Rotenhan (noble family)
The family of the Freiherren von Rotenhan , also Count von Rottenhan , is a noble family of the Franconian nobility , which derives its name from the family castle of the same name near Eyrichshof, Lower Franconia. The Rotenhan were servants of the Bamberg diocese . The sex belonged to the Franconian Imperial Knighthood of the Canton of Baunach .
The family was raised to the baron status in 1771; the Protestant barons of Rotenhan are still in bloom today. The Catholic counts branch (Untermerzbach) of Alexander von Rottenhan , who was raised to the rank of imperial count by Emperor Joseph II in 1774, expired in 1886.
history
The ancestry of the family from one of the three Langheim brothers, who were servants of the Bamberg cathedral chapter and co-founders of the Langheim monastery (documented in 1132) and who later took the name de Rotha (ha), seems to be secured by ownership connections, the same first names and similarity of coats of arms.
The first documentary mention is on August 15, 1229 with "Winther" and "Wolfram de Rotenhagen", with which the family line began.
The family's ancestral home was the castle of the same name, destroyed in 1324 , about two kilometers north of Ebern above the Eyrichshof district in the Haßberge district in Lower Franconia .
The family also owns Eyrichshof Castle (originally the farmyard of the nearby Rotenhan Castle, converted into a moated castle around 1330/40), Rentweinsdorf Castle (built since 1333, today's Baroque castle from 1750 to 1762), Fischbach Castle (since the 13th century) .), Lichtenstein Castle (since 1845), Gut Saarhof in Maroldsweisach and Neuenhof Castle in Thuringia (from 1863) as well as the former Untermerzbach Castle (13th / 14th century until 1886), Ebelsbach Castle (from 1355 to 2000) and Buchwald Castle in Lower Silesia (from 1854 to 1945).
From 1190 to 1322 the Rotenhan family held the post of lower leg in the bishopric of Bamberg and then called themselves Schenk von Rotenhan . Wolfram Schenk von Rotenhan was declared forfeited by the king in 1323 because of perjury. The bishop then gave the office to the Aufseß family . Since 1453 the Rotenhan zu Rentweinsdorf were hereditary treasurers of the Bamberg monastery.
Eyrichshof Castle (below Rotenhan Castle )
Ebelsbach Castle (before the fire in 2009)
Buchwald Castle , Lower Silesia
The name Rotenhan is likely to derive from cleared Haag, Hain , after which the family castle was named. Some researchers also consider a derivation from the Rodach river to be conceivable. The name certainly has nothing to do with the red rooster, which the sex uses as a crest , rather it was chosen later because of the consonance.
Main line of the family up to the division of the line
Winther Schenk von Rotenhan (named 1190 and 1229)
- Ludwig Schenk von Rotenhan († 1258), ⚭ Sophie von Bibra
- Wolfram Schenk von Rotenhan († 1303), ⚭ Sophie von Fulbach
- Wolfram Schenk von Rotenhan († 1353), ⚭ Luidgarde von Schaumberg
- Wolfram von Rotenhan († 1364), ⚭ Kunigunde von Seckendorff
- Gottfried von Rotenhan, ⚭ Gertraud von Schaumberg
- Mathäus von Rotenhan († 1472), ⚭ Agathe Stein von Altenstein
- Mathäus von Rotenhan († 1506), ⚭ Walburga Förtsch von Thurnau
- Hans von Rotenhan (* around 1490; † 1559), reformer, ⚭ Margaretha von Seckendorff
- Georg the Pious von Rotenhan († January 22, 1465), ⚭ Anna von Rotenhan
- Hans Georg von Rotenhan (1559–1613), knight captain, ⚭ Eva von Münster
- Adam Georg von Rotenhan (1599–1648), councilor, ⚭ Anna Christine von Adelebsen
- Valentin Julius von Rotenhan (1628 –1680), councilor, ⚭ Anna Christine von Rotenhan
- Philipp Albrecht von Rotenhan (1671 –1725), Councilor of Knights, ⚭ Dorothea Friederike von Künßberg
- Johann Friedrich von Rotenhan (1713–1776), General Director of the German Imperial Knighthood, ⚭ Johanne Wilhelmine von Seckendorff
- Sigmund von Rotenhan (1761–1826), ⚭ Antoinette von Lenthe
- Hermann von Rotenhan (1800–1858) and Julius von Rotenhan (1805–1882)
- Sigmund von Rotenhan (1761–1826), ⚭ Antoinette von Lenthe
- Johann Friedrich von Rotenhan (1713–1776), General Director of the German Imperial Knighthood, ⚭ Johanne Wilhelmine von Seckendorff
- Philipp Albrecht von Rotenhan (1671 –1725), Councilor of Knights, ⚭ Dorothea Friederike von Künßberg
- Valentin Julius von Rotenhan (1628 –1680), councilor, ⚭ Anna Christine von Rotenhan
- Adam Georg von Rotenhan (1599–1648), councilor, ⚭ Anna Christine von Adelebsen
- Hans Georg von Rotenhan (1559–1613), knight captain, ⚭ Eva von Münster
- Georg the Pious von Rotenhan († January 22, 1465), ⚭ Anna von Rotenhan
- Hans von Rotenhan (* around 1490; † 1559), reformer, ⚭ Margaretha von Seckendorff
- Mathäus von Rotenhan († 1506), ⚭ Walburga Förtsch von Thurnau
- Mathäus von Rotenhan († 1472), ⚭ Agathe Stein von Altenstein
- Gottfried von Rotenhan, ⚭ Gertraud von Schaumberg
- Wolfram von Rotenhan († 1364), ⚭ Kunigunde von Seckendorff
- Wolfram Schenk von Rotenhan († 1353), ⚭ Luidgarde von Schaumberg
- Wolfram Schenk von Rotenhan († 1303), ⚭ Sophie von Fulbach
Grave place in the parish church of the Holy Trinity (Rentweinsdorf)
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a red, stream-shaped, undulating inclined beam , accompanied by a five-pointed red star and above a helmet with a red-silver cover on which there is a red rooster.
