Aichen (noble family)

Aichen coat of arms (knight)

The Aichen come from the county of Mark in the Lower Rhine-Westphalian Empire , came to Vienna around 1640, were accepted into the new Lower Austrian knightly families in 1666 and raised to the baron status in 1816.

history

Martin von Aichen was patrician and mayor of the city of Hattingen an der Ruhr . His son Peter settled in Vienna in 1638, and in 1645 he became Doctor iuris utriusque in Siena . In 1647 he became secretary at the Lower Austrian Land Marshal's Court, in 1656 a government councilor and in 1661 Lower Austrian land clerk. On February 18, 1666, Peter von Aichen was accepted into the new line of knighthood. He bought the Inzersdorf estate near Vienna. On March 16, 1674 he was accepted into the old Lower Austrian knighthood families.

Inzersdorf, from Georg Mathaeus Vischer's Topographia Archiducatus Austriae inferioris 1672

Personalities

• Johann Joachim von Aichen (1664–1729), from 1718 state sub-marshal, most recently president of the Lower Austrian knighthood.
• Franz Anton von Aichen († 1716) kk grenadier captain under the Guido Stahremberg Regiment , died in 1716 in the battle of Peterwardein against the Turks.
• Otto Ehrenreich von Aichen, Lieutenant Colonel under the Baron von Molktische Regiments (also Infantry Regiment No. 13).
• Anton Augustin of Aichen (1701-1777), Lord of the estate Neuwaldegg , kk Steward, Raitherr and then Raitmarschall the Lower Austrian landscape, 1735-1741 councilor of the equestrian and oldest Landrath .
• Joseph von Aichen (1745–1818), diplomat and lawyer, baron since 1816.
• Franz Xaver von Aichen (1788–1856), Lower Austrian sub-marshal

coat of arms

The coat of arms of this sex is a quartered shield. The first and fourth a silver field in which a green trunk with three golden acorns hanging on it stands up in the middle. The second and third blue fields, in which a winged golden griffin with a golden crown on its head, turned inwards, rises. On top of the crowned open helmet stands the green trunk with the three acorns, between two eagle wings, the front of which is blue on the right, the other on the left is gold.

literature

• Carl Friedrich Benjamin Leupold: General aristocratic archive of the Austrian monarchy . Volume 1, Vienna 1789, pp. 11-13. limited preview
• Franz Karl Wißgrill : Scene of the Lower Austrian Nobility ..., Volume 1, Vienna 1794, pp. 51–55.

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