Attems (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Attems

The noble family Attems comes from the nobility of the former Markgrafschaft Friuli and is named after the 1025 first castle mentioned Attems (Attemis) at Cividale .

history

The family is first mentioned in 1102 with Konrad de Attems and his son Ulrich . His notarized tribe series begins with Arbo († after February 2, 1170) and Heinrich (Henricus) de Attems († 1193) on February 2 and February 6, 1170 respectively. The sex had a seat and vote among the nobility in the Friulian parliament.

  • Ruins of Attimis Castle (Friuli)

  • Castello Partistagno in Attimis

After the conquest of Friuli by the Republic of Venice , part of the family stayed at Attems Castle, but Friedrich von Attems (* 1447; † 1521) went to Gorizia in 1473 and became court chancellor of the last Count of Gorizia , Leonhard von Görz . After Leonhard's death in 1500, Friedrich was confirmed as such by the Roman-German King Maximilian I and in 1506 was appointed governor of the county that had now become a Habsburg by inheritance treaty .

Friedrich's son Hieronymus became the progenitor of the line that later called itself "zu Heiligenkreuz " (after a rule east of Görz in the Wippachertal), which his grandson Hermann IV (1564–1611) bought in 1605 from the Counts Thurn-Valsassina. He and the entire family were elevated to the status of baron, his four sons to the status of count in 1630.

Friedrich's grandson Andreas became the founder of the Attems- Petzenstein line (named after the Petsch = Peče rule in Moravče in present-day Slovenia ). Numerous secondary lines, branches and twigs subsequently split off from these two main lines. Friedrich's descendants were raised to the baron status in 1605 and to the count status in 1630 (Heiligenkreuz line) and 1653 (Petzenstein line).

One line of the house had been located in Styria since the 17th century , founded by Ignaz Maria Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz, who had the Palais Attems built in Graz between 1702 and 1716 . From the 17th century to the end of the Danube Monarchy, members of this line held the highest positions in Styria.

Feistritz Castle , Lower Styria (Slovenia)

From 1717 until the expropriation in 1945, the family owned the rulership of (Windisch-) Feistritz in (Slovenian) Lower Styria , a part of the Habsburg hereditary lands that became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia from 1918 . In 1739 Anton Ferdinand von Attems acquired the Dornau rule there ; From 1753 Joseph Thaddäus von Attems redesigned Dornau Castle in Baroque style , which was sold in 1820. Feistritz was expropriated by communist Yugoslavia in 1945. As a result, the art collection of the Palais Attems in Graz had to be gradually sold, and in 1962 the palace itself.

A branch of the family, Count Anton Ferdinand von Attems († 1739) and his son Christian August von Attems, owned the Sterneck (Loßburg) rule from 1725 to 1749 , to which Anton Ferdinand had come through marriage, as a Württemberg fief .

Schrattenthal Castle in Lower Austria belonged to the family from 1803 to 1869 . In the middle of the 19th century, Hermann Eduard Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz from Schrattenthal bought Therasburg Castle in Lower Austria from his father-in-law Julius Graf von Gilleis († 1841), the last of his family . The Attems family had the ruinous castle restored in a romantic way. The name and coat of arms association at Attems-Gilleis took place for the first time ad personam in 1890 for Hermann Eduards son Anton August von Attems-Gilleis , who had to sell Schrattenthal. Therasburg today belongs to Manfred Graf Attems, the castle is inhabited by the family and serves as a forestry center.

It was hereditary as a member of the manor house in 1861 when the Austrian Imperial Council was first appointed to Ignaz Maria Graf von Attems-Heiligenkreuz (* 1774; † 1861) for the Attems family. The succession extended to 2 successors, his son Ferdinand Graf von Attems (* 1809, † 1878) and his brother Edmund Graf von Attems (* 1847, † 1929). In an imperial act of grace, Maximilian Graf von Attems-Gilleis was also appointed as a second hereditary member.

The Counts of Attems are not to be confused with the Counts or Dukes of Altemps, who formed the Italian line of the Vorarlberg Counts of Hohenems , although such mix-ups (in the Altems spelling ) occasionally occurred.

