Bach oven from Echt
Bachofen von Echt (also Bachoff , Bachof or Bachoven von Echt ) is the name of a widely ramified German noble family .
history
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
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.
Great personalities
- Friedrich Bachofen von Echt (* around 1480; † 1553), Syndic of the City of Cologne, Assessor of the Imperial Chamber Court, envoy of the City of Cologne
- Heinrich Bachofen von Echt (1510–1587), wholesaler (fur trader) and councilor in Cologne
- Johann Bachofen von Echt (1515–1576), doctor in Cologne, personal physician to the Duke of Jülich-Kleve and the Elector of Trier
- Thomas Bachofen von Echt (1540–1597), German mayor and merchant
- Reiner Bachoff von Echt (* 1575; † around 1640), German lawyer and rector of Heidelberg University
- Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt (politician) (1643–1726), German politician, lawyer and court official
- Johann Friedrich Bachoff von Echt (diplomat) (1710–1781), German-Danish diplomat
- Karl Adolf Bachofen von Echt (1830–1922), Austrian industrialist
- Adolf Bachofen von Echt (1864–1947), Austrian industrialist, private scholar and paleontologist
- Elisabeth Bachofen von Echt (1867–1943), daughter of Serena Lederer
- Reinhart Bachofen von Echt (1877–1947), Austrian Heimwehr leader and author
- Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff (1878–1963), German poet
- Franz Bachofen von Echt , (1782–1849) Austrian forest official
literature
- Kaspar Keller (Ed.): Documents on the history of the Bachoven von Echt family. P. Hanstein, Bonn 1907.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. In a precise, complete and generally understandable description. Volume 2, Leipzig 1855, pp. 35-36 digitized
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 1, Leipzig 1859, pp. 163-164 digitized
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 158 digitized
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , p. 35
- ^ New general German nobility lexicon , p. 163
- ↑ a b c d e f The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , p. 36
- ↑ a b New Prussian Adelslexicon , p. 158
- ↑ Monthly journal of the heraldic-genealogical association "Adler." Volume 4, Vienna 1885, No. 205, p. 259.