Schirnding (noble family)

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The Schirnding , also called Schirndinger von Schirnding , are an old Franconian noble family with the Schirnding parent company of the same name in the Wunsiedel district in the Fichtel Mountains .

history

Origin - the eponymous seat of Schirnding

In 1361 Heinrich and Friedrich the Schirndinger had an ancestral test confirmed by the Cheb keeper Bohuslav von Schwanberg . In the certificate it says of Hans Schirntinger, the son of Friedrich Schirntinger, that his mother was a born Hertenberg , his grandmother was a Neipperg and his great-grandmother was a Rab and that the two had also submitted documents that were "200 years old" the Schirntingers were called "knights and servants". (Statni okresni archiv Cheb U 85)

The first documentary mention of the Schirnding headquarters, which gave it its name, in 1317 refers to a copy of a document from the 18th century in the Röthenbach castle archive. Its discoverer, the Arzberg chronicler Matthias Simon, considers it genealogically questionable and suspects that the early dating can be traced back to a reading error by the copyist , and that the lost original document was dated in 1370. What is certain is that the von Schirnding family was first identified in Egerer Quellen in 1327. Another fact is the fact that the ancestral seat of the family in the late Middle Ages was under the feudal rule of the Notthracht ; the oldest Notthaid fief book mentioned around 1360: "Schyrnting daz Dorf even have the Schyrntingers ..." But as early as the 15th century the Schirndingers sold their knightly seat there into bourgeois hands.

Roethenbach

The village of Röthenbach near Arzberg was also given to the Schirndingers as a fief by the Notthafften around 1360. Friedrich Schirntinger, who died after 1376, appears as "sat at Röthenbach"; In 1389, Franz and Erhart Schirntinger sold the share of the brick seat in Röthenbach inherited from their father Andreas to their cousin Hans, the son of the aforementioned Friedrich Schirntinger. After troops of Duke Ludwig VII of Bavaria-Ingolstadt invaded the Franconian Hohenzollern territories in the Bavarian War in 1420 , Hans Schirntinger zu Schlottenhof, Martin Schirntinger zu Schirnding and Hans Schirntinger von Röthenbach brought the declaration of war to Burgrave Johann III. from Nuremberg to the Duke of Bavaria. In 1482 the Schirndinger received from Emperor Friedrich III. the high jurisdiction over Röthenbach and Bergnersreuth, which is why they came into dispute with the Margraves of Brandenburg as sovereigns. This finally ended with Johann Georg von Schirnding submitting and recognizing the sovereign authority of the margraves. The Röthenbach Castle was essentially built between 1559 and 1561. A building inscription above the portal on the stair tower shows Jobst Heinrich von Schirnding, who was married to Dorothea von Waldenfels , as the builder. The castle, which was once surrounded by a moat, has a hook-shaped floor plan. The courtyard opens to the south, the outer corner of the castle faces north. The northwest wing is shorter than the northeast wing. Both are two-story. At the corners of the upper floor facing the courtyard there is a bay window on corbels . Its stepped gables and those on the narrow sides of the castle are ingredients of the romanticism , probably soon after the middle of the 19th century. In 1698 Röthenbach consisted of 23 houses, including an inn and a sheep farm . The last Schirndinger on Röthenbach was Georg Friedrich Christian (* 1794, † 1819). Röthenbach came to this family in 1827 through the marriage of his sister Charlotte to Ernst Freiherr von Waldenfels.

Owned in Fockenfeld and Höflas near Konnersreuth

The family appeared with Hans von Schirnting (also: Schirmbting ) zu Fockenfeld and Höflas, both near Konnersreuth , in 1358 for the first time in a document. With him the direct line of trunks began.

Schlottenhof

In 1387 the Waldsassen Abbey pledged the village of Schlottenhof to Eckhart von Schirnding. In addition to Röthenbach, Schlottenhof subsequently became one of the family's headquarters. With Wolf Endres von Schirnding, the Schlottenhofer family branch died out in 1586; the estate came to Georg Wolf von Brand auf Seeberg (near Eger) in 1615 as a margravial Brandenburg fief .

Röslau

In 1488, Balthasar von Reitzenstein sold the “Seat of Oberrößla” ( Röslau ) including the village, the village of Dürnberg and the village of Bödlas on Wilhelm von Schirnding on Röthenbach. After the Thirty Years' War , Margrave Christian zu Brandenburg-Kulmbach acquired the Oberröslau estate and exchanged it for Lichtenberg and Thierbach to the Lords of Waldenfels .

