Uttenhofen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Knights of Uttenhofen

Uttenhofen was the name of an old Franconian noble family that had been incorporated into the knightly canton of Baunach , which had its beginnings in the Hof area and fell into several lines over the course of history.

history

Weißenfels 1650

The history of the von Uttenhofen family in the Hof area, documented from 1251 to 1343, goes back to the time when the city of Hof was founded . Through multiple marriages she was closely related to the von Murring family and also appeared in the corresponding series of witnesses. The last mention of this family branch was to be found in a letter of complaint from the city of Prague to Heinrich Reuss von Plauen about the road robbery of the Uttenhofer against Bohemian merchants; the castle estate in Tauperlitz was also referred to as a ruin a little later. Although the von Uttenhofen originally had only a very manageable property with a tower hill castle and a fiefdom in Tauperlitz , they appeared as witnesses to important contracts in what is now Franconia , Upper Palatinate and Thuringia .

As early as 1328 the family owned the castle fief at Weißenfels and was still wealthy in the Vogtland at Zossen and in the Weida office in 1578 . Johann von Uttenhofen, Marshal of the Margrave of Meißen , were by Landgrave Friedrich III. From Thuringia some farms to Weißenfels were loaned to a castle. His wife Gertrud († February 24, 1378), daughter of Heinrich Murring the Elder, belonged to the founding circle of the Poor Clare Monastery after the death of her husband and was its first abbess . Heinrich the Younger, Vogt von Weida , then donated the goods in Tauperlitz to the monastery. A Philipp von Uttenhofen fell in 1412 in the battle against the Pomerania near Kremmer Damm . Wolfgang from the Weida office was Chancellor of King Christian III in 1539 . von Denmark and David von Uttenhofen auf Zossen became ducal Saxon- Coburg Privy Councilor and Chancellor of Coburg .

The Plassenburg in the 19th century.

This family included the Prussian major general and commander of the Plassenburg fortress , Johann Adam Siegmund (1741–1809), and his son Karl (1778–1834), Prussian major general and commander of the 1st division and a umpire , from the Thuringian or Coburg line Prussian lieutenant colonel in the 16th infantry regiment who died in 1837 . Karl was married to Wilhelmine Ernestine Barbara Antonie von Alberti. Johann also served in this regiment (born February 25, 1806 in Warburg ; † May 9, 1849 in Elberfeld ). The captain, who was married to Wilhelmine von Othegraven (* 1813; † April 13, 1849 in Wesel ) on July 27, 1835, fell in a street fight in Elberfeld. The Saxon-Meiningian government councilor Johann Karl August von Uttenhofen owned the Rußwurm manor house in Breitungen around 1800 .

The knight family has died out in the male line .

family members

coat of arms

Shield in silver, a black crossbeam, twice tinned at the top, and on the helmet an open, silver flight covered with a black crossbeam , between which the black-clad torso of a forward-looking man grows up with a black pointed cap tipped with four cock feathers . The helmet covers are black and silver. Both the tinned bar in the shield and the helmet cover come in several variants.

See also

literature

  • Johanna Hausdörfer: The Lords of Uttenhofen. Images from the history of a noble family. Nuremberg 1966 (Free series of publications by the Society for Family Research in Franconia, 17).
  • Hans Hofner : Murringhof and Gut Hofeck. History of a knight's seat in the Vogtland region and its afterlehen on the outskirts of Hof. Hof 1972. pp. 25-29.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 9, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1860/61, p. 353. Digitized
  2. ↑ Freiherr Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 1, Verlag Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, p. 93. Digitized ; Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, pp. 289f. Digitized
  3. ^ Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachener Wappen und Genealogien: A contribution to Wappenkunde and Genealogie , Volume 2, Achener Verlags- und Druckerei GmbH, Aachen 1908, S. 55. Digitalisat
  4. ↑ Tyroff 2, p. 299.
  5. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 9, Steinhaus-Zwierlein, Verlag Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1870, p. 78f.
  6. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , Volume 3, Leipzig 1856, p. 428f. Digitized