Reckrodt
The von Reckrodt and the Freiherrn von Reckrodt (in Viernau) were a noble family from Hesse and Thuringia .
origin
The name Reckrodt (also with the spelling Reckerodt, Rekerod, Regkerodt, Reckrode, de Reycherode, Recherod, Reckenrodt, Reckenroth, Reckroth) is derived from a place name that was designated Reystras or Reystrade in 1337 and near Schwebda near Eschwege an der Werra lay. The place Reystrade is mentioned in Landau's "desert localities" and was located in the area of the first settlement period in the Werra valley near the Maßholder spring near Schwebda. The first settlement period of this place is before 531 AD, as cremation graves were found there. In the 15th century the - new - Rexraide was created above it by clearing. This place was also called "Das Rexeroth" in old land maps, later "Auf dem Rexerode". Not far from Schwebda, in Grebendorf , there is another field name "Rex-Rod" (also "das rexrots"). According to Prof. Jürgen Udolph , the name Reckrodt consists of the basic word - rode and the personal name Rik, and means clearing of the Rik or the Rekja. Another explanation of the name, for which there is no evidence, is: clearing of the Recco.
distribution
The name Reckrodt was first mentioned in 1253, when a miles Theodoricus de Recherod is mentioned as a witness in a document. The von Reckrodt were landowners, feudal people and castle men and were very numerous in Thuringia and Hesse. Some of the von Reckrodt had to sell many of their goods in 1520 for financial reasons or to return them to feudal administration.
From 1600 to 1700 a branch of the family belonged to the city nobility of Sonneberg .
Other family members also appear in the mayor accounts of the city of Eschwege / Werra as non-residents and council members: In 1479 Hermann, who was an assessor at the court court of Marburg from 1504 to 1508 and was senior magistrate of the Lower County of Katzenellenbogen from 1506 to 1514, is named as a foreigner.
The noble clan belonged to the knight canton Rhön-Werra ( Franconian knight circle ). Family relationships existed over the centuries with many noble families in the greater Eisenach area , for example with the Baumbach , Bischoffshausen (Altenstein), Boyneburg , Butlar called Treusch , Creutzberg, Herda, Heringen, Hagen-Deuna, Rumrodt, Schachten , Riedesel , Spessart, Trott to Solz , Urna and Waldenstein.
People and meaning
The first known enfeoffment took place with the Fürsteneck castle in 1332 to Bertold von Reckerode. From 1371 to 1373 the brothers and cousins Apel, Hermann, Tolder and Hans knightly Junker were active at the court of the Landgrave of Hesse as his comrades in the feud against the Star League . According to Spangenberg's "Hennebergische Chronica", these knightly Junkers were counted among the most famous war heroes in 1370, who belonged to the well-known Sternerbund, “in 2000 from the nobility, against the Landgrave v. Hessen are said to have done a great deal of damage. ... You were also there in 1376 when the Sterners were slain near Herschfeld ( Hersfeld ) and they help knock and hunted down the robbery that those around Rotenburg brought back, some of which were also partly slain, partly captured . “The army of the Sternerbund was defeated near Wetzlar on February 13, 1373, some of their leaders were beheaded in Wetzlar.
Brandenburg near Lauchröden , built around 1200 and acquired by the city of Erfurt in 1306 to protect the trade route Frankfurt / Main - Eisenach - Leipzig - Breslau , became the center of a branch of the family from 1411 to 1702.
In 1500 George II was. Reckrodt of Brandenburg on the geboren.1526 he teamed up at a tournament in Torgau at the sharp pain out. Later, he is as Obrist some regiments foot soldiers in the service of the French king Francis I mentioned. In the Schmalkaldic War of 1546 he led the German regiments, which he had commanded in France as colonel, to Landgrave Philip I of Hesse , commanded the Landgrave's cavalry, and in 1547 he marched with the Elector of Saxony against Leipzig, which he besieged and bombarded for weeks. The soldiers of Duke Moritz are said to have sung: " There is no need (you should take a good heart), the Elector and George Reckrodt must leave the city to us. " Then he attacked Margrave Albrecht together with the Elector at Rochlitz of Brandenburg . After the battle of the Mühlberg he was given imperial ban and a bounty of 4,000 florins was placed on him. The French King Heinrich II took him in and made him commander of two German regiments. In 1546 Reckrodt tried, despite the imperial ban, to recruit foot troops in Frankfurt am Main , which brought the city of Frankfurt a fine of 100,000 florins and the loss of 12 guns "because of rebellious disobedience to imperial mandates". In 1557 Reckrodt led new German regiments in the service of France against Spain and in 1558 took part in the reconquest of Calais in the war between France and England . The imperial ban was lifted with the death of Charles V in 1558. Reckrodt died at his Herleshausen castle on November 15, 1559. His wife is known as Luuschen von Creutzburg .
