Rössing (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Rössing family

Rössing is the name of an ancient noble family from southern Lower Saxony , which emerged from the ministry of the Hildesheim monastery and appears for the first time in 1132 at the Rössing headquarters , which is still owned by the family today.

Since 1398 the Rössings were hereditary marshals of the Halberstadt diocese and since 1506 hereditary chefs of the principality of Calenberg .

history

Rössing manor

The first documented family member is Ernestus de Rotthige , who is mentioned in a document in 1132, while the line of tribe begins with Thidericus de Rothinge (Dietrich von Rössing; documented 1175–1182) .

Since Lippold de Rottingen de Honboken (1296) the family has been sealed with the lion coat of arms, which is still part of the coat of arms of the Lower Saxon community of Rössing (Nordstemmen) . By marrying the heir to the noble lords of Hohenbüchen (Honboken), he had acquired the rulership of the same name , although the Rössings themselves were not of the noble class. But Hohenbüchen Castle was ruined as early as 1311 in a feud against the noble lords of Homburg that had been going on since 1305 and the Homburgers occupied Hohenbüchen, until the lords of Rössing finally resigned in 1355 and officially sold their feudal right to Hohenbüchen to the Homburg dynasts. So it was not until 1454 that a noble seat was rebuilt on the old Hohenbüchen castle site .

Church of St. Peter and Paul zu Rössing , donated in 1290

The Lords of Rössing exercised patrimonial jurisdiction at their ancestral home, the manor in Rössing ; They held the right to mill and brew and to this day the church patronage because, according to tradition, they founded the local church of St. Peter and Paul around 1290 on their own land. Elisabeth von Calenberg, widow of Duke Erich I von Calenberg, introduced the Reformation in Rössing in 1543 when her son Erich II was a minor. Rössing was never re-Catholicized, the members of the family have been Protestant since 1543.

Duke Erich the Elder acquired the pledge over the Meierding in Rössing with bailiwick and court in 1537 . The Welfs thus shared jurisdiction with the Lords of Rössing until 1821, when the Hanoverian government ordered the dissolution of the noble court of those of Rössing and both parts of the community were united under Calenberg administration in 1829 .

In Alvessem, too, the von Rössing had property as early as 1330, and in the first half of the 16th century they owned the tithe there . Later the place became a desert . Likewise, as the heirs of the Lords of Alvessem, they were documented since 1441 in Beuchte among the main landowners.

Rittergut Berßel , family-owned 1398–1832

In Berßel in the northern Harz foreland (until 1648 it belonged to the Diocese of Halberstadt and then to the principality of the same name) was a manor that belonged to von Rössing from 1398 to 1832 and was the seat of a patrimonial court to which the place was subordinate until 1848. Likewise, until 1848, it was in nearby Wülperode , which place and the local castle belonged to the Rössing, when the Reformation took hold in the Halberstadt diocese in the first half of the 16th century. In the 18th century the von Rössing family still had a very extensive fiefdom . In the course of debts and inheritance disputes, which an imperial commission was supposed to settle in 1713, the princely semi-urban properties of Berßel, Suderode and Osterwieck , which had been in family ownership since 1398, were lost to the aristocratic family in 1832.

Colorful yard in Osterwieck

The Bunte Hof in Osterwieck was built from 1579 to 1582 by Ludolph I von Rössing, who ten years later also built a two-story half-timbered building with a round tower in Rössing on the remains of the old castle complex. The Bunte Hof, the area of ​​which has probably belonged to the von Rössing family since the middle of the 15th century, remained in their possession until 1847. On this farm, the Bavarian Duke had around 1070 Otto of Northeim in Saxony war with Saxon nobles against Emperor Henry IV. Allied.

Good location with a moat
Graves of members of the "Rössing zu Lage" sidelines in the Protestant cemetery in Wulfenau

One line of the Rössing family consisted of members who entered the service of the Duchy of Oldenburg , later of the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg , as higher officials and politicians . In this capacity, Friedrich Ludwig von Rössing, Ernst Conrad Christian von Rössing and Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Rössing in particular achieved great merits. Ernst Conrad Christian von Rössing inherited the manor Lage in Essen / Oldenburg from his cousin Adam Daniel von Rochow in 1810 (the Rochow had acquired it in 1704 from the Oldenburg noble family van Lutten by marriage). The line "Rössing zu Lage", which also owned shares in Rössing, expired in 1934 in the male line. Graves from the Rössing to Lage line are still to be found at the Wulfenau cemetery . The estate remained in the family until 1948.

