Hessian coat of arms book

Coat of arms of the Knorr family (Hessisches Wappenbuch, Wilhelm Wessel, 1625)

The Hessian Wappenbuch from 1621 is a collection of coats of arms of the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . The first book of arms was published by Wilhelm Wessel .

description

The full title reads: “ Hessisches Wappenbuch, including the princes of Hesse, so in 593 years from Ludovico I. Barbato, except for our now praiseworthy ruling princes and gentlemen L. Moritzen I, L. Ludwig IV., The praiseworthy princes Hesse rules, describes and is depicted, together with all of the counties and lordships belonging to it, relatives, Lehngraven, aristocratic hereditary aempter and city coats of arms . "

In 1595, Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel (1572 - 1632) commissioned the printer and form cutter Wilhelm Wessel († 1626) to edit a book of arms for the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel . As a basis for his processing, Wessel used the coats of arms of the Hessian cities exhibited in the knight's hall of Rotenburg Castle and the Hessian Chronica by Wilhelm Dilich , printed by Wessel, from the year 1608, which was also taken into account in the Topographia Hassiae by M. Zeiler from the year 1655 .

In 2007, an edition of the Hessian Wappenbuch 1621 was restored in the University and State Library (ULB) of the Technical University of Darmstadt .

Wilhelm Wessel

First page of the Fama Fraternitatis from 1614 (printed by Wilhelm Wessel)

Wilhelm Wessel probably came from Bremen and was a trained book printer and shape cutter. After Landgrave Moritz had appointed him in 1598, the Hessian printing company Typographia Mauritania was under his supervision. With financial support from the Hessian landgrave, he wrote the biography of the Bremen and Hamburg bishops (1614), as well as heraldic books and had them printed in his printing house.

More Hessian heraldic books

• Clemens Kissel , Hessian Wappenbuch. City and place names in the Grand Duchy of Hesse . Curt von Münchow publisher, Giessen. 1893.
• Hermann Knodt (Ed.) Rhein-Mainisches Wappenbuch . Volume 1: Hessisches Wappenbuch, 1st part; Görlitz Verlag for Family Research and Heraldry, 1943. Family signs of the Reichsgaue Hessen-Nassau and Kurhessen without Frankfurt.
• Karl Ernst Demandt / Otto Renkhoff , Hessisches Wappenbuch . Double volume 1 and 2: Hessisches Ortswappenbuch. (New series of the library of German coats of arms and house brands), Glücksburg / Ostsee, CA Starke, 1956. "The Hessian family coat of arms book is the third section of the work" Hessian book of arms ". The first part, Rhein-Mainisches Wappenbuch was published in 1943, part 2, Hessisches Ortswappenbuch, double volume 1 and 2 (both published by CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn) was published in 1956. The family arms book contains over 1000 full and shield coats of arms (black and white with colored hatching) as well as house brands of the Hessian families ”.
• Dieter Krieger, Hessisches Wappenbuch , Limburg, CA Starke Verlag , 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0002-6 / 3-7980-0002-6, 199 pages and 44 plates, 1 volume with 3 parts.

literature

• Carl-Friedrich Günther, Book of Arms of the Cities in the Grand Duchy of Hesse, depicted after their seals , printed by Carl Wilhelm Leske, 1843, Darmstadt, original from the Austrian National Library , digitized July 1, 2013 [7]

Web links

• Georg I, Landgrave of Hesse, woodcut from the Hessian Book of Arms by Wilhelm Wessel, Kassel, 1621/1625
• Hessian original coat of arms | Historical illustrations
• Hessian coat of arms book in the Heraldik-Wiki

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hessische Chronica , Author / Ed .: Dilich, Wilhelm; Dilich, Wilhelm, place of publication: Franckfurt am Mayn | Year of publication: 1617 | Publisher: Unckel [1]
2. ↑ Topographia Hassiae et Regionum Vicinarum . That is the description of the best places and places in Hessen, and the neighboring country estates, as Buchen, Nassau, Wetteraw, Westerwaldt, Wittgenstein, Lohngaw, and others, author / publisher: Zeiller, Martin; Merian, Matthaeus <the elder>; Zeiller, Martin; Merian, Matthaeus <the Elder>, place of publication: Franckfurt | Year of publication: [1646] | Publisher: Merian [2]
3. ↑ University and State Library (ULB) of the Technical University of Darmstadt [3] , accessed January 4, 2019
4. ↑ Christoph von Rommel, Verlag Krieger, 1837, original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek , digitized September 1, 2008, p. 504 [4] , accessed January 4, 2019
5. ↑ BSWH Rhein-Mainisches Wappenbuch. On: Münchner Wappen-Herold eV [5]
6. ↑ Hessian Wappenbuch. On: Heraldry Studio. [6] , accessed January 4, 2019