Known members of the sex

coat of arms

  • The family coat of arms shows three ascending silver tips in red. On the helmet with red and silver blankets a silver bracken trunk with a red collar.
  • The coat of arms from 1630 is square with a red central shield . This shows an apparent growing from the bottom front part of a right-looking Bracke red with gold-bound edge and ringed collar. Fields 1 and 4 contain a black, gold-crowned and armored double- headed eagle in gold . Fields 2 and 3 contain three whole silver points in red, rising from below (family coat of arms from the 14th century). Above it are three crowned helmets. The one on the right with red and silver covers carries a closed eagle flight shaped like fields 2 and 3 , the middle one with black and gold covers the double eagle and the left one with red and silver covers the growing bracket of the central shield.

  • Family coat of arms of Otto Hupp in the Munich calendar of 1930

  • Coat of arms from 1630

  • Counts of Attems (correct coat of arms from 1630)

  • Colored shield of the coat of arms

Trivia

In the outfit depot of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien a silver embroidered tailcoat of a house officer of the Counts Attems around 1840–1850 as well as a livery made of yellow cloth with white and blue floral braids of a lackey of the Counts Attems around 1820 is on display.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives in Cividale
  2. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Count's Houses , A4, 1962, Volume 28 of the complete series CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) p 36.
  3. ↑ "The German Settlement of the Eastern Alpine Countries"
  4. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility: Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, p. 143, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972.
  5. ^ Reichsgrafendiplom from 1630, Vienna State Archives
  6. ^ The coats of arms of the nobility in Salzburg, Styria and Tyrol . Reprograph. Nachdr. Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt an d. Aisch 1979. Getr. Counting, Ill (J. Siebmacher's large Wappenbuch. Volume 28). Styrian nobility, p. 103 and plate 24.

literature

  • H. Attems: The governors Ferdinand and Ignaz Maria Grafen Attems. In: The Governors in the Duchy of Styria, magazine of the Historical Association for Styria, special volume 6, ed. F. Tremel, Graz, 1962, p. 39 ff.
  • The Count's House of Attems. In: Archive for History, Genealogy, Diplomatics 1846, pp. 231–235.
  • Genealogical Handbook of the Count's Houses , A 2, 1955, Volume 10 of the complete series, pp. 25–40; A 4, 1962, volume 28 of the complete series, pp. 22-79; A 9, 1979, volume 72 of the complete series, pp. 19-38, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn).
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, pp. 143-144, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN  0435-2408 ; Volume XVII, 2008, (Supplements), Volume 144 of the complete series, p. 30.
  • Franz Ilwof : The Counts of Attems, barons of Heiligenkreuz in their work in and for Styria. Historical Provincial Commission for Styria, Graz, 1897.
  • Maria Viktoria Pallavicino: From the autobiography of Andreas von Attems. In: Adler Vol. 8, 1968-1970, pp. 83-84.
  • Maria Viktoria Pallavicino: Family day of the Attems and Attimis. In: Adler Vol. 8, 1968-1970, p. 334.
  • Maria Viktoria Pallavicino: The mini family history of the Attems. 1970.
  • F. Posch: The governors on the evening of the monarchy. In: The Governors in the Duchy of Styria, magazine of the Historical Association for Styria, special volume 6, ed. F. Tremel, Graz, 1962, p. 56 ff.
  • Nikolaus von Preradovich :  Attems, Imperial Count of. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 1, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, ISBN 3-428-00182-6 , p. 424 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Franz Karl Wißgrill: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the gentry and knighthood of the XI. Century up to the present day. First volume, Vienna, 1794, (pp. 171–21)
  • Zdenko Zavadlav: Late Confession: From the diary of a Slovenian OZNA man. Hermagoras-Verlag / Mohorjeva založba, Klagenfurt / Celovec - Laibach / Ljubljana - Vienna / Dunaj 2010, ISBN 978-3-7086-0490-9 .
  • Roman Leljak: The open wounds of Lower Styria. Association for Research into the Younger History of the Republic of Slovenia Radenci & Cultural Association of German-Speaking Women "Bridges" Marburg / Maribor & German Cultural Association Cilli an der Sann / Celje nad Savinjam, ISBN 978-961-92891-8-1 .

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