Stemmen manor

The Stemmen manor in Stemmen came into the possession of the family when Baron Curt Hildebrand von Rössing married Luise von Kaufmann, the daughter of the royal Prussian economist Friedrich von Kaufmann (1822–1895) on Stemmen (and sister of Fritz von Kaufmann , a member of the German) Reichstag and the Brunswick State Parliament ). Since 1877, Baron von Rössing has managed the estate, which the Stemmen branch of the family still owns today, who also exercises church patronage there .

Johanna Freiin von Rössing (* 1906), formerly at Rössing, was the daughter of the presiding landscape council of the knighthood of the Principality of Hildesheim and royal Prussian majors a. D. Louis Freiherr von Rössing on Rössing. In 1927 she married the lawyer Lothar von Hugo auf Friedland (1890–1975) in Rössing. Her eldest son Gerhard was adopted by his great-aunt Helene Freiin von Rössing († 1964) in 1949, took over the manor Rössing from his mother and took the combined name of Freiherr von Rössing and von Hugo , for which the German Nobility Law Committee pronounced a non-objection to him in 1952 and he with his family in the baronial division of the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility . His son, Kurt-Alexander Freiherr von Rössing, ran the estate since 1995.

Lütetsburg Castle

A younger son of Johanna von Hugo geb. Freiin von Rössing, Jörg von Hugo, married in 1968 zu Lütetsburg Huberta Countess zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (1942–2011), daughter of Karl-Theodor Graf zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (1910–1942) on Pansewitz , Rügen Island, niece of the last and granddaughter of the second Prince of Innhausen and Knyphausen, Dodo (1876–1931), and therefore, according to Section 1355 of the German Civil Code, since 1979 he had the name of Hugo-Graf zu Innhausen and Knyphausen . The children from the marriage, Tido, Alvo and Theda, bear the name Graf and Countess zu Innhausen and Knyphausen. The family lives in Lütetsburg Castle .

Court offices and promotions

In 1398, Ernst von Hohnstein († 1400), since 1390 Bishop of Halberstadt , enfeoffed the brothers Siverd and Dietrich von Rotthingen (Rössing) with the Hereditary Marshal's Office in the Halberstadt Monastery . They also held the hereditary court office later in the Kingdom of Prussia for the Principality of Halberstadt, which had been secularized since 1648 . In 1416, the Roman-German King Sigismund appointed the same Siverd von Rössing in addition to the imperial bailiff of the silver city of Goslar , which had been involved in serious feuds with members of the von Rössing family in the 14th century .

The Rössings have held the dignity of hereditary kitchen master of the Principality of Calenberg since 1506, when Duke Erich the Elder gave them the hereditary court office with his income.

In the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg the baron status was recognized on December 16, 1867, in Prussia on March 29, 1870 and on May 24, 1872.

Possessions

coat of arms

  • The original coat of arms showed 3 (2: 1) roses .
  • Since 1296 it has shown a crowned, red-tongued golden lion in the shield, which is divided diagonally from red to blue . On the helmet with red and gold blankets on the right, blue and gold on the left, the lion growing between open flight , red on the right, blue on the left .

Well-known namesake

  • Siverd von Rössing (before 1383 – after 1416), knight, lord of Rössing, Berßel, Suderode, pledger of the castles Wiedelah, Poppenburg and Wülperode, since 1398 hereditary marshal of the Diocese of Halberstadt, since 1415 imperial bailiff of the silver city Goslar
  • Irmgard von Rössing (married since 1430 von Salder, † 1475), she was a daughter of Dietrich von Rössing, was married to Evert von Salder and was buried in Blasiusstift , for which she had donated an altar, among other things.
  • Ernst von Rössing (1762–1827), grand ducal Oldenburg district administrator and governor in Cloppenburg
  • Ferdinand Christoph Ludwig (Louis) Friedrich von Rössing (1790–1856), Royal Hanoverian District Administrator and President of the 1st Chamber of the Kingdom of Hanover
  • August Freiherr von Rössing (1799–1870), Royal Hanoverian Minister of State
  • Peter Freiherr von Rössing (1805–1874), Minister of State of the Grand-Ducal Oldenburg
  • Alexander von Rössing (1818–1906), landowner, district administrator and member of the North German Reichstag
  • Wilhelm von Rössing (1836–1899), Prussian general of the infantry
  • Nonus von Rössing (1841–1899), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Kurt von Rössing (1868–1942), German vice admiral

literature

  • August Freiherr von Rössing, The family tables of the family of those von Rössing. Commission publishing house of the Gerstenberg'schen Buchhandlung, Hildesheim 1901.
  • Georg Bode , The Hohenbüchen estate and its owners. A historical and family history study (= conclusion. VIII. The von Rössing family has no agnatic connection with the noble lords of Hohenbüchen. It does not belong to the noble lords' rank. ) In: Yearbook of the History Association for the Duchy of Braunschweig , published by Paul Zimmermann , 7th year, Wolfenbüttel 1908, (PDF, pp. 22 - 79 ).
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISSN  0435-2408 , pp. 493-494.

