Schönfels (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Schönfels

Schönfels is the name of one from the Mark county Meissen originating Uradelsgeschlechts whose head office with the same medieval castle Schönfels (in Zwickau ) and the place Schönfels is first mentioned in documents in the 1225th

history

The manor in Ruppertsgrün had been in the family since 1326
Grave site of the von Schönfels family in the local cemetery of Ruppertsgrün

In defense of the castle Schönfels to protect were Burg men used. Hence the origin of the name.

The family first appeared in a document on March 12, 1312 with Johann von Schonfels , provost in the Bergerkloster zu Altenburg . On December 11, 1323 a Joan de Schoninvels is named as a witness, who is mentioned in a document with his brother Wittchen on August 24, 1326 when a mine was on loan . On May 11, 1398, the family line begins with Hans von Schoninvels as lord of the manors of Ruppertsgrün and Beiersdorf . With these he is given in 1412 with the Burglehn zu Schönfels. As early as 1416 Hans von Schoninvels is said to have built the Beiersdorf church with his son and in 1428 there was a church loan in Beiersdorf by Burgrave Albrecht von Leisnig . Around 1450 Siegmund von Schönfels was captain of the Hoyerswerda rule in the Upper Lusatia margraviate .

1458 bought Kunz of Schönfels with his brothers Arnold and Siegmund the Schloss Schlettau . On January 30, 1465, Elector Ernst and Duke Albrecht gave the Burglehn to Siegmund and Arnold von Schönfels to the village of Ruppertsgrün, the Vorwerk Beiersdorf, the village of Bennewitz and other properties. In 1505 the castle chapel at Ruppertsgrün was inaugurated by Siegmund von Schönfels and Bishop Johannes von Naumburg . In 1513 Heinrich von Schönfels began building the Ruppertsgrüner Church. In 1539 Joachim von Schönfels (son of Heinrich von Schönfels ) was married to Agnes von Wolframsdorf from Neumark .

On November 27, 1590, Hans von Schönfels († 1634 in Ruppertsgrün) married the noble Brigitte von Rechenbergk († 1639 in Zwickau ). Hans von Schönfels served in the Thirty Years' War as Electoral Saxon Colonel and Wilhelm von Schönfels as Electoral Saxon Lieutenant Colonel.

In 1591 the family sold their Burglehn for Schönfels to the von Weißenbach family . In 1594 a contract was signed between the brothers Hans and Caspar von Schönfels , in which Hans von Schönfels was to receive Ruppertsgrün and Beiersdorf and Caspar the Vorwerk von Steinpleis with the manor located there . In 1672 the line branched from Schönfels to Reuth . On May 24, 1724, all the farm buildings of the Ruppertsgrün manor burned down and on September 8, 1727, Georg Heinrich von Schönfels took over Ruppertsgrün and Beiersdorf in sole ownership and left Reuth to his brother Hans Karl Friedrich von Schönfels . In 1756, Carl Heinrich von Schönfels took over Ruppertsgrün and Beiersdorf from his father and later his son Eduard Heinrich von Schönfels . In 1855 and 1856 Eduard Heinrich von Schönfels bought two spinning mills from the manufacturer Hofmann in Ruppertsgrün, equipped them with a steam engine and leased them. Friedrich Ernst von Schönfels , who was a member of the Saxon state parliament , is also known from the Schönfels line .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a silver diagonal right bar in black (also divided three times diagonally right in silver and black). On the helmet with black and silver blankets, a growing man's torso, naked or in clothing with a silver sculpted black hat, as indicated on the shield, between an open black flight , each covered with a silver sloping bar .

Name bearer

See also

literature

  • Communications from the Royal Saxon Association for Research and Conservation of Patriotic Historical and Art Monuments (17th issue, Dresden, 1867)
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2002, ISSN  0435-2408 , pp. 56-57

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Schönfels headquarters at Schlossarchiv.de .
  2. ↑ Main State Archives Dresden, No. 1956. In Hans Patze, Altenburger Urkundenbuch, Jena 1955, p. 385, No. 472