Teuffenbach (noble family)
The nobility of the von Teuffenbach (also Teuffenpach, Teufenbachstrasse, Tiefenbach, Düefenbach) was used to down Austrian of the estates needle counted or as "Steiermärkischer Uradel from the same strain home with low-Wölz [Niederwölz] described". Nierwölz is now a municipality in today's Murau district in Styria and is located next to Teufenbach-Katsch , which includes Teufenbach , Katsch an der Mur and Frojach as localities. The first main line Teuffenbach-Mairhofen ( Teuffenbach-Mayrhofen ) has expired in the male line, the second main line Teuffenbach-Teufenbach ( Tiefenbach ) still exists.
history
Origin and possessions
The original seat of the Teuffenbach family was Alt-Teuffenbach Castle in Teufenbach at the road junction to Vienna , Salzburg and Venetia in the Judenburger Kreis , the former administrative unit of the historic Duchy of Styria in Inner Austria (also West Upper Styria ). The Teuffenbachers built their headquarters there because of the proximity to other once powerful noble families such as von Katsch, Pur, Stein, Saurau , Schrattenberg and Welzer, who had their headquarters in the area.
Headquarters Teuffenbach Castle
Teuffenbach Castle was jointly owned by the Barons of Teuffenbach until the middle of the 17th century, when it was divided into Old and New Teuffenbach (1652). Most of the latter part was sold by the heiress Anna Sidonie von Teuffenbach from the second (Georg'schen) main line of Teuffenbach von Tiefenbach and Maßweg, who married Ludwig Friedrich Graf Löwenstein, to the baron Johann Jacob von Putterer, who was distantly related by marriage later assured the entire property. Alt-Teuffenbach, on the other hand, belonged to Freiherr Karl von Teuffenbach, who handed it over to Georg Christian Count von Saurau, who in turn was related by marriage to von Teuffenbach through sister Barbara, wife of Alban Freiherr Saurau. Those from Putterer and von Saurau finally passed Neu- and Alt-Teuffenbach to other owners.
Other possessions of the Teuffenbach family
In Styria, the family also owned Vaßhof near Teuffenbach, Maßweg, the goods Einöd near Knittelfeld, Eppenstein, Farrach, Feistritz near Schöder, Gustersheim, Hardt near Kindberg, Landschach, Oberndorf, Offenburg, Reiffenstein, Sauerbrunn near Pöls in Upper Styria, and Schallaun near Pur, Schalleck and Stattenberg in Untersteier, Scheifling, Spielberg and Thann near Knittelfeld.
Owned in Carinthia, Hungary, Moravia and Bohemia
The Teuffenbacher were landowners of Lichtengraben (Liechtengraben) in the Ober-Lavanttal in Carinthia, owners in Hungary with the rule of Rokiczan, as well as owners of property in Moravia , including Dürnholz Castle and Market , the villages of Alt-Fröllersdorf, Fröllersdorf , Guldenfurt , Gutenfeld, Holmitz , Neudorf, Neusiedel, Prerau , Rosnitz, Urbow, the manors and estates Eichhorn, Groß-Niemtschitz , Jamnitz, Jarmeritz, Ratibořitz, and Řican, the little town of Unter-Dannowitz and the Domaschow estate. In Bohemia the Teuffenbacher owned the dominions of Kumburg, Aulibitz and the Chotecz estate.
Owned in Lower Austria and the Austrian coastal region
The lords of Teuffenberg belonged to the rural nobility in Lower Austria, they owned the estates Dürnkrut , Ebenthal, Höflein, Zistersdorf and the Angern estate. In the historical area of the Austrian Littoral , you owned the Peuma Castle near Gorizia.
Former property of the Teuffenbach family: Neu-Teuffenbach Castle
Lichtengraben Castle in Bad St. Leonhard in Lavanttal: owned by the Teuffenbach family
Name bearer
- Rudolf von Teuffenbach , also Tiefenbach (born November 26, 1582 in Graz, † March 4, 1653): General of the Imperial Army (HRR) of the Habsburgs, a. a. at the Thirty Years War
- Franz Freiherr von Teuffenbach zu Tiefenbach and Maßweg (* 1516; † 1578): tombstone in the cath. Parish church hl. Margareta with the former cemetery in the village of Teufenbach ( Teufenbach-Katsch ), Austria
- Alexandra von Teuffenbach (* 1971 in Padua): Italian Catholic theologian
- Ingeborg Capra-Teuffenbach (born October 1, 1914 in Wolfsberg (Carinthia), † September 16, 1992 in Innsbruck (Tyrol)): Austrian writer
- Johann von Teuffenbach (* before 1585; †?): Builder of Thannhausen Castle (Styria) around 1585
- Barbara von Teuffenbach (*?, †?): Sister of Rudolf von Teuffenbach , inheriting wife of the entire Lower Austrian possessions and the castle of her husband Johann Bernhard von Fünfkirchen
Crypt and memorial stones
The Teuffenbach family crypt is located in the Teuffenbach headquarters. Memorial stones and memorials of the family can be found in other locations such as Thann Castle near Groß-Lobming ( Großlobming ), in Oberndorf not far from the St. Lambrecht-Schauerfeld station of the Crown Prince Rudolphbahn, in the Königsberg crypt in Sebenstein in Lower Austria Johanniskirchhof in Nuremberg , in the Barfüßerkirche ( Franziskanerkloster Ulm ), at the old Saurau Palace in Graz , at the gate of Maßweg Castle near Knittelfeld, in Hollenegg Castle near Deutsch-Landsberg ( Deutschlandsberg ) in Central Styria, in Spielberg Castle in Styria, in the parish church Lind near Knittelfeld, in Einöd Castle between Groß-Lobming and Weißkirchen, in the collegiate church of St. Lambrecht, in Lichtengraben Castle (Liechtengraben) in Carinthia, in the parish church of St. Leonhard in Lavanttal , in that of St. Gertraud near Wolfsberg in Lavanthal ( Frantschach-Sankt Gertraud ), in the city cemetery in Trieste , in the cemetery in Peuma near Gorizia and in Feistri Castle tz at Schöder near Murau.
