Waldthurner (noble family)
The Waldthurners were a branch line of the Waldauer , who were mainly based in Waldthurn in the northern Upper Palatinate .
history
Waldthurn and Waldau were allodial lordships that arose from the clearing of Diepoldingian ministerials from Rothenstadt . The Waldthurner and Waldauer resident here became one of the most important ministerial families in the northern Upper Palatinate in the 13th century. They also had imperial fiefs due to their possessions in the realm of Eger and fiefs of the Counts of Ortenburg-Murach . They also called themselves after Pleystein , Tännesberg or Hostau and were also owned by Trausnitz Castle (the latter came to the Wittelsbach family in 1280 ). A Berthold von Rothenstadt seems to have been the progenitor of the Losauer , Waldauer and Waldthurner family.
Friedrich von Waldthurn and his son Ulrich were first involved in an exchange process between Gebhard III in the presence of Emperor Friedrich II in Regensburg in 1217 . occupied by Sulzbach and Count Rapoto I. von Ortenburg , they act here as servants of the Ortenburger. In 1218 Friedrich von Waldthurn acquired the villages of Schönfeld and Triebendorf from the Waldsassen monastery , estate districts in Pirch , Lasan (today market part of Wernberg-Köblitz ), Ruth (from near Pirk), Lutsow (today part of Waldthurn ), Horwe (from) and Eppinreuth (ab.). In 1237 Ulrich von Waldthurn appears as a local clerk, together with Konrad von Waldau as a documentary witness. In 1225 Friedrich von Waldthurn and his sons Ulrich and Heinrich are witnesses to an alliance agreement between Landgrave Diepold II von Leuchtenberg and Count Heinrich I von Ortenburg . In 1238 Ulrich von Waldthurn witnessed the donation of Murach Castle from Heinrich I to his wife Richiza (also called Richgard von Hohenburg ). In 1242 Ulrich von Waldthurn and Friedrich von Waldau appear as Reichsministeriale in a document issued for the Teplá Monastery . Ulrich von Waldthurn and Friedrich von Waldthurn are named in a certificate issued by Konradin in Eger in 1259 . Pirk, Reut and Letzau as well as goods in Remmelberg, Lennesrieth and Buckenhofen left in 1261 the brothers Berthold and Ulrich von Waldthurn together with Heinrich von Pleystein to the Waldsassen monastery. Members of the Waldthurner have been calling themselves Pleystein since 1260. In 1261 Heinrich von Pleystein is named as the brother of Berthold von Waldthurn . A Fridericus de Pleistein appeared in a Regensburg document as early as 1260 ; he should have been of the clerical class and be identical to Fridericus plebanus de Sconebach dictus de Waldthurn , who appeared in 1279 . Around 1271 Ulrich von Hostau (son of Ulrich von Waldthurn ), Gottfried von Waldthurn and Friedrich von Waldthurn waived all claims from their estates in Pirk, Reuth, Rimilberch (Remmelberg), Dresenvelt, Lennsrieth, Willhove and Bernhove in favor of the monastery. Konrad von Tännesberg , a brother of Berthold von Waldau , had bequeathed the Lennesrieth estate and the Albersrieth bailiwick to the monastery. The last of the people of Waldthurn was Heinrich von Waldthurn († 1308), whose widow Kunigunde supposedly (!) Sold the property to the Waldsassen monastery. A Ulrich von Thurn Forest has the noble seat Rothenstadt held 1305th His wife Dietmund sold the seat in 1325 to her husband's cousins, Weigel von Trausnitz and Heinrich von Waldau . Georg and Hans Tobias von Waldau appear for the last time in 1532 in the Landsassen register as owners of Rothenstadt and sell the seat in 1533.
