Felgenhauer
Felgenhauer is an aristocratic Saxon noble family .
Origin and ennoblement
The gender is Protestant and comes from Riesa in Saxony . The family line begins with Christoph Felgenhauer, who was born in 1519 and died in 1580. His son, the Electoral Saxon Chamber Councilor Christoph Felgenhauer on Riesa, received the imperial nobility status in Vienna on March 23, 1624 with "von und zu Riesa" . Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony had in 1622 Christoph v. Felgenhauer with the manor Riesa invested .
The Hirschstein Castle was owned by the family from 1628 to 1712 .
During the Thirty Years War (1618–48) the castle was destroyed by the Swedes in 1637. It is managed by the family v. Felgenhauer rebuilt.
In Riesa, the Felgenhauerstraße still reminds of the family today . In the monastery church of Riesa there is the death shield of Christoph v. Felgenhauer.
coat of arms
Description of the coat of arms ( blazon ): The coat of arms from 1624 shows three silver rims in red across one another; on the helmet with red and silver covers a harnessed sword arm between an open flight, divided by red and silver.
Significant namesake
- Christoph Felgenhauer (* before 1604–1639), Dutch merchant who worked in the Electorate of Saxony as an entrepreneur, chamber councilor and raft director
- Lieutenant General Wolf Christoph Friedrich von Felgenhauer (1726–1809); President of the course . War Council College (1794), Commandant of Dresden-Neustadt (1798)
- Major General Hans von Felgenhauer (1863–1946); Prussian officer , (military) writer and poet
literature
- Adelslexikon, Volume III (Dor-F), ed. from the Deutsches Adelsarchiv eV , Limburg (CA Starke-Verlag) 1975 (Vol. 61 of the complete series Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility ), ISBN 3-7980-0761-6
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1st year; Gotha (Justus Perthes) 1907; P. 176 f.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser, Part B, 32nd year; Gotha 1940; P. 162 f.