Plassenberg
The von Plassenberg family is an old Franconian noble family .
history
origin
The Lords of Plassenberg (also Blassenberg ) belonged to the ministry of the Counts of Andechs and later Dukes of Andechs-Meranien and named themselves after their official seat, the Plassenburg ob Kulmbach . Six different ministerials from Plassenberg appear in the two first mentioning documents issued around 1158: "Gundeloh" and his two sons "Gundeloh and Friedrich", "Nentwich von Blassenberc" and his son "Eberhard" and "Otgoz von Blassenberc". The current research opinion, coined by Franz Karl and Erich von Guttenberg , distinguishes two lines that were not originally tribe-related: The Plassenbergers with the rose seal and the Plassenbergers with a recessed tip in the seal image. Klaus Rupprecht counters this construct with a new thesis: “As families who later have a point in their coat of arms, the Künßberg , Weidenberg and Bayreuth appear as ministerials at the time of the Dukes of Andechs-Meranien . It is entirely conceivable that they are not descended from the Plassenberg-Nentwich tribe - as the two researchers from Guttenberg show - but that a branch of them, probably primarily the Weidenberg for reasons of ownership, as the successor to the Plassenberg with the rose, the had used the Andechs-Merano War of Succession to become independent and for a temporary change of front, were deployed as castle men on the Plassenburg under the Counts of Orlamünde and then also named themselves after their new service castle of Plassenberg. "
Rose seal
The Plassenbergers with the rose seal held a prominent position among the Franconian ministerials of the Andechs-Meranier. Eberhard I. von Plassenberg was iudex provinicialis from 1207 to 1217, i.e. district judge and thus deputy of his ducal lord in Radenzgau . He was succeeded in this office by his son Friedrich III, who appeared as a judge from 1223 to 1231, and was given the nickname dives , i.e. the rich, in 1218 and 1221 . Under the last Andechs-Meranier Otto VIII. Willebrand von Plassenberg, Friedrich's son, held the office of trustee at the ducal court. Before the middle of the 13th century, the Plassenberg family shared the rose seal: in 1239 and 1244, Ramung von Plassenberg's sons Albert and Ramung appeared for the first time with the surname galliculus . The nickname Henlin or Henlein became a kind of family name for their descendants.
Home country
The oldest possession of the Plassenbergers can be assumed to be where both tribes find each other wealthy. This property is concentrated in the area around Kulmbach, in an easterly direction with free float up to Kupferberg and in a westerly direction to the old Würzburg original parish of Melkendorf . At Melkendorf, above the confluence of the White and Red Main rivers , the probable headquarters of the Plassenbergers with the rose seal can be found: Steinenhausen Castle .
Probably already the Andechs-Meranischen Truchsessen Willebrand von Plassenberg had succeeded in the middle of the 13th century to acquire a small but almost closed rulership complex near Untersteinach from the Walpoten , in which his grandson Eberhard III. around 1315 built Guttenberg Castle. This made him the progenitor of the barons von und zu Guttenberg, who are still in bloom today.
Veit Henlein, who was enfeoffed by the Margraves of Brandenburg with the Steinenhausen castle stable in 1475 and 1487, took the name of Guttenberg because of "the same parentage, the same helmet and shield with the Blassenberg-Guttenberg". It appears for the first time in 1499 as "Veyt von Guttenberg, called Henlein". Only after 1544 does the nickname Henlein disappear completely and the line is called "Guttenberg- Kirchleus " from then on . The Blassenbergers with the pointed seal can still be traced into the Thirty Years' War, but they died out soon after 1632.
Eckersdorf
The Lords of Plassenberg acquired their first goods in Eckersdorf in 1420 , which they owned in full a hundred years later. Grave slabs and an epitaph in the church in Gleiritsch also bear witness to the Plassenberg family. Towards the end of the 15th century (1498) Götz von Plassenberg became captain and caretaker in Neunburg vorm Wald and Christoph von Plassenberg received the post of district judge in Amberg in 1556.
In Biedermann: Gender Register , Volume 5, Plate 342 , Lorenz von Plassenberg is named as Landsasse on "Glayritz" (today: Gleiritsch , municipality in the district of Schwandorf ). He also had other goods in Eckersdorf (Markgraftum Bayreuth) and St. Gilgenberg. The property of Lorenz von Plassenberg, who had four sons in addition to two daughters, Margaretha and Sybilla von Plassenberg, was divided between his heirs Georg Leo, Paulus Lorenz, Götz Siegemund and Christoph Jacob von Plassenberg. The latter "Christoff Jacob of Plassenberg to Gleuratsch" first mentioned in 1550 Country aces register . On September 25, 1559, Elector Friedrich III enfeoffed him . from the Palatinate "with the burklein Plassenberg and associated goods". Four grave slabs in the Expositurkirche Maria Magdalena, Gleiritsch remind of the noble family of Plassenberg.
After the Plassenbergs died out, Eckersdorf and Donndorf came to the Lords of Lüchau in 1552, until they fell to the Margraviate of Bayreuth in 1757 . In the St. Giles Church are the grave times of Hans von Plassenberg of 1511 and of Margaret of Plassenberg of the 1570th
Gravestone for Heinz von Plassenberg
Epitaph for Margarethe von Plassenberg
Personalities
- Adelheid von Plassenberg († 1460), abbess at Himmelkron monastery
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a heraldic tip (pale mountain) bent in silver on a red background.
The coat of arms of the Upper Franconian community of Ködnitz in the district of Kulmbach and the Upper Palatinate community of Gleiritsch in the district of Schwandorf are reminiscent of the Plassenbergers. Since the Plassenberg family determined the fate of the citizens of Gleiritsch for a long time, the Plassenberg coat of arms was included in the municipal coat of arms.
Gleiritsch municipal coat of arms
See also
- Castle estates of the city of Bayreuth
- Related families: Lüchau , Sparneck
literature
- Bishop Johannes: Genealogy of the ministerials of Blassenberg and Freiherrn (from and to) Guttenberg 1148–1970, Würzburg 1971
- August Gebeßler : City and District of Bayreuth . Munich 1959.
- Franz Carl Frhr. v. Guttenberg: Regests of the von Blassenberg family and their descendants, in: Archive for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia, vol. 18,2 (1891), pp. 1–116; 19, 2 (1894), pp. 1-164; 20, 2 (1897), pp. 1-146; 20, 3 (1898), pp. 1-64; 22, 1 (1902), pp. 1-86; 23,2 (1907), pp. 113-233
- Hellmut Kunstmann : Guttenberg Castle and the former Upper Franconian castles of the family, Würzburg 1966
- Klaus Rupprecht: The preservation of knightly rule in Franconia - The history of von Guttenberg in the late Middle Ages and at the beginning of the early modern period, Neustadt / Aisch 1994
- Klaus Rupprecht: The Plassenberg - Ministerial of the Dukes of Andechs-Meranien and the Counts of Orlamünde on the Plassenburg, in: The Plassenburg - To the history of a landmark, CHW-Monographien, Vol. 8, Lichtenfels 2008, pp. 23-44
- Gustav Voit: The Adel am Obermain, Die Plassenburg - Writings for local research and cultural maintenance in East Franconia, Vol. 28, Kulmbach 1969, pp. 228-237
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Klaus Rupprecht: The Plassenberg - Ministerials on the Plassenburg . In: Die Plassenburg - On the history of a landmark . CHW Monographs Volume 8. Lichtenfels 2008. P. 36.