Uetterodt

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Family coat of arms of those of Uetterodt

Uetterodt , also Utterrodt , is the name of an old, originally Thuringian noble family . The family later acquired property and reputation in Franconia , Saxony and the Rhineland .

history

origin

The forecast by the family arrived n. Chr in 455th with the Huns of Thuringia , as the tribe of the Green-Hun, the members of the later so-named families of Erffa , von Wangenheim presided and Uetterodt where Nesse (Werra ) settled there in order to practice agriculture and to conduct a not insignificant trade in grain in the Saale and Elbe regions. At that time the Wends and the Sorbs were resident there, but without any permanent residence.

In old Thuringian chronicles, a noble Uto is said to have cleared a piece of forest northwest of Eisenach and established the village of Utteroda (today a part of Krauthausen ) there. The place was given to the Jakobskloster in Creuzburg , founded in 1173 . Kneschke mentions that Siegbert Uetterodt is said to have emerged victorious in a tournament held in Braunschweig in 996 and Heinrich Uetterodt is said to have been one of the most distinguished Thuringian gentlemen in a certificate from Emperor Heinrich V in 1114 .

According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the family was first mentioned in a document in 1399 with Hans von Uttenrode .

Spread and personalities

Tower of the Scharfenburg
Memorial stone (Uetterodtsches hereditary burial in Thal)

In 1442, Hans and Berthold Uetterodt acquired Scharfenberg Castle (also Scharfenburg) on ​​the northern edge of the Thuringian Forest . They combined a number of estates into one rule ( Uetterodtschesgericht ), but after the castle was destroyed during the Saxon Fratricidal War in 1446 they had to build a new ancestral seat near Thal , which they received from Duke Wilhelm von Sachsen zu Lehn . It remained in the family until 1837.

Conrad Uetterodt and, after him, his cousin Nicolaus were Landkomture of the Teutonic Knight Order in Thuringia from 1499 to 1547 .

The family divided into two lines in the 16th century, the older line kept the headquarters in Thal, since the Scharfenburg was in the meantime dilapidated, a "permanent house" was built in the local area as a new residence. The younger line at Lupnitz was donated by Andreas Friedrich von Uetterodt. He was with from the neighboring Farnroda originating heiress Anne of Farnrode married. After the Peasants' War he was able to acquire the secularized monastery courtyard of Wenigenlupnitz in order to build Neuscharfenberg Castle there. Later, a branch to was Schwarzhausen founded, from the Heinrich Wilhelm von Uetterodt, Duke of Saxony-römhilder steward and chief forester to Römhild came. In 1730 he was the oldest sex.

Since 1550 a Uettrodt Burgmann was the Reichsburg Friedberg in the Wetterau . At the beginning of the 18th century, the Lords of Uetterodt also belonged to the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knight circle .

The royal Polish and electoral Saxon privy councilor Adolph II von Uetterodt, who also worked as an envoy at the royal British and imperial court in Vienna , belonged to the older line of Thal . His son Adolph III. von Uetterodt was electoral general of the cavalry . His son Adolph IV died in old age. He was followed by the younger line under Wolf Sigismund VI. of Uetterodt, kasseler Hessian-ländgräflich Lord Chamberlain , who could reunite all the family estates under his hand. Wolf Horst Graf von Uetterodt (* 1788; † 1836), a son of Wolf Sigismund VI., Founded a family major . Ludwig Wolf Sigismund Graf von Uetterodt zum Scharfenberg (* 1824) comes from his marriage to Elisabeth Freiin von Brever - called von Fürth (* 1798), in 1817. He was lord of the Neuscharfenberg Castle in Wenigenlupnitz and married Friederike von Uetterodt, widowed Baroness von Donop, in 1845. In addition to two daughters, Countesses Ottilie (* 1847) and Maria (* 1848), a son, Wolf Graf von Uetterodt (* 1846), came from the marriage.

Ludwig Graf von Uetterodt zu Scharfenberg was a historian and author. He wrote among others Günther Graf von Schwarzburg, elected German king. (Leipzig 1862) and Ernst Graf zu Mansfeld 1580−1626. (Gotha 1867).

Georg Christoph von Utterodt was mining captain in Straßberg from 1701 to 1709 . Under his direction, essential parts of the water management of the Straßberg mining industry, today's area monument Unterharzer pond and ditch system were built.

Status surveys

Wolf von Uetterodt auf Scharfenberg, Grand Ducal Hessian Chamberlain , Major and Wing Adjutant , was elevated to the Grand Ducal Hessian Count status in Darmstadt on February 3, 1829 with the title Herr zu Scharffenberg . The diploma was recognized and confirmed by the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach and the Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha . His son Ludwig Graf von Uetterodt, Herr zu Scharffenberg, received the Prussian indigenous community on December 1, 1860 .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows: “In silver, three (2: 1) outwardly turned uneducated blue crescent moons , each enclosing a formed red ray sun. On the gold-crowned helmet with red-silver covers a conical red column, on it a lying blue crescent moon, surrounding the red sun. "

Count's coat of arms

The Count's coat of arms, awarded in 1829, is quartered (coat of arms of the Burgraves of Kirchberg ) and covered with a central shield (the family coat of arms). 1 and 4 in silver a black lion , 2 and 3 in silver three black stakes . The coat of arms has three helmets, on the right one with a black and silver blanket a high silver column, equipped with a rosette of eight alternating black and silver ostrich feathers. In the middle is the trunk helmet, on the left with a black and silver blanket a high silver pillar covered with three black stakes, equipped with a natural peacock frond.

The motto is: Firm and loyal .

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 9, Pages 552–553
  2. ↑ Main State Archives Dresden , copy 3, fol. 14th
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, pages 131–132
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Eberhardt On the history of the Scharfenburg near Thal , Ruhla 1994
  5. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 735.
  6. ^ Album of the residences, castles and manors of Thuringia, especially the Saxon Lands of the Ernestine line. In pictorial representation. In connection with several accompanied by text u. published by Prof. Dr. J. Gersdorf, archivist in Altenburg, school director. Dr. AM Schulze in Gotha, Hofr. L. Bechstein in Meiningen, Prof. Dr. W. Rein in Eisenach, Dr. Ms. Hoffmann in Hildburghausen. I issue. Leipzig, expedition. (Werl.) Qu.Fol.
  7. ↑ The Unterharzer pond and ditch system

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