Gift from Siemau
The Schencken or taverns of Siemau were an old Frankish noble family whose rise and work directly related to the conquest of the house Wettin in francs on the territory of Care Coburg as an inheritance and dowry of Catherine of Henneberg at her wedding to Frederick the Severe be seen .
history
The von Siemau knight family can be traced back to 1195. The moated castle Siemau probably served as a manor back then . Over the centuries, the family built a few more buildings in the vicinity, of which the moated castle as the "Lower Castle" and the "Upper Castle" have been preserved.
In 1363 a Hermann Schenck von Siemau and his sons appeared in a document, who sold half of his tenth to Roth am Forst, including a little pond, to the Sonnefeld Monastery for 110 pounds Heller , which required the approval of Landgrave Friedrich in Thuringia as domini directi .
In 1502 Hieronymus Schenck von Siemau wrote the much-acclaimed volume “Kinderzucht”, a “little book about the upbringing of children”, which today is a single printed copy. The work is regarded as an example of humane pedagogy from the premodern era and as an early testimony to an educational striving for German Renaissance humanism, which was based on ancient ideals. Schenck von Siemau recommends, among other things, an education without blows and the formation of body and mind.
The last offspring of the Siemau taverns was critically injured in the Thirty Years' War in the Battle of Überlingen and lost his life on June 25, 1634 in Wildbach / Württemberg. The feudal manor fell to the ducal feudal court in Coburg .
Personalities
- Ottillia Schenk von Siemau († July 10, 1529), abbess at Himmelkron Monastery from 1522 to 1529
coat of arms
The heraldic shield in red has a silver, oblique, sloping silver bar that is covered with three blue fish. The helmet covers are silver and red. The helmet ornament on the crowned helmet consists of a comfortable helmet cushion in red.
