Ziegler and Klipphausen

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Family coat of arms of those of Ziegler and Klipphausen

Ziegler and Klipphausen is the name of a family from the Margraviate of Meißen , which is still mentioned in 1372 among the citizens of Dresden . During this time, the family held the office of mint master and subsequently became wealthy in the landed gentry . The lineage of the Ziegler family begins with the councilor of Dresden, Wigand Ziegler, who first appeared in a document in 1324 and died in 1348.

The nickname “von Klipphausen” is borrowed from the castle of the same name , which the monastery governor Hieronymus Ziegler had built for himself in 1528 on his property in Klein-Röhrsdorf near Meißen. The name of the castle was henceforth adopted as the place name.

history

The early story

"High House" of Gauernitz Castle

The first reliable mention of the sex was made with the naming of a Dresden councilor and Schöppen Winandus Zigeler on February 10, 1324 (not not until 1329) in a certificate from the Dresden City Council to the St. Afra Monastery in Meißen . The uninterrupted line of the family begins with its first-named member. The sons of Wigand, Hans and Wigand II. Received the office of mint master in Freiberg for the first time in 1369 from the margraves of Meißen . Through this office and the operation of their own smelting works on the Mulde to prosperity and by repeatedly lending money in the favor of the sovereigns, the family made the transition to the lower nobility of the margraviate of Meissen in the late 14th century . This step is documented by the acquisition of the Gauernitz manor complex between Dresden and Meißen in the 1390s and the marital union with other noble families in the surrounding region.

During the 15th and early 16th centuries, various members of the family entered the service of both the margraves and the bishops of Meissen. The brothers Christoph († 1517) and Caspar († 1515) Ziegler held the office of governor of Meißen and von Schellenberg . The latter also advanced to become one of the four councilors during the Saxon governorship in Friesland and represented the duke at the Reichstag in Worms in 1509. The former Altzeller monk and student of the Hebraist Antonius Margaritha Bernhard Ziegler († 1552) achieved supraregional importance . During his studies in Leipzig he got to know the teachings of Martin Luther and was soon one of his earliest followers. After a brief professorship in Liegnitz , Georg the Pious of Brandenburg-Ansbach appointed him first professor of theology at the Stiftsschule in Ansbach . In the following years he was one of the protagonists of the Lutheran Reformation in the margravate . After the introduction of the evangelical creed in Saxony in 1539, he began teaching at the University of Leipzig on the recommendation of Melanchthon and from then on was repeatedly consulted by Martin Luther as an expert on the Hebrew language to revise the first German translation of the Bible.

Hieronymus Ziegler († 1553), a cousin of Bernhard, friend of the Meißnian bishop Johann VIII von Maltitz and collegiate governor von Wurzen , had a late Gothic castle built on his property in Klein-Röhrsdorf not far from Gauernitz, which he called Klipphausen . The line of the family founded by him was henceforth called Ziegler von Klipphausen or von Ziegler and Klipphausen , while the main line on Gauernitz soon became impoverished, had to sell its ancestral home in 1595 and finally died out in the male line in 1601. Although the line of Ziegler and Klipphausen continued to flourish, in 1564 they too were forced to sell their namesake property and emigrate due to financial hardship.

Coat of arms of the Barons von Ziegler and Klipphausen-Dambrau

Prussian-Silesian Line (Dambrau Line)

A son of Hieronymus, Christoph Johann Ziegler von Klipphausen, entered Prussian service and was finally able to acquire new estates in East Prussia with Lawnilassek , thus establishing the Prussian line of the family, which was to be divided into three branches. On March 12, 1765, Johann Georg Ziegler von Klipphausen (1737-1807) received the Silesian Inkolat and a little later became a shareholder in Pawonkau in the Lublinitz district in Silesia . Married in his second marriage to a Countess Schack von Wittenau , he acquired the Dambrau rule in the Falkenberg district in May 1787 . His son, Ludwig Heinrich Wilhelm, was raised to the hereditary baron status in Berlin on October 15, 1840 with the name of Ziegler and Klipphausen-Dambrau . Already in the next generation, Theodor Carl Wilhelm sold the rule to the princely house of Hatzfeld-Wildenburg in 1873 , whereby his descendants lost the baron class tied to the Dambrau estate. The Prussian-Silesian branch of the family became extinct in 1953.

