Rahna (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Rahna

Rahna is a German noble family that was widespread in the Electorate of Saxony in the 17th and 18th centuries .

history

The family had their headquarters in Rahna in today's Burgenlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt . The Rittmeister Caspar von Rahna, on Birkau, was heir and court lord in Gebesee . In 1634 he came into the possession of Gebesee through the marriage of the widow of Christoph Moritz von Werthern . During his reign in Gebesee Castle , during the Thirty Years' War , some haunted stories are said to have happened there. So in 1636, when the Imperial General von Hatzfeldt had taken quarters with him, and again in 1641, when Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and Count Piccolomini stayed with him. Caspar von Rahna died at the age of 60 in 1663, leaving behind his third wife Elisabeth Justine nee. von Schütz as well as three sons and a daughter. The last known male representative, Georg Hartmann von Rahna, sat at Gebesee and Birkau at the beginning of the 18th century. He was the guardian of the von Tettenborn siblings , who were the stepchildren of Gottfried von Weidenbach . From 1704 to 1709 he brought a lawsuit against Georg Hartmann von Rahna. With the extinction of the male line of Rahna due to Georg Hartmann's death, the Gebesee manor fell half to his descendants, but to all of the descendants of Caspar von Rahna, who had died earlier, including von Carlowitz .

Georg Hartmann's daughter Hypolita Elisabeth von Rahna married the district chief Hans Ernst von Berlepsch in 1704 on a great and small primeval life , with whom she had four children and died in 1728.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in silver two red tree trunks standing side by side, two on the left and one on the right with stump branches. One of the tree trunks on the helmet with the red and silver covers .

literature

  • Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 2: L – S, Berlin 1856, p. 253.
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 7, 1867, p. 326.
  • George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 6th Division; Extinct Prussian nobility: Province of Saxony, Nuremberg, Bauer & Raspe, 1884, p. 127.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Christoph Olearius : Hall. Sax. Rerum Thuringicarum Syntagma, All kinds of memorable Thuringian histories and chronicles ... Johann Christoph Stößl, Erfurt 1704, p. 123 f . ( Digitized in the Google book search).
  2. ↑ Lothar Bechler (Ed.): Thuringian Christmas Booklet . Kirchschlager, 2007, ISBN 978-3-934277-17-5 , pp. 121 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ^ Johann Christoph Olearius : Hall. Sax. Rerum Thuringicarum Syntagma, All kinds of memorable Thuringian histories and chronicles ... Johann Christoph Stößl, Erfurt 1704, p. 124 ( digitized data in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Johann Wilhelm Wigleb : Davidische Freystadt ... Der Hochwohl Edelgebohrne / Gestrenge / and Groß-Mannveste Herr Caspar von Rahna / uf Birckau / ...: From the 56th Psalm song 12. 13. and 14. Versic. Erfurt 1664 ( digitized version of the Berlin State Library).
  5. ↑ Archival records in the 20009 inventory (Leipzig Office), No. 1067 in the Leipzig State Archives
  6. ↑ Michael Gottfried Wernher: Selectae observationes forenses: Una cum relationibus actorum de causis tam ad publicum imperii quam privatum ius pertinentibus maximam partem e scriptis beati auctoris omni industria collectus . Ed .: Johann Balthasar von Wernher. tape 3 . Hartungius, Jena 1749, p. [334–] 335 ( digitized version in Google book search).
  7. ↑ Valentin König : Genealogical nobility history or gender description of those in the Chur-Saxon and neighboring countries partly formerly, but mostly still in a good flor, oldest and most handsome noble families . tape 1 . Deer, Leipzig 1727, p. 161 ( digitized in Google book search).
  8. ^ Entry by Hans Ernst von BERLEPSCH in the family database of the Lower Saxony State Association for Family Studies
  9. ↑ August Wilhelm Bernhardt von Uechtritz (Ed.): Diplomatic messages from noble families . tape 2 . Beygang, Leipzig 1791, p. 2 ( digitized version in the Google book search).