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[[File:Sinzendorf_Grafen_Wappen.png|thumb|Coat of Arms of the Sinzendorf family]]
The '''House of Sinzendorf''' (also: Sinzendorff) was a [[German nobility|German noble family]] with Upper [[Austrians|Austrian origin]] (Sinzendorf in [[Nußbach, Austria|Nußbach]]), not to be confused with the Lower Austrian [[Zinzendorf (surname)|House of Zinzendorf]]. The family belonged to prestigious circle of [[Uradel|high nobility]] families, but died out in 1822 in the male line.

== History ==
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The Sinzendorf family appear in the 13th century as [[Ministerialis]] of the [[Kremsmünster Abbey]]. The ancestral castle was Sinzendorf in the municipality [[Nußbach, Austria|Nußbach in Traunviertel]]. They owned Castle Feyregg from 1404 to 1566, and Castle Fridau from 1497 to 1708. Around 1450, the family split into two lines (later referred to as ''Ernstbrunn-Feyregg'' and ''Fridau - Neuburg''). In 1592 Joachim von Sinzendorf bought the castle and fief of Ernstbrunn (with Klement Castle and Michelstetten Castle) and considerably expanded the Ernstbrunn Palace.

In 1610 the nobles of Sinzendorf were raised to [[Freiherr|baron]], and in 1653 to [[Imperial Count]]. 1653 bought Rudolf von Sinzendorf from Ernstbrunn the [[Burgraviate of Rheineck|castle county Rheineck]] am Rhein, thus his line was part of the Kuriatstimme the [[Lower Rhenish–Westphalian Circle|Westphalian Grafenbank]] in the Imperial Imperial Council and rose to the [[Imperial immediacy|imperial high nobility]]. In the second half of the 17th century, Georg Ludwig Graf von Sinzendorf bought the county of Neuburg am Inn, which was lost in 1680 again.

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File:Pfarrkirchen bei Bad Hall Schloss Feyregg Feyregger Straße 2 (04).JPG|Castle Feyregg, Upper Austria
File:Schloss Fridau Altschloss.JPG|Old Castle Fridau, Lower Austria
File:Burg Ernstbrunn (8083590422).jpg|Castle Ernstbrunn, Lower Austria
File:Burg Rheineck Sammlung_Duncker.jpg|Burg Rheineck on the Middle Rhine
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[[File:CoA Treasurer von Sinzendorf.svg|thumb|150px|The root coat of arms, augmented with the imperial crown (as Erbschatzmeister)]]
1654 Count Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf from the Fridau-Neuburger line was invested as hereditary treasurer of the Holy Roman Empire; in token of this office, he was allowed to add the imperial crown to his coat of arms. In 1677, as the owner of the fief of [[Lords of Thannhausen|Thannhausen (Swabia)]], he became a member of the [[Swabian College of Imperial Counts|Swabian Imperial College]], until 1708 when this fief was sold by his descendants to the Counts of [[Stadion (state)|Stadion]].

The line Neuburg am Inn is extinct in 1767. The line Ernst Brunn divided into two; the senior line, raised in 1803 to [[princes of the Holy Roman Empire]], included the dominions Ernst Brunn, Klement, Straussberg, Triebel, [[Veveří Castle|Castle Eichhorn]] (from 1707 to 1802), inter alia, in Austria, Bohemia and Moravia, and the castle county [[Winterrieden]] in Bavaria, which the family was given in compensation for the lost County Rheineck. With Prosper of Sinzendorf on Ernstbrunn (1751–1822), raised to the rank of sovereign [[Fürst|imperial prince]] in 1803, but [[German mediatisation|mediatized]] to Bavaria in 1806. With the death of Prince Prosper the family died in 1822 in the male line. It was followed by a protracted inheritance dispute that ended in 1828 when Prince Henry LXIV of [[Principality of Reuss-Gera|Reuß-Köstritz]] took over the rule of [[Ernstbrunn]], whose descendants still have it today.

The younger line also had properties in Austria and Bohemia, [[Planá (Tachov District)]], [[Kočov]] and so on.