Lithograph by Joachimstein Abbey from 1839

Upper Lusatian Line (Gröditz Line)

Another son of Hieronymus, Christoph Ziegler von Klipphausen († 1587), but at the latest his son Wolfgang († 1621) came into the lien in Gröditz near Weißenberg in Upper Lusatia and thus established the Upper Lusatian line of the family von Ziegler and Klipphausen. Through Wolfgang's marriage to Catharina Anne von Mauschwitz from the Armenruh family in Silesia, the son Dr. Joachim Johann († 1630) presumably came into the possession of the Bohemian rulers of Rokitnitz by inheritance , which the latter, however, exchanged as a Protestant for the Oberlausitzer Gut Obercunewalde in 1627 due to the simmering religious conflicts in Bohemia . Since then, Cunewalde has been the family's new ancestral home in Upper Lusatia, which was to remain in their possession until the 20th century.

Heinrich Anshelm the elder of Ziegler and Klipphausen († 1684), a son of Joachim Johann, founded a special branch of the family when he acquired the Radmeritz manor from his mother Anna Marie, née. from Rechenberg. His sons Heinrich Anshelm the Younger and Joachim Siegismund von Ziegler and Klipphausen are among the most famous members of the family. Heinrich Anshelm († 1696), who was a councilor in Wurzen and last sat on Liebertwolkwitz , was active as a historian and writer. With his baroque novel Asian Banise, he was to create one of the most famous literary works of the late 17th century. His brother Joachim Siegismund († 1734) took over his father's property and was able to continue its economic success. However, since he remained childless, in 1722 he founded the Free World Noble Evangelical Fräuleinstift Joachimstein , whose home in Radmeritz with its large palace complex is also an outstanding example of Saxon baroque architecture.

Friedrich Wilhelm Otto von Ziegler and Klipphausen on Niedercunewalde and Pielitz was elevated to the status of Austrian baron on February 4, 1883. With the childless death of his son Friedrich Adolph Rudolph Freiherr von Ziegler and Klipphausen in 1919, however, the family finally disappeared from Upper Lusatia. Only a side branch of the Upper Lusatian Line, which was no longer located in the region in the 19th century, was the only one in the family to continue to flourish, but has now also died out in the male line.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms - first proven in 1416 - shows a four-pinned red wall bar in silver. On the helmet with red and silver covers, a silver column stuck through a red tile roof, equipped with six black cock feathers.

people

Bernhard Ziegler (1496–1552)

Construction activities

Klipphausen Castle

The following buildings can be traced back to members of the Ziegler family or from Ziegler and Klipphausen:

  • Residential tower in Dresden-Lockwitz , probably built by Paul Ziegler († approx. 1421/22) around 1410, today the church tower of Lockwitz Castle
  • Klipphausen Castle , built in 1528 by Hieronymus Ziegler († 1553), preserved, renovated, today Klipphausen municipal office and rental apartments
  • "Hohes Haus" (residential tower) in Gauernitz , built around 1530/40 by Baltzer Ziegler († 1559), taken up in Gauernitz Castle, remodeled in neo-Renaissance style at the end of the 19th century , the core preserved
  • Nostitz Church , built by Joachim Ernst von Ziegler and Klipphausen († 1682) in place of an older chapel until 1679, has been preserved
  • Old Nostitz Castle , reconstruction of the medieval castle around 1680 by Joachim Ernst von Ziegler and Klipphausen († 1682), burned out in 1813, ruins preserved
  • The district of Klipphausen in the Cunewalde community , created from 1681 by Wolf Rudolph von Ziegler and Klipphausen (1622–1685) and his son Ferdinand Rudolph (1653–1720) for the settlement of Bohemian and Silesian religious refugees.
  • Radmeritz Church , built between 1700 and 1713 by Joachim Sigismund von Ziegler and Klipphausen (1660–1734), mostly preserved, today Catholic
  • Joachimstein Abbey ( Radmeritz ), built by Joachim Sigismund von Ziegler and Klipphausen (1660–1734), Marstall 1697, abbey castle approx. 1710–1728 (architect: Christoph Beyer et al.), Rentamt 1726, garden pavilions until 1722, mostly preserved, partly renovated, private today
  • Daubitz Castle , built in 1720 by Christian August von Ziegler and Klipphausen (1692–1750), old extension on the park side between 1875 and 1895, mostly preserved, but now vacant
  • Wurschen Castle , built in 1720 by Rudolph Wilhelm von Ziegler and Klipphausen (1688–1749) while retaining the older parts of the moated castle, preserved, renovated, now private and public use
  • Wehrsdorf church , built in 1725 by Wolf Rudolph von Ziegler und Klipphausen (1693–1756), preserved, renovated
  • District Zieglertal of the municipality of Cunewalde, laid out from 1781 by Friedrich Wilhelm von Ziegler and Klipphausen (1723–1792)
  • Preititz Castle , built in 1789 by Ferdinand Rudolph von Ziegler und Klipphausen (1728–1791), has been preserved, today apartments

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae II 4, No. 198