Nauendorf (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Nauendorf

Nauendorf , also Nauendorff or Naundorf , is the name of an old Thuringian noble family . The family belongs to the primeval nobility in the Eastern part of the world and later acquired property and reputation , especially in Saxony , but also in Nassau .

history

origin

The family was first mentioned in a document in 1197 with Heinricus de Naundorf . The uninterrupted line of the family begins around 1380 with Christoph von Nauendorf on Nauendorf and Caasen .

Nauendorf , the parent company that gave it its name, is now part of the community of Großenstein in the Greiz district in Thuringia. The place is mentioned for the first time on November 9, 1121 in a document. The Nauendorfer Rittergut probably existed since the village was founded and was the starting point of the village. It was owned by the von Nauendorf family.

After Kneschke there was another family with the same name. It originally came from Neumark , but has a different coat of arms (a bear's paw on the shield).

Spread and personalities

Other early bearers of the name were the brothers Conrad and Theodoricus von Naundorff, who appear in a document as witnesses in 1306, as well as Dietrich von Naundorf in 1314, 1340 and 1361, and Eberhard de Naundorf in 1331. Ludwig von Nauendorf is said to be a witness in 1317 in a letter of foundation of the Canonicorum Sixti to Merseburg have performed.

The great-grandson of the progenitor Christoph von Nauendorf, Heinrich II. Von Nauendorf, grandson of Nicol and son of Dieze, lived around the middle of the 15th century. His great-grandson Uzo († 1605), who in 1570 was able to acquire Zeilsdorf in addition to the Nauendorf and Caasen estates by marrying Martha von Ende, is said to have been one of the most learned among the nobility at the time. However, Zeilsdorf was lost again under his grandson Hans Ludwig, probably as a result of the Thirty Years' War , which severely damaged the family and in which the parent company was burned to the ground by the Swedes. Already named grandson Hans Ludwig von Neuendorf († 1691), lord of Nauendorf and Großenstein, became princely Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttler councilor and provost. He left behind the two sons Georg Ehrenfried and Hans Ludwig. Georg Ehrenfried from Nauendorf († 1734), Lord of crouching and Hilberstdorf was royally bayreuther Privy Councilor , country director, Governor to Bayreuth , Upper Amtshauptmann to Münchberg, Amtshauptmann to Lichtenberg and Thierbach, Hofrichter the manorial court to Jena and Knight of the Ordre de la sincérité (Order of Sincerity - the predecessor of the Red Eagle Order ). He married Dorothea Freiin von Hünefeld and was able to continue the tribe with three sons. Son Hermann Carl Ludwig von Nauendorf was the royal Prussian chamberlain in 1729 . Georg Ehrenfried's brother Hans Ludwig von Nauendorf († 1720), lord of Nauendorf, Caasen and Großenstein, was the ducal Saxon-Gothic district chamberat and chief tax collector in Altenburg . He left behind four sons from his marriage to Luise Freiin Bachoff von Echt .

The older property of the family in Thuringia lay mainly in the principalities of Reuss older and Reuss younger line , including Kauern . The Nauendorf family estate became a Fideikommiss of the baronial line. In more recent times the Nauendorfer were also possessed in the Kingdom of Saxony , including in Geilsdorf, Kloschwitz and Kreischa . Numerous relatives served as officers in the Saxon army . Carl Georg Heinrich von Nauendorf took his leave as a royal Saxon lieutenant colonel in 1848 and lived in Dresden until his death in 1862 . Philipp Leo von Nauendorf came from his marriage to a daughter from the von Seydlitz family. He became a royal Saxon first lieutenant . Ferdinand von Nauendorf, lord of Geilsdorf and royal Saxon chamberlain, came from his marriage to von Heygendorf. Heinrich von Nauendorf was first lieutenant and adjutant in the 3rd Imperial and Royal Uhlan Regiment in 1858 . Leo von Nauendorf, on Geilsdorf and Schwand, royal Saxon chamberlain and captain , was entered in the royal Saxon nobility book on September 23, 1904 under the number 145.

