Rockhausen (noble family)
The von Rockhausen family were a Thuringian- Upper Saxon noble family with possessions in Thuringia and in Naumburg Abbey . The headquarters was in the town of Rockhausen in Schwarzburg (about ten kilometers south of Erfurt ). The Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility names Rehehausen near Bad Sulza as the headquarters. But this is rather unlikely and, in contrast to Rockhausen, only vaguely documented.
history
The von Rockhausen are mentioned for the first time in a document of donation from the year 1193/94 of Archbishop Konrad I of Mainz , where a Warnerus de Rouhenhausen (Rockenhausen) is mentioned among the witnesses . The von Rockhausen were also citizens of Erfurt and vassals of the Counts of Kevernburg and the Counts of Schwarzburg . According to a document dated August 15, 1240, Heinrich Graf von Schwarzburg, together with his knightly servants, including Elher von Rochus , made himself available to the Georgenthal Monastery as a guarantor for the keeping of a purchase contract with the latter. This document, in which the Rockhausens are mentioned there for the first time, is sealed by his relatives, brothers Günther Graf von Blankenburg , Günther Graf von Kevernburg and his brother Albert Graf zu Rabenswalde .
In 1349 they settled in the Unstruttal in Dorndorf and Weischütz near Freyburg . From 1419 to 1748 they were manor owners and court lords on church divisions . For a time they owned the village of Oeglitzsch . In 1904 the noble tribe of the von Rockhausen family died out in the male line.
coat of arms
The coat of arms , a simple herald's coat of arms , is made of silver and red six times by arching. Helmet: buffalo horns split across the corner between red and silver or six times split transversely by red and silver, in between a forward-facing golden lion's trunk, helmet covers: red and silver
Well-known namesake
- Moritz Ferdinand Gustav von Rockhausen , commandant of the Königstein Fortress
- Christian Gottfried von Rockhausen , royal Polish kurfstl. Saxon lieutenant on foot, high ducal Saxon-Weissenfels official governor of the Freyburg district ( Amt Freyburg ), heir, feudal lord and court lord of Niederndorf, Hogersdorf, Leimbach, Kirchscheidungen and Krawinkel
- George Friedrich von Rockhausen (1673–1752), royal Polish and electoral Saxon district commissioner
literature
- Fritz Fischer: Ancestry of the siblings Fischer , Volume 4, Part 15, Ancestry of the family v. Rockhausen, Typoscript 1978
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISSN 0435-2408
- Klaus Garcke: The Wittgendorfer branch of the von Rockhausen family , In: Zeitschrift für Mitteldeutsche Familiengeschichte , Volume 49, Issue 1, 2008, edited by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mitteldeutsche Familienforschung eV (AMF) , pp. 294–296.
- Ernst Rieger, Artur Rockhausen, Johannes Webers: The Rockhausen family , self-published, 1995, improved new edition: The Rockhausen family , 311 pages, with illustrations, self-published by Johannes Webers, 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027676-7
- Rüdiger Bier: 1500 years of history and stories of the manorial seats for church divisions and castle divisions , self-published by Rittergut Kirchscheidungen 2009