Wangenheim (noble family)
Wangenheim is a Thuringian nobility family . The headquarters in Wangenheim is now part of the rural community of Nessetal in the Gotha district in Thuringia.
history
According to legend, the family came to Thuringia with the Huns in AD 455 , when the tribe of the Grün-Huns, members of the later so named families von Erffa , von Wangenheim and von Uetterodt , settled on the Nesse , to do agriculture there and to conduct a not insignificant trade in grain in the Saale and Elbe regions. At that time the Wends and the Sorbs were resident there, but without any permanent residence.
The family was first mentioned in a document in 1133 with Lodewicus de Wangenheim as the Fulda ministerial . The lineage begins with Bertohus de Wangenheim , documented in 1156. A Ludwig von Wangenheim is named in 1207 in a document that was made out in the presence of the Roman King Philip of Swabia , and in 1235 in a document by the Abbot of Fulda . The brothers Frederick and Albert von Wangenheim were 1,318 as dominant mentioned in documents in Wangenheim and in 1363 a gentleman appears Lutz von Wangenheim as Governor of Thuringia . The cousins Friedrich and Johann von Wangenheim were enfeoffed with the place Sonneborn by the abbot of Fulda in 1411 , while their cousin Apelo von Wangenheim received the place Hayn (today part of the community Mönchenholzhausen ) from the abbot in 1412 .
From the middle of the 14th century, the family formed the two main lines Wangenheim and Winterstein (today a district of the city of Waltershausen ), which were able to spread into many German states and gain great influence. From 1305 to 1945 the Lords of Wangenheim resided at Behringen Castle . In 1307 they built Winterstein Castle ; from 1321 to 1743 they sat at Tüngeda Castle and from 1370 to 1945 the Sonneborn estate was owned by the family, where the so-called slate castle was demolished after the end of the war; however, the neighboring yellow castle is still standing, albeit unused. The Wölfis estate was also owned by the family until 1945.
The ancestral castle Wangenheim was given up in the 16th century and demolished in 1747. Within the Ernestine duchies, the patrimonial courts of the Lords of Wangenheim were combined as Wangenheim's court to form a territorial administrative unit.
In 1700 the Hanoverian chief forest and hunter Hartmann Ludwig von Wangenheim acquired the Waake manor near Göttingen. It is still owned by a branch of the family. Georg Christian von Wangenheim had the Wangenheim Palace built in Hanover from 1829–1832 .
Bogun from Wangenheim
The unmarried captain Wilhelm Benjamin von Wangenheim adopted his nephew Wilhelm Bogun . On June 2, 1827 this was by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. raised to the nobility under the name "Bogun von Wangenheim".
Ranks
Georg von Wangenheim , royal Hanoverian secret council , who had bought the former domain in Eldenburg (Mark Brandenburg) in 1810 , was raised to the rank of count by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV on October 15, 1840 when he paid homage and died in 1851 without an heir to leave behind.
Friedrich Karl Wilhelm von Wangenheim , Princely Liningian Chamber Assessor in Amorbach , was first registered in the baron class of the Bavarian aristocracy in 1841 . This was followed by recognition of the baron status in the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha in 1855 and 1858 and in the Kingdom of Hanover in 1856.
Branches of the family still exist today.
coat of arms
The coat of arms is split. On the right in silver a jumping red greyhound with a gold collar and on the left in gold three black twin bars. The helmet is decorated with a round, low red hat with an ermine brim. On the hat there is a closed flight with a silver and a red wing. The helmet covers are red and silver on the right and black and gold on the left. Motto : Firm and faithful.
They are probably related to the von Sundhausen and the von Holbach family in their tribal and coat of arms.
Anecdote: "where the dog is buried"
According to legend, the widow of the forester from Wangenheim had her deceased dog "Stutzel" buried in a coffin at the Winterstein cemetery after bribing the village pastor with 150 thalers . However, the matter became public and since that time there has been the saying in Thuringia "In Winterstein, that's where the dog is buried."
Stutzel was no ordinary dog, according to tradition, he is said to have brought news from Winterstein to Gotha during the Thirty Years War. Therefore, a tombstone was dedicated to him, which can still be seen in the spa gardens.
Known family members
See also
literature
- Albrecht Wangenheim: Regesta and documents on the history of the Wangenheim dynasty and its possessions. 2 volumes, Culemann, Hanover 1857–1872. Digitized
- Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1918. Book and Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1918.
- Friedrich Hermann Albert von Wangenheim: Regesta and documents on the history of the Wangenheim family. Vol. I Hannover 1857 , Vol. II Göttingen 1872
- Friedrich Hermann Albert von Wangenheim: Contributions to a family history of the barons of Wangenheim (..) on the basis of the previous two document collections. Huth, Göttingen 1874. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Walrab Freiherr von Wangenheim: Genealogy of the barons of Wangenheim. Private print by the family, Braunschweig 1953.
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 134 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2004, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Hans Patze , Peter Aufgebauer (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 9: Thuringia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 313). 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-520-31302-2 .
Web links
- Works by and about Wangenheim in the German Digital Library
- Entry about Wangenheim, Freiherren von (1841-1912) in the central database of bequests
- Meister Eckhart and his time: von Wangenheim
- Wangenheim's coat of arms in the Book of Arms of the Holy Roman Empire , Nuremberg around 1554–1568
- The von Wangenheim family in the Wildenfels castle archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ CDS IA 2 No. 94
- ^ Regesta and documents on the history of the Wangenheim family and their possessions. P. 404.
- ^ Adelslexicon of the Prussian monarchy TZ. Addendum AZ. P.207
- ↑ Where the dog is buried - a legend from Thuringia ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
