Anger (noble family)

Tribe coat of arms of anger

Zorn is the name of an old Strasbourg patrician family , coin-operated household at Strasbourg from 1266. The family is one of the oldest noble families of Alsace .

history

The Zorn were members of the Riplin family, which was first mentioned in a document in 1197 with Burcardus qui dicitur Riplin . The sex was widespread in the free imperial city of Strasbourg and throughout Alsace. 1253 appear as the sons of the Strasbourg councilor Hugo Ripelinus, with whom the family line also begins, Nicolaus, called Zorn (documented mentions 1252–1295) and Rulin Ripel (documented mentioning 1253–1305).

The Zorn- Engelbrecht , Zorn- Hageneck , Zorn-Schultheiß, Zorn von Wiehersberg and the Zorn von Plobsheim , among others , descend from Nikolaus Zorn, who became councilor in 1258 and burgrave of Strasbourg in 1281 . Named partly after their mothers, their ancestral seat or after the Strasbourg mayor's office administered by them . From Nikolaus Zorn's brother Rulin, who was appointed 73rd mayor of Strasbourg in 1263 , the Rulenderin descended from and through his son Hugo, a knight from 1300, the Zorn von Bulach .

In the course of time, further lines formed, including the Weißzorn, Zorn zum Riedt, Zorn zu Ryneck and Jungzorn. The Bilgerin von Ehrenheim, Schenck von Hagenau, Schöneck and Turant also wore the same coat of arms, but different helmet details.

The names Riplin (Rüpel) and Zorn can probably indicate a violent temperament, which was also used in numerous feuds . The most violent was the clash of May 20, 1332, a bloody street fight between Zorn and another important aristocratic party in Strasbourg, the Müllenheim , in which seven nobles from Zorn's party were killed. Because of the rivalry between the two families, the town hall got two extra entrances, one for the Müllenheim and one for the Zorn. The two banks of the Ill were also named after these families, the Quai Müllenheim and the Quai Zorn . The Zorn played a prominent role in the Strasbourg city council until the 18th century . They owned extensive land in the city and the surrounding area and were related by marriage to gentlemen.

1773 The anger of Bulach received a sovereign affirmation of their customary law carried Freiherr state . The Lords of Zorn belonged to the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Odenwald in the Franconian knight circle in the 16th and 17th centuries . Members of the Zorn von Bulach line were enrolled in the knightly canton of Neckar-Black Forest , Ortenau district , the Swabian knight circle in the 18th and 19th centuries , and from 1660 because of the ownership or partial ownership of Enzheim, Gerstheim and Osthausen in the knightly district of Lower Alsace . Members of the knight circle of Lower Alsace were also members of the Zorn von Plobsheim line from the 17th to the 18th century. In the church of St. Pierre Le Jeune in Strasbourg, a chapel from 1320 is named after the family.

Coats of arms of the lines of anger with variants of the crest

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Wolf Zorn von Dunzenheim (drawn by Hans Baldung Grien , around 1522), with pilgrims as a crest

The family coat of arms is divided by red and gold, with a silver eight-pointed star on top. There is a fallen golden sword hilt on the helmet. The helmet covers are red and gold.

In the case of Zorn von Plobsheim, a baroque variant, the personal one of a Knight of the Order of St. John , shows the shield square with a silver cross : the first and fourth fields show the silver star in red, the second and third fields are gold and single.

Otherwise, the sign of the anger of Plobsheim is like the trunk blazon designated as the sign of the other lines of anger and that only is only in the crest differ from the trunk emblem. For example, the crest of the Plobsheim line is a bracken trunk, that of the Dunzenheim line is a growing pilgrim.

Name bearer

Christina Renata Zorn von Plobsheim, née Bartsch von Demuth (1692–1716), from an aristocratic family from Ermland

François Zorn von Bulach (1828–1890), Alsatian politician
Franz Zorn von Bulach (1858 - 1925), Auxiliary Bishop of Strasbourg
Hugo Zorn von Bulach (1851–1921), Alsatian politician and member of the Reichstag
Wolf Christoph Zorn von Plobsheim (1655–1721), German Baroque architect

literature

Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1923 . Book u. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1923.
Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .

Web links

Commons : Zorn - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

^ Bernhard Hertzog : Chronicon Alsatiae. Edelsasser Chronick , 1592, p. 47.
↑ see also list of Frankish knight families
↑ Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (list of the canton Odenwald from 1550, StAL B 583 Bü 191.) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 . Pp. 214/215.

[1] Bernhard Hertzog : Chronicon Alsatiae. Edelsasser Chronick , 1592, p. 47.

[2] see also list of Frankish knight families

[Cord_Ulrichs_Odenwald_1550-3] Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (list of the canton Odenwald from 1550, StAL B 583 Bü 191.) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 . Pp. 214/215.