Sangerhausen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Sangerhausen

Sangerhausen was the name of a noble family from Thuringia who were counts and knightly in the High Middle Ages , who named themselves depending on the town of Sangerhausen in the county of the same name and the later Landgraviate of Thuringia . The latter family, with its branch, which was allegedly a side branch of the earlier counts, the von Sangerhausen called Kahle, died out in the male line in Westphalia in the 17th century.

history

It is believed that Sangerhausen was founded by Franks . The settlement was first mentioned in a document between 780 and 802 in a document from the Fulda monastery . In the register of the tithe of the Hersfeld Monastery, which was created between 881 and 899, Sangerhausen is named as a place of tenancy, Sangerhus im Friesenfeld . In 991 the place belonged to the Memleben monastery . From the 10th century there was a Fronhof. After Sangerhausen was granted market rights between 1004 and 1017, a market town emerged in the area of ​​today's Old Market, which became the center of a county that the noble family von Sangerhausen owned until 1034, before Ludwig the Bearded took over as the later husband of Hereditary Countess Cäcilie Sangerhausen .

At the end of the 12th century, the nickname Kale or Kahle, which became the main name of the representatives of the family in the 15th century, is found for the von Sangerhausen. It was not until the end of the century that the representatives of the Kahle family who owned the Oberröblingen manor , who had gone to Westphalia , named themselves after their origins. In 1594, Jobst Kahle referred to himself again for the first time after the death of his father Ulrich Kahle as Jobst von Sangerhausen, known as Kahl. His descendants remained in the possession of the Oberröblingen manor until 1651. Shortly thereafter, the younger von Sangerhausen family with Wolf Ludolph von Sangerhausen, son of Dietrich Andreas von Sangerhausen, who died in 1641, died out in the Electorate of Saxony and only flourished in Westphalia. There the noble family finally died out in the 17th century.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Counts of Sangerhausen shows three golden lions in red (2: 1). On the helmet with red and gold helmet covers, a natural-colored twelve-ended deer antlers.

The von Sangerhausen (called Kahle) (among others on Oberröblingen and from the end of the 16th to the middle of the 17th century with Wilhelm Erich von Sangerhausen called Kahle and his daughter Katharina Elisabeth also resided at Haus Matena near Dorfwelver ) had five gold-inseminated red roses (2: 2: 1), following the edge of the shield. On the helmet with red and gold covers a red and a gold buffalo horn.

But even this, the Sangerhausen gen. Kahle, was afterwards at Aufschwörungen of the descendants in the female line, the origin of the Thuringian counts of Sangerhausen and consequently the right attributed to their Löwenwappen.

  • Coat of arms of those of Sangerhausen called Kahle (Westphalia)

  • Coat of arms of the Anno von Sangerhausen as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order

Personalities

  • Anno von Sangerhausen († 1273), was the 10th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order from 1256 to 1273.
  • Cäcilie von Sangerhausen , Countess
  • Jutta von Sangerhausen (* around 1200; † May 5, 1260 in Culmsee), benefactor and hermit, who after the death of her husband lived in the vicinity of the Ulrich Church in Sangerhausen and devoted herself to nursing there.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thuringia and the Harz (1839), p. 280
  2. ^ The pay book of the Teutonic Order. P. 123 .
  3. ^ Karl Wenzel: The desert areas Kieselhausen and Almensleben before Sangerhausen . In: Journal of the Harz Association. 6, 1874, pp. 13ff.
  4. ↑ Hanoverian Scholars Ads (1753), p. 350 .
  5. ↑ Westphälische Geschichte, Volume 3, p. 348 .
  6. ^ House Matena ( Memento from February 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Max von Spießen , Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility, p. 110
  8. ↑ Max von Spießen, Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility, plate 272 .
  9. ↑ New Adeliches Wappenwerk, Volume 13, p. 208 .