Sohlern (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the barons of Sohlern

The von Sohlern family owes their title of nobility to their ancestor, Anton von Sohlern , who came from Siegen . He and his family were ennobled on March 9, 1690 by Emperor Leopold I with the title "noble lords of Sohlern and the Münda". Until 2013, the descendants had their family home at Gößweinstein Castle in Franconian Switzerland .

history

Anton von Sohlern

Coming from a middle-class family, Anton Sohlern made a career in the service of the Electors of Trier. In 1670 he appeared under Elector Karl Kaspar von der Leyen as the elector's secret council. At the same time he was the administrator of the most important offices of the Archbishopric Trier, Boppard and Montabaur. In 1675 he became court director . After the death of Karl Kaspar von der Leyen (1676), his nephew Johann Hugo von Orsbeck became the new Elector of Trier. He accompanied the elector in 1689 to the election of Joseph I as Roman-German king in Augsburg. 1711 as court chancellor he was an ambassador for the emperor election of Charles VI. Through his influence he persuaded the Trier Elector Johann Hugo von Orsbeck to agree to the establishment of the electoral dignity for the Protestant Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg (Hanover). From his marriage to Margaretha Magdalena von Sinneren (from Synerine) three sons were born. After the death of their father, the sons Anton, Johann Hugo and Karl Heinrich shared the extensive estates, founded three own tribal lines and added the place names of their respective family seat to their names.

Grorother Hof , former seat of the Barons von Sohlern zu Graroth
Communion bench Wi-Frauenstein with Sohlern's coat of arms

from Sohlern to Graroth

Baron Anton (II.) Von Sohlern zu Graroth (* 1665; † July 12, 1729) was the Imperial Rittmeister and lived with his wife Maria Angela von Crazenbach in the Grorother Hof in front of the entrance to Wiesbaden-Frauenstein , which had been in the family since 1694.

Her son Baron Anton Joseph von Sohlern zu Graroth († 1776) was married to Salomone von Scherer zu Hohenkreuzberg. The two coats of arms carved in wood still adorn the communion benches they donated to the St. Georg and Katharina Church in Wiesbaden Frauenstein. With the two childless sons Carl Wilhelm and Hermann Franz, the line of the barons of Sohlern zu Grarod expired. The tombstone of Baron Anton (II.) Von Sohlern zu Graroth is in the Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in Eltville am Rhein .

The Lorcher Hilchenhaus is the seat of the Barons von Sohlern zu Lorch

from Sohlern to Lorch

Baron Karl Heinrich von Sohlern († 1757) was the founder of the Lorch line . He made the Lorcher Hilchenhaus , which Anton von Sohlern acquired in 1722, the ancestral home of his family. The will of Karl Heinrich von Sohlern has been handed down. The following list of possessions and rights only includes Karl Heinrich's part in the inheritance and not that of his two brothers:

  1. The noble knight well (Hilchenhaus) to Lorch
  2. Au Lorcher Werth, located in the middle of the Rhine near Lorch
  3. In Lorchhausen, the noble Klingelbach house, vineyard, goods and slopes
  4. The slope to Oberdiebach
  5. Fruit goods and interest from Ransel , Wollmwhere , Presberg and interest from Rüdesheim
  6. A grinding mill with mill square and garden in Lorch (Hilchenmühle also called Mittelmühle)
  7. The Ferresse house and estate next to the Piesporter goods
  8. The free aristocratic house in Rohm near Burgen (Mosel), along with goods and interest at Müden and Kern
  9. The Count's Lippe-Schaumburg house in Coblenz
  10. The free house and yard with goods at Niederhadamar , Gülten at Hadamar
  11. The goods at Bernkastel , Grach , Cues , Monzelfeld on the Middle Moselle
  12. The free estate Cazersberg near Neumagen
  13. The noble house in Hönningen with goods
  14. Freight, interest and pensions in Argendorf , Rheinbrohl , Upper and Lower hammerstein
  15. The estate in Dhron (?) On the Middle Moselle
  16. The Cölln house
  17. Fruit tithes in Niederelbert and Würges near Montabaur
  18. Jewels, silver works, canvas, hunting gardeners, rifles, debt claims

Karl Heinrich von Sohlern was married to Anna Johanna Kunigunde von Bastheim . The couple had three children: Emiliana, (married von Berlepsch), Theresa and the heir Augustin von Sohlern († 1788).

Augustin von Sohlern was also in the service of the Electorate of Trier and was most recently General and Commander of the Ehrenbreitstein Fortress in Koblenz. Augustin was married to Anna Theresia von Bastheim and, according to Lorcher church records, had several children with her: Maria Anna (Antionette) (* August 11, 1756), Johanna (* February 15, 1759; † May 21, 1759) and Josepha ( * February 10, 1765). The births of the family owner Franz Georg (* 1755), his brother Carl, who died in Lorch as a child, and their sister Maria Theresia, all of whom were born on Ehrenbreitstein, are not recorded in the Lorch church registers. As a teenager Maria Theresa was forced to enter the Stuben monastery . Her struggle to escape the monastery walls is told in the novel "The Women of Stuben" by Josefine Wittenbecher.