coat of arms
Coat of arms and relatives of the Teuffenbach-Mairhofen (extinct) and Teuffenbach-Massweg
The two main tribes of those of Teuffenbach - first main trunk , Teuffenbach-Mairhofen (extinct) and second main trunk , Teuffenbach-Massweg have different coats of arms. This earlier led to the assumption that two completely different genders were interpreted in it. Constant Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg contradicts this due to the evidence regarding common elements in the coats of arms history of both related lines.
Coat of arms of those of Teuffenbach-Mairhofen
Family coat of arms of the first main tribe
Blazon : The family coat of arms shows the shield split in red, silver and black; the crowned helmet shows an open eagle flight, the wings split red-silver-black; the helmet covers are red and silver on the right and black and silver on the left.
Coat of arms from 1563
Blazon: The coat of arms from 1563 shows the shield quartered with a central shield , which represents the family coat of arms; Fields 1 and 4 show three black rolls with the tips arranged so that they form a diagonal bar and abut at the corners, fields 2 and 3 show a right-turned, double-tailed, gold-crowned lion in blue (coat of arms of the von Seissenegg); two crowned helmets: the right one shows black-silver helmet covers on the right and red-silver helmet covers on the left with an open eagle flight, the right wing of which is split black-silver-red and the left red-silver-black, the left helmet with black-silver and on the right on the left blue-gold helmet covers carry an open eagle flight, whose right wing is divided like field 1, the left wing blue-gold, in the middle the lion .
Coat of arms of those of Teuffenbach-Massweg
Barons coat of arms
Blazon : The baronial coat of arms according to Johann Siebmacher , described here based on Baron Stadl's work Ehrenspiegel des Duchy of Styria , shows a shield divided into five widths, the first, third and fifth parts of which are white (or silver), the second and fourth black, on the upper edge of the shield two crowned tournament helmets; A man growing out of the crown of a helmet, like the same five times silver and black striped, with a pointed beard, on the head a high silver and black striped hat, and the other helmet likewise with a five times silver and black striped flight; the helmet covers are underlaid with silver on both sides.
Blazon according to the Styrian Wappenbuch by Johann Gottfried Herzenkraft (end of the 16th century): The coat of arms shows two black bars in silver; Two helmets: the right helmet with a left-looking man's torso with black mustache and mustache, his skirt and the high, old Franconian tournament hat with a silver ostrich feather bending forward, silver and covered with two black bars , the left helmet with a right-turning, closed silver eagle flight with two black bars; the helmet covers are black and silver.
Coat of arms of the barons of Teuffenbach (" Düefenbach ") in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605, plate 23
Coat of arms of the barons of Teuffenbach (from 1563), first main trunk , Teuffenbach-Mairhofen (extinct), in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms from 1605, plate 22
literature
- Johann Baptist Witting : The Lower Austrian rural nobility. In: J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms . Volume 4. Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1918, plates 151–153 ( online ); Pp. 315-321 ( online ).
- Géza von Csergheő : The nobility of Hungary together with the neighboring countries . In: J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch , 4th volume, 15th department, Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1885, p. 662 ( online )
- Georg Clam Martinic : Castles and palaces in Austria - from Vorarlberg to Burgenland . Verlag A and M, St. Pölten / Vienna / Linz 1991, 506 pages.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c S-Z, text . Bauer & Raspe ( uni-goettingen.de [accessed January 14, 2019]).
- ↑ Query on geneanet.org
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n ALO docView - 44 Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire (1882). Retrieved January 14, 2019 .
- ↑ page - 60 - in castles and palaces in Austria. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ S - Z, plates . Bauer & Raspe ( uni-goettingen.de [accessed January 14, 2019]).