Reifenberg (noble family)
Reifenberg (or Reiffenberg ) is the name of a German noble family that lived in the Westerwald and Taunus .
history
The original seat of the von Reifenberg family was Reifenberg Castle (built around 1215) in Oberreifenberg .
In 1331 we find the first documented mention of Reifenberg Castle. In the first half of the 13th century, the Reifenberger clan split into two lines: the Wetterau (remaining on the Reifenberg family castle) and the Weller line, which settled in the Westerwald and in the 14th century, as the count's castle men von Sayn , who built the Burgmannshof at the foot of Sayn Castle, which was later converted into today 's Sayn Castle .
The sex of those von Hattstein (old spelling also: "Hazechenstein") was closely related, if not identical, to the sex of those von Reifenberg (old spelling also: "Riffinberg", often the spelling Reiffenberg). An identical coat of arms was also used. This knightly family originally came from the Westerwald area north of the Lahn or from the area around Limburg. The headquarters of the von Hattstein family was Hattstein Castle near Schmitten , around four kilometers from Reifenberg Castle. In 1226 a Conrad zu Hattstein died, whom Gensicke considers to be the brother of Cuno von Hattsteins, who in turn is said to have been identical to the "Cuno von Reifenberg" mentioned again in 1234.
coat of arms
- The family coat of arms shows a shield that is divided six times by silver and red diagonally to the right. On the helmet with red and silver covers, a closed flight marked like the shield.
- The line, which expired in 1686, carried the same shield, increasingly with a three-lobed blue tournament collar and two dog-ears on the helmet, silver on the right and red on the left or both black.
The heads of the house of Reifenberg
- Philipp von Reifenberg , Imperial War Council, Electoral Mainz Council and bailiff , † 1548.
- Philipp von Reifenberg (married 1570), † 1582
- Johann Heinrich Freiherr von Reifenberg , Imperial Councilor and Chamberlain , † March 4, 1628 (transferred to the status of baron in 1613 )
- Philipp Ludwig Freiherr von Reiffenberg , Canon of Mainz and Trier , † March 23, 1686
With Philipp Ludwig, the Wetterau line of the Reifenberg family died out in the male line. Philipp Ludwig's sister Johanna Walpurgis married Johann Lothar von Walbott-Bassenheim . The Reifenberger possessions in the Taunus then became the property of Count Waldbott von Bassenheim .
The Weller Line ended with the following people:
- Johann Philipp von Reiffenberg (* 1645 in Sayn; † February 4, 1722)
- Anselm Friedrich Anton von Reiffenberg (* February 10, 1685 - December 21, 1739),
swell
literature
- Jost Kloft: Territorial history of the district Usingen. Elwert, Marburg 1971 ( Writings of the Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies 32 ), pp. 113–126.
- Angela Metzner: Reichslandpolitik, aristocracy and castles - studies on the Wetterau in the Staufer period. Büdingen 2008/2009 , ISBN 978-3-00-026770-3 , pp. 165-168 ( Büdinger Geschichtsblätter 21 ).
Web links
- Coat of arms of the Reifenberg in Volume 5, Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch from 1701, plate 131
- Coat of arms of the Hattenstein in Volume 2, Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch from 1701, plate 107
Individual evidence
- ^ Dating based on an article by Helmut Gensicke from 1963
- ^ "Chronica Reifenbergensis" by Beatrice Träger
- ↑ J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 7th Division, p. 9; The dead Nassau nobility; Author: H. von Goeckingk, A. von Bierbrauer-Brennstein, A. von Grass; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1882
- ↑ Gottlieb Schnapper-Arndt: Five village communities on the Hohe Taunus, page 204