Boßler family

Boßler German: [ˈbɔslɐ], also spelled Bossler or Bosler in some family branches or testimonies of earlier centuries, is the changed name of a patrilineal lateral branch of the patrician family Rüde German: [ˈʁyːdə] based in the electoral palatinate chief administrative city Mosbach. Again, the Mosbach line, and thus its Boßler named branch, originates lawfully from the aristocratic House of the Rüden von Bödigheim (Uradel).

Crafts and trade were reserved for the burghers and forbidden to the German nobility. In order to establish themselves successfully in these trades the Mosbach Rüden deliberately obscure off their old nobility. Its branch the southern Hessian family was particularly notable in the manufacture of air guns, in the field of music journalism and music engraving and in German inland passenger and freight shipping on the rivers Neckar and Rhine. In addition, individual members of the family achieved importance in scientific or cultural terms over the course of time.

The unbroken line of the family dynasty, which has resided with a branch in France since 1791 and another branch in Neckarsteinach in the Bergstrasse district since 1822, has been documented in the area of the historic district of Lichtenberg (district Darmstadt-Dieburg) since 1616. Members of the dynasty appeared there as local lower and higher judicial court officials, as princely state officials in the forestry and cameral system of the Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt and as burgraves belonging to the hesse court officials. Due to their social standing, they belonged to the regional notables.