Weißenbach (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Weißenbach

Weißenbach is the name of an Upper Saxon nobility family from the Pleißner Land with the parent company Weißbach bei Schmölln . The forms of name changed over the centuries ( Wizzenbach, Wissenpach, Weißbach, Weyssenbach ).

history

Schönfels Castle - seat of the family from 1459 to 1586
Imperial Fourth Knights of Weißenbach, woodcut by Jacob Kallenberg (1545)

The first mention of the name can be found with Heinrich von Weißenbach in 1217 and in the Saxon State Archives - Main State Archives in Dresden with Conradus de Wizzenbach from September 7, 1271.

Under Reinhard's sons, the tribe was divided into the main branches Weißenbach-Schönfels through Otto, and Altenberga, through Hermann, but the latter went out in the 16th century. Otto's eldest son was Johann von Weißenbach († 1487), from 1476 1487 Bishop of Meißen ; the younger son was Hermann von Weißenbach, governor in Voigtlande and Elector Ernst's Privy Councilor, who took possession of Schönfels Castle in the middle of the 15th century. The von Weißenbach family lived at Schönfels Castle from 1459 to 1586 and shaped the appearance of the medieval castle that is still preserved today.

Hermann's eldest son was Wolf von Weißenbach. He received the fiefdom of Schönfels and continued the Weissbacher line, which sat on the Schönfels family castle until the end of the 16th century, and later went out on Audigast in the middle of the 17th century.

Hermann's second son Otto von Weißenbach received with a diploma from March 20, 1506 the hereditary status of four knights.

Hermann's youngest son Hans bought Crimmitschau Castle from Ehrenfried von Ende .

Hansen's son was Georg Heinrich I. von Weißenbach († 1671), lord of Altranstädt , Oetzsch , Treben , Großlehna and Kleinmiltitz , councilor and chief tax collector. His wife was Anna Maria Sabina von Pölnitz (approx. 1620– † 1688), daughter of Ehrenfried von Pölnitz (1577–1627) on Dreitzsch , who in 1646 bought the Altranstädt estate with accessories for 13,200 florins for the family  .

The son Georg Heinrich II. Von Weißenbach († 1687), Canon of Merseburg , inherited Altranstädt. In his first marriage he was married to Martha von Minckwitz on Sachsendorf († after 1645). His second marriage was to Barbara Hippolyta von Bredow . She was the heiress of Altranstädt and sold the estate in 1689 to Baron Johann Georg von Meusebach on Braunsdorf. Both son Georg Heinrich III. von Weißenbach was the royal supervisor at Plauen , Voigtsberg and Pausa . With Hans Georg von Weißenbach, chamber and mountain ridge of Electoral Saxony, the line died in 1729.

From the first marriage of Georg Heinrich II came Christiane von Weißenbach (1645–1680), who married Georg Vollrath von Zeutsch (1624–1689) in 1656. She died in childbed with an 11th child in Halle. Her husband was Burgrave of Mansfeld from 1656–1659, and court marshal to Count Christian Friedrich von Mansfeld from 1659–1666. In 1661 he bought the Hedersleben estate and from 1670–1680 he was a truchess for the administrator of the Magdeburg Archdiocese in Halle, August v. Saxony-Weißenfels († 1680). Her daughter Christiane Eleonora von Zeutsch (1666–1699) became Princess of Anhalt-Zerbst by marriage in 1687 and is a grandmother of the later Tsarina Katharina II.

The older son of Hans von Weißenbach at Crimmitschau Castle was Hermann. Although his son Hermann auf Thurm († 1596) had left numerous offspring, she died in the 1830s with Ludwig von Weißenbach, royal Saxon chamberlain at Weissenborn near Freiberg. But Hermann auf Thurm's brother Hans auf Lauterbach, married to Anna von Ende († 1584), was the next progenitor of all members of the family that were still in bloom.

The great-great-grandchildren of Hans auf Lauterbach again split into two lines. The progenitor of the younger is Hans Hermann von Weißenbach auf Mosen († 1747). His son Christian Friedrich Hermann (1735–1807) auf Frauenhayn, imperial-royal colonel, married to Johanne Caroline von Seydlitz , next to a daughter Charlotte Luise, married von Fabrice , left only one son: Friedrich Carl Hermann von Weißenbach auf Frauenhayn and Zabeltitz, Royal Saxon bailiff and chamberlain (1788–1852). In 1813 he married Marie Charlotte Xaverine Princesse d'Esclignac, daughter of Duke Henri de Preissac, duc d'Esclignac de Fimarcon Lomagne (1763-1837) and a granddaughter of Prince Xavier , administrator of the Saxon region and son of King August III. from Poland . In addition to a daughter Thérèse (* 1817), widowed von Globig, chief stewardess to the Queen of Saxony, the line with the only son Anton (1821–1861), married to Luise von Nauendorf , also died out.

The older line (Lauterbach), Reichstädt, still called Christian Ernst auf Reichstädt († 1731) married to Magdalena von Schönberg, was propagated by Carl Haubold, Polish-Elector of Saxony captain († 1754), married to Dorothea Eleonore von Weißenbach-Thurm. His son Carl Christian (1720–1777), Imperial and Royal Colonel, married Maria Catharine von Lanko († 1806), and his son Carl Christian Emil (1752–1820), royal Saxon secret legation councilor and secret cabinet archivist, married in 1797 Henriette Charlotte Wilhelmine Freiin von Seckendorf (1767–1837). His older son Karl Gustav Adalbert (1797–1846), royal Saxon secret government councilor, married Ludolfine Freiin von Seckendorf-Gudent (* 1805) in 1827. When he died, after three sons had died, he left behind only two daughters: Meta (* 1838) and Anna (* 1843).

The younger Adolf Carl Hermann Freiherr von Weißenbach (* 1802), Royal Saxon Real Privy Councilor, Director of the Upper Chamber of Accounts and the First Department of the Ministry of Finance, married Thérèse Rosalie Freiin von Seckendorf-Gudent from the House of Weischlitz (* 1812) in 1832 and sat the tribe continued through three sons: Bernhard Ernst (* 1833) imperial-royal lieutenant of the line, Paul Georg (* 1837) royal Saxon government trainee in Dresden and the lawyer Hans Adolf (* 1847).

Status surveys

  • Reichserbvierritterstand , after the expiry of the von Meldingen, with diploma of 20 March 1506th
  • In 1510, Hans and Otto von Weißenbach were granted royal rights to bear the title of baron of the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Baron status of the Kingdom of Saxony, recognition diploma dated February 21, 1853 for Carl Adolph Hermann von Weißenbach, royal Saxon secret finance council and director of the upper chamber of accounts, with recognition of the baron status of all barons of Weißenbach in Saxony.
  • Imperial Count , Diploma of February 18, 1730, for Johann Bernhard von Weißenbach , Imperial Russian General.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those of Wissenpach in the Ingeram Codex

The coat of arms shows a looking, black, red-tongued bull's head on a silver background, from whose ears red (also red-gold) flames emerge. On the helmet with black and silver covers, two bull horns divided across the corner by black and silver.

Name bearer

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The von Weißenbach at Schlossarchiv.de .
  2. ↑ Chronicle of Schönfels Castle (accessed May 14, 2011)
  3. ↑ Pierer's Universal Lexikon: Reichs-Erb-Vier-Ritter des Holy Roman Empire : a dignity granted to only four noble families in the German Empire, which was equal to the rank of the free lordship
  4. ↑ Christian Friedrich August von Meding , Nachrichten von noble Wapen, Reuss 1786, No. 943
  5. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, Part A, 92nd year 1942, p. 604