Zinzendorf (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Zinzendorf

Zinzendorf (also counts and lords of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf or Zinzendorfer ) is the name of an old noble family in Austria . They come from an old Lower Austrian gentry family and have their parent company in the market town of Ruprechtshofen in the Melk district in Lower Austria .

The Zinzendorf were raised to the baron status in 1460 and the count status in 1662 . The sex of those from Zinzendorf and Pottendorf differs in terms of origin and coat of arms compared to those of Sinzendorf (noble family) and should therefore not be confused.

history

Origin and possessions

The Zinzendorfer are one of the oldest gentry families in Lower Austria, as well as in the state above the Enns . It is also one of the families of the Apostles in Austria who were already resident at the time of the Babenbergs (976 to 1246). In an old tradition, these are said to have erected the first landlord's table in Lower Austria. One of the first homes of the family was apparently in the area of Stift Lilienfeld in the municipality of Lilienfeld in Lower Austria . The family had a close relationship with the Cistercian monastery Lilienfeld for several centuries. Many documents from the family can be found in the Lilienfeld archive. The family of those of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf was first mentioned in a document in 1114 by Hermann , Bishop of Augsburg , in a letter . In it he listed a Wisint de Cincendorf as a witness. There are further documents from the years 1144, 1176 and 1190. The document from 1190 is in the archive of the Lilienfeld monastery. Therein Otto I. de Czinczendorf mentioned. From then on, the Zinzendorf family sequence until this house is extinguished is documented by an uninterrupted series of documents.

Zinsenhof headquarters

The headquarters of the von Zinzendorf family was the Zinsenhof ( Czinczenhof ), an estate near Ruprechtshofen in the Melk district in Lower Austria. It still exists today and serves as an experimental farm for the Higher Federal Teaching and Research Institute for Horticulture (Vienna-Schönbrunn).

Schwarzenbach Castle

Burg Schwarzenbach am Schlossberg in the market town of Schwarzenbach (Lower Austria) also belonged to the Zinzendorfer family .

Karlstetten, Doppel as well as Wasserburg and the family of those from Baudissin-Zinzendorf

When Karl von Zinzendorf died in 1813 with no descendants, his great-nephew Heinrich August von Baudissin († 1834) inherited his Lower Austrian lords of Karlstetten , Doppel and Wasserburg . He took the name and coat of arms of his great-uncle (Count von Baudissin-Zinzendorf-Pottendorf) and was enfeoffed with the Oberstlandjägermeisteramt in the land under the Enns . In 1912 the Baudissin resident in Schleswig-Holstein sold their Austrian goods.

Name bearer

Ennoblement and dynastic marriages

On July 2, 1460 Imperial Council and the captain was Georg von Zinzendorf in erbländisch-Austrian baron raised and a crest association with the family of forest approved. His son, Christoph Freiherr von Zinzendorf , had married a Sophia von Pottendorf and therefore received approval to combine names and coats of arms with her von Pottendorf. He got the inheritance title from Zinzendorff and Pottendorff . On July 24, 1637, the von Zinzendorf and Pottendorf families were entrusted with the coat of arms of the zippy but also extinct Zelkingen noble family. On November 16, 1662, the baronial family was elevated to the status of hereditary-Austrian count .

Many graves of the noble family are in the Schottenkirche (Vienna) .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms of the von Zinzendorf family is quartered, fields 1 and 4 silver, field 2 red and field 3 black; on the helmet with red-silver covers two red buffalo horns, each with three silver balls on the outside. The faulty blazon of the coat of arms in the GHdA reads: A shield quartered with red, silver, silver and black; on the helmet with red and silver covers, two silver buffalo horns each with three silver balls on the outside.

Count's coat of arms

Blazon: The count's coat of arms of those of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf is split and divided five times (12 places, the shield figures on the right side facing inwards) and covered with a heart shield , inside the Zinzendorf family coat of arms : square , field 1 red, field 2 and 3 silver , Field 4 black. Places 1 and 4 of the main shield show a growing natural-colored (black) wolf on a silver background (forest), places 2 and 3 are divided by blue over red and show a growing silver lion (Pottendorf) at the top. Seats 5 and 8 are divided obliquely to the left (or obliquely right) by silver over blue (Zelking), Seats 6 and 7 show a golden crowned lion, divided obliquely by blue and gold (Zelking), Seats 9 and 12 show a golden cushy square, silver cushion on a red background, covered with a gold-studded, black horn with black cord (Teuffel von Gundersdorf), fields 10 and 11 shows a black horse on a gold background (devil); On the shield rests a nine-pearl count's crown, above it seven helmets: helmet 1 with red and silver blankets , on top of which the pillow, placed at an angle, with the horn; Helmet 2 with blue-gold covers, on it a flight diagonally inwardly divided by silver over blue; Helmet 2 with blue and silver covers, on top of it the growing wolf, the middle helmet with red and silver covers on the right, black and silver covers on the left, two buffalo horns (family coat of arms helmet), the right one red and silver, the left one silver and black, a hip horn wedged in between (Erblandjägermeisteramt in Austria under the Enns) as on the pillow, the horns on the outside with five silver balls each; Helmet 5 with red and silver covers carries the growing silver lion between two buffalo horns, red on the right, silver on the left, each with seven little flags in different colors; Helmet 6 with red and gold covers carries a red flight, sprinkled with gold hearts, helmet 7 with black and gold covers carries a growing black horse. The main shield stands in front of a coat of arms tied upwards, lined with hermelin and red on the right, outside black.

  • Family coat of arms of those of Zinzendorf with a stech helmet

  • Coat of arms of the barons and later counts of Zinzendorf

  • Coat of arms of the Barons von Zelking ( Zelkinger )

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Zinzendorf and Pottendorf

  • Coat of arms of the Barons Teuffel von Gundersdorf

  • Coat of arms of those of Zinzendorf (right), on the death shield of Countess Amalia Regina von Zinzendorf

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry about Schwarzenbach Castle in Burgen-Austria accessed on February 24, 2010
  2. ^ Brotherhood book of St. Christoph am Arlberg
  3. ↑ Bernhard Peter: Historische heraldische Exlibris (27) (undated heraldic exlibris, designed for Karl Graf von Zinzendorf and Pottendorf (* 1739, † 1813), ore commander (Landkomtur) of the Ballei Austria of the Teutonic Order)

Web links

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