After 1308 the Waldau family came into possession of Waldthurn and this branch of the family was subsequently called Waldauer zu Waldthurn . They had estates in Reisach, Steinfrankenreuth, Frankenrieth, Kühbachhof, Ober-, Mittel- and Untertresenfeld, Ottenrieth, Remmelberg, Schammesrieth and Gosen as well as Letzau (here three farms were sold to the Bavarian duke in the second half of the 13th century, but in 1535 are they still in possession of the place). In 1352 they were able to acquire extensive properties from the Waldsassen monastery; this included u. a. Waldkirch, Bernrieth, Dimpfl and Fahrenberg , as well as farms in Diebersreuth and Kühbach. In the middle of the 14th century, the rule of the Waldauer zu Waldthurn came under Bohemian sovereignty ; At times it was also pledged to Margrave Otto . In the Treaty of Fürstenwalde of 1373, the Waldauer von Waldthurn are enfeoffed by the Bohemian crown with the Schellenberg fortress . Neck court, stick and gallows as well as the ban on blood to the castles in Waldthurn and Schellenberg were imperial fiefs. The neck court over the Fahrenberg, Bernrieth and Waldkirch came from the Landgraves of Leuchtenberg since 1394 . The Waldau zu Waldthurn had brought the lower jurisdiction from their estates. 1540 had to Georg von Waldau to Waldthurn to Elector Ludwig V. and Pfalzgraf Friedrich , his sovereign, as a country Aces confess. His late brother Hans Tobias von Waldau auf Waldthurn had unwarranted against it. On 10 April 1540 he sold the four daughters left the dominion Waldthurn with Schellenberg to that of Wirsberg originating Frankish Willibald von Wirsberg . The Lutheran faith is introduced here under him .
Albrecht Eitel von Wirsberg , Soldan von Wirsberg , Georg Christoph von Wirsberg and Hans Ulrich von Wirsberg are named as successors . The Waldthurn line of the Wirsberger died out in 1647 and was taken over by the commissioners of the Bohemian Crown. The Wirsbergers were buried in Waldthurn in St. Jodok, today St. Sebastian Church . Under Maximilian I (Bavaria) the Upper Palatinate, and so also Waldthurn, became Catholic again in 1628.
On May 16, 1656, the reign of Emperor Ferdinand III. , who was also King of Bohemia, sold to Prince Wenceslaus von Lobkowitz . These had acquired Neustadt an der Waldnaab in 1575 and also the Fürstete Grafschaft Störnstein in 1641 . His wife was the evangelical Wittelsbacher Auguste Sophie von Pfalz-Sulzbach , daughter of the Count Palatine and Duke August von Sulzbach , which was helpful for further political steps. In 1807, Prince Franz Josef Maximilian von Lobkowitz sold the rule for 700,000 guilders to the Kingdom of Bavaria . By rescript of March 17, 1808, the dominion of Waldthurn was incorporated into the Treswitz district court and, in 1821, added to the Vohenstrauß district court .
Waldauer coat of arms
Waldauer coat of arms (1308)
Coat of arms of the Waldauer (1317)
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coat of arms
In his seal of 1290, Ludwig von Waldau leads a wall with a tower. The later seals only show a tower on a flat or round floor. The color of the shield is silver, that of the tower is red. The two horns growing out of the helmet are each studded with a silver ball (snow ball). The Waldthurnians originally carried the same coat of arms. In the 15th century, Ulrich der Waldau zu Waldthurn and Friedrich der Waldthurner zu Kembdi argued about the shield in front of Count Palatine Johann zu Neumarkt . He decided in 1439 that the Waldauer and the Waldthurner should have the same shield and helmet, i. H. in the red shield a white tin tower. As a helmet jewel with the two black horns, the Waldthurners were supposed to carry two red apples with black clumps instead of the snowballs. Georg and Johann Tobias von Waldau received on August 28, 1532 from Emperor Charles V at the Reichstag in Regensburg an increase in the coat of arms with the coat of arms of the extinct Pocksaw and freedom from red wax .
literature
- Otto Titan von Hefner; Gustav Adelbert Seyler: The coat of arms of the Bavarian nobility. Repro. J. Siebmacher's large book of arms . II. Volume. Nuremberg 1856 Volume 22, Dead Bavarian families. Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch, 1971, ISBN 3-87947-022-7 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dieter Bernd: Vohenstrauss . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 39. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7696-9900-9 , p. 44 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Dieter Bernd: Vohenstrauss . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 39. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-7696-9900-9 , p. 49 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Emma Mages: Oberviechtach . In: Historical Atlas of Bavaria , part of Old Bavaria . Series I, issue 61. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7696-9693-X , p. 24 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ Historical Atlas of Bavaria: Altbayern. Row I, issue 47: Neustadt an der Waldnaab, Weiden. Komm. Für Bayerische Landesgeschichte München 1978, p. 204 ( geschichte.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
- ↑ Eduard Mikusek: The Lobkowitz in Bohemia and Upper Palatinate. (PDF heimatforschung-regensburg.de ). Retrieved March 28, 2019.