Romberg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Romberg
Main building Rittergut Romberg 1894 southeast view
Romberg Manor 1894
Torhaus Rittergut Romberg 1894
The gatehouse today
Gatehouse, south facade, remains of the moat
Family coat of arms of those of Romberg at the Wischlingen chapel

Romberg is the name of an old Westphalian noble family that originally had its seat on the name-giving Rodenberg Castle (or Rodenburg) near Menden .

history

origin

The family first appeared under this name in 1249 with Gozvinus miles ( Latin soldier , warrior) de Rodhenburg , who can be traced back to 1243 as Gozwinus de Menedin and 1246 as Gozvinus villicus de Menedhen and to the knightly mayors of 1170 Menden belonged, presumably to a branch of the nobles of Volmarstein .

Gozvinus (Goswin) dem I von Volmarstein was the son of Heinrich von Volmarstein, who was first mentioned in a document in 1214 and died on a crusade in 1228/29 due to an epidemic. His widow Elisabeth, mother of Goswin, continued to run the Alfem estate and the office of mayor of Menden. When the son Goswin married his bride Richenza von Arnsberg, Elisabeth von Volmarstein went to the Fröndenberg monastery and became abbess there. The first mention of the Volmarstein family so far is the grandfather of Heinrich the crusader, also Heinrich von Volmarstein in 1134. His son, Gerhard Snar von Volmarstein, father of the crusader knight Heinrich, signed the last document in 1214.

Rise and Spread

Due to a (possibly also fictitious) legal dispute between the Archbishop of Cologne and the sons of Goswin I von Volmarstein and his two sons Heinrich and Bernhard um Land (bought by Goswin I in 1272 from Count Gottfried von Arnsberg), the family lost all their land, including Alfhem and Rodenburg Castle (was razed in 1309).

As early as 1483, Brünninghausen Castle in what is now Dortmund fell to the Rombergs, who sold it to the city of Dortmund before the First World War. Payment was agreed in several installments. After the First World War , the city of Dortmund refused to pay the due installments. The process came about that lasted from the early 1920s to 1955. In 1955 there was finally a comparison. As compensation, the von Romberg family was awarded the old village church with the gallery mausoleum in Buldern. At the end of the 19th century, the family seat was moved from Brünninghausen Castle in Dortmund to Buldern Castle in Dülmen in the southern Münsterland.

In addition to the actual castle in Brünninghausen, the family owned numerous cottages and courtyards in Barop , Hacheney , Wellinghofen , Kleinholthausen and Lücklemberg . Extensive forest ownership on the northern slopes of the Ardey Mountains also belonged to Brünninghausen Castle. At that time, however, the areas mentioned did not belong to Dortmund, but to Hörde . The Rombergs were the wood judges in the Eichlinghofer Mark, Hacheneyer Mark and the Bittermark. The mills on the Emscher were an important source of economic income for the Rombergs .

The near-surface coal seams of the Ardeys were mined early on . The Rombergs developed into one of the largest mine owners in the Ruhr area in the first half of the 19th century . They first operated in tunnel mining and then switched to civil engineering as industrialization progressed. The environmental pollution associated with mining and the damage caused by the mountains later made the family critics from supporters of the mining industry. This is also the reason for the family moving to Schloss Buldern.

The family was also distinguished by a clever marriage policy. Through the connection between Caspar von Romberg and Anna Theodora von Viermund , their son Conrad Philipp came into the possession of the Bladenhorst Castle in the Castrop office. Conrad Philipp also acquired the noble residences of Haus Colvenburg near Billerbeck, Haus Dönhoff near Wengern and Haus Wiesche in Bochum.

The Rombergs were patrons of the church in Wellinghofen .

Members of the family also served in administration and politics. Gisbert von Romberg I was prefect of the Ruhr department during French rule .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three red buffalo ears standing in a thief's cross and connected by a gold ring. On the helmet with red-silver helmet covers, a label with the shield image between a red and a silver buffalo horn, each with four balls of mixed up colors on the outside.

Known family members

In Brünninghausen the botanical garden Rombergpark is still to the south of the gatehouse , in Hacheney the municipal "Gisbert-von-Romberg-Kolleg" with the faculties social, nutrition and housekeeping as well as food and hospitality.

Property of the Romberg family

The mentioned aristocratic residences and houses included surrounding lands and associated businesses.

Märkish property

North Elbian property

  • Good value mine
  • Good Gammelgaard
  • Gut Rumohrshof
  • Good Prieshold
  • Good Kuplin

Limburg property

Livonian property

Town courtyards

  • Heere'manscher Hof (Münster)
  • Bladenhorster Hof, also Kleiner Romberg'scher Hof (Münster)
  • Romberger Hof (Bonn)

See also

literature

  • Wilfried Reininghaus: The economic activity of the von Romberg family in the 17th to 20th century. in: zeitenblicke 4.2 (2005), available online
  • Wilhelm Hücker: On the history of the Brünninghausen house. In: Contributions to the history of Dortmund and the county of Mark 64. 1968.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2001, ISSN  0435-2408 .
  • The von Romberg family. In: Yearbook of the association for local and local history in the county of Mark. Volume 5, Witten 1892, pp. 105-120.
  • Claude Anspach: Frédéric baron de Romberg. Seigneur de Machelen Sainte-Gertrude 1729-1819. in: Le Parchemin. n ° 291, Brussels 1994, pp. 161-181.
  • Anton Fahne, The Lords and Barons v. Hövel - Panel XIV. Family tree of the family v. Romberg

Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses 1876 ​​p.635ff 1877 p.714ff

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westphalia. Book of documents VII, No. 706
  2. ↑ Westphalia. Book of documents VII. No. 550 and 625.
  3. ↑ Godescalus villicus de Menethen. documented in 1170, from JS Seiberts, document book of the Duchy of Westphalia I, 61.