Burghauß (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Burghauß (1691)

Burghauß , also Burghauss , historically also Burghaus , is the name of an extinct Silesian aristocratic family that referred to the descent from an old medieval family and that was recognized by the emperor as a count in 1691 . However, the documented trunk series only began with the mining entrepreneur Hans Dippold with the predicate name of Burghaus (documented since 1509).

history

The von Burghauß family maintained an agnatic descent from the Counts of Burghausen since the end of the 17th century . Your line reached Silesia in 1353 via Bohemia .

In Bohemia, the family is said to have owned Rosenschütz in the 14th century . With Friedrich von Burghauß zu Rosenschütz, the family is said to have moved to Silesia, on Kupferberg in the Hirschberg Valley , in 1353 . That Friedrich von Burghaus is said to have been the envoy of Charles IV , the Roman-German and Bohemian King, and in 1353 to have built the castle Burghauß (Schloss Kupferberg) as his seat in the "city of Kupfferberg".

Kupferberg on a map from 1561
Castle ruin bolt lock ( Bolzenstein ) around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Friedland Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection
Laasan Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

However, it was not until 1370–1375 that Waltersdorf “uff dem Kopfirberge” became an independent place called “Kupferberg”. Since 1311, mining has been going on for ores on the Kupferberg. At that time, the landlord of Waltersdorf and the Kupferberg was a man named Albrecht der Baier . On the Kupferberg he had a pit , an outbuilding and a brick yard as a manor house and was named master of the copper mining industry . However, the reigning prince reserved the tithe of the profit . The landlord did not initially operate the dismantling himself. Through the so-called lending right, he transferred the dismantling to trades . These were given individual or several fief pit fields . He also allowed individual farmers to search for ore on their genetic makeup. The landlord appointed officials to supervise him. After Albrecht des Baiern's death in 1338 or 1339, his eldest son Heinrich der Baier took over the rule of Waltersdorf. In 1370 he only sold part of his property and the pits because he was not satisfied with the income, and in 1374 he sold all of his property to the wealthy nobleman Clericus Bolze, who founded the first major manor here. In 1375 Bolze bequeathed his inheritance and property to Jannowitz and to his "housewife" Martha to Leibgedinge on the head mountain . 30 years later the property fell into stranger hands due to impoverishment. At the end of the 14th and all of the 15th century, mining expanded, and the bourgeoisie became wealthy through the brisk trade in copper and silver .

Until 1512 Konrad von Hoburg zu Fürstenstein , captain of the principalities of Schweidnitz and Jauer , was the owner of Kupferberg. On October 15, 1512, he sold the villages "Kopperberg [Kupferberg], Waltersdorf, Janewitz and Baulzenstein with all mines and Bergstetten" to Hans Dypold von Burghaus (documented from 1509 to 1537, in different spellings). In 1514 the purchase contract was confirmed by King Wladislaus of Bohemia . On February 15, 1519, King Ludwig of Bohemia repeated this confirmation as Duke in Silesia and granted Hans Dypold von Burghaus (Hans Dippolt) a mining privilege over Kupferberg. But he endowed the city of Kupferberg itself with all the rights of the royal cities and mining towns . Hans Dippold (Johann Dippold) von Burghaus invested heavily in mining because he suspected gold and silver. Therefore he wanted the sole mountain freedom .

In Reichenstein he managed the mining operations as court master . He also became lord of Kreppelhof , Leupersdorf, Krausendorf, Reussendorf , Schönfeld , Hohenposeritz and Gotschendorf. In 1517/18 Hans Dippold von Burghaus rebuilt and fortified the Bolzenstein Castle (Bolzenschloss Castle, Zamek Bolczów), which had been destroyed by the Schweidnitzers in a punitive expedition in 1433. He added a wide, rocky courtyard. In 1520 Hans Dippold von Burghaus, captain on Reichenstein , was inherited by Count Ulrich von Hardegg , Count zu Glatz , with the hammer to Schreckendorf .

After Hans Dippold von Burghaus had invested a fortune in Kupferberg, he got into a dispute with the trades . In 1537 he sold the property Kupferberg, Bolzenstein, Waltersdorf and Jannowitz to Jobst Ludwig Dietz, a royal Bohemian secretary, who in 1539 issued new mining regulations. But in 1543 he sold all of his property to the brothers Hans and Franz Hellmann from Hirschberg. They built a copper boiling house for the production of vitriol for dyeing cloths blue.

