Roll (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Roll zu Bernau in the cloister of the Konstanz Minster

The von Rolls are an old noble Swiss patrician family in Solothurn . Branches of the family still exist. Members of the family were merchants in Geneva, where they received citizenship in 1371. King Sigismund raised them to imperial nobility in 1431 .

They are not to be confused with the families of the same name, the von Roll of the Urner Line and the von Roll of the Bernau Line , named after Bernau Castle , both of which have become extinct.

  • Mammern - Tomb of St. Stephen's Knight Hans Walter von Roll (1539–1639)

In 1495 Johann von Roll († 1528) became a citizen of the city of Solothurn and was elected to the small council six years later. After the early death of his parents he inherited all the rights and assets of his foster mother Küngold of Spiegelberg within Solothurn, including the small Twingherrschaft Emmen wood in Zuchwil belonged.

Known members

Ludwig von Roll (1771–1839), co-founder of the von Roll ironworks
  • Barbara von Roll (1502–1571)
  • Walter von Roll (around 1520–1591)
  • Hans Walter von Roll (around 1560–1639), Knight St. Stephen, Lord of Bernau, Neuchâtel and Mammern (tomb in the castle chapel)
  • Johann Peter von Roll (1571 / 72– around 1648), knight
  • Karl Emanuel von Roll (around 1573–1654), Junker at Böttstein Castle, brother of Hans Walter and Johann Peter von Roll
  • Johann von Roll (1573–1643)
  • Ludwig von Roll (1605–1652), officer and politician
  • Johann Peter von Roll (1630–1671)
  • Maurus von Roll (1653–1714)
  • Johann Ludwig von Roll von Emmenholz (1643–1718)
  • Johann von Roll von Emmenholz (1647–1696)
  • Johann Friedrich von Roll (1659–1723)
  • Urs Heinrich von Roll von Emmenholz (1672–1714)
  • Franz Martin von Roll (1682–1739)
  • Johann Baptist Freiherr von Roll zu Bernau (1683–1733), Commander of the Teutonic Order
  • Urs Viktor Josef von Roll (1686–1759)
  • Franz Viktor Augustin von Roll von Emmenholz (1700–1773)
  • Georg Franz Josef Ignaz von Roll (1707–1758)
  • Franz Joseph von Roll von Emmenholz (1743–1815)
  • Ludwig von Roll (1771–1839), officer, politician and co-founder of the von Roll ironworks

With the mayor Johann von Roll, the family achieved the highest dignity of the city republic for the first time during the Thirty Years War. After that, it split into two lines. In 1809, Ludwig von Roll co- founded the von Roll ironworks . With his son Franz, his line died out in the male line in 1859. Other branches of the family persist.

The son of Baron Joseph Leopold von Roll von Bernau was Karl Joseph Anton Sylverius Alois von Roll von Bernau , who built Schmitzingen Castle from 1780 onwards . In 1787 he married Maria Ursula Hildenbrand, daughter of the Ochsenwirt von Waldshut.

literature

  • LR Schmidlin: Genealogy of the Barons von Roll , 1914
  • L. Weisz: History of the Ludwig von Roll'schen Eisenwerke Vol. 1, 1953
  • C. Studer: Solothurn patrician houses , 1981
  • The art monuments of the Canton of Solothurn , Volume 2, 2008, (pp. 45–53)

swell

  • Von Roll family archive, Solothurn (private property)

Web links

Commons : Family von Roll  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Erich Meyer: von Roll (family, SO). In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . January 5, 2012 , accessed July 4, 2019 .