda) and Breitenberg at Duderstadt than Lehn and named after the former. In addition, they formed a close tribal relationship with the Lords of Bockelnhagen and Esplingerode .

The family was first mentioned at the beginning of the 13th century with Heidenricus de Minnigerod , who appeared in a document in 1203. Members called themselves in the 13th century "nobiles viri" and were involved in the Imperial Bailiwick of Goslar from the 13th to the 14th centuries . The castle Allerburg found 1266 documentary mention as the seat of the Lords of Minnigerode. In the 14th century, the castle was expanded and most of it came to the Counts of Schwarzburg after disputes over inheritance .

A family line begins around 1400 with the knight Hans von Minnigerode , councilor of the Duke of Braunschweig , who is mentioned in documents from 1353 to 1436.

Spread and lines

Manor house in Gieboldehausen , former castle mansion of the von Minnigerode
Wollershausen Castle

The oldest grubenhagensche feudal letter is from 1428. The Minnigerodes were castle men of the Reichsburg Friedberg in Wetterau since 1686.

The family split into two lines. The Jobst line which was founded by Hans (* 1468, † 1529) and which in turn split into the branches to Silkerode and to Bockelnhagen . The progenitor of the branch line to Silkerode was Hans Caspar (* 1560; † 1602) and the founder of the Bockelnhagen branch Hans (* 1545; † 1611). The Bockelnhagen line divided into the houses of the schools mountain, on the high house, on the upper court and at Wollershausen . Christian Ernst von Minnigerode was made Knight of St. John on September 30, 1704.

The Franz Line was founded by Hans the Roman (* 1473; † 1552). It divided into the branches to Schadeleben , founded by Freiherr Wilhelm (* 1806; † 1853), and to Neuhoff.

In the years 1620 to 1750, five members of the family were given the office of chief forest and chief hunter in the Duchy of Hesse-Darmstadt . Later, numerous members of the family entered the royal Prussian state and military service and were also able to acquire property in Silesia and in Halberstadt . In the Kingdom of Hanover , the family belonged to the knightly nobility of the calenbergisch-göttinger-grubenhagischen landscape because of the possession of the manors Wollershausen and Gieboldehausen .

A family association, which had existed since the 16th century, was re-established after the fiefdom was revoked in 1889, with a family board in addition to the senior council .

Status surveys

Hans von Minnigerode, Count of Schwarzburg Oberjägermeister, was confirmed knighthood in October 1693 by Count Christian Wilhelm von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen as Count of the Imperial Palatinate .

In the Kingdom of Prussia, the baron title , which had long been worn under customary law , was recognized by heraldry rescript on October 6, 1877, for the Franz line and on August 18, 1894 for the Jobst line .

Common branches

The Eichsfeld noble family of Minnigerode is related to two civil branches that were founded by Johann Henrich Benjamin Minnigerode (* 1739; † 1789). He was the illegitimate son of Heinrich von Minnigerode (* 1692; † 1749), Hesse-Darmstadt chief forestry and chief hunter and privy councilor . Benjamin's maternal great-grandfather, Johann Bast, was an executioner in Gießen for 30 years . His descendants included the Hessian lawyer and civil servant Ludwig Minnigerode and his son the politician Karl Minnigerode .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a right-hand five-pointed silver fish hook in red. On the helmet with red-silver covers a wicker basket, from which five natural peacock feathers emerge, which are covered with ten (4,3,2,1) alternating red and silver roses in such a way that each row ends with a silver rose.

The motto is: "Ense et aratro" ( Latin - with sword and plow).

Local and municipal coats of arms

Elements from the coat of arms of the Minnigerode family still appear today in some Thuringian local and community coats of arms .

people

  • Heinrich von Minnigerode (1462), Burgvogt zu Gieboldehausen
  • Johannes von Minnigerode (the Elder) (1495), Burgvogt zu Gieboldehausen
  • Hans von Minnigerode (the younger) (1521–1532), Burgvogt zu Gieboldehausen
  • Ludwig von Minnigerode (* 1820; † 1882), landowner and politician, member of the Prussian mansion
  • Wilhelm von Minnigerode (* 1840; † 1913), member of the Reichstag
  • Bernhard von Minnigerode (* 1852; † 1910), Majorate, owner of the manor and member of the German Reichstag
  • Heinrich von Minnigerode (* 1885; † 1950), legal historian
  • Gunther von Minnigerode (* 1929; † 1998), physicist

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 6, Pages 303-304.
  2. ↑ Eversteiner Document Book, page 32
  3. ↑ See Wikipedia article Holtershausen and local history Holtershausen with Abtshof (until 1436) .
  4. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German Adels Lexicon. Sixth volume . Friechrich Voigt's bookstore, Leipzig 1865, p. 303 f .
  5. ^ Rüdiger Freiherr von Minnigerode:  Minnigerode, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , p. 542 ( digitized version ).
  6. ^ Sabine Wehking: The history of the office of Gieboldehausen. Verlag Mecke Duderstadt 1995
  7. ↑ a b Bernhard Opfermann : Gestalten des Eichsfeldes. St. Benno-Verlag Leipzig and Verlag FW Cordier Heiligenstadt 1968

literature

Web links

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