Sinzendorf (noble family)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coat of arms of those “von Sintzendorf”, under “Austrian”, in Siebmacher's coat of arms book

Sinzendorf (also Sinzendorff, Sintzendorf (f), Sinzendorf (f) er ) is the name of a Bavarian-Austrian noble family with Upper Austrian origin (Sinzendorf near Nussbach ).

The Sinzendorf were raised to the rank of baron in 1610, the rank of imperial count in 1653 and the rank of imperial prince in 1803 . In 1653 the imperial burgraviate Rheineck on the Rhine came into their possession, in the middle of the 17th century the also imperial county Neuburg , in 1803 they received the princely burgrave Winterrieden instead of Rheineck .

The sex became extinct in 1822 in the male line , and is not with the Lower Austrian noble family of the von Zinzendorf be confused.

history

Bearers of the name of those von Sinzendorf appear in the 13th century as ministerials of Kremsmünster Abbey . Her ancestral castle was Sinzendorf in the municipality of Nussbach in the Traunviertel. They owned Feyregg Castle from 1404 to 1566, and Fridau Castle was owned by the family from 1497 to 1708 . Around 1450 the family split into two lines (later referred to as Ernstbrunn-Feyregg and Fridau - Neuburg ). In 1592 Joachim von Sinzendorf bought the castle and the Ernstbrunn manor (with Klement Castle and Michelstetten Castle) and expanded the Ernstbrunn Castle considerably.

In 1610 the nobles of Sinzendorf were elevated to the status of barons and in 1653 to the status of imperial counts . In 1653, Rudolf von Sinzendorf from Ernstbrunn bought the Burgraviate Rheineck am Rhein, which gave his line a share in the curate vote of the Westphalian Count Bank in the Imperial Council of Princes and rose to the imperial high nobility . In the second half of the 17th century, Georg Ludwig Graf von Sinzendorf bought the county of Neuburg am Inn, which was lost again in 1680.

In 1654 Count Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf from the Fridau-Neuburg line was enfeoffed with the hereditary treasury office of the Roman-German emperor; as a sign he was allowed to include the imperial crown in his coat of arms. In 1677 he also acquired a position in the empire: as the owner of the Thannhausen (Swabian) rule , he became a member of the Swabian Imperial Counts' College until this rule was sold by his descendants to the Counts of Stadion in 1708 .

The Neuburg am Inn line expired in 1767. The Ernstbrunn line was divided into the majorat line and the younger line. The former, raised to the rank of imperial prince in 1803 , included the lordships of Ernstbrunn, Klement , Straussberg, Triebel, Eichhorn Castle (from 1707-1802) in Austria, Bohemia and Moravia, among others, as well as the (princely) Burggrafschaft Winterrieden in Bavaria, which belonged to the family instead of the lost Grafschaft Rheineck was given. With Prosper von Sinzendorf to Ernst Brünn (1751–1822), raised to the rank of prince in 1803 , the male line died out in 1822 (in the female line 1842). A protracted dispute over inheritance followed, which ended with Prince Heinrich LXIV. von Reuss-Köstritz took over the rule of Ernstbrunn , whose descendants it still belongs to today.

The younger line also owned goods in Austria and Bohemia, such as Plan , Gottschau u. a.

The von Sinzendorf family was through dynastic marriages a. a. related by marriage to the noble families of Abensberg , Althan , Doria , Fünfkirchen , Fürstenberg , Grabner zu Rosenburg , Hardegg , Harrach , Hartig , Haugwitz , Kinsky , Lazanzky , Limburg-Styrum , Nostitz , Polheim , Preuer , Seldern , Thurn and Valsassina , Teuffenbach , Trauttmansdorff , Uhlefeldt , Visconti and Werdenberg .

possession

Name bearer

coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms of those from Sintzendorf to Siebmacher shows a shield divided by blue and red , three silver ashlar stones , 1 in the blue over 2 in the red field, the two lower ones standing on the side edge; a crowned helmet, depending how the shield called, but of blue and red diagonally divided horns ; the helmet cover blue-silver.

The described coat of arms of those of Sinzendorf can also be found in Pöggstall Castle . There are also more coats of arms of the barons, counts and princes of Sinzendorf, which integrate other family coats of arms . The coat of arms can also be found as part of municipal coats of arms such as B. in the coat of arms of Gnadendorf in the Mistelbach district in Lower Austria .

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ALO docView - 35 Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire (1877). Retrieved August 26, 2019 .
  2. ^ Upper Austrian nobility - GDZ. Retrieved August 26, 2019 .