The imperial council, President of the Chamber of Silesia and governor of the Frankenstein soft image Nicolaus II. Von Burghauß (* 1562, † 1619), was elevated to the status of imperial baron in Prague on August 20, 1615 . His great-grandson Nicolaus Konrad von Burghauß (* 1659; † 1697) was raised to the rank of imperial count by Emperor Leopold I in Vienna on September 1, 1691 , according to the diploma: of his ancestors , the old count status thus confirmed. On November 5, 1691, the Bohemian confirmation of the count's status took place in Vienna.

The family owned in Silesia a. a. the rule Friedland in the Falkenberg district with eleven localities, as well as the Majorat Laasan , founded in 1770 , consisting of Laasan and Beatenwald in the Schweidnitz district , as well as the manors, Saarau , Peterwitz and Neudorf (Nowice) in the Striegau district . The Majorate Laasan entitled the respective Majorate Lord to a seat and vote in the Silesian Provincial Parliament since October 15, 1840 , as well as in the Herrenkuria of the United State Parliament since 1847 , in the First Chamber of the Prussian State Parliament and since October 12, 1854 in the Prussian Manor House .

With Count Friedrich von Burghauß (* 1796, † 1885), Majorate Lord of Laasan, heir to the Friedland rule, Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John , Royal Prussian Chamberlain and Real Privy Councilor , hereditary member of the Prussian Manor, General Landscape Director of Silesia and President of the Central Agricultural Association in Breslau After his grand cousin, the royal Prussian major and heir to the rule of Milatschütz, Count Otto Karl Ferdinand von Burghauß (* 1765, † 1840), died leaving only daughters, the male line died out.

After the death of the Counts Burghauß in 1885, the Counts Pückler-Burghauß (zu Friedland) and Pfeil-Burghauß (zu Laasan) entered the estate or majorate inheritance.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Counts of Burghauß

The Count's coat of arms (1691) is split ; on the right in red a silver lion , crowned and armored in gold, with a gold collar and a raised tail ( diminished Bohemian lion ); Left in gold quite sighted, Duke of winning, golden reinforced black eagle , topped with a rising silver in clover stems expiring breast moon , the middle set with a raised cross and a silver Andreaskreuzchen is covered (impaired Silesian eagle ). On the helmet with red and silver covers on the right and black and gold covers on the left , the lion is growing .

The old, Bavarian Counts of Burghausen would have had a lion in their coat of arms, while the old, Austrian Counts of Burghausen would have had an eagle in part of a shield that was cut in length. Because the Principality of Jauer fell to Charles IV as the Bohemian King in 1363 , the "Burghausische Kupferbegische Schloss und Gut, from a princely to a royal feudal estate." "In all respects" Friedrich von Burghaus had "during this change" “So get his coat of arms installed up to now”, so that the future “settled gentlemen of Burghaus in the land belonging to Bohemia”, for the Bavarian Counts of Burghausen, “a lion somewhat similar to the Royal Bohemian”, and for the Austrian counts von Burghausen at the back "would have to wield an eagle not very dissimilar to the Upper Hertducal Silesian". Since the postulated "Burghausische Kupferbegische Schloss und Gut", as can be seen from the documented chronicle of Kupferberg, is not compatible with the documented history of the sex discussed here, neither in 1353 nor 1363, the existence of such a coat of arms is also before 1691, at least already for the 14th century, seen as an anachronism , especially since the old Counts of Burghausen had neither a lion nor an eagle in their coat of arms, but a red, horned and winged dragon in their silver shield .