Historical coats of arms
Rotenhan coat of arms from Scheibler's book of arms
Rotenhan coat of arms from Siebmacher's coat of arms book
Coat of arms graphic by Otto Hupp in the Munich calendar of 1908
Coat of arms of the Rentweinsdorf community
Personalities (by year of birth)
- Winther Schenk von Rotenhan (around 1230), the first documented representative of the noble family
- Anton von Rotenhan (around 1390–1459), Bishop of Bamberg
- Christoph von Rotenhan , (around 1390–1436), Bishop of Lebus
- Ludwig von Rotenhan († after 1417), abbot of Theres Monastery (1396–1417)
- Sebastian von Rotenhan (1478–1532), Frankish knight, humanist and cartographer
- Alexander von Rotenhan († 1554), abbot of the Banz monastery (1529–1554)
- Georg Wolfgang von Rotenhan (1615–1695), chief bailiff, chief chamberlain, commander of the Kronach fortress, high schoolteacher and finally district judge
- Joachim Ignatz von Rotenhan (1662–1736), senior bailiff and finally district judge
- Philipp Rudolph Heinrich Joseph von Rotenhan (1706–1775), canon and member of the cathedral chapter in Würzburg
- Johann Alexander von Rottenhan (1710–1791), large landowner and promoter of economic development in western Bohemia
- Heinrich Franz von Rottenhan (1738–1809), administrative lawyer, president of the Supreme Judicial Office and court commissioner for legislation in Bohemia and Austria
- Friedrich Christoph Philipp von Rotenhan (1749–1798), senior bailiff and head stable master
- Hermann von Rotenhan (1800–1858), Bavarian statesman
- Julius Freiherr von Rotenhan (1805–1882), Bavarian government official and politician
- Georg Freiherr von Rottenhan (1831–1914), politician
- Hermann Julius von Rotenhan (1836–1914), Bavarian colonel, treasurer and cycling official
- Wolfram von Rotenhan (1845–1912), diplomat
- Ludwig von Rotenhan (1850–1922), Bavarian lieutenant general
- Wolfram Freiherr von Rotenhan (1887–1950), General Secretary of the German Red Cross ( DRK )
- Elisabeth Freifrau von Rotenhan, b. Freiin von Thüngen (1923–2011), honorary citizen of the Rentweinsdorf market, holder of the Federal Cross of Merit
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Freiherr von Rotenhan (* 1929), farmer, winner of the German Business Innovation Prize
- Eleonore von Rotenhan (* 1939), German social economist, President of the Evangelical Church Congress 1987
- Sebastian Freiherr von Rotenhan (* 1949), politician
See also
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Band 125. Adelslexikon . 2001. CA Starke Publishing House. ISBN 3-7980-0825-6 .
- Bitha Rotenhan: Rotenhan houses - a picture book. Bamberg, 1988.
- Gottfried Freiherr von Rotenhan: The Rotenhan. Genealogy of a Frankish family from 1229 to the Thirty Years War. (Publications of the Society for Franconian History, Series IX, Vol. 34). Neustadt an der Aisch 1985.
- Julius Freiherr von Rotenhan: History of the family von Rotenhan older line. 2 volumes. 1865, Volume 1 , Volume 2
- Siegfried Freiherr von Rotenhan: History of the Rotenhan family. Rentweinsdorf. Self-published in 1989.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1862. Twelfth year, p. 646ff
Web links
- Coat of arms of those von Rotenhan in the Ortenburg coat of arms book of 1466
- Rotenhanen - coat of arms of the German families Augsburg? 1475
- Coat of arms of the "Rottenhan" family in the register of arms of the Holy Roman Empire , Nuremberg around 1554–1568
- The Schenkenau Fortress - formerly the headquarters of the von Rotenhan family
Individual evidence
- ^ Rotenhan, Siegfried von .: History of the Rotenhan family: Continuation of the family history of Julius Frhr. v. Rotenhan from 1865 . Selbstverlag, 1989 ( worldcat.org [accessed December 18, 2019]).
- ^ Schloss Neuenhof ( Memento from October 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Claus Fackler: Stiftsadel and spiritual territories 1670–1803, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8306-7268-5 , pp. 71-72.
- ^ Rotenhan, Gottfried Freiherr von .: Die Rotenhan: Genealogy of a Franconian family from 1229 to the Thirty Years' War . Kommissionsverlag Degener, 1985 ( worldcat.org [accessed December 18, 2019]).
- ↑ gw.geneanet.org: Philipp Rudolph Heinrich Joseph von Rotenhan .