Wagenhoff (noble family)

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Wagenhoff coat of arms (1737)

Wagenhoff (actually Wagner von Wagenhoff or Wagner von Wagenhofen ) is the name of a noble family with origins in Bavarian Swabia . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

So far there is neither a printed family chronicle nor an article in Gotha or in the Genealogical Manual of the Nobility . There is only one manuscript about the history of his family, written by Eugen von Wagenhoff in 1950. Therefore the genealogy is not completely traceable. The family first appeared in a document in 1496 when the free imperial city of Nördlingen was granted civil rights to the weaver Gregori Wagner called Gron Jörg (* around 1470; † 1527). His son Thoman Wagner was a town clerk in Nördlingen, left his hometown in 1536, became secretary and rentmaster of Count Gabriel von Salamanca-Ortenburg zu Spittal in Carinthia and received an imperial letter of arms on May 17, 1544. On October 7th, 1548 he was raised to the knightly imperial nobility by King Ferdinand and on June 25th, 1555 he received an imperial nobility confirmation with the noble title of Wagenhofen by Emperor Karl V.

The first person in the line is a Tobias Franz Wagner , whose connection to the families in Nördlingen or Carinthia is not documented. Around 1674 he was the governor of the Schmiedeberg rule in the Giant Mountains , which was then owned by the Counts of Czernin . His son Valentin (* around 1648; † 1713) was married to Ursula , daughter of the wealthy Johann Praetorius von Richthofen , from whom he acquired the bush farm near Schmiedeberg in 1679. His two sons Johann Valentin and Konrad Wagner as well as his brother Balthasar Erik Wagner were knighted with the title von Wagenhofen on February 20, 1719 . Balthasar Erik was married to one of Rohr and lived in Mersine (later the district of Wohlau ). A descendant of him was probably Siegfried Rudolph von Wagenhoff (* around 1731; † June 1, 1798), on Tschirnitz and Würchland (both in the district of Glogau ) and district administrator of the district of Glogau from 1772 to 1798. In 1725 Johann Valentin was the owner of Buschvorwerk. His brother Konrad Wagner von Wagenhoff was a shareholder in the Reichensteiner Bergbaugewerkschaft in 1723 , owned Groß and Klein Schmolz (later in the district of Breslau ) in 1725 , Mittel and Nieder Stanowitz in the district of Striegau in 1745 and was a supporter of the Protestant church in Striegau . His son Johann Samuel (born May 16, 1723 in Schmolz; † November 19, 1791 in Striegau) was the state elder of the principalities of Schweidnitz and Jauer, owned Mittel and Nieder Stanowitz and, since 1775, Nieder Damsdorf, district of Striegau, and was head of the Protestant church in Striegau. He married Helena Eleonora von Seydlitz on July 21, 1751 (* around 1728; † April 1, 1795). His eldest son bought the Lange and Kottwitz estates in the district of Breslau in 1788 and was appointed march commissioner there on June 17, 1790. His brother Karl Samuel Siegmund (* around 1759; † November 16, 1830 in Schweidnitz) served in the von Schimonsky regiment (infantry regiment No. 40) and received his farewell as a major. His son Karl (* around 1784; † October 31, 1828 in Schweidnitz) joined the Prussian army in 1799, served in the 3rd Musketeer Battalion of the Treuenfels Regiment (Infantry Regiment No. 29), later in Infantry Regiment No. 11 and was on 3rd October 1805 appointed second lieutenant .

Eugen (Julius Adolph Adam) von Wagenhoff (* probably 1823; † October 30, 1882) married (1847) to Adelheide Elise Friederike von Helmrich (* June 23, 1819; † August 2, 1889 in Bad ) appears without any verifiable connection with the aforementioned Landeck ). He was a lieutenant. D. and since 1871 royal chief bailiff on the state domain Poseritz leased from him in the then district of Nimptsch . On October 27, 1854, he had acquired a share of the Dankwitz estate in the Nimptsch district from his sister-in-law Marie von Helmrich . The entire property previously belonged to Ernst Friedrich Schäffer . Since 1875, Dankwitz was completely family-owned. The son of the aforementioned Eugene was Eugene Adolph von Wagenhoff (* 1850, † 1929). He served in the Prussian cavalry, was major in Karlsruhe in 1894, in 1898 commander of the Dragoons Regiment von Arnim (2nd Brandenburg No. 12) and most recently major general. He owned Dankwitz and, since September 26, 1874, also Kulmikau (former district of Steinau ), which the family only sold again in the 1920s. He was married (December 17, 1872) to Ilsa von Lüneburg . Ultimately, his son was Eugen Adolph von Wagenhoff (* 1874, † 1958). He worked at the courts in Swidnica and Neusalz in Silesia and Berlin, was from 1908 to 1937 District Administrator of the district Gifhorn and settlement founder and namesake of the community Wagenhoff . He kept the Dankwitz estate until 1945. In the Protestant parish church in Jordansmühl responsible for this place (today the Catholic church in Jordanów Śląski consecrated to Bishop Stanislaus ) the family had its own patron s lodge .

The Sergeant in the Prussian Infantry Regiment No. 4 (3rd East Prussian) Amand Wagenhofen (born January 31, 1790 in Schippenbeil ; † February 11, 1872 in Breslau) received his retirement on April 29, 1818 with the rank of second lieutenant with simultaneous Prussian recognition of his in the family-run old nobility. He last worked as a tax councilor in Breslau and was the son of Amand Ernst August Wagenhofen (* September 20, 1753 - January 16, 1803), who served as a volunteer in a grenadier company of the Wildau Regiment (Infantry Regiment No. 14) in East Prussia.

The chief rider of the Lower Austrian Landscape Academy , Ernst Emanuel Wagner († May 30, 1763), son of the district judge zu Fürstenegg and field war commissioner Gottfried Wagner († around 1725), received in Vienna on September 20, 1737 by Emperor Karl VI. a confirmation of nobility (with the predicate von Wagenhofen ) with an improvement in the coat of arms. He was married to Johanna Theresia von Martini († December 1, 1763), but died without any biological descendants. His brothers were Amand mentioned 1752-1759 as a captain in the Imperial Infantry Regiment. 10 (later Regiment Oskar II. Frederick King of Sweden), and Gottlieb († 18 August 1765 in Salzburg), up royally the Salzburg shear chief riders and Steward . His son Gottfried (born November 19, 1742, † April 25, 1793 in Ingolstadt) was an adopted son of Ernst Emanuel . In the 1770s he was a Bavarian chief rider at the academy (high school) in Ingolstadt and received on December 7, 1772 an electoral Bavarian nobility confirmation with the coat of arms carried by his uncle. His son Philipp (* 1754; † 1837 in Forchheim) was major general in the Bavarian army and died unmarried. His brother Paul (* 1774 in Ingolstadt; January 5, 1798 in Donauwörth) joined the Bavarian army in 1790 and died as a second lieutenant after an argument with imperial soldiers. The already mentioned Amand Ernst August from East Prussia was a cousin of these two Bavarian officers.

Name bearer

(Without any demonstrable connection to the above-mentioned persons)

  • Viktor Karl Paul von Wagenhoff (born June 17 or 19, 1840 in Schweidnitz, † January 5, 1920), son of a captain in infantry regiment No. 23 who died on January 5, 1849 in Breslau, lived in Jauer around 1912, was major general in 1895 and commander of the 56th Infantry Brigade in Rastatt, married to Henriette Wehmann.
  • Adolph von Wagenhoff (* around 1844 in Carlsruhe in Silesia; 7 September 1899 in Wiesbaden), 1863 second lieutenant, 1876 captain, 1893 lieutenant colonel in the 62nd Infantry Regiment, 1896 colonel and commander of the grenadier regiment King Friedrich Wilhelm II. (1st Silesian, No. 10 in Schweidnitz), 1898 farewell from the army.

coat of arms

  1. Coats of arms from 1548 and 1555: on a black shield a golden griffin with a seven-spoke golden wagon wheel in its paws. Crowned helmet with the shield figure growing. Cover: black and gold.
  2. Coat of arms from 1719 (Silesian line): Embedded in 1 and 4 a crowned griffin, in 2 and 3 a wagon wheel. Crowned helmet with the griffin growing in the middle of an open flight, each wing of which is covered with a wagon wheel. Cover: black and gold
  3. Coat of arms from 1737 (Austrian-Bavarian line): Embeds in 1 and 4 in black an inward-facing, golden crowned, red-tongued, golden griffin, in 2 and 3 in gold an eight-spoke black wagon wheel. 2 crowned helmets with black and gold covers. On the first the griffin growing, facing forward between open black wings each covered with a golden eight-spoke wagon wheel, which he grasps with his claws at the top. On the second, four ostrich feathers red, silver, gold, black between two black-gold buffalo horns with mouth holes divided across a corner.

The coat of arms of the Silesian line (more precisely that of Major General Viktor von Wagenhoff) was from 1905 to 1945 as a glass painting on the west side of the Friedenskirche zu Jauer. Since 2010 it has been installed as a replica in a wall showcase above the church tower exit together with 9 others.

literature

  • Johann Sinapius : Of the Silesian Nobility Other Part, or continuation of the Silesian Curiosity ... Volume 2 . Leipzig 1728, p. 1095 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Walter von Hueck: Adelslexikon (=  Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels . Volume 134 ). tape 15 : Tre-Wee . Limburg ad Lahn 2004, ISBN 3-7980-0834-5 , p. 349-350 .
  2. ^ Gustav Wulz : The Nördlinger emigrants to the countries of the Austrian monarchy 1500–1650 . In: Leaflets of the Bavarian State Association for Family Studies . tape 16 , 1938, pp. 36-43 u. 66-70, here p. 36 and 69 .
  3. ^ Theodor Eisenmänger: History of the town of Schmiedeberg . Breslau 1900, p. 78 .
  4. ^ Emil Freiherr Praetorius von Richthofen: History of the Praetorius family von Richthofen . Magdeburg 1884, p. 86 u. Plate 3 .
  5. ^ Konrad Feige: What the Catholic parish archive Schmiedeberg tells about the Counter Reformation . In: Yearbook for Silesian Church History . tape 66 , 1987, pp. 65–83, here p. 83 (The acquisition also included the possession of a crypt under the high altar of the Schmiedeberger parish church, which belonged to the Wagner von Wagenhoff family until around 1716).
  6. ↑ The imperial nobility was not recognized in the Kingdom of Bohemia - here in Silesia. The inclusion in the Bohemian knighthood is to be seen here rather as a certification of the imperial nobility.
  7. ↑ Ernst Friedrich Schäffer was a brother-in-law of Eugen von Wagenhoff and had acquired a crypt chapel in the famous cemetery around the Hirschberger Gnadenkirche , which is sometimes referred to in literature as Schäffer - von Wagenhoff's crypt.
  8. ↑ Beatrix Herlemann , Helga Schatz: Biographical Lexicon of Lower Saxony Parliamentarians 1919–1945 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Volume 222). Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 2004, ISBN 3-7752-6022-6 , pp. 375–376.
  9. ^ Horst Dieter Loebner: Jordansmühl - village and church game . In: Yearbook for Silesian Church History . tape 59 , 1980, pp. 7–43, here p. 35 (the one at the back on the left as seen from the altar belonged to the von Wagenhoff family).
  10. ↑ Personnel changes . In: Militair-Wochenblatt . 3rd year, no. 98 , May 9, 1818, p. 564 .
  11. ↑ by Frank on Senftenegg: search and display corner . In: Sudetendeutsche Familienforschung . tape 6 , year 1933/34, p. 160 .
  12. ↑ a b c Maximilian Gritzner : Standes - surveys and grace - Acts of German sovereigns during the last three centuries . tape 1 : Anhalt to Bavaria . Görlitz 1880, p. 152 .
  13. ↑ Bruno Hampel: The descendants of Wolff Friedrich Rainer from Feistritz an der Pulst in Carinthia, part 3, Wagner von Wagenhofen . In: Monthly Journal of the Heraldic-Genealogical Society Adler . tape 12: 1935-1938 , pp. 121-123 .
  14. ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner , Alfred Grenser, Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt, George Adalbert von Mülverstedt, Johann Siebmacher: The blooming nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia (=  J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms . Volume 3 , 2nd section). tape 1 : nobles A-Z . Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1878, OCLC 249164527 , p. 431 .
  15. ^ Siegfried Frhr. von Richthofen, Ernst von Wagenhoff: Coat of arms window for the Friedenskirche in Jauer . In: Schlesischer Gottesfreund . 61st year, no. 8 , 2010, p. 118-119 .