Seldeneck (noble family)
The barons of Seldeneck are a Protestant noble family that emerged from a morganatic relationship between Wilhelm Ludwig von Baden-Durlach , the brother of Margrave Karl Friedrich von Baden-Durlach, and Christine Wilhelmine Franziska Schortmann.
history
Margrave Karl Friedrich raised his brother's family to the nobility on January 27, 1777 and gave them the name and coat of arms of the lost knight family of Seldeneck.
The Seldeneck family owned shares in the places Bötzingen , Oberschaffhausen and Gottenheim , as well as the Majorat Mühlburg . In 1770, Wilhelm Ludwig founded the Mühlburger Brewery , which remained under the control of the Seldeneck family until it was sold in 1921.
The original line of those von Seldeneck
The family is mentioned in 1158 with Engelhard von Bebenburg , who is considered to be the progenitor of the older family of von Seldeneck. The line goes back to the first Reich chef master Heinrich I. von Rothenburg . The Franconian knight dynasty of the von Seldeneck had received the imperial kitchen master's office (archtruchess) as a fief from the Count Palatine near Rhine . The castle Seldeneck , now ruins, located about 5 km north of Rothenburg ob der Tauber on the west bank of the Tauber . The Seldeneck is part of the town of Creglingen .
From 1350 to around 1450, large parts of the Zent Bartenstein belonged to this family . The following people are known from this time:
- Leopold von Seldeneck approx. 1350 to 1379
- Fritz von Seldeneck zu Bartenstein 1379 to 1397
- Hans von Seldeneck zu Bartenstein the Elder 1397- approx. 1419
- Hans von Seldeneck zu Bartenstein the Younger (son), named 1419
- Johann von Seldeneck zu Bartenstein the Elder, mentioned 1414
- Johann von Seldeneck zu Bartenstein the Younger, mentioned 1414
- Leopold von Seldeneck zu Bartenstein approx. 1420–1450
- Fritz von Seldeneck, mentioned 1445
Their possessions were transferred to Kraft and Albrecht von Hohenlohe between 1440 and 1450.
The line died out with Philipp von Seldeneck in 1561 in the male line.
Name bearer
- Wilhelm Ludwig (1766–1826), Baron von Seldeneck; Progenitor of the newer Seldeneck; Privy councilor and head stable master of the Grand Ducal Baden
- Wilhelm von Seldeneck (1849–1925), beer brewer in Karlsruhe
literature
- Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Stamm-Tafeln of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden. A newly edited book of nobility. Baden-Baden 1886 online .
- L. Löhlein: Rudolf Freiherr von Seldeneck. In: Friedrich von Weech (editor): Badische biographies . Second part, Heidelberg 1875, p. 295.
- A. and C. Reimann: Bartenstein as it used to be, by craftsmen, councilors and lackeys. Niederstetten 2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ s. Johann Gottfried Biedermann : genealogical register of the Reichfrey immediate knighthood of the country to Franconia praiseworthy places Rhön and Werra , Bayreuth 1749, tabula CCCCXXXVIII in the Google book search
- ↑ s. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (Ed.): New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 8: Saackhen, Wailckhl v. Saackhen - stone mason to Bulgarn . Leipzig 1868 ( full text in the Google book search, p. 459)
- ^ Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein, part Bartenstein