According to his will from 1558, the children of his sister Christine from their marriages with Tilo von Falkenberg and Christoph von Herda were heirs. To them he bequeathed the lordships Tramlury / Tramblevi and Wildebrost, which he had received from the King of France as a pledge for 10,000 kr. And on which he built 5,000 kr., And that which was in the same lordship on the Upper Scheldt and from him for Cambai Manor (France) bought 3,000 kr. Reckrodt had initially received Tremblevif from Franz I as a gift for 10 years, Heinrich II converted it into a perpetual gift with the right to repurchase in January 1548. In the Zimmerische Chronik, Volume 3, p. 348 it says about Tramblevi: "... the king entered Tramblevi at the same time, like nobody never, who inhapted it, possibly ended."
In 1519 Caspar von Reckrodt appears - probably on behalf of Count Wilhelm von Henneberg - with two horses in the Battle of Mühlberg (June 28, 1519) between the Duke of Braunschweig, the brother-in-law of the Count of Henneberg, on the one hand and the Duke of Lüneburg and the Bishop of Hildesheim on the other hand.
In 1521 Rabe von Reckrodt was in the entourage of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse at the Worms Reichstag together with his brother-in-law, the Hessian council dog von Falkenstein.
In 1525 Werner von Reckrodt, who held the office of Salzungen , had to give in to the demands of the besieging farmers in the Peasants' War .
In 1532 Christoph von Reckrodt became governor and in 1562 Bailiv of the Teutonic Order for Thuringia in Mühlhausen.
In 1666 Adam Melchior and Heinrich Wilhelm von Reckrodt are listed on Salzungen and Gerthausen in the personal register of the knight canton of Rhön-Werra . In 1702 the branch of the von Reckrodt family died out on Brandenburg with the death of Adam Ludwig von Reckrodt.
In 1775 Karl-Friedrich von Reckrodt was a lieutenant in the Zwingen regiment "Prince Ludwig Ernst", 4th Escadron of the Brunswick Corps under the leadership of Baron Riedesel, and had crossed the ship Martha to North America with 32 horses .
From 1792 to 1805 Johann Ludwig von Reckrodt was city commander of Salzungen.
From 1796 to 1807 Ludwig Friedrich von Reckrodt was an officer in the standing troops in Meiningen (Sachsen-Coburg-Meiningen) and in the federal contingent; he died in 1826 in the abandoned Maria Bildhausen monastery.
With Heinrich von Reckrodt, chamberlain and captain at the Saxon-Meiningen court , the family died out in 1862.
Tomb
The grave monument of Georg II von Reckrodt is in the castle church of Herleshausen / Werra.
The memorial plaque for Adam Ludwig von Reckrodt is in the Martinskirche of Lauchröden . It bears the inscription: “ Dominium in Brandenburg, Lauchröden, Unterellen, Warth, Spirau, Neuenhof, Salmanshausen, Elxleben - son of Adolph Heinrich v. Rekrod and Martina Christina geb. de Hagen. "
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the von Reckrodt family shows a shield that is split into blue and silver or divided in length, on which there are two averted or separated eagle wings in confused colors. On the steel-colored tournament helmet, growing up from a golden crown, a silver eagle , crowned in gold , rises . The helmet covers are in blue and silver. This coat of arms was used both in the noble family and in the civil line.
A modified coat of arms led the von Reckrodt family to Bildhausen: In the blue shield the two eagle wings, otherwise the same as above. (Coat of arms in: Book of arms of the entire nobility of the Kingdom of Bavaria, 1825, copper engraving)
See also
Rexrodt , family name
literature
- Karl Rexrodt: Chronicle of the Rexrodt family in Wanfried / Werra from 1375 and 1500–1936 . Mühlhausen in Thuringia 1937.
- Franz von Rexroth: Brief history of the Hessian-Thuringian family v. Reckrodt. In: News for Society for Family Studies in Kurhessen and Waldeck. 9th year, Dec. 1943, p. 101 ff.
- Hessian Archive Documentation and Information System (HADIS)
- J. Siebmacher: The coats of arms of the Hessian and Thuringian nobility, J. Siebmacher's large book of arms . Volume 20, 1977, plate 33.
- Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (Hrsg.): Hessische Flurnamen .
- P. Lehfeldt, G. Voss: Architectural and art monuments of Thuringia . III. Volume, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Jena 1915.
- Ines Grund: Honor - freedom - war. France and the German opposition to the princes against Charles V 1547 / 48-1552. Dissertation . University of Regensburg, 2007, DNB 984799370 , p. 206.
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Rexerode, Werra-Meissner". Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ Forum entry to www.onomastik.com of 29 June of 2007.
- ^ Document book for the history of the Reg.Bez. Coblenz and Trier, Volume 3, No. 1187, p. 878.
- ^ Friedrich Gauhe: Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon. Leipzig 1740, pp. 945f.
- ^ Certificate of Heinrich II. And Anne de Montmorency to Georg von Reckerode, Fontainebleau, January 8, 1548 as well as the order of the king to the court of accounts in Blois to register this donation