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Coat of arms graphic by Otto Hupp in the Munich calendar of 1918

The von Zobel family , later also Zobel von Giebelstadt , is a Franconian - Swabian nobility with former possessions in the knightly canton of Odenwald . The headquarters were in Giebelstadt in the Würzburg district .

The sex is not ancestral - and is related to the coat of arms of the lords of Zobel, who immigrated from Franconia to Schneeberg in Saxony in the 16th century .

history

Since the 13th century, the Zobel, as the Würzburg ministerials , had owned the ancestral seat of Schloss Giebelstadt zu Lehen and exercised rulership rights in the village together with the Geyer von Giebelstadt as a condominium village with two manors . In 1345 it was enfeoffed with Darstadt near Ochsenfurt .

The family was given the court office of the lower chamber in the Hochstift Würzburg early on . Konrad I. Zobel († 1318) was abbot of Münsterschwarzach around 1316–1318 .

The representations of Johann Gottfried Biedermann in his genealogical register of the Franconian knighthood for the knightly canton of Odenwald are, however - like much in this work - questionable in terms of sources, since mostly unproven and often based on family legends. According to this, a Wilhelm Zobel is said to have participated in the 3rd tournament in Constance as early as 948 . A Hans Zobel is said to have been sent to Pope John XV by the Würzburg bishop in 995 . An Adelbert Zobel went on the Hungarian campaign in 1045 with Bishop Bruno von Würzburg . Furthermore, a Rupert Zobel in 1085 as a councilor to Bishop Meinhard and a Siegfried Zobel in 1140 as the founder of the St. Afra Monastery in Würzburg are named.

Andreas Zobel of Giebelstadt bought by Landgrave Johann of Leuchtenberg the domination praise Hausen with Castle praise Hausen and prescribed him in 1398 then the opening . Around the same time, Hans Zobel von Giebelstadt received from Elector Rupprecht III. Palatine the screen justice of Kesseler to feud that had previously Dieter Zobel of Giebelstadt. The abbot of Fulda enfeoffed another Hans Zobel von Giebelstadt in 1440 with the castle seat of Retzstadt , which Andreas Zobel von Giebelstadt sold again in 1483.

Grave slab of Heinrich Zobel von und zu Giebelstadt in the church of St. Georg in Friesenhausen

Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt became bishop of Würzburg on August 19, 1544 and died, presumably by murder, during the Grumbach feuds on April 15, 1558. Johann Georg I. Zobel von Giebelstadt was bishop of Bamberg from 1577 to 1580 .

In 1530, the castle and village of Messelhausen came to the Zobel family: Balthasar von Thüngen's widow was married to Christoph Zobel von Giebelstadt zu Guttenberg, who died soon afterwards. In 1538 she sold Messelhausen Castle to her son-in-law Stephan Zobel von Giebelstadt zu Darstadt, the husband of her youngest daughter Anastasia. Since then, the property has belonged to the Zobel von Giebelstadt zu Darstadt. The moated castle in Messelhausen was destroyed and rebuilt several times, most recently from 1740 to 1744 in its current form as a baroque castle.

In 1596 it was divided into the lines to Giebelstadt and to Darstadt and Messelhausen.

In Goßmannsdorf am Main , today a district of Ochsenfurt , the sables of Giebelstadt ruled the village as Ganerbe . They shared the property with the Geyer von Giebelstadt and the Würzburg cathedral chapter .

In the Bavarian aristocratic registers in 1818 two lines of the sex, the Giebelstadt branch and the Giebelstadt-Dorfstätter branch, were registered with the baron class . The baron status was proven by fief letters.

During the 18th to the beginning of the 19th century, Mr. Zobel von Giebelstadt were due to the ownership or partial ownership of Baiertal, Balbach, Darstadt, Giebelstadt, Goßmannsdorf, Guttenberg with Guttenberg Castle , Herchsheim , Messelhausen with Messelhausen Castle , Osthausen, Segnitz, Lipprichhausen and Rütschdorf member of the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knight circle . In addition, members of the family were enrolled in the knightly canton of Altmühl , Baunach and, at the beginning of the 18th century, in the knightly canton of Rhön-Werra . Because of the shares in Freudental received as an inheritance from the Thüngen family , from 1717 to 1727 and from 1727 to 1770 they were managed as personalists in the knightly canton of Kocher of the Swabian knight circle.

In 1808 Messelhausen, Balbach and Rütschdorf fell to the Grand Duchy of Baden , Giebelstadt to the Grand Duchy of Würzburg and Lipprichshausen to the Kingdom of Bavaria .

present

In 1932 the Augustinian order acquired Messelhausen Castle. The Augustinian monastery in Würzburg used it as a Pius-Keller house . Today the Order of Malta operates assisted living there.

In 2002, Giebelstadt Castle hit the headlines when a Bayreuth auction house announced an auction of 2,713 historical items from the castle, including glass, porcelain, clocks, furniture with sable coats of arms, garden sculptures, weapons and paintings. These included the execution sword with which the knight Wilhelm von Grumbach was executed in 1567 on the market square in Gotha , and portraits of Franconian nobles, including family portraits, a baroque gaming table and the family tree of the von Zobel family. The Würzburg District Office , under the leadership of the State Office for Monument Preservation , ordered that 64 objects must remain in the Giebelstadter Castle because they fulfill a specific historical function in the castle. They were initially auctioned off, but were assigned as security to Raiffeisenbank Ochsenfurt. The family's indebtedness meant that the four-winged Zobel palace complex in the center of Giebelstadt was foreclosed on February 19, 2008 in Würzburg at the request of Raiffeisenbank Ochsenfurt. The new owner of the castle, Walter Konrad, was born in Giebelstadt and founded a company for blinds in the US state of Texas in 1980.

Darstadt Castle is still owned by Barons Zobel von Giebelstadt. The building has a late medieval core and was given its present form in the 16th and 17th centuries. On May 29, 2016, during a severe storm, water ran into the moat and rose so high that the ground floor was flooded and the furniture was damaged; The family archive (35 linear meters) that has been housed there since 2011 was also badly damaged and only recovered days later. The first steps towards recovery have been initiated.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a black- bridged red horse trunk in silver , the shield image on the helmet. The helmet covers are red-silver.

The horse from the coat of arms of the Zobel family still appears today in some Swabian and Bavarian local coats of arms.

Personalities

Melchior Zobel von Giebelstadt (1505–1558), Prince-Bishop of Würzburg
Johann Georg I. Zobel von Giebelstadt († 1580), Prince-Bishop of Bamberg

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Zobel  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , sixth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1912, pp. 1070-1071.
  2. ^ Biedermann, genealogy of the Franconian knighthood in the Odenwald
  3. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Ortschronik von Goßmannsdorf (Erich Weiß) at arts-gallery.de@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.arts-gallery.de
  4. ↑ Sable Inventory: Forgotten Treasures. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Interview with Texan by choice Walter Konrad about the Sable Castle. Retrieved January 27, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Website for the grave plate