Blacha (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Blacha

Blacha is the name of an old Silesian noble family . The parent company was Lubie in the Duchy of Tost in Upper Silesia or in today's Silesian Voivodeship .

history

The Blachas were counted among the old knights of the Quadi and Lygians in Freiherr von Abschatz 's "Bardenliede" with the name Plach . Nikolaus v. Was first mentioned in a document in 1466. Blacha. He was awarded Teschen-Tost Lubie in 1477 by Duke Przemislaus III . In the following centuries they acquired further property in Silesia, e.g. B. in Rybna , Bobrek , Gohle , Thule , Borkewitz , Marienfeld , Stradam , Ober-Bögendorf bei Schweidnitz , Kobyllno etc. Many Blachas served the dukes of Silesia and the kings of Prussia. They were district administrators, assessors , prelates , canons , canons and officers in the Prussian and Austrian regiments. The von Blacha (and Lubie) family branched out into a Roman Catholic and Lutheran Evangelical line.

Mater Dolorosa Church in Thule

Friedrich Wilhelm von Blacha

Maria Theresia Josefa Franziska Barbara von Blacha

Name bearer

• Friedrich von Blacha and Lubie, Lord of Ryba, 1720 land law assessor and land clerk of the free estate of Bytom
• Carl Wilhelm von Blacha and Lubie (1696–1776), first district administrator in the district of Rosenberg OS
• Franz von Blacha (1728–1797), district administrator from 1790 to 1797 of the Lublinitz district
• Leopold von Blacha (1772-), 1806 lieutenant in Infantry Regiment No. 22 in Stargard and Altendamm in Pomerania, Freemason in the boxes of the golden crown in 1802 and Julius of the unity in 1805.
• von Blacha, Major des Kgl. Prussia. Silesian Uhlan Regiment in action at the Battle of Leipzig on 14-19. October 1813
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Blacha (approx. 1770 - 13.09.1837), manor owner on Bögendorf / Schweidnitz, daughter Maria Theresia Josefa Franziska Barbara von Blacha (8.12.1822 - 25.08.1898), grandfather and mother of Arthur von Studnitz
• Jakob von Blacha (1790–1856), Austrian major
• Eduard von Blacha (1812–1860), landlord of Thule, builder of the Mater Dolorosa church in Thule 1854
• Ivo von Blacha (1820–1882), staff officer with the rank of major in the Austrian 56th Galician Infantry Regiment

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a split shield, the right side of which is red, inside a white lily, the left part silver-red, inside a white lily. Between these lilies in the middle an arrow, with changing colors, half red in the white, half white in the red field. A red arrow pierces the helmet.

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  Blacha coat of arms, evangelical line

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  Coat of arms of Blacha and Lubie, Catholic line

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  Blacha coat of arms

literature

• Johanne Sinapio: Another part of the Silesian nobility or continuation of Schlesischer Curiositäten…, Michel Rohrlach, Leipzig and Breslau 1728, pp. 528-529 information on the von Blacha family
• Johann Friedrich Gauben: Of salvation. Rom. Reichs genealogical-historical Adels-Lexicon, second and last part ... , Johann Friedrich Gleditsch, Leipzig 1747, p. 75 information about the family von Blacha
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels-Lexickon or genealogical and diplomatic news ... , Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, pp. 245–246, information about the family v. Blacha
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New German Adels Lexicon, Volume 1, A – B , Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim Zurich New York 1996, original print 1859, ISBN 3-487-04557-5 , p. 453, information about the von Blacha family
• Joseph Negwer, Kurt Engelbert : History of the Breslau Cathedral Chapter: within the framework of the diocesan history from the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the Second World War , A. Lax, 1964 - 445 pages, p. 276 Otto von Blacha became a non-resident Canon in the Breslau Cathedral Chapter in 1810 , P. 421 Wilhelm von Blacha is custodian

Web links

• The Lords of Blacha
• Family history of Blacha
• Mater Dolorosa church in Thule , donated by Eduard von Blacha

Individual evidence

1. ^ Journal of the Association for History and Antiquity of Silesia, Volume 34 , Max & Komp., 1900, p. 193
2. ↑ Georg Decker: Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State for 1800 , Berlin, Kgl. Go Oberhofbuchdrucker, p. 139 Landräte Lublinitz, p. 234 Assesoren and Councilors in Breslau, p. 327 Prelates Cathedral Monastery St. Johannes Breslau, p. 329 Canon Collegial Monastery ad. St. Jakobum and Nikolaum zu Neisse, p. 382 Canon in the diocese of Breslau, Lower District.
3. ^ Rolf Straubel: "Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740 to 1806/15", KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , p. 89 Franz v. Blacha
4. ↑ Karlheinz Gerlach: The Freemasons in Old Prussia 1738-1806 : Die Logen in Pommern, Prussen und Schlesien , Studienverlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3706543835 , p. 50 and p. 66 Leopold v. Blacha
5. ↑ Information on the Masonic Lodge for the Golden Crown
6. ^ Gerhard Loh: Völkerschlacht bei Leipzig: a bibliographical overview , University Library Leipzig, Leipzig 1963, p. 36
7. ↑ Genealogical pocket book of the primitive nobility, 1st volume, Brno - 1891, Verlag Friedrich Irrgang, information on Friedrich Wilhelm p. 59 and Maria p. 64
8. ↑ Military newspaper, July 23, 1856, No. 58, 9th year, p. 468
9. ↑ PolenJournal.de: The Silesian Pharaohs - section God with us , information about the church in Thule
10. ^ Ministry of War: Kais. royal Military schematism for 1869-1870, part 1 , KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1970, p. 186 and p. 380