Bank (Wroclaw patrician family)

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Coat of arms of those of the bank

The patrician family Bank (also Banke, Bancke, Bangke, Bancko, Banko, Bankow, Bankaw ) was one of the most powerful patrician families in Wroclaw . From 1406 to 1569 seven family members belonged to the Breslau Council; four of these were council elders and in this position also held the office of governor of the principality of Wroclaw .

The patrician family Bank is not identical to the Wroclaw patrician family Banz .

history

The headquarters of the bank / bank was the village of Bankau or Bankow in the Duchy of Wroclaw . After its division in 1311, Bankau came to the Duchy of Brieg . There the bank were probably Freiguts owner. The brothers Hanko († 1376), Heinz / Heinrich († 1372) and Kunz Bancke are documented for 1363/64 , who at that time led a dispute over property before the arbitral tribunal. This referred to the testimony of the bank judges . Kunze Banke is still occupied for the year 1364 in Bankau.

The family of the bank / bank died out in 1605 with Hans III. Banke (* 1569).

Tribe list

  1. Hanko Bankaw († 1376), the eldest of the three brothers mentioned above, acquired several properties in the Principality of Wroclaw between 1364 and 1370.
    1. Katharina, ⚭ with Peter Megerlein
    2. Margarethe, ⚭ with Wroclaw Councilor Johannes Beyer
    3. Hans / Hannos Bankaw continued the undivided property of his father together with his younger brother Nicolaus / Nikolaus “the elder”. They were gentlemen on Kaltenhausen / Schönborn and Kegel, which they sold in 1391. From 1392 to 1399, when both were last mentioned, they were crazy . Hans / Hanno is for the year 1394 as a juror lists; In 1395 he was the regional alderman of Breslau. The children come from his marriage to Katharina von Burg
      1. Johannes Banke ("the rich"); † 1437 or later, was already a royal man in 1391, and in 1406 was the first of the family to be a member of the Wroclaw Council. Mr. on Kaltenhausen (later place name Schönborn ) as well as on Wilkau, Sagschütz , Heidewilxen and Dürrjentsch. In 1419 he acquired Lohe and Deutsch-Lauden . He gained his wealth through long-distance trade, including with Poland, Flanders and Venice. Acquired the house "zum Goldenen Becher" on Breslauer Ring. He was married to Margarethe, a daughter of Councilor Heinrich Jenkwitz, who brought Heidänichen and Jenkwitz into the marriage.
        1. Hedwig, ⚭ Peter von Falkenheyn
        2. Katharina (1429–1484), ⚭ with Hans Rindfleisch, patrician from Breslau. At the end of the 1470s in Plock , Poland, he was forced to hang the thief who had stolen from him according to Polish law, since if he had refused, he would have been hanged himself. Since he did so, he and his family have since been considered dishonorable by his Silesian peers. In 1501, the male court in the Principality of Brieg refused any meeting as long as the son Christoph wanted to attend. Only a pilgrimage to the Holy Land and a formal confirmation of nobility by Emperor Maximilian I in 1511 could eradicate the blemish.
        3. Hans Banke († 1464) acquired the Wroclaw Principality Chancellery in 1437 and beggars in 1457 . Continued his father's business. He was married to Margarethe Reichel and, after her death, to Hedwig von Popplau. These marriages had six sons and three daughters.
        4. Alexius Banke "the Elder" († 1454) was the third Breslau councilor of the family. In 1427 he is registered as a royal man, in 1437 he was promoted to senior councilor and thus governor. His property included Schönborn , Wilkau, Dürrjentsch, Sagschütz , Woischwitz and Pirscham , all in the principality of Breslau and the father's house on the Breslauer Ring. In addition, Gniefkau and Borne in the Neumarkt area . He was married to Barbara, daughter of Leuthold von der Neisse. In 1449, the Marienkapelle in the Elisabethkirche , which Otto von Neiße built in 1384, came to the bank via her .
          1. Alexius, lord of Schalkau and Puschwitz , resigned to his clerical office in 1454 and married Margarethe von Schwobsdorf.
          2. Anna, ⚭ Peter Girdan
          3. Hedwig, ⚭ Andreas Böhme
          4. Katharina, ⚭ 1473 the councilor Hieronymus Uthmann von Rathen
        5. Martin Banke († 1480) Mr. on Schönborn, Wilkau, Sagschütz and Heidewilxen. In 1458 he became the fourth member of the family to join the Wroclaw Council. In addition to the house on the Ring, he owned other houses on Roßmarkt . His sons came from his marriage to Hedwig Weißkorn
          1. Johann († 1508), ⚭ with Ursula Schober
          2. Martin, sold the house inherited from his father in Kupferschmiedstrasse to his brother Georg in 1535.
          3. Georg Banke
          4. Alexius "the Younger" († 1508), gentleman on Schönborn, Sagschütz, Heidewilxen, Zweibrodt and Unchristen. Royal man who joined the council as the sixth member of the family in 1494. In Breslau he owned a house on the Seven Electors' side of the ring. Married Dorothea Schwartzbach.
            1. Antonius Banke "the Elder" (1498–1569), royal man; since 1532 the seventh and last member of the family in the Wroclaw Council, where he rose to senior level in 1551 and thus also held the office of governor. Had the goods Born, Radix village and Lobetinz in precincts Neumarkt and Sillmenau , Oldern and Benkwitz in the Principality of Breslau. He owned several houses in the city of Wroclaw. In 1536 he is listed as head of the Holy Trinity Hospital, in 1538 he was caretaker of the Holy Body Hospital. He was married to Dorothea Rothe and, after her death, to Anna Rehdiger from the family of Nicolaus Rehdiger . Children came from these marriages
              1. Anna, ⚭ married to Ludwig Schilling from Krakow
              2. Hedwig († 1583), ⚭ the councilor and later councilor Adam von Dobschütz
              3. Eva (1600), ⚭ Nicolaus von Reiche
              4. Maria (1579), ⚭ Andreas von Heugel
              5. Antonius "the Younger" († March 20, 1567), died at the age of 18, before his father of the same name.
              6. Anna († 1553), ⚭ with Blasius Schramm and after his death with Hieronymus von Saurma
              7. Apollonia, ⚭ 1527 the councilor Nicolaus von Jenkwitz, called Posadowsky
          5. Christoph Banke († 1490), studied from 1456 at the University of Leipzig , after which he was heir to Schönborn, half of Dürrjentsch and parts of Puschwitz. In 1474 he became the fifth councilor of the Banke family. In 1467 he married Magdalene von Burg.
            1. Katharina († 1509), ⚭ 1482 the councilor David Jentsch
            2. Hans I. Banke sold Puschwitz and Dürrjentsch in 1502.
              1. Katharina, ⚭ the councilor Andreas Becherer
              2. Hans II. Banke was initially an altarist in Breslau. In 1532 he resigned his clerical office and acquired Eckersdorf and Bistrickwitz in the Principality of Teschen . In 1546 he married Martha von Holtz
                1. David, ⚭ Katharina von Rohn; the marriage remained childless
                2. Georg, went on an educational trip in 1578 from which he did not return.
                3. Hans III. Banke (* 1569), died unmarried on April 6, 1605 in Danzig, the last of the family.
          6. Katharina, ⚭ the councilor's son Stenzel Büttner
          7. Margarethe, ⚭ the councilor Peter Rothe "the younger", then Matthias Jentsch
      2. Nicholas "the Younger"
      3. Dorothea, ⚭ with Kaspar Beyer, second marriage to Leonhard Reichel
      4. Katharina, ⚭ after 1381 the Neiss councilor Franz Liebig
    4. Nicolaus / Nikolaus "the Elder" († 1427), was 1417 the second councilor of the bank / bank in Breslau. Registered as a royal man in 1418. He was married to Anna, the daughter of councilor Heinrich von Jenkwitz.
      1. Katharina, ⚭ Nicolaus von der Heyde
      2. Margarethe, ⚭ Johanes von der Heyde
      3. Anna ⚭ Hannos Hesse
      4. Elisabeth, ⚭ Nicolaus Conrad
      5. Hans Banke, Lord of Falkenau, acquired Jelline in 1447 . From 1434 to 1439 he is documented as episcopal captain of Neisse .
        1. Martin († 1466), citizen of Brzeg . War with NN of Pückler married
          1. Michael Banke, registered as a Baccalaureus in 1466, as a notary in Brieg in 1470. From 1481 to 1486 he was a notary at the Wroclaw Consistory . Since he remained unmarried, this branch of the family died out with him.
  2. Heinrich / Heinz Banke († 1372) was a master's degree and from 1333 to 1368 rector of the Elisabeth School in Breslau.
  3. Kunze Banke is still occupied for the year 1364 at the Bankau headquarters.