The male line of the Sohlern zu Lorch ends with Franz Georg von Sohlern. He was married to Magdalena Macher, the couple had a daughter Amalia married von Plettenberg († 1852 in Lorch). The Lorcher property went to his sister Maria Anna, who was married to Carl Heinrich Freiherr von Hausen (* October 10, 1755, † February 7, 1832). The impressive tomb of the former court judge on Rehlingen in German-Lorraine, captain in the French regiment Royal-Deux-Ponts, electoral chamberlain and hunter captain can still be admired today at the parish church of St. Martin in Lorch. This line also ends with the son Ferdinand von Hausen.

Klingelbacher Hof in Nastätten, better known today as Sohlernscher Hof. The property was the seat of the Barons von Sohlern zu Nastätten

from soles to nastocks

Baron Johann Hugo von Sohlern († 1732), the founder of the line to Nastätten , was married to Anna Maria Freiin von Dietz . Until the 19th century, this line had its headquarters in Nastätten in the Klingelbacher Hof, named after Junker Reinhard von Klingelbach. Anton Sohlern acquired the formerly free aristocratic estate in 1690 and converted and expanded it. Since that time the property has been called Sohlernscher Hof. It remained in the possession of the von Sohlern zu Nastätten family until 1840.

Then the family moved to the Johannishof estate near Bad Königshofen in Grabfeld . In 1875, Edgar Freiherr von Sohlern bought Gößweinstein Castle from the Kingdom of Bavaria as the seat for his family. In 1890, the new lords of the castle rebuilt the castle in a neo-Gothic style, with the main building having a stepped gable. Until the death of Michael Freiherr von Sohlern in 2013, Burg Gößweinstein remained the family seat. After the death of the lord of the castle, at his last request, the castle passed to the new owners, the Layritz family from Gößweinstein. The actor Gilbert von Sohlern is also a descendant of the Sohlern zu Nastätten.

Noble gentlemen from Sohlern and the Münda

  • Anton von Sohlern (…) ∞ Margaretha Magdalena von Sinnern (from Synerine) (3 sons: Anton II, Johann Hugo, Karl Heinrich)

Barons von Sohlern zu Graroth

  • Anton II (* 1665; † July 12, 1729) ∞ Marie Angela von Cratzenbach
  • Anton Joseph (*; † July 22, 1776) ∞ Salome von Scherer zu Hohenkreuzberg
  • Karl Wilhelm and Hermann Franz both without descendants, Aemiliana ∞ Adolph Freiherr von Bellmont

Barons von Sohlern zu Nastätten

  • Johann Hugo († 1732) ∞ Maria Anna von Dietz (3 daughters and 2 sons: Anton and Johann Hugo Franz)
  • Johann Hugo Franz (* June 14, 1720; † June 12, 1771) ∞ Anna Katharina von Holzfeld (3 sons: Anton Joseph, Ferdinand, Franz Philipp Gregor (* April 24, 1761; † June 12, 1789))
  • Anton Joseph (* June 18, 1757; † 1783) ∞ Marie Laura Franziska Josephe Clara Baronesse de Goussault d`Alimont (* August 8, 1752)
  • Anton Franz Georg (* December 25, 1795; † 1824) ∞ Marie Josephine Walburga Charlotte Magdalene von Hausen (second marriage ∞ Ludolf von Langen nass. Amtmann zu Königstein) (1 son Karl Heinrich, 1 daughter Marie Antoinette married von Oberkamp (* August 8, 1824))
  • Karl Heinrich (* January 12, 1823; †) ∞ Charlotte Freiin von Schütz zu Holzhausen (1 daughter: Luise Bertha Franziska (* January 12, 1823), 5 sons: Hugo Damian Franz Joseph (* May 8, 1850), Dr. Karl Edgar, Heinrich Emil (born May 27, 1854), Heinrich Karl (born January 3, 1861), Karl Ernst (landscape painter) (born October 25, 1866 - † October 26, 1950))
  • Dr. Karl Edgar (* May 17, 1853; † June 14, 1928) ∞ Julie Freiin von Redwitz - Schmölz (* November 14, 1853; † January 27, 1951)

Barons von Sohlern zu Lorch

  • Karl Heinrich († 1757) ∞ Anna Johanna Kunigunde von Bastheim (2 daughters: Therese, Emiliane, married von Berlepsch and 1 son: Augustin)
  • Augustin († February 19, 1788) ∞ Anna Therese von Bastheim (* 1715; † September 30, 1768) (4 daughters: Maria Anna (Antionette) married von Hausen (* August 11, 1756), Johanna (* February 15, 1768) 1759 - May 21, 1759), Josepha (* February 10, 1765), Maria Theresia and 2 sons: Franz Georg, Carl († November 5, 1759))
  • Franz Georg (born January 26, 1755; † January 2, 1821) ∞ Magdalena Macher (1daughter: Amalia married von Plettenberg († 1852 Lorch))

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memorable and useful Rhenish antiquarian: which of the most important… - Christian von Straßburg, Anton Joseph Weidenbach - Google Books
  2. ↑ SchlösserRundschau.de
  3. ↑ Eva Wodarz-Eichner: Grorother Hof: The late luck of the count . Website of the city of Wiesbaden, published in Wiesbadener Kurier on August 7, 2004.
  4. ↑ deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de
  5. ↑ http://www.josefine-wittenbecher.de/buecher.htm
  6. ↑ Kulimag property care and property management - Nastätten - Sohlernscher Hof ( Memento from November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ burg-goessweinstein
  8. ↑ Broadcast from April 13, 2013: Nina Ruge in conversation with Gilbert von Sohlern ( Memento from April 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive )