Raven von Pappenheim

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Family coat of arms of the Rabe von Pappenheim

Rabe von Pappenheim is the name of a Westphalian - English nobility family . The eponymous seat was the now desolate Papenheim Castle near Warburg in East Westphalia . Branches of the family still exist today.

The sex is tribal with the Barons von Canstein (originally: Rabe von Canstein ) as well as the extinct Rabe von Calenberg and Rabe von Kugelsburg , who all have the same coat of arms . The sex is not related to the tribe of the Franconian Counts of Pappenheim .

history

The progenitor of the family is the miles ( Latin knight ) Rawe de Papenheim , truchess of the Corvey monastery , who was first mentioned in 1106. Since then, the Raven / Raben were hereditary Truchsess of the imperial Benedictine abbey .

Trunk line

Coat of arms of the Raven von Pappenheim from Siebmacher's coat of arms book (mirrored)

Papenheim Castle near Menne guarded one of the sub-settlements of the city of Warburg and its Wartberch Castle , which belonged to the Paderborn Monastery since Count Dodiko inherited his county to the bishop in 1020 . The ravens thus belonged to the episcopal castle team , on Papenheim and on the Wartberch itself, there alongside the lords of Berkule and the von Horhusen . A name derived from the coat of arms symbol is typical for ministerial families ; Nevertheless, the ravens are sometimes referred to as barones et dynastii , so they were originally of noble origin and only later joined the Corveyer and Paderborn service team, as the Horhusen had done around 1100.

Calenberg Castle (Warburg) , built by the Berkule on a volcanic cone, was also given by Bishop Otto von Rietberg in 1307 as a fief to the ravens, with whose help he had occupied it, and who henceforth called themselves Rave von Calenberg . In 1326, the Papenheimers were renewed as "Castle and City" of Calenberg.

In 1339, the Archbishop of Cologne, Walram, appointed the Rabe brothers (from a branch line that had split off around 1250) as castle men on the Kugelsburg near Volkmarsen , which was lent to him by the Corvey monastery as a pledge ; until 1530 their descendants stayed there as the ravens of Kugelsburg .

In 1342 Walram enfeoffed the ravens on Kugelsburg with castle and lordship Canstein , the branch thus created was named after the rebuilding of Canstein castle after this property Rabe von Canstein ; In contrast to the other branches of the family, the latter dropped the part of the name "raven" in the coming decades, but continued to be used as the first name (Raban).

The raven from Coglenberg and the raven from Calenberg are extinguished. The extinction of the Raven von Calenberg in 1464 was the reason for the outbreak of the seven-year Hesse-Paderborn feud (1464–1471) between the Duchy of Paderborn and the Landgrave Ludwig II of Lower Hesse .

In addition to the Hereditary Truchsessenamt in Corvey, the family owned numerous goods around Warburg and, together with von Canstein, owned the burgraviate (see Wartberch ) over the city itself. The family kept this until Warburg was occupied by Prussian troops in 1802.

Hessian line

At the beginning of the 14th century, Liebenau in the Landgraviate of Hesse came to the family. In 1429 the fiefdom came to Friedrich the Elder (1406–1495) from the Liebenau family in the nearby tribe . The Burgliebenau went in the late Middle Ages to the Lords of Lowenstein-Westerburg over. The Stammen estate and castle remained in the family's possession until 1946. The line from Liebenau and Stammen belongs to the Althessian knighthood that still exists today .

Diana Rabe von Pappenheim (1788–1844)

Christoph Friedrich Rabe von Pappenheim (1713–1770), Landgrave-Hessian Major General and Oberamtmann in the Schmalkalden rule , and his wife Florentine Sophie Florentine Anna du Bos du Thil (1726–1796) had the late Baroque Stammen Castle built from 1766 . Their younger son Wilhelm Rabe von Pappenheim auf Stammen, a royal Westphalian chamberlain and chief master of ceremonies , was elevated to the Westphalian count by diploma on November 30, 1811 in Kassel , after his wife Diana , née Freiin Waldner von Freundstein from an Alsatian refugee family, with whom he had two sons, her lover, the King of Westphalia , Jérôme Bonaparte , had given birth to a daughter. A second daughter followed in 1813. In the Electorate of Hesse , which was reconstituted in 1813 , this status survey was not recognized. The older daughter became an important representative of the sex: the writer Jenny von Gustedt b. von Pappenheim (1811–1890).

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in silver a gold-crowned, black raven striding to the left ( heraldically to the right) . On the helmet is the raven in front of a column decorated with five alternating black and silver feathers. The helmet covers are black and silver.

Name bearer

literature

  • Gustav Rabe Frhr. von Pappenheim: Documented information about the origins of the name and coat of arms of the ravens and gentlemen of Pappenheim, as well as their descendants, who were the hereditary dignitaries (Dapiferi) and burgraves of the Corvey Abbey. Carlshafen a. W. 1901 ( digitized version )
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Year book of the German nobility , Volume 2, 1898, published by WT Bruer, p. 766 - digitized
  • Heinrich Blome: Papenheim - a desert near Menne, contributions to the history of the former village, the church and the family of the ravens and gentlemen of Pappenheim , in: Menner Chronik und Heimatblätter, 3 (1994), pp. 41-58, link

Web links

Commons : Rabe von Pappenheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Papenheim - H. Blome: A desert near Menne

See also