coat of arms

Epitaph of the Breslau patrician Christoph Rindfleisch at the Elisabethkirche (1505). In the upper left corner the maternal ancestral coat of arms of the Bank family (Katharina (1429–1484), ⚭ with Hans Rindfleisch)

In 1423 councilor Johannes Banke still sealed his house with a brand that also adorns epitaphs in the Elisabeth Church (Breslau) and the Magdalenenkirche (Breslau) .

Von Bank Wappen.jpg
Coat of arms of the bank in Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, 1701/1705 part 2, plate 49, lower right
Epitaph family of Nicolaus von Jenkwitz called Posadowsky, whose 2nd wife was Apollonia Bank since 1527. Anton's daughter is shown with her family crest

Later a talking coat of arms was adopted, which shows a silver dove with raised wings on a gold bench in red. In the 16th century, the pigeon was also tinged brown, which ultimately resulted in the depiction of a silver eagle. The bird on the crowned helmet with red and silver covers .

literature

  • Rudolf Stein: The council and the council families of the old Breslau . Holzner-Verlag Würzburg, 1963, pp. 141–144.
  • Gerd Schreyer: The family of buyers and councilors from Bank . Self-published 1976, 116 pp.
  • Oskar Pusch , The Breslauer Rats- und Stadtgeschölker in the period from 1241 to 1741 , Volume 1, Dortmund 1986, pp. 76 and 89.
  • Messages from noble coats of arms with a preface. Professoris Gebhardi , Volume 3 (1791), p. 22 .
  • Johannes Sinapius , Schlesische Curiositäten , Volume 1 (1720), p. 240 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Banz family entry in the NDB
  2. ↑ A mixture of both families under the riddle about the name in Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , Neues Prussisches Adelslexikon , Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 171 f.
  3. ↑ Since 1945 Bąków in the municipality of Grodków
  4. ^ Norbert Conrads , Schlesien in der Frühmoderne (2009), p. 337
  5. ↑ His son of the same name died at the age of 18 before his father.
  6. ↑ villwockweb.de: The sex of BANCK I. ( Accessed on September 28, 2016.)
  7. ↑ Zedlitz assigns this coat of arms to the family of the Lords of Bancz , which he describes in his New Prussian Adelslexikon in Volume 1, Leipzig 1836, p. 171 f. , mixed with the gender discussed here.