Broich (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Broich

Broich ( Bruiche ; initially also: Broich / Bruiche von Husen ) is the name of an ancient Jülich noble family who held several possessions and repeatedly high offices in the region in and around Aachen and Jülich . One line of the family was raised to the nobility of the Netherlands with the title of baron and to the knighthood of the province of Liège and later to the Prussian baron . Its name comes from the Broich bailiwick near Jülich and should not be confused with the noble lords and knights of the Broich rule with their residence at Broich Castle .

Family chronology

As the ancestor of the family, Adam von Husen (approx. 1290 - approx. 1330) was first mentioned in a document as the Cologne bailiff , after he was enfeoffed with the Jülich Vogtei zu Broich in what is now Broichweiden . Thereupon his sons took on the double name " Bruiche von Husen ". Adam's son of the same name (1320-1367) is then mentioned in 1352 as Adam von Bruche , Bailiff von Broich and Lord of Baesweiler .

In the same period and after the extinction of the Baesweiler lords, who lived in Baesweiler, the Broich von Husen family inherited all of their property around 1371. So the knight Wilhelm von Broich von Husen received the castle Baesweiler and the siblings Adam (1345–1426), Heinrich and Lysbeth Broich von Husen, children of Adam von Broich von Husen, who fell in 1367, the later Bongartshof . In 1377 the brothers Adam and Heinrich transferred the farm to their brother-in-law Johann von dem Bongart as the marriage property of their sister Lysbeth, whereupon this farm got its new name. In 1412 a certain Heinrich von Harff, called Stern der Alte, was enfeoffed both with the initial estate of the von Broich family in Broich and with the Baesweiler castle, which was finally enfeoffed around 1460 by another Wilhelm von Broich, burgrave of Agrimont Liege , is being sold.

Broicher Hof - ancestral seat of the family 1421–1819

Around 40 years earlier, in 1421, the Hof zu Wyß or Duyrewyß in the Eschweiler district of Dürwiss was assigned to a Wilhelm von Broich, possibly identical to the aforementioned burgrave of Agrimont, from his cousin Johann von Werth . This estate, now referred to as Broicher Hof after the family, subsequently served as the main domicile of the family, who from around this time only called themselves “ von Broich ” without the addition “ von Husen ”. After the death of the last owner of this family, the Elector of Cologne Chamberlain Carl Philipp von Broich, the Broicher Hof was finally sold in 1819.

Coat of arms stone by Johann Werner von Broich from 1727

The descendants of this family already settled in the Free Imperial City of Aachen at the beginning of the 17th century and were granted civil rights there. By marriage, they acquired membership in the aristocratic society of the Stern and the right to hold the office of lay judge. Two members of the family, Werner von Broich and his son Johann Werner von Broich held the office of mayor of Aachen for 13 and 11 years respectively. From the latter comes the alliance coat of arms on the reinserted coat of arms stone above the entrance door of the Broicher Hof, which until 1944 was walled in above the portal of the old parish church of Dürwiß, which was completely destroyed in the war and which had originally served as the family chapel of the von Broichs.

Another family member from the Aachen branch of the family, Werner Edmund von Broich, son of Johann Carl Melchior von Broich and owner of the Soers house under inheritance law , received Broich Castle by marriage for his son Carl Heinrich (Charles Henri) von Broich (1765-1834) awarded in Montzen , Belgium , whereby the name of the castle, which already existed before, goes back to the name “ Broich ” for “ marshland ”. This Charles Henri was raised to the nobility of the Netherlands with the title of baron bailiff and knighthood of the province of Liège on January 6, 1816. Through his son Louis Charles Ferdinand von Broich, the castle remained in family ownership until 1913 and was only bought back in 1963 by Carl Arnold Freiherr von Broich from Aachen, who is also the author of the family chronicle.

Previously named Charles Henri von Broich was mainly active in the Aachen area and is mentioned in 1784 as the mayor of the Richterich rule . Through family connections to the von Blanche family, another son of Charles Henri, Arnold Carl Maria von Broich (1797–1873), acquired Schönau Castle . On November 7, 1834 he was accepted into the Prussian baron and in 1848 was also listed as mayor of Richterich. His son Carl Arnold Maria Freiherr von Broich (1835–1907), mayor of the same place until 1906, was the last owner of Schönau Castle by the von Broich family, which was later taken over by the city of Aachen. His daughter Julia (1880–1947) married the writer and art historian Josef Ponten . A street in Richterich was named in memory of the von Broich family.

coat of arms

A black bar on silver, above a three-lipped black tournament collar . On the helmet with black and silver covers a growing, silver-horned black goat, whose shoulder is covered with the coat of arms.

Known family members

literature

  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). Part A: Noble houses of the knightly German landed aristocracy, who were proven by 1400 at the latest. Vol. 33, 1934, ZDB -ID 134443-2 , p. 81.
  • Carl Arnold Freiherr von Broich, Johan Belonje: Memories of the von Broich family. In: Journal of the Aachen History Association. Vol. 71, 1959, ISSN  0065-0137 , pp. 139-144.
  • Walter v. Hueck among others: Adelslexikon. (= Genealogical manual of the nobility . Vol. 58, ISSN  0435-2408 ). Volume 2: Boo-Don. Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1974.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Copy of the Steinfeld Abbey from the 18th century. With extracts from an older "liber coquinae" regarding feudal relationships since 1260
  2. ↑ State Archives Düsseldorf, Duchy of Berg, Document No. 178
  3. ↑ Baesweiler Castle and its owners ( Memento of the original from January 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baesweiler.de
  4. ↑ Broicher Hof
  5. ↑ Werner von Broich. In: Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen : The lay judges of the Royal See of Aachen from the earliest times until the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 50 , 1928, pp. 1-596, here pp. 417-422 ( online on rootsweb ).
  6. ^ Johann Werner von Broich. In: Luise Freiin von Coels von der Brügghen: The lay judges of the Royal See of Aachen from the earliest times until the final repeal of the imperial city constitution in 1798 . In: Journal of the Aachen History Association . tape 50 , 1928, pp. 1–596, here pp. 448–449 ( online on rootsweb ).
  7. ↑ Broich Castle near Montzen
  8. ↑ History of Schönau Castle