Bila (noble family)
Bila , also Biela and Byla , is a Thuringian nobility family with the parent company Bielen near Nordhausen . In the 16th century, representatives of the family emigrated to the Kingdom of Bohemia , but returned to Thuringia and the southern Harz.
history
The legend tells of the rescue of Emperor Heinrich IV. By a family of woodcutters and charcoal burners in the southern Harz on his flight from the Harzburg in the course of the Saxon War in 1073. That family is said to have been knighted after Heinrich's power consolidation and the fief of Bielen near Nordhausen have received. According to legend, the name is derived from the woodcutter's ax, old high dt. bīhal .
The place Bielen is mentioned 1158 for the first time as Biela in a document of the Emperor Friedrich I. Barbarossa .
Thilo von Bila 1200 and then Albertus de Bele is mentioned for the first time in a document . In the 19th century the sex was divided into the three lines Bila, Biela and Byla. The family temporarily owned Hainrode and Stapelburg and had fiefdoms in Auleben , Berga , Roßla , Tilleda and Wernrode in the Golden Aue and in the Hainleite . Later they owned a manor in Zscheiplitz (Biela, 1847–1945) and from the middle of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century in Markröhlitz . As a result of the land reform in 1945, the goods in Gerbitz (Bila), Zscheiplitz (Biela) and Uthleben (Byla) were expropriated.
coat of arms
- The coat of arms shows two silver hatchets turned outwards in a blue shield , with a triple-mutilated golden tree trunk (branch) between them. On the helmet with blue-silver covers, the tree trunk between open, silver and blue over-corner-split flight .
The coat of arms can be found on the manor house in Markröhlitz and on the main house of the Zscheiplitz manor and at the entrance to the crypt there in the monastery church. - The family coat of arms with the two outward facing axes can be found in a seal of Apel von Bila from 1313 and on the grave slab of the dean Friedrich von Bila († 1327) in the crypt of the Catholic Nordhausen cathedral .
The triple stunted branch between the axes is an addition to the coat of arms after the marriage of Christoph von Bila, initially a page to King Maximilian I , with Anna von Werthern in 1480.
Personalities
- Bruno von Bila, signed the protest letter in 1415 against the burning of Jan Hus in Constance.
- Georg von Bila († 1559), Canon of Magdeburg
- Heinrich von Bila (1534–1584), representative of the underage Bishop Heinrich Julius von Halberstadt , captain of the Merseburg Monastery , epitaph in Merseburg Cathedral .
- Joachim von Bila, imperial Appellationsrat, received approval in 1563, which in the cottage in barley to lead out of the country melted silver and copper to pay tolls
- Hans von Biela (Byla): 1563 manorial estate owner of the village Spremberg in Upper Lusatia, today the city of Neusalza-Spremberg and commander of the royal guard in Prague (1597)
- Friedrich von Bila († 1621), imperial councilor
- Friedrich Barthol von Bielen (1653–1708), community mining captain, councilor and bailiff for Leutenberg and chamber director of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Philipp Wilhelm von Biela († 1773), kk major general
- Christian Friedrich von Byla (1704–1775), chief forest master and manor owner
- Carl Friedrich von Biela (1732–1803), Imperial and Royal Field Marshal Lieutenant
- Karl Anton von Bila (1741–1820), Prussian major general and commander of the Magdeburg fusilier brigade, and Herr auf Hainrode , knight of the Pour le Mérite order
- Christoph Rudolf von Bila (1743–1808), Prussian major general, chief of the hussar battalion No. 11 in Ansbach-Bayreuth, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Wilhelm von Biela (1782–1856), Austrian major and city commander of Rovigo, discoverer of the " Bielasch Komet "
- Karl von Bila (1784–1846), Prussian major general, court lord and patron saint on Hainrode
- Karl von Byla (1806–1852), Prussian district administrator for the Nordhausen district
- Walrath Rudolph von Biela (1821–1888) married Adelheid von Tettenborn (1827–1878), who brought the Zscheiplitz manor into the marriage as a wedding gift
- Christian Karl von Byla (1857–1933), Prussian district administrator
- Ernst von Bila (1868–1918), major, commander of the infantry regiment “Prince Frederick of the Netherlands” (2nd Westphalian) No. 15 , knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Helene von Bila (1904–1985), university politician
- Otto-Heinrich von Bila (1909–1983), Ordonnanzoffizier under General Field Marshal Günther von Kluge and in the resistance against National Socialism
literature
- Wolf von Bila: Across all borders ... 800 years of home in the Harz Mountains. The von Bila family in the Harz Mountains and in the Golden Aue , Braunschweig 1989
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, p. 398, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN 0435-2408
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Year book of the German nobility , Volume 1, 1896, published by WT Bruer, p. 212 ff - digitized
Individual evidence
- ↑ RI IV 2, 1 No. 536
- ^ Certificate in the Nordhausen archive
- ↑ J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 13th Division; Dead nobility of the principalities of Schwarzburg; Author: GA von Mülverstedt; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, p. 6, plate 2
- ↑ Jörg Brückner: Between imperial estate and state rule. The Counts of Stolberg and their relationship to the Landgraves of Thuringia and later dukes, electors and kings of Saxony (1210 to 1815) . Diss. 2003 ( Memento from March 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Outline of a History of the Bohemian Mines. P. 482. limited preview in Google Book search
- ↑ Edgar S. Hasse: Assassin of July 20th accuses the government of breaking the law (de) , Die Welt . July 20, 2001. Retrieved April 26, 2019.