Röhrenfurth (noble family)

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The Lords of Röhrenfurth were a now extinct, old Hessian knight family with ancestral seat in the village of Röhrenfurth on the Fulda , a few kilometers north of Melsungen . In Melsungen they owned a castle seat in the landgrave's castle.

At their headquarters, the Röhrenfurther secured an important ford across the river for the Landgraves of Hesse . Eckhard II von Röhrenfurth, the last male offspring of the family, and his brother Friedrich were deputies from 1418 and from 1422 until his death in 1432 successors to his father-in-law Rörich II von Eisenbach as Hereditary Marshal of Hesse . Eckhard was succeeded in this position by his son-in-law Herrmann II. Riedesel .

history

The sources on the Röhrenfurthern are incomplete. They become tangible for the first time with Bertoldus de Rornefort, who on November 30, 1182 in a document from Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa as guarantor ( fideisponsor ) for Landgrave Ludwig III. of Thuringia appears. Later Helmwich (1199), Helferich (1219-20) and Heinrich (died around 1200) are mentioned on the occasion of various notarizations; the latter was subdeacon and canon at St. Petri-Stift in Fritzlar .

In 1269 Wolrad von Rorenvort, with the consent of his wife and sons Wolrad and Hermann, sold his possessions in and near Röhrenfurth (the former places Alt- and Neu-Breitenbach) for 21 fine marks to the Eppenberg monastery near Gensungen .

The kemenate in Melsungen

Otto I was canon of Worms (Martinskirche) from 1339 to 1358 and dean of Rotenburg an der Fulda from 1361 to 1373 . He had a crescent moon and two stars in his seal. Otto took his retirement home in Melsungen and acquired income and possessions for this purpose. In 1339 Otto bought interest from Heinrich von Meysenbug's estate in Grebenau and in 1368 from Hermann and Tile von Falkenberg the tithe from Beiseförth, Rockenhusen (Rockenmühle an der Beise), Sneylbach (Schnegelshof between Beiseförth and Dagobertshausen). In 1358, the last year of his stay in Worms, Otto bought his brother Eckhard I's estate in Oberzwehren . With the income from this he donated a chapel with a bower in the Melsunger Cyllsgasse (today: Zülchsgässchen) behind the former castle seat of the von Röhrenfurth; the former bower, with an addition in 1601, is now the oldest residential building in Melsungen. In order to secure the chapel foundation after his death, Otto bound his relatives by contract. In 1357 Otto induced his brother Eckhard I, his wife Alheide and their sons Otto II and Eckhard II to renounce their paternal inheritance, but gave it to them for life in exchange for a low interest rate. In return they promised to leave him in possession of all his belongings. In 1373, probably after Eckhard I's death, the brothers Otto II and Eckhard II confirmed their uncle's chapel foundation.

Occupied members of the sex

  • 1182–1220 Bertoldus de Rornefurt
  • 1199 Helmwich (Brother Bertolds?)
  • 1219–1220 Helfrich (Bertold's brother?)
  • died around 1200 Heinrich, subdeacon in Fritzlar (Bertold's brother?)
  • 1269 Wolrad (the elder)
  • 1269 Hermann I (son of Wolrad the Elder)
  • 1269 Wolrad (the younger, son of Wolrad the elder)
  • 1288–1309 Wigand (the elder, son of Wolrad the elder) and his wife Elisabeth
  • 1309–1368 Eckhard I. (son of Wigand) and his wife Alheide
  • 1309–1323 Wigand (the younger)
  • 1309–1373 Otto I, son of Wigand the Elder, brother Eckhard I, 1339–1358 Canon of Worms, 1361–1373 Dean of Rotenburg
  • died around 1340 Bertha von Röhrenfurth (daughter of Wigand the Elder?)
  • around 1340 Bertold, knight of Röhrenfurth
  • 1341 Lukardis, Wigandi von Rorennefort widow (sells slope of her goods in Wanfort (Wagenfzrth) to the Eppenberg monastery for the salvation of her soul )
  • 1347 Uda von Rorinfort, nun in Eppenberg monastery. Jutta, Elrich and Alheide, daughters of Röhrenfurther, are also named as nuns of the Eppenberg monastery.
  • 1357–1385 Otto II (son of Eckhard I, bailiff in Melsungen) and his wife Elisabeth
  • 1357–1432 Eckhard II (son of Eckhard I and his wife Jutta von Schöneberg )
  • 1357–1430 Friedrich (son of Eckhard I)
  • 1368 Elisabeth von Röhrenfurth (widow of Kurt von Herzenrode)
  • 1369 Mechthild (sister Eckhards II., Daughter Eckhards I, wife Bernhards von Binsförth, her son Strauss von Binsförth is appointed by Otto II. As heir)
  • 1376 Hans (son of Otto II and his wife Elisabeth), died early
  • 1383–1384 Otto III. (Son of Otto II.)
  • 1383 An unnamed sister of Otto II, married to one of his equals, a nephew of Otto II, Eckhards II, Friedrichs and Hennes, is appointed by Otto II as heiress
  • 1406–1429 Henne (son of Eckhard I, brother Otto II, Eckhard II, Friedrich and Mechthild)
  • 1429 Margaretha, daughter of Eckhard II and his wife Jutta von Schöneberg, marries Hermann Riedesel
  • 1432 Eckhard II von Röhrenfurth , Hereditary Marshal of Hesse since 1422, dies. His son-in-law Hermann II. Riedesel († July 31, 1463), Margaretha's husband, inherited the Lords of Röhrenfurth, including the Hereditary Marshal's Office.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landgrave Regest online No. 3165. Regest of the Landgrave of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  2. ↑ Landgrafen-Regesten online No. 8852. Regest of the Landgraves of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ RI IV, 2,4 n. 2676, in: Regesta Imperii Online

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