Trunk line

  • Hans Dippold (Johann Theobald) von Burghauß (* 1470), lord of Kupferberg, Bolzenstein, Janewitz, Waltersdorf, Kreppelhof, Leupersdorf, Krausendorf, Reussendorf, Schönfeld, Hohenposeritz and Gotschendorf
    • Nicolaus von Burghauß († 1552), Lord of Schildberg and Seifersdorf, ducal münsterberg - Oelsscher captain of Frankenstein, ⚭ Anna von Norau († 1567)
      • Sigismund von Burghauß (* 1531; † 1587), Lord of Stoltz, Schildberg and Seifersdorf, Imperial Councilor and Governor of the Frankensteiner Weichbildes, ⚭ Eva von der Heyde adH Seifersdorf
        • Baron Nicolaus II von Burghauß (* November 12th, 1562; † July 1st, 1619), Herr auf Stoltz, Johnsdorf, Schildberg, Sackerau, Peterwitz, Niclasdorf, Skorischau, Polish Neudorf and Löwenstein, Imperial Councilor, Chamber President of Silesia and Governor of the Frankensteiner Weichbildes , ⚭I 1588 NN von Seidlitz († 1614), ⚭II Ursula von Schindel adH Sastershausen, widowed von Prittwitz († 1618)
          • Baron Nicolaus III. von Burghauß (* 1591; † 1640), Lord of Schön-Johnsdorf, Schildberg, Sackerau, Peterwitz, Niclasdorf and Löwenstein, kk treasurer, councilor and governor of the Frankensteiner Weichbildes, ⚭I 1621 Freiin Maria Elisabeth von Wartenberg adH Rohasatz
            • Baron Karl Nicolaus von Burghauß († 1664), Lord of Sulau, Stoltz, Giersdorf and Wiltsch, ⚭ Countess Anna Elisabeth von Dohna
              • Count Nicolaus Konrad von Burghauß (* 1659; † 1697), Lord of Sulau, Friedland, Krolkwitz, Stoltz, Giersdorf and Wiltsch, 1677 ⚭ Freiin Eva Maria von Nowack (* 1662; † 1719)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d GHdA-Lex, (1974)
  2. ^ Martin Hanke : de Imperii romani comitibus Burghausis ; see. New genealogical Reichs- und Staats-Handbuch: Auf das Jahr 1797. Part 2, Frankfurt am Main 1797, pp. 35–38 ( digitized version ), in which a more detailed derivation is attempted and a detailed genealogy of the 18th century family is added .
  3. a b c Heinz Kornemann, Chronik über Kupferberg , p. 5.
  4. See Sinapius (Schlesische Curiositäten, Volume 1, 1720), p. 12 f. and Carl Günther Ludovici : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts. Volume 4, Halle / Leipzig 1733, p. 1968 ( digitized version ). This formulation was also adopted by Johann Friedrich Gauhe in 1740 in his Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon , Leipzig 1740, p. 295 f. (Col. 304 f.) ( Digitized version ). Likewise in 1742 by Jakob Christoph Beck , Jakob Christoph Iselin and August Johann Burtorff in their newly-augmented Historical and Geographical General Lexicon , 2nd part, 3rd edition. Basel 1742, p. 309 ( digitized version ) and 1749 by Johann Peter von Ludewig and Christian Friedrich Hempel in their Explanatory Germania Princeps, That is: Historical, Political and Legal Notes on the same Teutonic Prince States , Part 4, Frankfurt am Main / Leipzig 1749, p. 2688 (digitized version )
  5. Carl JB Karsten: Archives for Mining and Metallurgy , Volume 16, pp. 313-316 (digitized version )
  6. ^ Fritz-Rudolf Künker: Coins and medals from the Middle Ages and modern times. Catalog for the 107th auction February 2, 2006, p. 173 (digitized version)
  7. The Bolczów Palace
  8. Conquered by the Swedes twice in the Thirty Years War, the castle was completely ruined. See greetings from Lomnitz  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.1 MB), issue no. 45 December 2010, information booklet of the Association for the Care of Silesian Art and Culture eV (VSK) p. 12 f.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.vskschlesien.de  
  9. Castle bolt lock (Zamek Bolczów)
  10. Herbert Schmidt: The silver ore mining in the county of Glatz and in the Principality of Münsterberg-Oels - from the medieval beginnings to the decline. Marburg 2003, p. 231 f. (Digitized version)
  11. This happened in a wave of imperial titles in the decades of 1690/1700. See Jan Harasimowicz , Matthias Weber, Adel in Schlesien, Volume 1: Dominion - Culture - Self-Presentation , Roßdorf (Polish edition Warsaw) 2010, p. 216 (digitized version)
  12. See Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon. Volume II (1974), p. 185 and because of the clover stems Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 2 (1860), p. 160; see. also the coat of arms of the counts von Pfeil-Burghauß in Alfred Freiherr von Krane, coat of arms and handbook of the nobility resident in Silesia (including Upper Lusatia), Goerlitz 1901–1904 and Kneschke: German count houses of the present in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation . Volume 1 (1852), p. 140.
  13. Sinapius (1720), p. 13.
  14. ^ Johann Georg Bonifaz Huber: History of the city of Burghausen in Upper Bavaria: with the view, the plan and coat of arms of the city, the coat of arms of the Counts of Burghausen and the oldest city seal from 1290 , Burghausen 1862, p. 18 (digitized version)
  15. ^ General genealogical and state handbook. P. 488 f. (Digitized version)