Berchem (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Berchem

Berchem is the name of a Bavarian, from the Rhineland -derived noble family .

history

The progenitor of the noble family is Cornelius von Berchem , who first appeared in Cologne in 1458, was head of the goldsmiths' guild in 1491 and whose grandson became councilor. The family probably comes from the Netherlands, but there is a connection with the painter Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem (1620–1683) cannot be determined. It is also to be distinguished from the family of this name occurring in Prussia, whose nobility was renewed on April 11, 1698 and to which Georg von Berchem belongs, as well as from the von Berchem zu Berchem family, which previously flourished in Westphalia . The latter probably includes Heinrich von Berchem, son of Dietrich von Berchem called Trimppop and a Johann von Berchem, Eberhard’s son, who together with one von Fürstenberg, one from Ense called Kegeler and another Wilhelm von Jülich / Berg die Fehlde on November 27, 1401 to explain. The coat of arms printed there shows a wheel with 5 spokes.

The Cologne family later belonged to the patriciate . She came to Bavaria with the Bavarian Secret Conference Councilor Anton von Berchem (1632–1700) and acquired real estate there.

Status surveys

Elector Ferdinand Maria of Bavaria rose Anton von Berchem with diploma of 20 March 1677 the Bavarian nobility and Emperor Leopold I. with diploma of 23 January 1683 the Reich baron . Anton von Berchem's grandson, Maximilian Franz Joseph von Berchem (1702–1777), Minister under Elector Maximilian III. of Bavaria, was elevated to the rank of imperial count by Emperor Joseph II with a diploma on January 4, 1772 . As a result, the family split into two main lines, namely the older of the Barons of Berchem on Niedertraubling , and the younger of the Counts of Berchem on Piesing .

Berchem-Haimhausen

Count Cajetan Joseph Maximilian Johann von Berchem (born May 31, 1795) inherited from his grandmother Johanna Countess von Fugger -Zinnenberg, born. Countess von Haimhausen, the last of her line, ruled Kuttenplan ( Chodová Planá ) near Marienbad in Bohemia . With the approval of Emperor Franz I, he added the names and coats of arms of the Counts of Haimhausen to his and thus founded the Berchem-Haimhausen family based in Bohemia. This line died out in 1896; Maximilian von Berchem became heir to Kuttenplan .

Possessions

  • Obermenzing 1676-1700
  • Dengling -1848
  • Ritzing 1740-1858
  • Haiming with Piesing (both came by inheritance to the Barons von Ow in 1869 )
  • Seibertsdorf, Hitzing, Upper and Lower Turks, Schedling, Heretshamm in Upper and Lower Bavaria
  • Kuttenplan rule in Bohemia (until 1945)

coat of arms

The count's coat of arms consists of a squared shield; In the first and fourth fields in red it shows a green three-mountain and a silver, undulating right sloping bar, which is accompanied by two green, diagonally right-hand, downward-sloping sea ​​leaves . Fields two and three show, in blue on green ground, a silver fortress with a high round tower; the side buildings covered in red and each of them with two black loopholes; the black grooved tower has a closed, round, red gate, three black windows one above the other and under the four battlements of the tower two loopholes side by side. The shield is covered by a count's crown with three crowned helmets. The right helmet wears a closed flight , the Saxons turn to the left , the right wing of which is divided transversely by blue and silver, but the left wing by silver and blue and on which the silver fort on the green ground of the second and third field is repeated. Behind the middle helmet a right-sighted black eagle bursts out to the feet. The left helmet wears a closed flight that the Saxons turn to the right, the right wing of which is divided transversely by red and silver, but the left wing by silver and red and on which the sloping bar repeats itself with the leaves of the first and fourth fields. The helmet covers are blue and silver on the right and silver and red on the left. The shield is held by two inward-looking stags from eight ends.

The coat of arms of the Counts of Berchem-Haimhausen is a squared shield with a central shield. The middle shield is divided lengthways: on the right the fort in blue on green ground, on the left in red the green three-mountain and the silver, undulating oblique bar separated by two sea leaves. Fields one and four show in silver on a green three-mountain a right-handing crowned and gold-armored black eagle. Fields two and three 3 in red on a green ground a silver house or tower with a black door and five similar windows, two and three next to each other. Three crowned helmets rise on the count's crown. From the right helmet grows a man who holds a sword in his right hand and puts his left in his side. His red tunic, which is encircled by a gold waist band, has gold lapels, and his head is encircled by a band of red, gold and silver striped with ends that fly inwards. From the middle helmet a right-sighted black eagle bursts out to its feet, and on the left helmet stands a silver unicorn leaping inwards between two blue eagle wings. The helmet covers are blue and silver on the right and red and silver on the left. Two inward-looking stags hold the shield. A variant is the Graflich von Berchem coat of arms with a squared central shield: this shows a black crowned eagle in the first and fourth fields in silver on a green hill, fields two and three in red on a green hill a silver round tower with a pointed roof, one black gate and five black windows.

  • Barons von Berchem zu Plüdenburg and Menzing

  • Barons of Berchem

  • Count of Berchem

  • Counts of Berchem – Haimhausen

Known family members

literature

Web links

Commons : Berchem family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Landesarchiv NRW Rhineland Department, 1.1.2.4. Altes Landesarchiv, Jülich-Berg I AA 0030, 102.08.02 Jülich-Berg I, No. 1049 Fehdesachen, Bl. 21/22
  2. ↑ http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Datei:Wappen_Westfalen_Tafel_023_3.jpg This coat of arms in the Westphalian register of arms
  3. ↑ Leo Freiherr von Ow:  Berchem, Maximilian Franz Joseph Freiherr, Graf von (since 1772). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 63 f. ( Digitized version ).
  4. ^ Berchem, Otto Freiherr von in files of the Reich Chancellery
  5. ↑ Berchem, Walther Graf v. , Database "State ministers, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945"