Nordeck to Rabenau

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Coat of arms of those from Nordeck zur Rabenau

Nordeck zur Rabenau (also Nordeck von Rabenau ) is the name of an old Palatinate - Hessian noble family that belonged to the ancient nobility of the Lahngau . The original headquarters of the Lords of Nordeck zur Rabenau was Nordeck Castle near Allendorf (Lumda) .

The Nordeck family to Rabenau is not related to the letter noble Hessian noble family of Nordeck and the Meissen Uradelsgeschlecht of Rabenau . They also all have different coats of arms .

history

origin

At the beginning of the 13th century, Nordeck Castle belonged to the Count Palatine of Tübingen , who received it as heirs of the County of Gießen. From the beginning it was manned by castle men from different sexes, but together they carried the coat of arms of the castle team. Burgmannen represented, among other things, the important sex of the Milchlinge , they carried the name as a proper and nickname, von Nordeck. One of them was probably Walter von Nordeck, who was Army Master of the Brothers Sword Order in Livonia from 1272 to 1275 .

Nordeck Castle , the original seat of the castle team

Another gender from the Burgmannschaft was initially only called von Nordeck (also Nordeckin ). Members of this family had the typical lead names Widerold and Adolf . In 1222 the brothers Adolf, Walter and Gerlach von Nordeckin appear for the first time in a document. In 1229 the knight Widerold (I.) von Nordeck is mentioned in a document from Count Palatine Wilhelm von Tübingen. He was probably a close relative of the Widerolde von Linden and Michelbach, who are mentioned in documents in 1239 as witnesses to the Count Palatine.

His two sons, Widerold and Adolf, appear in 1263 as guarantors of Landgravine Sophie von Hessen , a daughter of Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia .

Expansion and possessions

In 1264 the Count Palatine sold Gießen to the Hessian Landgrave Heinrich I. The latter had no interest in maintaining the previous state of defense of Nordeck Castle and dissolved the feudal relationship of the castle team. The fiefs that the Lords of Nordeck owned outside the castle and the name were retained by the family. In 1274, Adolf von Nordeck expressly calls himself a son of the knight Widerold I and father of the third Widerold. In 1283 he became bailiff of the Archbishop of Mainz .

At the end of the 13th century, the Lords of Nordeck acquired important properties in the Rabenau . This included Londorf as a fief of the Counts of Nassau and the rule of coin mountain . From Hessen they only had a privilege of their mill and later a castle seat in Marburg .

The defunct Talburg in Londorf (municipality of Rabenau ), painting by Carl Engel von der Rabenau

Junckir Adolff genat von der Rabenau appears for the first time in a document issued on April 18, 1287. He was mayor of the Archbishop of Mainz in Amöneburg and named himself after the newly built Talburg on the Lumda in Rabenau. In 1367 the brothers Adolf, Hermann and Johann von Nordeck are named as feudal feudal men of Count Philipp zu Nassau-Saarbrücken. A fiefdom letter from Otto zu Solms from 1473 certifies the Nordeck zur Rabenau ownership of the Münzberg fiefdom. At that time there were also feudal relationships with the Bishop of Fulda .

After the von Londorf and von Nordeck-Braun families died out, the lords of Nordeck zur Rabenau inherited all of their possessions. Presumably as a result of a plague epidemic towards the end of the 15th century, all members of the family except Winter von Nordeck zur Rabenau had died. He was the canon of Mainz and Cologne and resigned to the secular class with papal dispensation . He later married Catharina Lutter von Losshausen and became the progenitor of all other descendants of the family.

At the beginning of the 16th century, members of the family were members of the imperial knighthood in the knight canton Rhön-Werra of the Franconian knight circle . They were also a member of the Middle Rhine Imperial Knighthood in the canton of Wetterau and in the Old Hessen Knighthood .

At the end of the 18th century a house law was passed and the inalienable property was placed under senior citizen property . This included, among others, the Rabenau patrimonial court in the province of Upper Hesse with the villages and courts of Londorf , Kleinbach, Allertshausen , Kesselbach , Odenhausen , Geilshausen , Weitershausen and Rüddingshausen . Individual branches of the family were also in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt , Hesse-Kassel and in the Duchy of Nassau .

Status surveys

Leopold von Nordeck zur Rabenau, colonel from Electoral Saxony , and his brother Heinrich von Nordeck zur Rabenau were raised to the status of imperial baron by Emperor Leopold I in 1676 . A line was registered in 1814 in the baron class of nobility registers in the Kingdom of Bavaria . On January 9, 1911, a Grand Ducal Hessian confirmation of the use of the baron title for the entire family followed.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Nordeck zur Rabenau from Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a black shamrock in silver . On the helmet there is a golden column with a peacock plume between two buffalo horns divided in silver-black and black-silver . The helmet covers are black and silver.

The original coat of arms was a so-called forest clover, three sea ​​leaves joined together with the tip . The golden column no longer appears in more recent coats of arms.

Municipal coat of arms

Elements from the coat of arms of the von Nordeck zur Rabenau family still appear today in some Hessian local coats of arms.

Known family members

Bearer of the name of the unrelated Hessian noble family von Nordeck

  • Karl (Carl) Freiherr von Nordeck zu Nordeck (1793–1853), Hemmerich Castle near Bornheim (Rhineland) near Bonn
  • Hunold Freiherr von Nordeck zu Nordeck (1909–2004), Hemmerich Castle near Bornheim (Rhineland) near Bonn and his wife Anne-Marie (* 1930)
  • Gisbert Rudolf Freiherr von Nordeck zu Nordeck (* / † NN) married to Andrea Bettina Bahlsen (1945–1998). Werner Bahlsen's daughter was a recognized Arab horse breeder in Oberuzwil (SG) near St. Gallen in Switzerland and one of the three heirs of the now divided Bahlsen Group. Their three sons Markus, Titus and Julius Freiherren von Nordeck zu Nordeck, as Swiss citizens, control the v. Nordeck International Holding AG in Glauris (Switzerland).

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Stephan Alexander Würdtwein, Dioecesis Moguntina in achidiaconatus distincta 3, Mannheim 1777, p. 302, no. 200;
    Niklas Kindlinger, History of German Slavery, Berlin 1819, pp. 255–256, No. 19
  2. ^ Barons of Nordeck zu Nordeck, u. a. Owner of a traditional Glarus furniture factory in Switzerland ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.glarus24.ch
  3. https://www.wevcom.ch/files/leseprobe_v_nordeck_international_holding_ag.pdf
  4. https://www.fuw.ch/article/ganz-privat-und-familir/