Feilitzsch (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Feilitzsch family

Feilitzsch is the name of a Franconian and Vogtland noble family. As a former imperial-free ministerial family , it belonged to the Vogtland imperial knighthood . The family name changed between Veilez, Veilsch, Feiltsch, Filez and Feilitzsch.

history

The family first appeared in a document in 1365 with Peter von Feiltsch, Commander of the Teutonic Order in Schleiz. The name Feilitzsch is said to go back to Veilsdorf ( Hildburghausen district ) in what is now Thuringia. The von Veilsdorf or Veils family is said to have sat there as early as the 9th century. The von Feilitzsch family probably came from Veilsdorf in the wake of the Weida bailiffs and founded their family estates in Feilitzsch , Trogen and Haidt.

The headquarters are named after Feilitzsch in the Hof district in Upper Franconia . The first documented mention of the Feilitzsch manor dates back to 1390. In 1546 there were three manors in the village of Feilitzsch, the lower manor with the moated castle dating back to the 12th century, the middle manor and the upper manor, all owned by the Family. The lower and upper estates were subsequently sold, but the former was bought back in 1591. The Reformation was introduced in Feilitzsch in 1529 , members of the family supported them with considerable funds and also had direct correspondence with Martin Luther . The middle estate burned down in 1714 and was no longer rebuilt. From 1502 to 1638 the neighboring Zedtwitz Castle was also owned by the family. Adam Ernst Erdmann von Feilitzsch from the Untere Gut bought the Upper Gut back in 1735 and thus united the goods. 10 years later, Ludwig Ernst von Feilitzsch demolished the Upper Gut and replaced it with today's baroque palace in the central part of the village (with the Waldgut still owned by the family today), right next to the Schlössla (now an inn). In 1775 the property in Münchenreuth passed to Georg Heinrich Lazarus von Feilitzsch.

In Trogen near Feilitzsch, in addition to the old Trogen moated castle (destroyed by fire in 1637), two other manorial estates developed through division: the Upper Manor (from the outworks of the castle) and the Trogen-Zech manor (still owned by the Family).

From the middle of the 14th to the end of the 16th century, Gumpertsreuth Castle (in Gattendorf ) belonged to the Lords of Feilitzsch, as did the neighboring Haidt estate.

The Kürbitz manor in Vogtland was formed at the end of the 15th century from property that had belonged to the family since around 1300; it remained in the family's possession until the expropriation in 1945.

The von Feilitzsch family has been enrolled in the Freiherrn class since May 19, 1847, recognizing the existing baron class in the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Structure and namesake of the family

Maximilian Alexander Graf von Feilitzsch (1834–1913), Bavarian Minister of the Interior
Urban Caspar von Feilitzsch (1586–1649)
  • Tribe A (Treuen, formerly Kürbitz)
  • Tribe B, progenitor Peter von Feilitzsch, 1353 on the Feilitzsch lower part
  • Tribe C, progenitor Andreas (around 1403 in Unterhartmannsreuth, Gutenfürst (Kürbitz) and Heinersgrün with Budzak)

More name bearers

  • Fabian von Feilitzsch († 1520), margravial and electoral councilor, supporter of Martin Luther
  • Urban Caspar Freiherr von Feilitzsch (born May 2, 1586 in Kürbitz; † September 17, 1649 in Kürbitz), Margrave of Brandenburg Privy Councilor, Chancellor and feudal judge, had the Salvatorkirche built in Kürbitz from 1624 to 1626 .
  • Karl Adam Heinrich von Feilitzsch (1701–1768), Prussian colonel and commandant of the Invalidenhaus in Berlin
  • Ottokar von Feilitzsch (born July 15, 1817 in Langensalza, † June 11, 1885 in Bayreuth), professor of physics at the University of Greifswald.
  • Karl Freiherr von Feilitzsch (born April 2, 1901 in Munich; † August 7, 1981 there) composer
  • Franz Freiherr von Feilitzsch (born October 25, 1944) professor for experimental astroparticle physics at the Technical University of Munich

Owned by the von Feilitzsch family

The Feilitzscher can be found in the following locations: Fattigsmühle near Töpen , Münchenreuth near Feilitzsch , Unterkotzau near Hof . They are also mentioned on the following knight seats:

Kürbitz manor , Vogtland

Other places with references to the von Feilitzsch family

  • Near Burgstein on a hill above the village of Heinersgrün stands St. Clara, the grave chapel of the von Feilitzsch and von Pöllnitz families from the late Middle Ages, visible from afar .
  • Castle seat of the baroness in Gutenfürst
  • The Kreuzberg in Kürbitz , former burial site (hereditary burial) of the noble von Feilitzsch family

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the von Feilitzsch family from Siebmacher's coat of arms book
Coat of arms of the von Feilitzsch family from Siebmacher's coat of arms book
 Blazon : “The shield is divided by silver, red and black. On the helmet with red and silver blankets on the right and black and silver blankets on the left, a high pointed hat split like the shield with a golden button between an open wing split like the shield. "

Related to the v. Veilsdorf , v. Zedtwitz , vd Heyde / Heydte, v. Hundelshausen, v. Perglas , v. Röder, v. Machwitz , v. Gößnitz and the v. Radwitz / Rebitz / Redwitz . The extent to which there is a tribal relationship has yet to be proven.

Local coat of arms with reference to the von Feilitzsch family

The place Feilitzsch , in which Zedtwitz is also incorporated, adopted the coat of arms as the municipal coat of arms in 1954. The municipality of Trogen is also reminiscent of the Feilitzsch family through an element in the municipality's coat of arms. Gattendorf uses the coat of arms colors in memory of von Feilitzsch.

Stained glass window in Trogen parish church

Others

  • There is a violin by Antonio Stradivari from 1734 named Baron Feilitzsch . A Baron von Feilitzsch briefly owned this instrument at the end of the 19th century.
  • In the parish church of Trogen , the glass windows show the family coat of arms and the inscriptions: “Marianne Freifrau von Feilitzsch geb. Härtel * June 5, 1853 † April 12, 1928 "and" August Freiherr von Feilitzsch * September 12, 1850 † May 28, 1924 ".

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria (Volume X). 1970,
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria (Volume 13). 1980, ISBN 3-7686-5050-2 , pages 371-395.
  • Adelslexikon ( Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels . Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, ISSN  0435-2408 .
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser A 1940.
  • Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses A 1942.
  • M. von Feilitzsch: Genealogical-historical description of the sex of those von Feilitzsch. Court 1795.
  • Wilhelm von Feilitzsch: History and genealogy of the von Feilitzsch family. 1875 (addendum 1903). ( Digitized version )
  • Friedrich Freiherr von Feilitzsch: Alliances of the von Feilitzsch family. In: Quarterly magazine for heraldry, sphragistics and genealogy. 1883, 11th year, pp. 328-349.
  • Friedrich Freiherr von Feilitzsch-Stendorf: Introduction to the family history. 1923.

Web links

Commons : Feilitzsch  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berthold Schmidt: Document book of the governors of Weida (Volume II). P. 139.
  2. ↑ Stendorf on www.schlossarchiv.de
  3. ↑ The Thanhof Manor at www.sachsens-schlösser.de
  4. ↑ burial place