Rossau (noble family)

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The von Rossau family was originally a Frankish noble family .

Origin and history

The eponymous ancestral seat of the von Rossau family, which has undergone various name variations over the centuries, is Rossach, today incorporated into Großheirath in the Upper Franconian district of Coburg . According to Siglinde Buchner, a manor house not far from the fortified church is considered to be a manor house . The first written mentions are Ulrich von Rodizzache and Rodezach in 1139 and 1149. In documents, the family appears as Razzaha, Rodizzache, Rodezach , later as Rozza, Rozzac or Razzach . In the 16th century they are also spelled Rossaw (e) . In 1747 Johann Gottfried Biedermann assigned the family as von Roßach to the knightly canton of Baunach .

Epitaph Johann v. Eschbach u. Anna v. Rossau from 1496 in St. Martin's Church in Lorch (Rheingau) .

The family appears in documents and a. as a witness to donations to the Banz monastery . In the 14th and 15th centuries they were followers of the bishops of Würzburg and the counts of Henneberg . They had fiefdoms in the area of ​​today's Stadtlauringen market .

A closed chain of owners from the von Rossau zu Obermögersheim family is known from 1496 to 1622. They held fiefs of the Eichstätt bishopric and margrave fiefs . By marrying the von Kempnaten family, who were the previous owners of the castle, ownership passed to the von Rossau family. Bernhart von Rossau enrolled the mansion in 1505 in the knight canton of Altmühl . The childless Hans Wolf von Rossau tried in vain to transfer property to his cousin at Neuburg am Neckar Castle . The von Rossau family had apparently come to Neuburg Castle as a mercenary of Friedrich I of the Palatinate and is therefore considered by Johann Siebmacher to be a Rhenish noble family. This line died out in 1619 and the Electoral Palatinate fiefdom fell back.

According to the handwritten and hand-painted book on the family's genealogical registers, which was started in 1491, the following family relationships are given there: marriages with those of von Bardorf, von Elm , Geyer von Giebelstadt , Gulpen called von Heddesheim , Knoth von Rottenstein, von Königshofen, von Köntze, von Lohrbach, Truchseß von Wetzhausen , Wolf von Walldorf and von Wolkenstein .

coat of arms

The coat of arms is divided into gold and red by battlements . The helmet covers are red and gold. The crowned helmet is decorated with two buffalo horns, also divided into red and gold. It is shown in one of Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms books and by Rietstap .

  • Excerpt from the epitaph of Franziska Susanna Tänzlin von Tratzberg, married. von Reisach, in the church at Rennertshofen

See also

literature

  • Siglinde Buchner: The Lords of Rossau or The Search for the Origin of a Forgotten Master's Family . In: Leaves for Franconian Family Studies . Volume 26. 2003.
  • Siglinde Buchner and Sebastian Parzer: Erhart II von Rossau at Neuburg Castle and his 14 children . In: The Odenwald . Journal of the Breuberg Association. 51st year, issue 4. 2004. P. 150 f.
  • Sebastian Parzer: The tomb of Gertraud von Rossau in Obrigheim . In: Our Country 2001 . 2000. p. 183 f.
  • Sebastian Parzer: Ottilia von Mentzingen, née von Rossau, a 16th century Kraichgau noblewoman . In: Here, Baden and other things from the Rhine, Neckar and Main . 22nd year, issue 40. 2007. P. 6 f.
  • Genealogical register of the Frankish family von Russaw (Rossaw) , begun 1491, Württembergische Landesbibliothek , Cod.hist . 4 ° 420 ( digitized version )

Web links

Commons : Rossau  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Depiction of the coat of arms after Dr. Bernhard Peter in the vaulted ceiling of the mortuary of the Eichstätter cathedral