One branch came to the Duchy of Nassau and was there, due to ownership in Kiedrich in the former Amt Eltville , elected to the Herrenbank until 1848. Gottlob von Nauendorf (* 1752) died in 1819 as a Nassau colonel . His son Adolf Heinrich Ludwig Freiherr von Nauendorf (* 1781, † 1842) was the ducal Major General and adjutant of the wing . His son Moritz Freiherr von Nauendorf (* 1832 in Wiesbaden) was a ducal chamberlain of Nassau and a royal Prussian captain. With the annexation of Nassau by Prussia after the German War won , Nauendorf was taken over on November 20, 1866 as a captain with a Nassau patent in the officer corps of the Kurhessian Jäger Battalion No. 11 in the Royal Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 67. With this unit he fought in the war against France and earned the Iron Cross 2nd class . He died in Nauendorf in 1872. In 1859 he married Emilie Freiin von Langsdorff (* 1835, † 1906). The couple had two children, son Moritz (* 1860) and daughter Emilie (* 1864). Moritz Freiherr von Nauendorf was initially Royal Prussian Prime Lieutenant in Infantry Regiment No. 138 and later Royal Prussian Major .

Status surveys

Friedrich August Joseph von Nauendorf , kk Oberstwachtmeister , received the hereditary-Austrian count in Vienna on March 12, 1779 with the salutation high and well-born . He died unmarried and without children. With that, the line of the Counts of Nauendorf also died out.

The brothers Friedrich Christian Ludwig, on Nauendorf, ducal Nassau chamberlain and chief forester , and Heinrich von Nauendorf, ducal Nassau chamberlain and lieutenant colonel in the 1st light infantry regiment, received Nassau recognition of the baron class in 1812 . On May 13, 1881, their descendants received Prussian recognition of the title of baron through a heraldry rescript .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms is divided by a black diagonal bar of red and silver (also silver and red) covered with three red roses . On the helmet with red and silver covers, two buffalo horns , the right one divided by silver, black and red, the left one by red, black and silver.

Coat of arms history

Imprints of seals show different variants of the coat of arms. On some, the shield of silver and red appears to be divided obliquely to the left with an obliquely left bar. A completely silver shield and the flight of the eagle on the helmet, as stated in Johann Siebmacher's book of arms (1605), do not appear on the lacquer prints. There the family coat of arms appears under the Thuringian and is called v. Newendorf. In the silver shield, the coat of arms shows an obliquely left black bar covered with three six-petaled red roses with golden lugs and green leaves. On the helmet, which is neither crowned nor bulged, a left-turning, closed, silver eagle flight, whose front right wing is covered with the left sloping beam and the roses of the shield. The blazon says: “A white sign, thereby a black street, the roses in it red with yellow clusters. On the helmet the wings like the shield. The helmet covers red and silver ” .

According to Kneschke's coat of arms of the German baronial and aristocratic families (1857), the coat of arms in the shield, which is divided diagonally by red and silver (the red is on the lower right, the silver on the upper left), is a diagonal, black bar with three six-petaled, red roses standing one below the other is covered with golden slugs and green leaves. On the shield there is a crowned helmet, which has two buffalo horns, of which the right is divided by silver, black and red, the left by red, black and silver. The helmet covers are red-silver. In the Dresden calendar for use in the residence (1847 and 1849) the coat of arms is described as follows: “A shield with a black sloping bar covered with three roses, a silver shield at the top and a red shield at the bottom, with two buffalo horns with a black sloping bar on its crowned helmet appear " .

The helmet also appears bulged instead of crowned. When it was raised to the rank of count, the family coat of arms was retained unchanged and only a nine-pearl crown was placed on the shield . An imprint of the seal of the kk Oberstwachtmeister Friedrich August Joseph Count von Nauendorf shows the shield of red and silver divided diagonally to the right with a diagonal, black bar, which is covered with three five-leaf roses. On the nine-pearl crown standing on the shield rises a crowned helmet, which wears two buffalo horns, the tincture of which is not clear. The shield is surrounded by flags and armaments on both sides.

Name bearer

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saxon Main State Archives Dresden
  2. ↑ a b c d e New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 6, Pages 450–452
  3. ↑ a b c d e Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, pages 344–345
  4. ↑ ordensmuseum.de
  5. ↑ a b c The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , Volume 4, pages 302–305