Soden (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Soden

Soden (also from Soden or vom Sode ) is the name of an old Lower Saxon noble family . The Lords of Soden originally belonged to the patriciate of the city of Hanover and later reached Franconia . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

The family with Johann , Dietrich and Hildebrand de Sode was first mentioned in a document in 1323 in Hanover. Already in 1358 Hyldebrandus de Zode appears under the "consules jurati" , the city council, and in 1418 Jakob von Sode "[...] from welckem dat gantze herelike sexes from the Sode sprung from" .

For a long time, the von Sode family belonged to the most important patrician families in Hanover, which branched out to settle in neighboring cities. A first Hanoverian line with the name of Sode died out in the 17th century. A second Prussian - Hamburg - Saxon line was called in part by Soden-Gölzdorf . A third line, from the Sode , was established in Mecklenburg in the first half of the 18th century and a fourth line, from Soden , reached Franconia via Erfurt .

Members of the fourth line were, because of the rule Neidenfels (in the municipality of Satteldorf near Schwäbisch Hall ) acquired by the barons of Ellrichshausen , members of the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knightly circle . The former princely Ansbach State Minister Julius Reichsgraf von Soden bought the Neustädtles manor in 1794 , which is still owned by the Counts of Soden. Because of the ownership or partial ownership of Neustädtles and Eichenhausen, the Counts Soden were also registered in the knightly canton of Rhön-Werra and because of Sassanfahrt , Köttmannsdorf and Schlammersdorf in the knightly canton of Steigerwald . The Lords of Soden were also represented in the cantons of Gebürg and Altmühl .

In 1724 they received a diploma confirming their patrician nobility from the empire . In 1790 an older branch of the Franconian line was raised to the status of imperial count . A younger branch of this line was registered in the barons' class of nobility in 1831 in the Kingdom of Württemberg and in 1868 in the Kingdom of Bavaria , due to the former membership of the Imperial Knighthood . The Bavarian State Minister Baron Maximilian von Soden-Fraunhofen (1844–1922) came from this branch and was raised to the status of hereditary Bavarian count in 1916. In 1865 he inherited Neufraunhofen Castle in Lower Bavaria, which is still owned by his line, the Counts of Soden-Fraunhofen .

coat of arms

Blazon of the tribe emblem : "Divided by red and silver, up and down a grünbespitzte and goldbebutzte rose in confused colors. On the gold-crowned helmet with red and silver covers, two red and silver split, waving flags on inclined golden lances pointed on both sides. "

The original coat of arms is described as: “Divided by red and silver, above and below a rose in confused colors. On the crowned helmet with red-silver covers, two flags, the right one silver on a red stick with a golden lance tip, the left one red on a golden stick with a golden lance tip. "

In old descriptions of the coat of arms, such as in Siebmacher's book of arms , the flags and lances are described in many different ways.

Name bearer

Honors

  • Sodenstrasse in the eastern part of Hanover, which was laid out in 1860, honors the Hanoverian council family with its name.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Helmut Zimmermann: Sode, vom (see literature)
  2. ^ Second pledge register 1310 to 1348 of the city of Hanover
  3. ↑ Glass window with coat of arms in the Nuremberg Frauenkirche
  4. ↑ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß:  Soden-Fraunhofen, Carl Alfred Maria Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 521 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Hans Christoph Graf von Seherr-Thoß:  Soden-Fraunhofen, Maximilian Ekart Maria Heinrich Alfred Josef Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-428-11205-0 , p. 522 f. ( Digitized version ).
  6. ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: Sodenstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover , Verlag Hahnsche Buchhandlung , Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 230