Web links

Commons : Rössing family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Document book of the Hildesheim Monastery
  2. ^ Georg Bode , The Hohenbüchen rule and its owners. A historical and family history study. ( Conclusion. VIII. The von Rössing family has no agnatic connection with the noble lords of Hohenbüchen. In terms of their status they do not belong to the noble lords' order. ), In: Yearbook of the History Association for the Duchy of Braunschweig , edited by Paul Zimmermann , 7. Year, Wolfenbüttel 1908, (PDF, pp. 22 - 79 ).
  3. ^ Georg Bode, The Hohenbüchen rule and its owners. A historical and family history study. ( Conclusion. VIII. The von Rössing family has no agnatic connection with the noble lords of Hohenbüchen. In terms of their status they do not belong to the noble lords' order. ), In: Yearbook of the History Association for the Duchy of Braunschweig , edited by Paul Zimmermann , 7. Year, Wolfenbüttel 1908 (here especially PDF, p. 122 - p. 125 ).
  4. ↑ Helga Fredebold, Die Rössinger Kirche St. Peter and Paul (accessed on November 27, 2014).
  5. ↑ Helga Frede Bold: The Rössinger Church of St. Peter and Paul . January 31, 2017
  6. ↑ Werner Wittich: The basic rule. P. 222 ( books.google.de ).
  7. ↑ a b c Rössing History Studies (accessed on November 27, 2014).
  8. ↑ Friedrich Fabian and Heinrich Keune, The working group and the village book as a form of adult education in the countryside , Part II, The village in the past , p. 53 ( PDF file )
  9. ^ Friedrich Fabian, Heinrich Keune: The working group and the village book as a form of adult education in the country. Part II, The Village in the Past. P. 57.
  10. ^ Friedrich Fabian, Heinrich Keune: The working group and the village book as a form of adult education in the country. Part II, The Village in the Past. P. 52.
  11. ↑ Descriptive representation of the older architectural and art monuments of the Province of Saxony , published by the Historical Commission for the Province of Saxony and the Duchy of Anhalt, Booklet XXIII, Halle an der Saale 1902 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ), pp. 22 and 145.
  12. ↑ On the history of the Bunter Hof in Osterwieck
  13. ↑ Bunter Hof Osterwieck
  14. ^ Hans Friedl et al. (Hrsg.): Biographisches Handbuch zur Geschichte des Landes Oldenburg. Article "Rössing, Peter Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von, Prime Minister" . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 . Letter "R", p. 35 f.
  15. ^ Archives in Lower Saxony and Bremen: Good location
  16. ^ Hans Werner Dannowski: On the way in the Calenberger Land. 2010, p. 203 ( books.google.de ).
  17. ↑ Gerheide bars, and community of interest farmhouse eV on 16 September 2013 [manor Stemmen] (accessed on 28 November 2014)
  18. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser B , Volume V, Limburg an der Lahn 1970.
  19. ^ A b Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Adelige Häuser B Volume XXI, Volume 108 of the complete series, Limburg / Lahn 1995, pp. 179 and 187 f.
  20. ↑ St. Stephani in Osterwieck: Epitaphien (accessed on November 27, 2014).
  21. ^ Wilhelm Ostermann: Principles of Prussian constitutional law. Dortmund 1841, p. 93 ( books.google.de ).
  22. ^ Genealogical-diplomatic yearbook for the Prussian state. Volume 1, Berlin 1841, p. 26 ( books.google.de ).
  23. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 12 ( books.google.de ).
  24. ^ Georg Bode: Document book of the city of Goslar. S. XXXI ( books.google.de ).
  25. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume FA VII, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1969, p. 406.
  26. ^ Britta-Juliane Kruse: 3. Altar donations by widows . In: Widows: Cultural history of a class in the late Middle Ages and early modern times . Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-018926-1 , p. 412 ( books.google.de ).
  27. ↑ Member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg .