Burkersroda (noble family)
Burkersroda is the name of a Thuringian noble family that belongs to the ancient nobility and is of the same tribe as von Hessler . The spelling of the family name varies. There are also the name forms Burckhartsrode , Borgersrode , Borkersrode and Bukersroda .
history
This family originally came from Burkersrode near Eckartsberga . They are first mentioned in a document when the Counts of Orlamünde and Lords of Weimar handed over the villages of Dietrichsroda, Pleißmar , Burkersroda , Friedrichroda and Harta as fiefs to Hans, Christoph, Wolf and Heinrich, brothers of Burkersroda. Subsequently, 1144 Volknant de Burkhartrod appears. The family line begins with Friedrich von Burkersroda , mentioned in 1487, Herr auf Starsiedel .
They are related to the tribal and coat of arms of the nobles von Laucha and von Hessler .
coat of arms
Blazon : “In red, three left-turning silver cross tips. On the helmet with red-silver blankets, a growing maiden clad in silver and red split, who holds a green diamond wreath on her chest and whose head is decorated with seven silver-red split flags. "
Personalities
- Hans Friedrich von Burckersroda (around 1630–1686), German administrative officer, canon and chamber president
- Hans Friedrich von Burkersroda (1574–1640), electoral councilor and canon in Naumburg
- Julius von Zech-Burkersroda (politician) (1805–1872), German politician
- Julius von Zech-Burkersroda (1885–1946), German diplomat, see Ernst Lothar Julius Graf von Zech-Burkersroda
literature
- Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, ISSN 0435-2408
- Johannes Rogalla von Bieberstein: The gentlemen von Burkersroda and von Hessler and Count von Zech, otherwise von Burkersroda. One family at Saale and Unstrut 1144–1945. Leopoldshöhe: Self-published 2008, 138 pp.