Zwierlein (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Zwierlein family

The noble family of the Barons von Zwierlein goes back to the procurator at the Imperial Court of Justice Johann Jacob von Zwierlein . He was raised by the Princely House of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen to Imperial Palatine and by the Emperor on February 24, 1752 to hereditary nobility . At the beginning of the 1750s he acquired the imperial knighthood of Bubenrod near Gießen . On September 27, 1790, the widow and the children of Zwierlein were raised to the status of imperial baron. In 1782 the son Christian Jacob bought the baronial estate Winnerod and the Langsdorf estate near Lich .

Genealogy (selection)

Hans Friedrich Zwirlein; around the middle of the 17th century schoolmaster and arithmetic master to Lauf (either near Nuremberg or, what is more likely, near Bamberg ).

  1. Johann Friedrich Zwirlein (also called Zwirle ), trader in Frankfurt am Main ; ⚭ Anna Maria, daughter of the Nuremberg citizen and trader Nicolaus Schaffer (or daughter of the deceased Worms council member and old mayor Baltasar Schöff or Scheven); moved to Worms , where his brother Johannes Zwirlein was documented in 1697 as Worms councilor (member of the permanent regiment of Mr Dreizehner , i.e. a patrician of the imperial city of Worms, later electoral Palatinate chamber councilor ), in 1699 was godfather of his son Johann Jacob.
    1. Johann Jacob von Zwierlein (born February 9, 1699 in Worms, † June 21, 1772 in Wetzlar) was a German lawyer at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar ⚭ 1737 Dorothea Friederike born (von) Wahl (called (Hubin) von Gülchen) (nobility, privilegium denominandi and heraldic confirmation for her: 1788; for her mother as early as 1753)
      1. Christian Jacob Freiherr von Zwierlein (* December 4, 1737 in Wetzlar; † August 10, 1793 in Langsdorf), attorney at law and procurator at the Imperial Court of Wetzlar ⚭ Christine Friederike née von Hopfer (* October 4, 1749; † April 15, 1823 in Langsdorf)
      2. Friedrich Salentin Freiherr von Zwierlein (born January 17, 1747 in Wetzlar, † October 6, 1813 in Winnerod), lawyer, Princely Solms-Braunfels Privy Councilor and District President , ⚭ 1777 Caroline von Harling (1755–1804)
        1. Hans Carl Freiherr von Zwierlein (son Christian Jacobs; born January 3, 1768 in Wetzlar; † June 9, 1850 in Geisenheim), art collector, lawyer, Nassau squire and politician and former member of the estates of the Duchy of Nassau; 1.⚭ Maria Magdalena born von Gülich (born July 10, 1772 in Wetzlar; † January 5, 1843 in Geisenheim, a sister of the lawyer Philipp Jacob von Gülich ); 2.⚭ Adelheid von Stolterfoth (born September 11, 1800 in Eisenach, † December 17, 1875 in Wiesbaden)
          1. Hans Constantin Freiherr von Zwierlein (born October 21, 1802 in Wetzlar; † April 1, 1863 in Geisenheim), son from his first marriage, diplomat, lawyer, Nassau landlord and politician and former member of the estates of the Duchy of Nassau ⚭ Louise Schenk zu Schweinsberg ( 1809-1840)
            1. Hans Freiherr von Zwierlein (born April 16, 1835 in Geisenheim; † June 26, 1886 in Geisenheim), lawyer, Nassau Chamberlain , hereditary member of the First Chamber of the Nassau Estates, collector of porcelain, paintings and technical curiosities ⚭ 1871 Josephine Höß (1845 –1912)
              1. Karl Otto Freiherr von Zwierlein (born August 21, 1877; † September 7, 1945), engineer, co-owner of the K. Wetzel machine factory in Gera; the Red Army looted his villa in Gera on September 7, 1945 & kidnapped him - he was killed in the process and was subsequently pronounced dead; ⚭ before 1907 Frieda Wetzel (1879–1972)
                1. Hans Freiherr von Zwierlein (born December 9, 1907 in Gera; † October 7, 1972 in Lauterbach), last bearer of the name "von Zwierlein"

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those von Zwierlein with motto

The family coat of arms is emblazoned as follows : In green, a diagonal bar cut from red and gold. According to the medal minted for Johann Jacob von Zwierlein , on the crowned helmet there is an open flight marked like the shield, the sloping beam turned inwards.

Motto : "Durant virtute parata" (Remember the bravery with Acquired)

literature

  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Volume 9, Steinhaus-Zwierlein, Verlag Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1870, p. 636 .
  • Gustav Ernst Köhler, The Barons of Zwierlein. Rise and Fall of a Baroque Family , in: Hessische Heimat, No. 18, September 5, 1992 (also separately in the series of the Heimatgeschichtliche Vereinigung Reiskirchen eV No. 4, 2nd edition 2002).

Web links

Wikisource: Ferdinand Wilhelm Emil Roth  - Sources and full texts

(Evidence of Roth's work)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelm Sauer:  Zwierlein, Freiherr Johann Jacob von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 45, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1900, pp. 535-537.
  2. ↑ (previously also written "Biberod").
  3. ↑ a b Anette Baumann, Advokaten und Prokuratoren: Attorneys at the Reichskammergericht (1690-1806) (2006), p. 128 .
  4. ↑ a b Kneschke 1870, p. 636.
  5. ^ A b Sauer, Wilhelm, "Zwierlein, Freiherr Johann Jacob von" in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 45 (1900), pp. 535-537 ( online version ).
  6. ^ The files of the Imperial Court Council (RHR), file 6197 .
  7. ↑ a b c Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Roth , on the genealogy of the lords of Zwierlein zu Wetzlar-Geisenheim 1699–1900 , in: Archive for family, coat of arms and Siegelkunde 1 (1914), pp. 11-14 ( digitized version ).
  8. ↑ Zwierlein, Johann Jakob von. Hessian biography. (As of February 12, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  9. ^ Cornelia Rösner: Nassau parliamentarians: Nassau parliamentarians. Part 1. The Landtag of the Duchy of Nassau 1818–1866 , Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-930221-00-4 , pp. 196–197.
  10. ↑ Zwierlein, Friedrich Salentin from. Hessian biography. (As of March 11, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  11. ↑ Pierer's Universal Lexikon , Volume 19, p. 772 .
  12. ^ Notes from the city archive, contributions to the history of the city of Rüdesheim, edited by city archivist Rolf Göttert ( digitized version ).
  13. ^ Genealogy database of the Verein für Computergenealogie , genealogy net: Libro de familia local Giessen, Lista de personas von Zwierlein .