Seinsheim (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Seinsheim

The noble family von Seinsheim (also Saunsheim ), whose more famous branch line is the Princely House of Schwarzenberg , had its ancestral seat in the eponymous town of Seinsheim, east of Ochsenfurt . It is one of the oldest families in Franconia .

history

The family of Seinsheimer saw the Alemanni Prince Erkinger, who was executed in 917, their ancestor and his son Conrad his namesake.

As early as the 13th and 14th centuries, the family was divided into three tribes, which had their headquarters in Hohenkottenheim (which went out with Georg Ludwig von Seinsheim in 1591), Wässerndorf or Erlach (went out in 1555) and Stephansberg . As early as 1243, Stephansberg Castle appeared as the property of Apollonius the Elder. Ä. from Seinsheim. His son Hildebrand († 1386) is considered to be the progenitor of the Schwarzenberg family, since after him and his brother the line of the family was divided into an older or Stephansberger line and a younger or Seinsheim line.

Prince of Schwarzenberg

Coat of arms of the princes of Schwarzenberg

Hildebrand's grandson from the older or Stephansberg line, Erkinger I. von Seinsheim, Freiherr von Schwarzenberg , acquired the Franconian rule of Schwarzenberg with Schwarzenberg Castle in 1405 and Hohenlandsberg Castle in 1435 . After the line of Seinsheim-Wässerndorf died out, Count Friedrich von Schwarzenberg rebuilt the castle in Wässerndorf in 1555. In 1599 the Schwarzenbergs were elevated to imperial counts with Adolf von Schwarzenberg and in 1670 to imperial princes with Johann Adolf von Schwarzenberg . The place Seinsheim served as the court seat of Cent Hohenlandsberg of the Schwarzenberg rule, which from 1500 was in the Franconian Empire and in 1806 fell to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In the 18th century, the Schwarzenbergs with their various lines were by far the largest landowners in Franconia and also one of the largest landowners in Bohemia .

Counts of Seinsheim

The younger or Seinsheim line turned to the Bavarian court from the first half of the 14th century. In a dispute with the Schwarzenberg relatives, they declared in 1655/62 that they would completely renounce the Franconian ancestral estates.

Sünching Castle

From then on, the headquarters of the Catholic family was Sünching Castle near Regensburg, which Georg Ludwig had acquired in 1572 . The two lines of Sünching and Weng existed since 1678, the latter expired in 1834. The elevation to the imperial count - 1705 for Maximilian Franz von Seinsheim zu Sünching († 1737), 1711 for Maximilian Eberhard von Seinsheim zu Weng († 1737) - remained for the position of the house of no major concern. In 1758 Joseph Franz Graf von Seinsheim zu Sünching had the then Munich court architect François de Cuvilliés the Elder build today's moated castle in Sünching. In Bavaria, the Seinsheim were among the seven most influential families of the nobility in the 18th century. In 1764 the Counts of Seinsheim also acquired Schönach Castle .

In the 19th century, the Fideikommiss Sünching was linked to the hereditary imperial council dignity of the Crown of Bavaria . The male line of the family of Count Seinsheim zu Sünching went out in 1917 with Count Maximilian Karl Florian von Seinsheim. After the death of the last Countess Seinsheim in 1958, the castle came into the possession of her grandson, Baron von Hoenning O'Carroll. He and his family have lived there ever since. Except for special events, it cannot be viewed.

The Palais Seinsheim in Munich was built in 1764 in the Kreuzviertel district and served as the residence for Count Joseph Franz Maria von Seinsheim , a Bavarian minister and president of the Academy of Sciences , which held its events here. Even Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was here in 1780 as a guest.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is split from silver and blue (five to) seven times. On the helmet with blue-silver blankets, a bearded man's torso in a red skirt with a silver collar and a crowned, silver sculpted red pointed hat, which is decorated with three natural peacock feathers, between two in the mouths with three each, and outside with seven natural peacock feathers each, buffalo horns divided seven times by blue and silver.

  • Revocation sign of the Teutonic Knight Ludwig von Seinsheim (1481) in St. Jakob (Nuremberg)

  • Coat of arms at Siebmacher (1605)

Important representatives

Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim (1708–1779), Prince-Bishop of Würzburg and Bamberg
Joseph Franz Maria von Seinsheim , Bavarian. Envoy, Minister of War (1707–1787)

  • Epitaphs in the parish church of St. Nikolai, Marktbreit: Friedrich von Seinsheim († 1500) and Margarete von Seinsheim, b. Truchseß von Baldersheim († 1514)

  • Epitaph in the Astheim Church

  • Gravestone Adelheid Countess v. Seinsheim, b. Countess v. Preysing († 1767), in Heilig Blut (Erding)

literature

  • Heinrich Zoepfl: Memorandum concerning the high nobility and the equality of the Count's House of Seinsheim , Heidelberg 1867.
  • Wolfgang Wüst: The Seinsheim-Schwarzenberg files: a Franconian aristocratic rule before the Reich Chamber of Commerce, In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 62 (2002) pp. 203-230.
  • Kurt Andermann :  Seinsheim. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , pp. 194-196 ( digitized version ).
  • Rudolf Reiser: Old houses - big names. 2., revised. Ed., Stiebner, Munich 1988.

Web links

Commons : Seinsheim family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Wüst: The Schwarzenberg in Franconia and Bohemia. Freiherren - Grafen - Fürsten , In: Yearbook for Franconian State Research 74 (2014) pp. 115–130
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XIII, p. 202, CA Starke Verlag , 2002