Raussendorf (noble family)
Raussendorf (also Ruschindorf, Raußendorf, Rawsendorf, Rausendorf, Raussendorff, Rausendorff, Rauschendorf) was a noble Silesian family .
history
The family first appeared in documents around 1240 with a von Russendorff on Rackwitz and on September 20, 1287 with Heinrich de Ruzendorf on Groß-Rackwitz and Höfel bei Löwenberg, with which the line of the Silesian tribe begins.
In the Oberlausitz family owned several estates, including Spremberg and Plagwitz (now Plakowice ). Their traces can be found in documents in Bautzen (1295), zu Gaussig (1389), in Görlitz (1392) and in the same year in villages that were in the Budissin area, such as Spremberg, Friedersdorf , today part of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg and Taubenheim . The mentioned villages were rural settlements, on the one hand the diocese of Meißen was subject to interest and on the other hand they were subject to the jurisdiction of the kings of Bohemia . The noblemen of Raußendorf were the sole owners of the village of Spremberg from 1392 to 1563, i.e. for 171 years, and shaped its development.
coat of arms
The divided coat of arms is red at the top and gold and black at the bottom. On the helmet with the black and gold helmet covers a growing moor with crooked arms.
Well-known namesake
- Hans and Heinrich von Raussendorf (Sen.), brothers, royal Bohemian vassals , including owners of the village of Spremberg in 1392
- Heinrich von Raussendorf (June), Bohemian feudal man, " Knight of Spremberg", opponent of the Hussites , fighter in the battle of Aussig (1426), deputy of the nobility, landlord of Spremberg (1408 to 1429), opponent of the deserted comrade in arms and lord zu Großschönau , Peter von Maxen
- Sigmund von Raussendorf, brother of the clergyman Friedrich v. R., opponent of the Hussites, landlord of Spremberg around 1430, ally of the noble Bohemian robber baron Mixi Panczer von Smoyn
- Friedrich von Raussendorf (* around 1380; † around 1430 in Spremberg, Upper Lusatia), pastor of the Spremberg parish
- Hennigke von Rausendorf, as a member of the aristocratic manor in 1555, introduced the Reformation in the Catholic church village of Spremberg
- Wolf Conrad von Raussendorf, hammer master in Keula around 1705
- Adam von Raussendorf, hammer master in Sänitz around 1585
literature
- Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon: or manual on the historical, genealogical and diplomatic, partly also heraldic news from the high and low nobility, especially in the German federal states, as well as from the Austrian, Bohemian, Moravian, Prussian, Silesian and lausitz nobility . tape 2 . Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau 1826, p. 292 ( digitized version in Google book search).
- Hermann Friedrich Knothe : History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and its goods from the XIII. until the end of the XVI. Century. Continuation of the history of the Upper Lusatian nobility and their goods from the middle of the 16th century to 1620 . Reprint. Oberlausitzer Verlag Frank Nürnberger, Spitzkunnersdorf 2008, ISBN 3-933827-94-9 , ISBN 978-3-933827-94-4
- Walter Heinich : Spremberg. Attempt on a local history of the parish village Spremberg in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . Spremberg 1918
- Lutz Mohr : Neusalza-Spremberg - A journey through time 1242 - 2017 . Author and publishing service Frank Nürnberger (Oberlausitzer Verlag), Spitzkunnersdorf 2017, ISBN 978-3-9818434-0-8
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISSN 0435-2408 , p. 205