Rammelsteiner (noble family)
The Ramelsteiner (also called Rammelsteiner zum Lueg , where Lueg means an old name for Loch Burg ) were a Bavarian aristocratic family that first lived in Haugersried near Nittendorf on the so-called Rammelsteiner Hof.
history
Later the Ramelsteiners moved to the Schwarze Laber and built Loch Burg. The first nobleman to call himself zu Loch was Wernhart von Ramelstein zu Loch , who appears as a witness in a document from the convent in the middle of the 12th century . Undorf Castle is mentioned in 1217 as the estate of Rüdiger de Ramelstein . The Ramelsteiners were able to compete in tournaments and often appear at tournaments.
In 1516, Sebastian von Ramelstein acquired Schönhofen . In 1556 the last male Ramelsteiner died with him; he was shot by a Regensburg citizen named Mayer. Sebastian had left Burg and Hofmark Loch to his wife Margarethe Rayger in his will, but his nephew, Wolf Heinrich Sauerzapf , who was married to Sebastian's sister Magdalena, protested against it. The ensuing dispute was only settled in 1573 by a judgment that the Loch Castle awarded the Sauerzapfs. Also Undorf came on the Erbweg to Henry Sauerzapf of Schönhofen. After his death in 1714, Christoph von Sauerzapf bequeathed Loch Loch to the Carthusian monastery of Prüll in Regensburg, where his brother lived as a monk.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the Ramelsteiner is now part of the municipal coat of arms of Nittendorf . The golden waterwheel contained in it reminds of the court brands Schönhofen and Eichhofen, where the Schwarzen Laber hammer works were operated with the help of water power. The silver ram refers to the family coat of arms of the Lords of Rammelstein, who were owners of the court brands Loch with Undorf and Schönhofen in the 15th and 16th centuries and whose coat of arms featured a jumping ram.
literature
- Rudolf Ottlinger: Sinzing from the beginning to the present. Municipality of Sinzing 2005, pp. 214–216.
- Otto Titan von Hefner; Gustav Adelbert Seyler: The coat of arms of the Bavarian nobility. Repro. J. Siebmacher's large book of arms. II. Volume. Nuremberg 1856 Volume 22, Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch, 1971. ISBN 3-87947-022-7 , p. 6 and plate 4.