Wolframsdorf (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Wolframsdorf

Wolframsdorf or Wolfframsdorf is the name of an old Vogtland - Meissnian and Thuringian noble family with the parent company Teichwolframsdorf am Krebsbach near Greiz .

history

A Hermann appeared in 907 and a Heintzen von Wolframsdorf in 934. Whether these to the ancestors of the gallant and later baronial and ducal Uradelsgeschlechts include the first documented in Weida with the knight on December 29, 1278 Luppoldus de Wolframsdorf appears, is unclear. The uninterrupted line of trunks begins with Georg von Wolframsdorff , documented in 1423, Herr auf Peritz, Sopoten and Neumark.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a black (or natural) wolf jumping up in silver, carrying deer antlers bleeding from the grind in its muzzle. On the helmet with red and silver covers an open flight , the left wing of silver and red divided diagonally to the left, the other diagonally to the right.

Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book , 1605
Coat of arms on an epitaph in the Wenceslas Church in Naumburg (Saale)
Epitaph of Christian Carl († 1689 after being wounded ), St. Laurentius Usingen

Personalities

Hans von Wolframsdorf, 1413 and around 1430 Hohenzollerscher bailiff von Thierstein
Hermann von Wolfframsdorff (1630–1703), ducal Saxon head captain / district chief of the Leipzig district , high court marshal, chief chamberlain, prime minister, real secret council

Heinrich Christoph von Wolframsdorf (1646–1689), prince provost of the prince provost of Ellwangen

Adam Heinrich von Wolfframsdorff (1722–1799), Prussian lieutenant general and governor of Mainz

Otto von Wolframsdorf (1803–1849), royal Saxon court architect

Withego II. Hildbrandi

Wittich von Wolframsdorf is the wrong name for Withego II. Hildbrandi , 1372 Bischofelekt von Würzburg and then Bishop of Naumburg from 1372 to 1381. The name goes back to the history forger Johann Georg Rauhe .

literature

Year book of the German nobility , volume 3, 1899, published by WT Bruer, p. 53 - digitized
Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, pp. 351-352, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408
Otto Magnus von Stackelberg : Genealogical manual of the Estonian knighthood , Vol .: 1, Görlitz, [1931], p. 159
George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : The dead nobility of the province of Prussia , 1874, p. 110, plate 79 (digitized version)
Genealogisches Taschenbuch des Uradels, 2nd volume, 1893, S.606ff Briefadelige Linie

Web links

Individual evidence

^ Document book of the bailiffs von Weide, Gera and Plauen 1, edited by Berthold Schmidt, Jena 1885, p. 96, no. 187
^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XVI, CA Starke Verlag, 2005
^ Harald Stark : Castle and Office Thierstein . In: Self-Issues . Volume 12. Selb 1993.
^ Heinz Wießner: The Diocese of Naumburg 1 - The Diocese 2 . In: Max Planck Institute for History (Ed.): Germania Sacra . NF 35,2: The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg . Berlin / New York 1998, pp. 862-867.

[1] Document book of the bailiffs von Weide, Gera and Plauen 1, edited by Berthold Schmidt, Jena 1885, p. 96, no. 187

[2] Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XVI, CA Starke Verlag, 2005

[3] Harald Stark : Castle and Office Thierstein . In: Self-Issues . Volume 12. Selb 1993.

[4] Heinz Wießner: The Diocese of Naumburg 1 - The Diocese 2 . In: Max Planck Institute for History (Ed.): Germania Sacra . NF 35,2: The dioceses of the church province of Magdeburg . Berlin / New York 1998, pp. 862-867.