Rosenbach (noble family)

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The Rosenbach coat of arms at Siebmacher , here classified as a Hessian noblewoman. The roses, actually not part of the original coat of arms, are possibly a talking symbol or should clarify the fiefdom of the Counts of Wertheim
The composite coat of arms of Johann Konrad von Rosenbach, Commander of the Order of St. John in Rothenburg, heraldic on the right the coat of arms of the Order of St. John, heraldic on the left the coat of arms of the Rosenbach family

The von Rosenbach family was a Franconian, lower-aristocratic family . The ancestral seat was Rosenbach Castle , located in the hamlet of Rosenbach near Hainstadt , which was part of the then County of Wertheim in the Breuberg domain. The sex was wealthy in the county of Erbach .

history

The von Rosenbach family had their origins within the Breuberg rule . The von Rosenbach family moved to Franconia relatively late. The family had at least four lines, which were only distinguished by the lower part of the coat of arms:

  • the Bach von Nalsbach (also Clebi (t) ze von Nalsbach ) - a current desert north-west of the Umstadt district of Wiebelsbach ,
  • the brook of Neustadt ,
  • the stream of Raypach
  • the Bach von Rosenbach , as well
  • the brook of Waschenbach .

In the Hochstift Würzburg there are numerous namesake in the cathedral chapter and in administrative positions. From the beginning of the 17th century, for example, the Grand Prior Wiprecht von Rosenbach also included members of von Rosenbach in the Order of St. John . With Johann Hartmann von Rosenbach they provided a prince-bishop of Würzburg .

As part of the Frankish imperial free knighthood, the family was organized in the canton of Odenwald and Baunach . The family died out in 1806. According to Wagner, when his book was published in 1862, the Rosenbach was the only branch that had not yet died out.

A branch of the family also settled on the Upper Rhine in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Possessions

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided in silver and black, with a black lion growing above, tongued red, usually crowned with gold; partly with a double, partly with a single tail. The crest of those von Rosenbach is a growing, crowned lion between two buffalo horns divided by silver and black. The helmet covers are black and silver. In Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book there is a Rosenbach coat of arms under the Hessian knighthood, which differs in color and motif, but also shows similarities.

Personalities

literature

  • Alfred F. Wolfert: Groups of coats of arms of the nobility in the Odenwald-Spessart area. In: Winfried Wackerfuß (Ed.): Contributions to the exploration of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes II. Festschrift for Hans H. Weber. Breuberg-Bund , Breuberg-Neustadt 1977, pp. 325–406, here p. 346.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History portal Bavarian Lower Main. Retrieved January 23, 2013 .
  2. ^ A b G. WJ Wagner: The desertions in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , Darmstadt 1862.
  3. ↑ here is Nuwenstat , today Obernburger district Neustädterhof and not the New Town below the castle Breuberg meant
  4. ↑ see Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book. Volume 3: M-R. Heidelberg 1919, p. 619 (online at: diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de )  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de  
  5. ↑ G. Simon : The history of the dynasts and counts to Erbach and their country , Frankfurt a. Main 1858, p. 126.