Uthmann (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Uthmann and Schmolz
Coat of arms of those of Uthmann and Rathen

Uthmann also Uthmann and Schmolz and Uthmann and Rathen is the name of a Silesian noble family .

history

The family is first mentioned in a document in 1305 with the councilors of Görlitz Christian and Heinemann Ottomann and in 1332 with Walter Ottomannus . Early on it was divided into two main lines named after their original estates Schmolz and Rathen, which had different coats of arms. The family owned extensive estates . The secured family line begins with Hans Uthmann († before 1450) from Freystadt , whose grandchildren in Breslau acquired the capacity to advise .

Parts of the Uthmann dynasty had emigrated to Kleve , Lausitz and Meißen in the second half of the 15th century , including Lambert Hotman (Autmann) (around 1445–1514), probably coming from a branch line of the line that was wealthy at Schmolz, who in came to Paris with Engelbert von Kleve in the 1470s , where he was a goldsmith. His descendants were naturalized and given the French nobility.

Uthmann and Schmolz
Epitaph for Nikolaus Uthmann (1475–1550) and his family

Nikolaus Uthmann the Younger , born in Löwenberg in 1475 , received citizenship in 1494 in Wroclaw, where he successfully established himself as a cloth merchant. In addition to other estates, he acquired Groß- and Klein-Schmolz in 1514, which established the nickname Schmolz . As early as 1545 he had his impressive sandstone epitaph made for the Elisabeth Church in Breslau , depicting him with his three wives and 24 children, and died in 1550. The German mountain lord and entrepreneur in the Ore Mountains Christoph Uthmann (1507–1553) and his wife, presumably the largest The patron of lace making , Barbara Uthmann (born von Elterlein ; * around 1514–1575), are the first parents of Uthmann and Schmolz.

Uthmann and Rathen

The Uthmann and Rathen had sat in Breslau since 1475. Earlier assumptions that this line expired in 1733 are contradicted in more recent literature.

coat of arms

Coat of arms on the epitaph made in 1545 for Nikolaus Uthmann (1475–1550), his three wives and his children: (from left) 1. Uthmann and Schmolz, 3. Sauermann on Jeltsch
  • The coat of arms of Uthmann and Schmolz shows in red a man in armor with a black hat with a silver feather, a sword in his right hand and a scabbard in his left. On the helmet with black and red blankets a red open flight on the right and black on the left .
  • The coat of arms of Uthmann and Rathen shows a growing silver eagle above in blue in the diagonally divided shield , below right a golden eagle foot in red , left an armored arm (or heraldically rather the other way around).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GHdA Adelslexikon, Volume 15, Volume 134 of the complete series, 2004
  2. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 3, Rauh, Berlin 1858, p. 48.
  3. ↑ Joachim Bahlcke and Irene Dingel (eds.): Die Reformierte in Schlesien , Göttingen 2016, p. 39 ff., P. 47 ; see. also François Alexandre Aubert de la Chenaye Desbois: Dictionnaire de la noblesse [...] de France , Paris 1774, pp. 118–122.
  4. ↑ Joachim Bahlcke and Irene Dingel (eds.): Die Reformierte in Schlesien , Göttingen 2016, p. 37 ff.
  5. ^ Carl Günther Ludovici : Large, complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts , volume 51, Leipzig and Halle 1747, p. 1012 ; Christian Friedrich August von Meding : Messages from noble arms, collected , Volume 3, Weißenfels and Leipzig 1791, p. 697 f.