Bach oven from Echt

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Coat of arms of the Bachofen of Echt

Bachofen von Echt (also Bachoff , Bachof or Bachoven von Echt ) is the name of a widely ramified German noble family .

history

Dobitschen moated castle

The family originally came from the Duchy of Limburg and belonged to the ancient nobility there. The name of the family refers to the villages of Bachofen and Echt , south of Roermond . In 1325 Konrad Bachhofen von Echt was enfeoffed by Count Berthold VII von Henneberg with a farm in the county of Henneberg (Thuringia). Emperor Charles V confirmed the nobility and the family's coat of arms with a document dated March 24, 1532. The family was eligible for donation and tournaments . In the 17th century, members of the family were also wealthy in Ingermanland , but soon lost the property again due to war.

On October 12, 1691, the ducal-Gothic Prime Minister and later Imperial Councilor Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt (1643–1726) was raised to the baron status by Emperor Leopold I. In 1692 he acquired the Dobitschen moated castle , which remained in the family's possession until 1945. In 1717 he also acquired the Hartmannsdorf moated castle and built today's baroque castle there from 1723. Whose son of the same († 3 January 1756) was an imperial court counselor and the Duke of Saxon chancellor and was on March 24, 1752 Vienna by Emperor Franz I in the imperial counts charged. The line of the count already died out with his daughter in 1837, but the baronial lines of his siblings and their descendants achieved great prestige and rich property in the Duchy of Saxony. In the period that followed, branches of the family also settled in Denmark , the Mark Brandenburg and later in the Prussian Rhine Province .

Karl Adolf Bachofen von Echt became a co-owner of the Nussdorf beer brewery in Austria , became an imperial and royal purveyor to the court and in 1906 was raised to the status of Austrian baron by Emperor Franz Joseph I. In the same year he acquired Murstätten Castle and founded an Austrian branch of the family.

Coat of arms of the Thuringian line of the Bachofen of Echt

coat of arms

A black lamb in a gold shield on a green floor. The coat of arms of the Brandenburg family line differs from that of the other lines by a different color of the lamb.

Medal for the 20th anniversary of Karl Adolf Bachofen von Echt as Mayor of Nussdorf (1872-1892) and the union of Nussdorf with Vienna (1890), by Heinrich Jauner , with the family coat of arms Bachofen von Echt

Great personalities

Elisabeth Baroness Bachofen von Echt, portrait of Gustav Klimt (1914–1916)

literature

Web links

Commons : Bachofen von Echt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , p. 35
  2. ^ New general German nobility lexicon , p. 163
  3. ↑ a b c d e f The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , p. 36
  4. ↑ a b New Prussian Adelslexicon , p. 158
  5. ↑ Monthly journal of the heraldic-genealogical association "Adler." Volume 4, Vienna 1885, No. 205, p. 259.