Brühl (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Brühl

Brühl is the name of an old Saxon - Thuringian noble family with ancestral home on Gangloffsommern in Thuringia. The Lords of Brühl belong to the ancient nobility . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

Little is known about the oldest history of this family. The family was first mentioned in 1344 with Heinrich from the Brühl . He is named in a document as Ministerialer of the Counts von Hohnstein . Even later, the guiding name Heinrich was often given to members of the family.

Heinrich von Brühl († 1446) owned the Wenigen-Tennstedt estate and was first documented in 1424. The line of the genus begins with him . His descendant, Heinrich von Brühl, acquired the saddle farm at Gangloffsommern near Weissensee around 1470 . Gangloffsümmern was the family seat for a long time.

In addition, in 1464 a Johannes Brühl (senior) acquired the Pakosław ( Greater Poland ) estate , his son Johannes Brühl (jun.), In 1496 with his wife Balice Banarowna, heiress of Oświęcim , as the companion of the king's daughter Barbara of Poland (later wife of the duke George of Saxony ), left Poland for Saxony . With this Polish proof of ancestry, the name Brühl-Oswiecino was also in use in the 18th century .

At the end of the 17th century the ancestral seat was owned by the Saxon-Weißenfels Oberhofmarschall and "Real Secret Council " Hans Moritz von Brühl . His son, who was born there, was the well-known Heinrich von Brühl (1700–1763). He had been in court service at the Electorate of Saxony since 1719 and rose quickly through the favor of Augustus the Strong . For almost two decades, Brühl was one of the most powerful men in the Electorate of Saxony as Prime Minister and Chamberlain . Brühl's financial policy, which was not stopped even by his weak-willed prince, led Saxony into financial disaster. In this position Heinrich von Brühl was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1737 (like his three older brothers on April 16, 1738) .

The two youngest of the four brothers founded two lines, an older Saxon line based on the Saxon governor Friedrich Wilhelm von Brühl and a younger Saxon-Prussian line based on Prime Minister Heinrich von Brühl. The goods Gangloffsömmern , Forst , Pförten bei Sorau and Schloss Seifersdorf bei Wachau remained in the possession of the old line . From 1909 a branch line was named Brühl-Renard . It expired in 1923 in the male line. Today the family is ramified.

Nymph with a confectionery bowl from the swan service with Brühl's coat of arms

coat of arms

  • The family coat of arms shows a silver rafter in blue . Five natural peacock feathers on the crowned helmet. The helmet covers are blue-silver.
  • The count's coat of arms from 1773 is quartered. Fields 1 and 4 split by gold and red, covered with a gold-crowned double-headed eagle, the right half of which is black, the left half is silver, 2 and 3 in blue the silver rafter (coat of arms). 3 helmets: on the right with blue and silver covers five natural Plauen feathers (trunk helmet), on the middle one with black and gold covers on the right and red and silver covers on the left, on the left one with red and silver covers a gold crowned, black and Gold pillar divided five times, set with three natural peacock feathers. Shield holder: two inward-looking, crowned golden lions.

Known family members

Possessions

The Prime Minister's father, Hans Moritz von Brühl , only owned a small manor in Gangloffsömmern , where Heinrich von Brühl was also born; later one of his brothers took it over. These, Hans Moritz von Brühl (General) , Friedrich Wilhelm von Brühl and Johann Adolph von Brühl , acquired or built a number of important palaces and castles during the reign of their youngest brother - like the latter himself. ( See : Heinrich von Brühl , section Buildings and possessions .) The Free Standesherrschaft Forst-Pförten in Niederlausitz remained in the possession of the Counts of Brühl until the expropriation in 1945, as did Seifersdorf Castle near Dresden , which belongs to the younger line . Most of the remaining possessions of the ex-prime minister, who was heavily indebted when he died in 1763 and whose possessions were also partially confiscated, were soon sold by the heirs, also as a result of a dispute with the Saxon state, including the Palais Brühl in Dresden and the Palais Brühl-Marcolini , Nischwitz Castle near Leipzig and Lindenau Castle and Oberlichtenau Castle in Upper Lusatia.

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Individual evidence

  1. Heydenreich, Codex diplom. Hohenst., A VIII, 2d, No. 1, p. 148
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