Thünefeld (noble family)
Thünefeld (also Thüngfeld, Thünfeld) was an old, pen and knightly family, originally from Franconia , which u. a. was based in Schmiechen . It belonged to the Imperial Knighthood Canton Steigerwald, where his parent company Thünefeld, sold in 1414, is located not far from Schlüsselfeld.
history
The name of the family is mentioned as early as the second half of the 10th century, but the regular tribe series, certified by acts of the canton at the Steigerwald, as well as by baptismal registers and register of the town and parish of Schlüsselfeld, where the v. Thüngfeld have had the hereditary burial since time immemorial, only begins around 1197 with the knight Dietrich and his son Albrecht v. Th . In 1570 the sex was raised to the status of imperial barons and in 1746 it was enrolled as a baron in the Kingdom of Bavaria. In the eighth link, the naming of Thünefeld begins with Kunz von Thüngfeld and a descendant of Eberhard von Thüngfeld.
In 1812, the royal Bavarian secret council Klemens Wenzeslaus Freiherr von Thünefeld took over the paternal family fideikommissgut Schmiechen .
In addition, Rudolf von Thünefeld was the owner of Burgellern Castle .
In 1937 the baronial family died out with Leopoldine Freiin von Thünefeld, St. Elisabethordendame . Several members of the noble family are buried in the cemetery of the pilgrimage church Maria Kappel (Schmiechen) .
coat of arms
Shield divided twice across, at the top in red two tournament lances with golden squares, in the middle in silver a crowned gold-armored black eagle, on the chest wearing a gold brake and three, below, in green a knight in armor with an open visor and red Helmbush, who in his right hand holds up a sword ready to fight and gallops towards his right on a white, red-saddled and black-bridled horse.
swell
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : Deutsches Adelslexikon, ninth volume, Leipzig 1870, pp. 202–203
- German Aristocratic Archives Foundation (publisher): Adelslexikon, Volume XIV, Leipzig 2003, p. 422
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kneschke 1870, pp. 202f
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