Reichenbach (Hessian noble family)

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Counts of Reichenbach , after Reichenbach Castle in what is now the Reichenbach district of Hessisch Lichtenau in northern Hesse, a branch of the Counts Gozmar called themselves since 1089 , whose ancestors had owned the castle since around 750, or there as counts since the Franconian conquest of the area under Pippin the Younger . The Reichenbach branch of the family died out in the male line in 1279 (see also the list of the Counts of Reichenbach ), while the Ziegenhainer line survived until 1450.

There is no family relationship with the Silesian noble family of the Counts Reichenbach .

  • Gozmar . Around the middle of the 11th century, probably at the time of Count Gozmar (* around 1020, † after 1062), who is mentioned in 1062 as the High Bailiff of Fulda , they laid on the mountain, on which a fort was built in Roman times and in the 5th In the 17th century, a Chatti hill fort had stood against the Hermunduren , a new castle on the basis of a previous castle.
  • Gozmar I. Gozmar's son Gozmar I (* around 1045, † after 1117) called himself the first Count of Reichenbach. Since 1108 he was the governor of Fulda , an office that was held by members of the Reichenbach family and later Ziegenhain until 1344 .
  • Rudolf I and Gozmar II. Gozmar I was successively followed by his sons Rudolf I von Reichenbach (* around 1070, † after 1123) and Gozmar II († 1141). The Reichenbachers had meanwhile, probably in their position as bailiffs of Fulda, acquired extensive property in the area of Ziegenhain and Wegebach . Gozmar II moved his residence from Reichenberg to Wegebach and became the progenitor of the Counts of Ziegenhain.
  • Gottfried I. von Ziegenhain . Gozmar II was inherited by his son Gottfried I , who initially resided in Wegebach, but then built a new castle in Ziegenhain in 1144 and moved his seat there. Since then he and his descendants have called themselves Counts of Ziegenhain , occasionally until 1220 also Counts of Wegebach or Counts of Ziegenhain and Wegebach.
  • Poppo I. The third son of Gozmar I, Poppo I († 1156), received the Reichenbacher parts of the family property after the death of his childless brother Rudolf I and used his position as subordinate of the Hersfeld monastery (since 1138) and his marriage with Bertha von Felsberg for the steady expansion of his domain in northern East Hesse between Meißner and Rotenburg an der Fulda and for the acquisition of extensive free float and bailiwick and feudal rights in Frankenberg (Eder) , Jesberg , Haina , Wildungen and on the lower reaches of the Eder, especially around Brunslar. The Archbishop of Mainz Adalbert II enfeoffed Poppo in 1141 with Hollende Castle , the former ancestral seat of the Gisonen bei Wetter , which died out in the male line in 1137 , and appointed him Burgrave of Amöneburg in 1145 . Poppo therefore called himself Count von Reichenbach, Hollende and Felsberg. Together with Count Volkwin II. Von Schwalenberg , the husband of his daughter Luitgard and founder of the Counts von Waldeck , he founded the Haina monastery on the Aulisburg near Löhlbach around 1144 , which was moved to its current location in 1214.
  • Heinrich I. Poppos son Heinrich I. ("Albus") von Reichenbach († 1170) followed his father in his East Hessian possessions and bailiwick rights and in 1162 he became domvogt of Fulda . Otherwise not much is known about him. Hollende and Amöneburg, however, probably fell to Poppo's nephew Poppo II, a son of Gozmar II and brother Gottfried I, who resided at Hollende Castle as Count von Hollende until his death in 1170 .
  • Henry III. Heinrich I was followed by his son Heinrich III in Reichenbach. († 1250), who married Bertha von Bilstein and from 1231 lived as a monk in Haina. Both Heinrich III. as well as his son Gottfried III. entered the Teutonic Order around 1219/1221 . As early as 1207, Heinrich III. At a princes' meeting in August in Nordhausen in Thuringia and shortly afterwards at a court day in Würzburg, together with representatives of all lines of the Counts of Ziegenhain and Reichenbach, the former (and only short-lived) nunnery in Reichenbach was transferred to the Teutonic Order, which thus established its first settlement received in Germany. From 1220 to 1310 the religious house Reichenbach was a Commandery ( Coming ) center of religious property in osthessischen space.

Web links and sources

  • Martin Röhling: The story of the counts of Nidda and the counts of Ziegenhain. Nidda history sheets No. 9, Ed. Niddaer Heimatmuseum eV, Nidda, 2005, ISBN 3-9803915-9-0 .