Weissenwolff's disgrace

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Family coat of arms of the "Von Weisßenwolff" "Austrians" (disgrace of Weissenwolf) in Scheibler's book of arms

Ungnad von Weissenwolff is an Austrian noble family.

history

David in disgrace of Weissenwolff , Governor of Upper Austria
Ernestine Aloisia Ungnad von Weissenwolff with her husband Count Giacomo Durazzo (painting by Martin van Meytens , around 1760)

The noble family "von Weissenwolff" probably originally came from Franconia and was mentioned in a document as a ministerial of the Bishop of Bamberg and resident in Carinthia from the 12th century. In 1192 an Ulrich von Weissenwolff fought on the side of Rudolf von Habsburg. From the middle of the 13th century, the name “von Weissenwolff” was preceded by the term “Ungnad”. According to legend, a Heinrich von Weissenwolff is said to have besieged the robber baron's castle of Turpin von Schachenstein and starved to death. The robber baron himself had escaped in time, but had left his wife behind, who expected that she would be lenient as a woman and that the siege would be broken off. That was not the case. Weissenwolff besieged the castle until the surrender, when the robber baron's wife kept repeating the word "disgrace" over the castle walls. Weissenwolff considered it an honorary designation to be called "Ungnad" by a robber baron's wife and adopted the name. Until the 17th century, the name "Ungnad" was even more important than the actual gender name "Weissenwolff". The correct spelling today is "Weissenwolff" and not, as is often the case, "Weißenwolff".

Important statesmen of the family in the service of the Habsburgs were Hans Ungnad Freiherr von Sonneck (1493–1564), David II. Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1604–1672), Johann Ungnad von Weißenwolff (1779–1855) and Konrad Paul Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1855– 1912), Austrian landowner and Catholic-conservative politician.

Female members of the family also married into noble families, such as Ernestine Aloisia Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1732–1794) who was married to Count Giacomo Durazzo (1717–1794), Maria Anna Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1795–1866), who was married to Count Valentin Philipp Esterházy de Galántha (1786–1838) or Marie Elisabeth Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1718–1790), married to Nikolaus I. Joseph Esterházy de Galantha (1714–1790). Elisabeth Ungnad von Weissenwolf was a godchild of Countess Elisabeth von Oldenburg and, with her son Anton Günther von Oldenburg, got the bastard Anton I von Aldenburg (1633–1680), who was raised to the rank of imperial count. There is also said to have been a promise of marriage signed in his blood by the ruling Count of Oldenburg to Elisabeth Ungnad, which, however, was canceled by influencing the Count's councils. When the widowed Princess Juliane von Ostfriesland ruled her country as a guardian for her son, Elisabeth Ungnad, Countess von Weissenwolff, was one of the most influential personalities in the country.

As one of 64 noble families, the family had a hereditary seat in the manor house , the upper house of the Austrian Imperial Council .

In 1917 the last male Weissenwolff, Nikolaus Ungnad Graf von Weissenwolff, Baron von Sonnegg and Ennsegg, died. Niklas Altgraf zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Raitz continues the name Ungnad Weissenwolff through adoption.

The ancestral seat of the Counts von Weissenwolff has been Steyregg Castle on the Danube near Linz in Upper Austria since the middle of the 17th century , which can now be used as an event location.

Nikolaus Ungnad von Weissenwolff (1763-1825), Lieutenant Field Marshal, distinguished himself through special achievements in the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig. In commemoration, the 2016 decommissioned class of the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt chose the name “Vintage Weissenwolff”.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

Family coat of arms of those of Ungnad (seal from 1295)

Blazon : The talking coat of arms family coat of arms of those of Ungnad (after the seal of 1295) shows a silver [= heraldic white] wolf in red ; the crest shows an open flight ; on the helmet with red-silver covers [later shown after 1295] the wolf growing or sitting.

Increased coat of arms

Increased coat of arms of the Counts of Weissenwolff

Blazon: The increased coat of arms of those of Ungnad shows the shield quartered ; in the first red field an upright silver wolf and in the red fourth two silver males standing back to back defensively with gold collars and gold chain and ring; in the second and third golden fields a blue wall with four battlements ; on the coat of arms three gold-crowned helmets , on the right the wolf and on the left the two males, in the middle a flight ; the helmet covers are red-silver and red-gold (according to another representation, the wall in gold with three pinnacles is in blue fields 2 and 3)

Explanation: For the element of the pinnacles of Damascus in the arms of the von Weissenwolffstraße is legendary narrated that on the occasion of the Crusade Emperor Frederick II. Conrad Weissenwolffstraße distinguished the Holy Land in 1247 with the conquest of the city walls of Damascus so that it the emperor in Jerusalem. not only knighted, but also crowned with the " Coronam Muralem " (wall crown). The White Wolf was joined by the “battlements of Damascus”.

Traces of the coat of arms elements in today's time

Municipal coat of arms of Kallham in Austria

Municipal coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Upper Austrian municipality of Kallham refers to the coat of arms of those of Ungnad with the silver wolf inside. The golden pinnacle wall in the lower half of the coat of arms is often wrongly associated with Weissenwolff. It comes from the multiplication of the coat of arms with the Dumersdorf family on the Wednesday before St. George's Day 1449 under Emperor Friedrich III (* 1415; † 1493). Today it is a symbol for Erlach Castle , located in the municipality of Kallham , which was the seat of power and court of Jörger von Tollet in 1631 and only passed to the Weissenwolff after their extinction.

Others

Graduation badge "Weissenwolff" of the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt

The white or silver wolf can also be found in the “Weissenwolff” year badge of the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt .

literature

Web links

Commons : Ungnad von Weißenwolff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Martin van Meytens 019.jpg
  2. ↑ Miniaturist 001.JPG
  3. ↑ Charlotte Amelie de la Tremoille: The life of Princess Charlotte Amelie de la Tremoille, Countess of Aldenburg (1652-1732) - told by herself. Introduced, translated and explained by Reinhard Mosen. Schulzesche Hof bookstore and Hof book printing. Oldenburg and Leipzig, 1892. Pages 354–355. Digitized.
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ^ Johann Siebmacher : New Wappenbuch scanned from: Horst Appuhn (Hrsg.), Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch. The bibliophile paperbacks 538, 2. verb. Ed., Dortmund 1989 sheet 20.
  6. ↑ commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_Kallham.svg
  7. ^ Website of the parish of Kallham