Selmnitz
The von Selmnitz , also called Selmenitz, Selbitz, Selben, were a Thuringian-knightly, later also a baronial prehistoric noble family, with their ancestral seat in Söllmnitz (northeast of Gera ).
history
The noble family is first mentioned around the year 1080. Conrad and Herrmann von Selmnitz are said to have fought in the battle of the Welfesholz in 1115 .
Temporary seats existed in Allstedt , Bedra , Delitzsch , Eckstedt , Flarchheim , Hohenkirchen (today part of Bröckau ), Kannawurf , Klein Eichstedt, Kranichborn , Mittelhausen , Ostramondra , Schönstedt , Söllmnitz, Steinburg , Straussfurt , Vehra , Wählitz, Westgreußen , Weißenschirmbach . In 1450 the family estate burned down, but was then rebuilt and sold to Kunz von Breitenbach . In the 15th and 16th centuries the family owned the castle fief of Querfurt and from 1464 to 1521 the Vitzenburg .
Felicitas von Selmnitz , b. von Münch (1488–1558), belonged to Martin Luther's circle . Friedemann von Selmnitz († 1576) married Magdalena Katharina von Schönfeld , a niece of Ave von Schönfeld , who had fled the monastery as a nun with Luther's wife.
Ernst Friedemann von Selmnitz (1620–1678) was the Electoral Saxon Privy Councilor , Chamberlain and Supervisor of the County of Mansfeld . In 1686 his only surviving son sold Steinburg and Straussfurt to Gerlach Heino von Münchhausen (1652–1710), chamberlain to the Great Elector , who married one of Ernst Friedemann's five daughters, Catharina Sophia von Selmnitz (1665–1735). Straussfurt then fell to his son Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen , Steinburg to his son Philipp Adolph von Münchhausen .
The von Selmnitz family died out at the end of the 18th century. Her hereditary burial was in the Pegau monastery .
coat of arms
The coat of arms is square in black and silver, in each field a rose in mistaken tinctures. On the helmet a growing, mutilated man, quartered in black and silver, with a silver collar and a black and silver cap, from whose gold buttons two black and one silver cock feathers hang down. The helmet covers are black silver.
Personalities
- Felicitas von Selmnitz born Münch (1488–1558), champion of the Reformation, married in 1507 to castle captain Wolf von Selmnitz.
- Ernst Friedemann von Selmnitz (1576–1634), bailiff at Arnstadt and Gehren , court master at Ebeleben , married to Dorothee Hogreve; built the church at Vehra in 1623/24 .
- Ernst Friedemann von Selmnitz (1620–1678), electoral privy councilor, chamberlain, supervisor of the county of Mansfeld
literature
- P. Jovius: Genealogy or family tree of the ancient, benevolent lineage of the von Selmnitz , 1622
- Weiland Rudolf von Bagenski, Siegmar von Schultze-Galléra : The story of the von Selmnitz family , printing and publishing house Otto Hendel, Halle 1914
- Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon, or, Handbook on the historical, genealogical and diplomatic, partly also heraldic, genealogical and diplomatic, partly also heraldic news of the high and low nobility , 1826, p. 474
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedemann von Selmnitz 'tombstone and epitaph († 1576) are in the town church of St. Peter and Paul zu Delitzsch .