Berckheim (noble family)

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Berckheim coat of arms in the Zurich coat of arms roll (approx. 1340)

Berckheim is the name of an old, from the Alsace originating baronial noble family that the Swabian imperial knights ( Ritter Canton Neckar Black Forest since 1751 and Ritter Canton, Ortenau ) belonged.

The French confirmation of the baron status was made by King Louis XV. in Compiègne on August 6, 1773. Various members of the sex rose to high political and military offices in France and in Baden (Germany). The French general Sigismond-Frédéric de Berckeim (1775-1819) was appointed Baron de l'Empire on March 9, 1810 by Napoléon Ier. With Siegmund Theodor von Berckheim (1851-1927), from 1903 Baden envoy in Berlin, a branch of the house line Jebsheim was raised in 1900 to the hereditary count status.

Origin and branches

The family is named after its original headquarters in Mittel-Berckheim in Alsace. It was probably a branch of the Lords of Andlau , had an inheritance agreement with them and also carried on their family arms . It is documented under his name for the first time between 1163 and 1179 with Ludovicus de Berchheim , who probably justified the separation from the Andlau house . The uninterrupted family line begins in 1323 with Cunnemann. His son Cuno von Berckheim was under King Rudolf from 1274 to 1280 governor in Lower Alsace .

The family shared with the three sons of Egenolf (Egenolph) III. von Berckheim (1552–1629) and his wife Margaretha von Lichtenfels in three tribes. Wilhelm II. († 1665) founded the older (Protestant) line to Jebsheim , Hans Rudolph II. The middle line to Krautergersheim , and Egenolf IV. († around 1639) the younger (Catholic) line Rappoltsweiler . The line to Krautergersheim expired in the male line on November 12, 1787 with the grandson of its founder, Franz Samuel, French colonel, Stettmeister to Strasbourg and rector of the university there.

With Sigismond Frédéric de Berckheim (1775-1819) , the older (Protestant) line of Jebsheim produced a Napoleonic general who was raised by the emperor on March 9, 1810 to the position of French imperial baron . His nephew Sigismond Guillaume de Berckheim (1819-1884) also became a French general and was captured by Germany in 1870 near Metz . From the younger (Catholic) line to Rappoltsweiler came u. a. the Baden Minister of State Karl Christian von Berckheim (1774–1849).

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a red cross in gold. On the helmet with red and gold covers on a square, gold-trimmed red pillow, a gold duck.

  • Coat of arms of those of Berckheim from the battle chapel Sempach

  • Coat of arms of those of Berckheim (with golden duck)

  • Coat of arms of those of Andlau. On the crowned helmet is a red-clad king's trunk with hermetic collars or an armless, gold-crowned hermelin-clad man's trunk. (Main line).

  • Company emblem of the Dillinger Hütte , long under the management of the Stumm Erbe von Berckheim family

Known family members

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gotha. Genealogical paperback of the barons houses , 60th year, 1910, p. 20
  2. ↑ copy in DeptsArchiv Strasbourg, G 1308; Regest of the Bishops of Strasbourg, n.595
  3. ↑ Gotha. Genealogical paperback of the barons houses, 60th year, 1910, p. 20
  4. ^ Société Genevoise de Généalogie

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