Neideck (noble family)

This article deals with the gentlemen von Neideck with their headquarters in Franconian Switzerland. For the noble family from the Hohenlohe easement, also sometimes written Neideck , see Lords von Neudeck .

Coat of arms of those of Neideck

The von Neideck family , also with the Stübig suffix, was a Frankish noble family .

The name Neideck

There are several places called Neideck, whose connection with the Neideckern described here is uncertain: Neideck Castle, owned by the gentlemen of the same name, is now a ruin in the Biberach district in Baden-Württemberg . A Neideck castle is known in the Ilm district in Thuringia . There was also a Neideck farm in the Kulm district in Rhineland-Palatinate . As a castle Neideck also at will Stadtsteinach situated castle Nordeck referred. George III von Neideck was Bishop of Trient (1505–1514).

history

Neideck castle ruins in Franconian Switzerland

The headquarter that gives its name is Neideck Castle near Wiesenttal - today part of the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim - which gained importance among the Schlüsselbergers . Konrad II von Schlüsselberg died in 1347 as the last of his family to defend the castle, which had fallen into disrepair since it was destroyed in the Peasants' War .

The family was organized in the knight canton of Gebürg and Odenwald . It is documented in Franconia as the ministerial family of the bishops of Bamberg from 1219 to 1562. The possessions included Gößweinstein and Wildenfels . One branch of the family survived longer in South Tyrol (see Wildegg Castle ?).

See also : List of German noble families  and List of Frankish knight families

literature

• Johann Gottfried Biedermann : gender = register of the realm - Frey - immediate knighthood of the country to Francken praiseworthy place = Gebürg… . Bamberg 1747. (Tabula CCCXLI. To CCCXLII.)
• Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (list of the canton Odenwald from 1550, StAL B 583 Bü 191.) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 . Pp. 214/215.
• Gustav Voit u. a .: From the country in the mountains to Franconian Switzerland . Bayreuth 1992. p. 84.

Web links

• Coat of arms of the "Neideck" in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1701, Volume 2, Plate 77