Schachten (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Schachten

The gentlemen von und zu Schachten were a noble family from Hesse with their ancestral seat Rittergut Schachten in the village of Schachten , now part of Grebenstein in the Kassel district . They first appear in a document in 1162 with Heinrich von Schachten.

Since the foundation year 1532, the family belonged to the still existing Althessische Knighthood . It expired in the male line on January 18, 1922.

history

The lords of Schachten were originally servants of the noble lords of Schöneberg and had a castle seat at Grebenstein Castle . From 1234 they belonged to the city council in Hofgeismar . Their allodial possessions were modest, and large parts of their possessions came from enfeoffments from the Heerse ladies' monastery , of which they became treasurer in 1246. In 1302 the brothers Heinrich and Konrad von Schachten and their uncle, the squire Johann, were enfeoffed by the Lords of Schöneberg with the bailiwick and with parts of the field corridor to Schachten - as an after-fief of the Heerse monastery.

From 1339 they were in the service of the landgrave of Hesse as castle men and officials . Officials attested to in documents at Grebenstein Castle included:

  • 1339 Johann von Schachten
  • 1383 Dietrich von Schachten (?)
  • 1421, 1426, 1436 Eckebrecht von Schachten
  • 1455-before 1466 Eckebrecht von Schachten
  • 1485–1487, 1496–1498 Dietrich von Schachten
  • 1499–1514 Dietrich von Schachten the Younger
  • 1528, 1530 Jörg von Schachten

The property of the house increased considerably, especially in the 15th century in the area around Grebenstein, when members of the family rose to leading positions in the Hessian administration. So they received z. B. in 1469 the Amelgotessen farm (later Amelgotzen , today's Wilhelmsthal ) was transferred to a fiefdom.

One of the rights of the Heers Chamberlain was the right of presentation (introduction and appointment of a pastor), and after the Reformation this led to a long dispute between the still Catholic women's monastery and the gentlemen von Schachten, who had converted to the Protestant faith. The dispute did not end until the monastery was secularized in 1803.

The family rebuilt their headquarters in Schachten after the destruction of the Thirty Years' War , and their Schachten estate is now considered a highlight among the former Hessian manors. The manor house and the barn building date from the end of the 17th century. The manor , which was built in the 19th century, is a Hessian cultural monument , and the manor complex and all the main buildings are under monument protection . The estate was inherited by the related Counts Grote von und zu Schachten, who still own it today.

Coat of arms of those von Schachten in Siebmacher's Wappenbuch 1605

coat of arms

Description of the coat of arms : In silver, diagonally to the right, a natural (red) thorn branch with 3 red roses. Sitting on the helmet with red and silver blankets is a natural lynx , facing forward, in front of a silver column with 7 red cock feathers at the top.
The coat of arms can still be found today on grave monuments in Schachten and in the manor Schachten , as well as on an old tapestry carpet in the Museum in Hildesheim.

Known family members

  • Dietrich von Schachten (* around 1445; † 1503) was the author of a detailed travel description of a pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1491. He was Ministerial and Privy Councilor of Landgrave Wilhelm I of Hesse .
  • Wilhelm von Schachten (around 1500; † 1553), Marshal of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse; assisted Philip's young son, Wilhelm IV. , in his reign during Philip's five-year captivity in the Netherlands. Builder of the Schachtenburg in Schlitz .
  • Karoline Dorothea Marianne Countess Grote, b. von und zu Schachten (* July 12, 1799, † March 8, 1885 in Hanover), married Adolf Christian Börries Otto Graf Grote on December 17, 1825 (* May 3, 1769, † December 30, 1841 in Nice). After the death of her much older husband, she was very influential at the royal court in Hanover during the reign of King Ernst August I.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The last heiress, Sidonie Baroness von Türckheim, b. von und zu Schachten, adopted Karl-Ernst Graf Grote, born in 1932, under the name Graf Grote von und zu Schachten in 1937 .
  2. ↑ Weyers, p. 50
  3. ↑ Cordt von Brandis, "A carpet with ancestral coat of arms", in: Der Deutsche Herold 18, 1887, p. 103, with picture panel
  4. ↑ Phillip Landgrebe: The travel report Dietrich von Schachten. In: Journal for Hessian History and Regional Studies (ZHG), Vol. 123 (2018), pp. 177–198.
  5. ^ Eckhard G. Franz, Das Haus Hessen , Kohlhammer Urban, Stuttgart, 2005, ISBN 3-17-018919-0 (p. 49).
  6. ↑ See R. Hartmann: History of Hanover from the oldest times to the present , 2nd edition, Kniep, Hanover, 1886 (pp. 524–525) limited preview in the Google book search