Sootworm (noble family)
Russwurm (also Russworm , Rußwurmer or Lords of Rußwurm / Russworm ) is the name of a noble family that the nobility heard and the Frankish coined the south of Thuringia is one that the Frankish knights gender is attributed. It was first mentioned in 1349 and became extinct in the male line in 1732 .
history
The family was first mentioned in 1349 with Otto von Rußwurm .
Probably in the second half of the 14th century the Breitungen / Werra estate came to the Rußwurm knights, who were first mentioned there in 1370. The Russwurm manor house , which still exists there today, was rebuilt by them after a fire in 1600.
In 1601 the moated castle in Hellingen in the Heldburger Land (today the district of Hildburghausen ) came from the von Grumbach family to the Rußwurms and was later converted into a castle.
Hermann Christoph Graf von Rußwurm (1565–1605) was Imperial Field Marshal in the service of Rudolf II and was beheaded on November 29, 1605 in Prague as a result of a courtly intrigue, one hour before the arrival of the imperial order to release him.
At the beginning of the 17th century, the family brought forth further imperial field marshals with Burckhard and Hieronymus .
A Hans Georg auf Hellingen und Frauenbreitungen is mentioned around 1649 as a royal French major general and commander of Schorndorf . He later served again on the German side and is said to have participated in several campaigns against the Turks . This Hans Georg von Rußwurm married one of Gleichen in 1658 , whose family may be a branch of the lower noble family of the Count von Gleichen , which had long since died out . He bequeathed Frauenbreitungen to the heirs of Hans Melchior von Butler zu Dietlas , including von Miltitz , who later owned it.
In 1699 a Carl Ludwig is mentioned who took part in a rifle shooting in Dresden together with King August the Strong . The sootworms died out in 1732 with the margravial Brandenburg-Kulmbach chief hunter Ernst Friedrich von Rußwurm .
Same gen. Of sootworm
After the death of the last Rußwurm, on February 25, 1732, the names and coats of arms of the von Rußwurm and those of Gleichen were merged with imperial approval ; The first bearer of the name and coat of arms was Heinrich von Gleichen, a son-in-law of the last von Rußwurm. The family of the barons von Gleichen called von Rußwurm still exists today.
coat of arms
Blazon : The von Rußwurm family led a kneeling monk on a golden shield with a book and a prayer chain in their outstretched hands; the crest repeats the motif of the coat of arms.
See also
literature
- Johann Brandmüller: Historical and Geographical Lexicon Volume II. 1726
- Johann Friedrich Gauhen: Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexicon . Publisher: Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1740.
- Karl Enigk: History of helminthology in the German-speaking area. Stuttgart 1986, p. 294 (on the name "Rußwurm").
Web links
- Ancestral line of the sootworm in Johann Gottfried Biedermann, genealogy of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood Landes zu Franken praiseworthy locality Rhön and Werra, 1749
- Entry on Hellingen Castle in the private database "Alle Burgen".