Rauchhaupt (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Rauchhaupt

Rauchhaupt is the name of an old Saxon noble family . The lords of Rauchhaupt belong to the Meissen nobility in the Saalekreis . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

Hohenthurm Castle , keep

The family is first mentioned in a document on September 4, 1308 with Henricus dictus Ruchhoupt , with whom the line of tribe begins. According to Valentin König , the family line begins with Heinrich von Rauchhaupt , whose son Hans bought the Hohenthurm estate near Halle on the Saale in 1430 .

Lines and possessions

In the course of time the family came with branches to Braunschweig , Anhalt , the Archdiocese of Magdeburg and as far as Franconia . Possessions were among others Rosenfeld and Reideburg in the Electoral Saxon Office Delitzsch , Kossa , Pouch , Schköne, Röfen in the Kurkreis and to Sagisdorf , Hohenthurm and Trebnitz an der Saale in Magdeburg near Halle.

It divided into the lines to Brachstedt and Trebnitz. The founder of the first line was Albrecht Hildebrand von Rauchhaupt, Lord of Landin in the Mark Brandenburg . His son Rudolf von Rauchhaupt became a royal French colonel and his grandson Hildebrand von Rauchhaupt, lord of Landin, was the royal court master of Lüneburg . Hildebrand's son Albrecht Vollrath von Rauchhaupt went from the Mark Brandenburg to Kursachsen and settled in Torgau . Albrecht Vollrath (II.), One of his sons and lord of Brachstedt, became lieutenant colonel in the Landgrave of Hesse around 1580 . He was the father of Hans Christoph von Rauchhaupt, Lord on Brachstedt and herzoglich magdeburgischer upper Schenk , equerry and Amtshauptmann to Rothenburg went out, with his death in 1678 this line.

The founder of the Trebnitz line was Simon von Rauchhaupt, Archbishop's Court Marshal of Magdeburg , who in 1454 bought the Trebnitz manor . His son of the same name became governor of Giebichenstein . His descendants included Vollrath von Rauchhaupt, Herr auf Trebnitz and Hohenthurm, and Hans Otto von Rauchhaupt, who was a Danish colonel around 1706 , as well as Rudolph Michael von Rauchhaupt, who died in 1718.

Around this time a lieutenant colonel von Rauchhaupt from the Electorate of Saxony lived in Meißnischen, whose son Johann Christoph disappeared in Grimma around 1724 without a trace.

The 18-year-old Heinrich Gustav von Rauchhaupt was imprisoned for three years at the Königstein Fortress because of childhood mistakes and was only released in autumn 1767.

Hans Christoph von Rauchhaupt, Lord of Trebnitz, Hohenthurm and Nimberg, died in 1704 as a Hanoverian brigadier general . He left four sons. His fourth son Vollrath Thimo von Rauchhaupt received the Trebnitz estate from his father's inheritance. Two of his sons served in the Prussian army . His grandson Franz Dietrich Wilhelm von Rauchhaupt (* 1757) was the last male descendant of the family at that time. He served as a Prussian major in the "von Quitzow" cuirassier regiment , took his leave and died in Trebnitz in 1805. Three daughters and four sons came from his marriage to Henriette von Rohr . The daughters married into the von Werder , von Rohr and von Meyerinck families . His sons all entered Prussian state and military services. Wilhelm von Rohr became a Prussian major and lord of Trebnitz. He married Caroline von Reiche. Louis von Rauchhaupt became a Prussian captain in the 2nd Guards Regiment in 1837 and married Albertine von Alvensleben . Albert von Rauchhaupt was a royal Prussian forest clerk and Fedor von Rauchhaupt became a lieutenant in the Prussian Guard Dragoon Regiment in 1837 .

Louis continued the tribe through his three sons Hugo, Bruno and Werner and Albert through his son Vollrath. In the middle of the 19th century the family also owned property in Queis near Halle in the Saale district. In Franconia the von Rauchhaupt belonged to the imperial knighthood in the canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knight circle as early as the 17th century .

The gender holds family days every five years.

Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided by red, silver and blue. On the helmet with red, silver and blue helmet covers, a man's head turned forward with a helmet cap, which is equipped with seven to ten cock feathers.

Known family members (chronological)

Wilhelm von Rauchhaupt (1828-1894)

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Saxon Main State Archives Dresden
  2. ↑ a b New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 7, p. 360.
  3. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 551.