Brambach

Wilhelm von Schirnding, who acquired the headquarters in Oberröslau in 1488, is often mentioned as the owner of Brambach . This seems doubtful, however, because the place can be proven up to the 16th century in the possession of the Lords of Zedtwitz . It was not until 1535 that Elector Johann Friedrich von Sachsen awarded "the court to Brambach and the villages of Ober- and Unterbrambach" along with other goods to Moritz von Schirnding. The manor Brambach had been leased since around 1720; the manor lived in the castle in Oberröslau. Nevertheless, Brambach remained in the hands of the von Schirnding family until 1812.

Imperial Knighthood, Office Hohenberg and further distribution in Franconia

The family belonged to the Frankish imperial knighthood in the ( knight canton of Gebürg ).

In the Gothaischen genealogical pocket book of the Freiherrliche Häuser Jg. 62/1912 it says: “Among the Schirntingen Heinrich, Kunrad, Merbod and Friederich, which appeared in documents in 1327 ub Eger, the fathers of the founders of the 4 main lines I. Schirnding, II. Schlottenhof, III. Röthenbach, IV. Kalmreuth should be sought. The I. and IV. Main line expired around 1700 and II. Schlottenhof around 1600, the Schlottenhof property falls to the main line III. Röthenbach, to which all Schirndinger living now belong. "

Of the burgraves of Nuremberg , one of Schirnding was appointed as bailiff of Hohenberg .

Other localities in Franconia : Castle (1487) and Castle (1770) Neuhaus an der Eger , Seußen near Arzberg

The Bohemian Line

In the Gothaischen genealogical pocket book of the Freiherrlichen houses 1848 it says:

“The now living Counts and Barons von Schirnding begin their oldest ancestral tests with an Albert Schirndinger von Schirnding, who, after a long series of requests, owned Schönwald (a rule in the Pilsen district), was married to Anna Eva von Aufseß and died in 1529. His son Sigmund Schirndinger auf Schönwald and his wife, Anna Catharina Laminger von Albenreuth, great-grandson Johann Joachim auf Schönwald and Neuzedlischt, has the latter rule from his mother, Anna Salome Kselwine von Sachsengrün, who is named after his father, Johann Joachim von Schirnding, premature death again with Johann Wilhelm Tucher von Schoberau, who had married, inherited. From his marriage to Anna Maria Thoß von Erlbach, he left behind several children, the two sons Johann Friedrich and Johann Leopold. The latter owned the estates of Chotiemirz, Bilizwa, Stanetitz, Vogelsang and Nahositz in Bohemia, died in 1724 and left behind by Anna Ludmilla Wiederßperger von Wiedersperg , a still flourishing descent raised to the rank of count in 1793, which can be looked up in the paperback of the count's houses. By Johann Friedrich Frhrn. von Schirnding auf Schönwald and Pawlowitz and his wife Maria Catharina Hora von Oczelowiz sprouted the still flourishing baronial line to Schönwald through his son Joachim. "

Other places in the Czech Republic: Velká Hleďsebe (formerly Großsichdichfür), Chodský Újezd (Heiligenkreuz) and Drmoul (formerly Dürrmaul) near Marienbad (around 1600)

Nobility uprisings

  • Admission to the Bohemian gentry in Vienna took place in 1746 and 1793, and to the Bohemian baron in 1717 and 1737, each for several family members.
  • Entry into the aristocratic class in the Kingdom of Bavaria was made in 1813 and 1828, and into the Bavarian baron class in 1863, 1864, 1871 and 1918, also for several people.
  • The Prussian recognition of the baron class followed on December 20, 1887 in Berlin for the royal Prussian government assessor Carl Freiherr Schirndinger von Schirnding zu Frankenstein in Lower Silesia .

coat of arms

The first coat of arms of the von Schirnding family
The first coat of arms of the von Schirnding family
 Blazon : "In gold, three mutilated black tree branches lying horizontally on top of each other."

The community of Schirnding still bears this coat of arms today. The coat of arms of the former communities Grafenreuth , Röthenbach and Lorenzreuth also remind of the gender.

The increased coat of arms of the von Schirnding family
Increased coat of arms of the von Schirnding family

The increased coat of arms since around 1488 has been quartered: Fields 1 and 4 in black, a curved, two-tailed, golden lion with a red tongue, fields 2 and 3 in gold, three black fires , each with four flames, one above the other . Two helmets with black and gold ceiling, on the right the lion growing, on the left pole as the three Brander.

A family member has to be absorbed into the bohemian since 1793 in the men's state crest slightly increased crest.

Personalities

middle Ages

Modern times

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Schirnding  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the barons houses . Volume 1, 1848.
  2. ↑ Entry on the coat of arms of Markt Schirnding  in the database of the House of Bavarian History
  3. ^ Genealogy. Handbook of Nobility, Volume G XX, page 398, 2012.