Schallenberg (noble family)
Schallenberg (also Schallenberger ) is the name of an old Austrian noble family .
history
The ancestral seat of the noble family was in the small town of Sankt Ulrich in the Mühlkreis . The family was first mentioned under the name "de sancto Ulrico" in 1190 in the documents of the St. Nikola Abbey near Passau. From around 1260 onwards, the de Schalinberc family called themselves “Heinricus de Schalinberc” after a former Schallenberg castle in the municipality of Kleinzell in the Mühlkreis in Austria. The tribe series begins in the 14th century with pilgrims from Schallenberg .
In 1636 the Schallenbergers received the baron diploma, which was confirmed in 1656, and in 1666 the imperial count.
From 1720 to 1803 the family owned Rosenau Castle (Waldviertel) in the village of Rosenau Castle (today part of the municipality of Zwettl-Niederösterreich , Waldviertel , Lower Austria ). Leopold Christoph Graf Schallenberg had it rebuilt according to plans by Baroque builder Joseph Munggenast and founded a Masonic lodge .
coat of arms
Blazon : The family coat of arms shows a red, growing, crowned lion divided by gold and black with battlements .
Known members of the family
- Christoph von Schallenberg (born January 31, 1561; † April 25, 1597), "Regent of the Lower Austrian Lands" and commander of the Danube fleet, humanistic poet
- Georg Christoph von Schallenberg (1593–1657), son of Christoph, Supreme Commissioner in Austria ob der Enns, baron since 1656, author of a house chronicle
- Leopold Christoph Graf von Schallenberg (born December 11, 1712 - February 20, 1800), Land Marshal of Lower Austria , Freemason at Rosenau Castle
- Alexander Schallenberg (* 1969), Austrian Federal Minister, diplomat and lawyer
literature
- Yearbook of the Association of Catholic Nobles in Austria . Publishing house Tyrolia AG, Innsbruck / Vienna / Munich 1931.
- Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon: Or manual about the historical, genealogical … Volume 2. Ilmenau 1826 ( digitized ).
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New general German nobility lexicon : ... Volume 8. Leipzig 1868 ( digitized version ).
- Harald Tersch, Austrian personal testimonies from the late Middle Ages and the early modern period , Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1998, about Georg Christoph v. Sch., Pp. 725-737
Web links
- www.nobility.eu
- Family tree (excerpt from 1530 to 1630) link to University of Vienna