== Heirdom ==
* Between 1630 and 1662 Johann Joachim Freiherr and Count of Sinzendorff was in pledge possession of the county seat located at the lower Inn [[Imperial County of Ortenburg|Ortenburg]], as he bought the ruling Count Friedrich Casimir [[IOU|debt instruments]].
* In 1654, the counts of Sinzendorf bought the castle county Rheineck as [[Electorate of Cologne|kurkölnisches]] [[fief]] of the barons of Warsberg. This was compensated at the [[Reichsdeputationshauptschluss]] including the village Winterrieden in - later Bavarian - Lower Allgäu, with an elevation of this place to a "castle county".
* 1665 the counts of Sinzendorf came into possession of the rule plan in West Bohemia. 
* 1654 bought the later Hofkammer president Count George Ludwig von Sinzendorf the county of Neuburg am Inn for 400,000 guilders, which also included the castle Wernstein. The Count had the fortress [[Neuburg am Inn|Neuburg]] converted into a baroque palace and wanted to expand the county to a significant [[Mercantilism|mercantile]] center. In 1680, however, Count von Sinzendorf was charged with [[Treason|high treason]], lese majeste and other offenses. Then he was relieved of all posts and the county of Neuburg drafted by the Imperial Court Chamber in Vienna.
* 1714 bought the Obersthofkanzler count Philipp Ludwig Wenzel of Sinzendorf the Moravian rule [[Židlochovice|Seelowitz]] of its Mrs. Rosina Katharina Isabella, born Countess of [[Valdštejn Castle|Waldstein-Wartenberg]] and her sister Maria Anna Franziska of pair for 660,000 Rhenish guldens. He had between 1722 and 1728 by [[Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach]], the baroque palace Seelowitz built; his three sons already sold it in 1743.
* Between 1723 and 1729 Count Prosper Anton Joseph von Sinzendorf had the castle [[Trpísty]] built in Bohemia.

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Plana castle.JPG|Castle [[Planá (Tachov District)]], Bohemia
070415 Schloss Neuburg am Inn.jpg|[[:de:Schloss Neuburg am Inn|Castle]] at [[Neuburg am Inn]], Bavaria
Zámek židlochovice.jpg|Castle [[Židlochovice]], South Moravian Region
Zámek Trpísty - okres Tachov - Česká republika.jpg|[[Château Trpísty]], Bohemia
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== Notable members ==
[[File:Sinzendorf - Tyroff AT.jpg|thumb|Princely Coat of Arms (1803)]]
Representatives of the noble family included:

* [[Johann Joachim von Sinzendorf]], owner of the imperial county Ortenburg
* [[:de:Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf|Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf]] (1616–1681), Austrian politician, owner of the county Neuburg
* [[Philipp Ludwig Wenzel von Sinzendorf]] (1671–1742), Austrian diplomat and Court Chancellor (Obersthofkanzler)
* [[Philipp Ludwig von Sinzendorf]] (1699–1747), Bishop of Wroclaw and cardinal of the Catholic Church
* Prosper Anton Josef von Sinzendorf (1700–1756), Austrian noble man and courtier, lord of [[Château Trpísty|Trpísty]], Counsellor and Chamberlain
* [[Prosper von Sinzendorf]] (1751–1822), raised to the rank of prince in 1803, Herr auf Ernstbrunn, dies childless
* [[Anna von Sinzendorf]] ( –1842), married Countess of Thurn, in second marriage Marchesa Pannochieschi Countess d'Elci, sister of the previous, last Countess of Sinzendorf

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Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorff.jpg|[[:de:Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf|Georg Ludwig von Sinzendorf]] (1616–1681)
Philipp Ludwig Wenzel von Sinzendorf par Hyacinthe Rigaud (1729).jpg|[[Philipp Ludwig Wenzel von Sinzendorf]] (1671–1742)
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==See also==
*[[Lapčan family]]
*[[Kurjaković family]]

== Literature ==
*[[Constantin von Wurzbach]]: ''[http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=11783&page=19&scale=3.33&viewmode=fullscreen Sinzendorf, die Grafen und Fürsten, Genealogie]''. In: ''[[Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich]]''. 35. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1877, pg. 13–15.
*Constantin von Wurzbach: ''[http://www.literature.at/viewer.alo?objid=11783&page=30&scale=3.33&viewmode=fullscreen Sinzendorf, die Grafen und Fürsten, Wappen]''. In: ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich''. 35. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Wien 1877, pg. 24.

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Sinzendorf family|Sinzendorf}}
* [http://fabpedigree.com/s000/f660710.htm Die Sinzendorfer im Mittelalter]
* {{Austriaforum|AEIOU/Sinzendorf,_Georg_Ludwig_Graf|Georg Ludwig Graf Sinzendorf}}
* {{Austriaforum|AEIOU/Sinzendorf,_Philipp_Ludwig_Wenzel_Graf|Philipp Ludwig Wenzel Graf Sinzendorf}}
* [http://www.zeno.org/Pierer-1857/A/Sinzendorf Sinzendorf bei Zeno.org]

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