Brasch (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Brasch noble family

Brasch is the family name of a German-Baltic noble family whose origins are in Mecklenburg . With Gottlob Siegmund Brasch they acquired the Russian hereditary nobility in 1794 . They were in the 1795 noble family book entered the Livonian governorship and 1797 in the Livonian Knighthood , with the title of nobility "of" enrolled .

history

The name Brasch has appeared in all estates in Mecklenburg since the 13th century . It is believed that her hometown could have been Parchim , as it has been in church records there since that time . Jakob Brasch, who had been appointed mint master in Schwerin or Parchim by the Mecklenburg dukes Magnus II (1441-1503) and Balthasar (1451-1507) , was mentioned in this lineage as early as 1495 . In addition, this first name Jakob appeared again and again in the male successor lists. The unbroken line of trunks begins with Daniel Brasch, who died in Parchim in 1674. His descendants were respected pastors , merchants in the spice and wine trade, who often had a seat on Parchim's city ​​council .

Mecklenburg

St. Georgen Church in Parchim

Daniel Brasch , citizen in Parchim († around 1674)

  • Jakob I. Brasch, citizen and merchant († 1667)
  • Jakob II. Brasch, pastor of Kreien (1666 - 1708)
  • Jacob III Brasch, pastor of Teterow (1671 - 1751)
  • Kuno Jakob Brasch, bailiff in Hoppenrade (1706–1758)
  • Gottlob Siegmund, 1752–1803, progenitor of the Baltic lineage .

In Livonia

The first Brasch to live in Livonia was Gottlob Siegmund von Brasch (* 1752 in Netzeband ), who came to Riga around 1770 . Here he became secretary to the Governor General of Riga Nikolai Vasilyevich Repnin (1734-1801) in 1793 and on April 9, 1794 he acquired the Russian hereditary nobility. In 1795 he received the indigenous status in Courland, was entered in the aristocratic family register of the Livonian governorship and in 1797 was enrolled in the Livonian knighthood (registration number 252) with the other listed members of the Brasch family .

He was followed in the male line by his sons Konrad Siegmund von Brasch (* 1779 in Dorpat ; † 1835 in Aya ), who continued the line-up, and Karl Christian (* 1787 in Dorpat; † 1835 in Rome ), whose branch with his son Alexander Nikolai ( * 1815 in Rome; † 1880 in Riga) went out. In the following years the von Braschs acquired a number of goods, including the following goods: Ropkoy, Renningshof, Rasin, Kersel, Hohensee, Kerimois, Friedrichshof and Gertrudenhof in the Estonian district . Aya since 1819, Waimastfer and Rippoka since 1851, Brinkenhof since 1882, Schwarzhof since 1910 in the Latvian district.

In Estonia

After Konrad Eduard von Brasch bought the Jöggis estate (owned by the family until approx. 1896), the family was included in the register of the Estonian knighthood in the Estonian governorate in 1878 . From 1888 until the expropriation in October 1919 as part of the Estonian land reform , the Koil estate belonged to Ida Helene von Brasch, whose husband Georg Karl Wilhelm von Poppen had acquired the estate with her assets and in her name.

Stem row

Gottlob Siegmund von Brasch (born January 14, 1752 in Netzband (Mecklenburg), † 1803 in Riga) Lord of Rasin, Rippoka, Ropkoy and Renningshof ⚭ Charlotte Amalie Stockenberg († 1802), a great-granddaughter of the sculptor Johann Gustav Stockenberg and Magdalena Lamoureux (a sister of Abraham César Lamoureux )

  • Konrad Siegmund von Brasch (* 1779 in Dorpat † 1835 in Aya), Herr auf Ropkoy, Renningshof and Aya, court judge ⚭ Alexandrine Countess Dücker (1786–1846)
    • Leonhard Karl Gustav von Brasch (1811–1867)
      • Konrad Eduard von Brasch (1844–1882), Lord of Aya and Jöggis ⚭ Elisabeth Alexandra von Mühlendahl (1851–1938)
      • Oskar von Brasch (1845-1859)
      • Arved Konrad Magnus von Brasch (1847 - 1899 in Dorpat), District Administrator ⚭ Eva Maria von Stackelberg (* 1859 in Saint Petersburg )
        • Arved Nikolai von Brasch (* 1885 in Ropkoy; † 1902 in Pernau )
      • Viktor Ernst von Brasch (* 1850; † 1877 in Saint Petersburg), political economist
    • Alexander Victor von Brasch (1810-1825 in Dorpat)
    • Konrad August von Brasch (1820–1884), Livonian district administrator
    • Ernst Heinrich Wilhelm von Brasch (1821–1883), Lord of Waimastfer ⚭ Anna Helena von Stackelberg (1820–1901)
  • Karl Christoph von Brasch (* 1787; † 1835 in Rome ) ⚭ Anna Bianchini († around 1830)
    • Alexander Anton Nikolai von Brasch (* 1815 in Rome, † 1880 in Riga), official of the "Livonian goods and credit society"

There are still living descendants of the lines of Rudolf Wilhelm Ernst von Brasch and Arved Karl Leon von Brasch in Germany, Norway and Australia.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms of the von Brasch family shows in red a silver bar with three red six-petalled roses . The bar is accompanied by two silver balls at the top and bottom . The crest is a growing brown greyhound . The helmet covers are red and silver.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Kurt Winckelsesser: 5. Pommersches Gender Book (=  German Gender Book . Volume 136 ). CA Starke Verlag , 1964, p. 206 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. a b Portal SAAGA of the Estonian National Archives, Document EAA.1674.2.38 : Digitized of the Brasch family file - Matriculation Commission of the Estonian Knighthood (user registration required).
  3. ^ A b c Jacob Julius Wilhelm von Poppen: News about the sex of the von Poppen . "Herald" 's printing press, St. Petersburg 1903, p. 35 ( handle.net ).
  4. Nikolai von Essen : Family Tables - Pedigree - Portraits (=  news about the Ungern-Sternberg family . Addendum III). Publisher of Professor Rolf Freiherr v. Ungern-Sternberg, Tartu 1936, p. 206-208 ( digitized version ).
  5. Altes Herrenhaus Gut Alt-Kalnemoise
  6. Kalnemoise et: Kalniena mõis
  7. ^ A b c German Adels Archive: Genealogical Manual of the Adels (=  noble houses . Volume XVIII ). CA Starke Verlag, 1989 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  8. ^ Ricardo von Brasch - Vita. Retrieved March 2, 2018 .
  9. death / Missing Date loud tombs search online ( German War Graves Commission ): 05/30/1944
  10. Elisabeth Heim-von Brasch 1907–1996 - estate in the science history collections of the ETH library
  11. ↑ Date of death / missing according to online grave search (Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge): October 26, 1943
  12. Ludwig David Eisenlöffel: Free Church Pentecostal Movement in Germany: Interior Views 1945–1985 (=  Church - Denomination - Religion . Volume 50 ). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht , 2006 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  13. ^ Kleist Society (ed.): Yearbook of the Kleist Society 1922 (=  writings of the Kleist Society ). Weidmann, 1922 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  14. v. Poppen, Georg Karl Wilhelm. In: Erik Amburger database. Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, accessed on March 2, 2018 .
  15. The “Livonian Noble Goods Loan Society”, known in common parlance as the “credit system”, was founded in 1803 to provide financial support to manorial property owners through mortgage bond loans. [1]
  16. ^ Association of the Baltic Knighthoods eV (Ed.): Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods (New Series) . tape 3 . Association of the Baltic Knighthoods, Hamburg 2013.