Trott to Solz

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Family coat of arms of those from Trott zu Solz

Trott zu Solz is the name of an old Hessian noble family that has been Protestant since the Reformation . The part of the family who are wealthy in Hesse is still registered with the Althessian Knighthood and resides on the Solz and Imshausen estates near Bebra.

history

The family first appeared in a document in 1252 with the knights Hermann and Berthold Trott , lords of Lispenhausen Castle and landlords in Solz . Hermann was also mentioned in 1261 as a Burgmann at the Reichsburg Boyneburg and with him the direct line of ancestors begins .

Two Burglehen to Rotenburg an der Fulda (the castle Trott local and Castle Rodenberg ) and two castle houses for Wildeck, including the 1337 acquired as fuldisches feudal castle Wildeck , were part of the early family ownership. 1332 Berthold (called "Bodo", knight and Burgmann zu Rotenburg) is mentioned as a feudal bearer of the Hersfeld Abbey in Solz, where there were, however, other feudal recipients; Solz only came into the sole fiefdom of the Trotten in 1506. Even the Lispenhausener possession was more free goods divided; instead of the dialed today Altenburg Lispenhausen the trotting built in the late middle ages, the still existing Wasserburg Lispenhausen . In Treffurt , the family owned the Trott'sche Hof . Around 1500 the Trotten then acquired the Imshausen estate , which is located next to Solz , and is surrounded by the Trotten forest. In 1527, the Treffurter Trott acquired Schwarzenhasel Castle (which remained in the family's possession until 1823 - along with the now ruinous Rodenberg Castle). The family also owned property in Niederellenbach and Ersrode , along with other goods, farms and slopes .

In 1640 Werner von Trott exchanged the Lispenhausen estate for the Iba suburb ; the Lispenhausen tribe, still resident on a residual estate, died out in 1707. The Solz tribe was divided into the lines Solz / Imshausen, Treffurt / Schwarzenhasel and the Brandenburg line, which, beginning with Adam von Trott, sat on Badingen from 1537 and from 1542 on the Himmelpfort monastery , from which it formed the Badingen and Himmelpfort rulership . After the line there died out in 1727, this was drawn in as a settled fief by the Brandenburg Elector .

On February 28, 1586, an imperial coats of arms association with the noble family von Trotha from the Saalkreis took place in Prague . However, the families are not of the same tribe and therefore no longer use the combined coat of arms.

Until 1616, the Trott estates in Hesse were mostly owned by all lines of the family, after which they were divided into the Solz and Imshausen branches, and separate branches also formed in Treffurt and Schwarzenhasel. In 1692 part of the Trott property in Solz and Imshausen fell through inheritance to the imperial barons von Verschuer , who still live in their own manor house in Solz. In the first half of the 18th century, the two families carried out a lawsuit for decades before the Imperial Court of Justice for the Imshausen property, which ended in a settlement, whereby the fief remained with the Trott, but the Verschuer received compensation. In 1901 the Verschuer sold their share of the Trottenwald.

The younger Imshausen branch was given the status of imperial baron on May 3, 1778, and the Solz branch was given the status of baron on November 5, 1812, although it did not make use of it. The line to Schwarzenhasel expired in 1813 in the male line with Carl Ludwig von Trott zu Schwarzenhasel. The Schwarzenhasel estate fell to Trott zu Solz, who owned it until 1823.

coat of arms

United coat of arms Trotha-Trott those von Trotha from 1586

The family coat of arms shows in blue a rafter made of red and silver . On the helmet with red-silver blankets, a red cap with a hermelette , on it an open black flight , studded with silver hearts .

The combined coat of arms from 1586 (Trott / Trotha) is quartered and shows in fields one and four the family coat of arms, in two and three in gold a black raven with a golden ring in its beak ( von Trotha ). It has two helmets: on the right one with a blue-silver blanket a silver cap with the flight as in the family coat of arms, on the left a sitting red wolf (von Trotha).

The Saxon von Trotha also received an imperial coat of arms association with the Trott zu Solz on February 28, 1586 in Prague . The von Trotha family, like the Trott, no longer make use of this coat of arms, because contrary to what was assumed at the time, there is no tribal community. This coat of arms showed the family coat of arms of the von Trotha in fields one and four: in gold on a green three-mountain, a raven with a gold ring in its beak; in fields two and three the family coat of arms of those from Trott zu Solz: in black a rafters made of silver and red in two rows. It has two helmets: on the crowned right one with black and gold blankets a seated golden wolf (von Trotha), on the left one with red and silver blankets a red tournament hat with a hermelette on top, on it an open black flight, sprinkled with silver and red hearts (Trott zu Solz).

Name bearer

Trottenfriedhof near Imshausen with numerous graves of the family
The resistance fighter against National Socialism Adam von Trott zu Solz (1909–1944) before the People's Court

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marburg State Archives
  2. ↑ http://www.lispenhausen.de/historisches/knothe_chronik/chronik_knothe.pdf
  3. ^ Dietrich Christoph von Rommel: History of Hesse, Volume V, Modern History of Hesse, First Volume. Cassel, 1835, p. 441

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