Thannhausen (noble family)
The Lords of Thannhausen are an old Swabian - Franconian noble family with the same name in Tannhausen near Ellwangen an der Jagst, which was part of the Swabian imperial knighthood of the Kocher canton . In 1496 Wilhelm von Danhausen was already a member of the St. Jörgenschild , the forerunner of the knighthood , which then united to form the imperial knighthood .
history
origin
The barons from and to Thannhausen can trace their ancestry and origins back to the Carolingians , namely these old and first lords of Thannhausen originally came to the Nördlinger Ries as Franks . They belong to the oldest noble families in the Ries and are the only family in the Ries that has always been preserved under the same name at the old ancestral seat. Their order was given by the Carolingians to take over aristocratic rule there, as was the order of many noble families of the West Franks around 700 to 900. They gave their ancestral seat and all castles of their descendants the name Thannhausen. They also seemed to be under the special protection of the following Staufer , as shown by the offices of the Thannhausen at that time, which they held under King Friedrich II. (Swabia) of Hohenstaufen . In the early days the Lords of Thannhausen were often found in the entourage of the king and emperor, which was a very great honor and distinction for the nobleman, and was only granted to the most capable and bravest nobles, so in 1212 an Albertus de Tanhusen was named emperor . Called chamberlain.
Before the year 800, the place Thannhausen, today Tannhausen , appears without an h after a spelling reform in 1903, not even on the map in the Ries, but afterwards. Tannhausen is documented for the first time in 1100 and as one of the oldest known members of the family, Sigiboto de Tanhusen appears in a document in 1145 , as a relative and Vogt of Bruno , bishop of the Strasbourg diocese .
After the fall of the Hohenstaufen emperors, family members held important positions with a prince. In 1552 Wilhelm v. Thannhausen as equestrian captain and court master in the service of the Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach , he was born in 1518 and died at the old age of 79 on October 27, 1596 in Stauf (Thalmässing) . His son Hans-Wolf (1555-1635) was Fürstl during the troubled times of the Thirty Years' War . Brandenburg Chamber Council and Equestrian Captain. He had to endure great hardship because his wife Sybille v. Seckendorff and most of her children probably fell victim to the plague of the time.
The later generations of the family were then mainly from the 13th century to the ministerials of the Counts v. Oettingen-Wallerstein , until 1849. After that, the members of the family were mainly in the service of the House of Württemberg , the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , as officers or in the forestry , as well as in the service of the bishops of Würzburg . And so two Tannhausers took part in Napoleon's campaigns in 1812. Friedrich v. Thannhausen was a lieutenant colonel and was seen wounded for the last time when the Grande Armée withdrew from the Beresina . His brother Maximilian fell in the battle of Hanau as a first lieutenant due to the carelessness of his comrades .
The headquarters, once a moated castle, is privately owned and has been exposed to many wars and conflagrations over the centuries and burned down three times, namely in 1567, 1621, and 1649. The building took on its current appearance in the years after 1767 During the last war of 1939–1945, Thannhausen Castle was saved from destruction.
The Tannhauser
According to the testimony of the monk Felix Fabri (* around 1438 / 39–1502), the minstrel Tannhauser is said to have belonged to this family. Lupoldus Danhäuser is mentioned as a witness in a document of the Count of Hohenlohe in 1246 , together with his brother Siboto Danhäuser . The minstrel could have had the first name Lupoldus , because it is not known which first name he had. However, Johannes Siebert in his Tannhäuser monograph from 1934 considered this evidence to be unlikely; the more recent research literature completely rejects such reliable assignments of origin, as the biographical sources are too poor.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a black boat in silver with a black oar rod hanging on the right. On the helmet with black and silver covers, a closed silver flight covered with a boat.
Coat of arms in Tyroff's book of arms
Bookplate with coat of arms of Thannhausen
literature
- DJ Haller and H. Dannenbauer From the Carolingians to the Staufers - the old German Empire (900-1250) , Volume 1065 Göschen Collection, Berlin 1970, Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co.
- Walter Weller, 1983 photo book “Wir” Ries, Härtsfeld, Heidenheimer Alb, Albuch
- Dieter Kudorfer The Ries from the Carolingian era
- Malte Bischoff, Archive of the Barons von and zu Thannhausen, Verlag W. Kohlhammer Stuttgart 1998 (Inventories of the non-state archives Baden-Württemberg; Vol. 24) ISBN 3-17-015371-4
- Gotha Frhr. Paperback 1894 and 1940, Hdb.Bavaria, Volume IV 1953 (main series)
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, pages 389-390, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Freiherrliche Häuser A Volume VIII 1971 and Freiherrliche Häuser Volume XXIV 2008
- Deutsches Adelsblatt , number 10 of October 15, 1987
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reg.Imp.V.1.1 n.671
- ↑ Reg.Imp.V.1 or W. Ficker 671,672; and Wirtemberg document book . Volume III, No. 581. Stuttgart 1871, pp. 33–35 ( digitized version , online edition )
- ↑ See Hermann Bloch, Regesten der Bischöfe von Straßburg, Innsbruck 1908
- ↑ Johannes Siebert: The poet Tannhauser: life, poems, saga . Niemeyer, Halle / Saale 1934. Reprint: Olms, Hildesheim 1980, ISBN 3-487-06832-X ( limited preview in the Google book search)
- ^ Burghart Wachinger : Tannhauser . In: Author's Lexicon , Volume 9, 2nd edition de Gruyter, Berlin [u. a.] 1995, col. 600-610.
