Flanß

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Coat of arms of those of Flanß

Flanß ( Flans , Flanss or Flanz , in Silesia also Pflantz ) is the name of three extinct noble families , whose members spread to Meissen , Thuringia , Brandenburg , Prussia , Electoral Saxony , the Rhineland to Silesia and the principalities of Reuss. Although all three families are related to the coat of arms, an agnatic filiation connection has not been proven.

history

The traditional Flanß originate in the county of Orlamünde . There they are documented for the first time with Adalbertus Flans Ministeriale of the Bishop of Meissen in 1154. With Dietrich von Flanß († 1546), son of the heir of Etzelbach , Kleineutersdorf and Löbschütz Curd von Flanß (1515 †), a tribe has transplanted to Brandenburg. The brothers Georg and Dietrich became Zossen officials one after the other . Dietrich later became a bailiff in Potsdam and Trebbin as well as Hofmeister in Brandenburg . Among his sons, the family was divided into a Prussian and a Brandenburg line. The former owned extensive goods there , for example at Wohndorf in the Friedland district . In the Budwethen church a bell bore the inscription “At the time of the high-born fiefdom of Flans in Königsberg in 1695 gos mich Gottfried Dornemann”. The Prussian line expired soon after 1725 with the Prussian lieutenant Georg Christoph von Flanß auf Schönwalde. The younger Brandenburg line owned, in addition to other goods, Baumgarten , Groß Machnow (1494-1621), Wittbrietzen , Rieben , Zauchwitz (1575-1680), pieces (proportionally, 1599 to after 1620) and Groß-Ziethen and Klein-Ziethen in Teltow . The Prussian Field Marshal General and Knight of the High Order of the Black Eagle Adam Christoph von Flanß (1664–1748) and his nephew, the Prussian Major General Kurt Friedrich von Flanß (1708–1763) descended from the House of Wittbrietzen . With the last-named son, August Ferdinand von Flanß (1754–1804), a. a. Governor of the Hof- und Leibpageninstitut in Potsdam, the male line of the sex has found its starting point.

The family line of the Silesian Flanß begins in Haynau with Abel Kaspar Flans († 1658), whose grandson Johann von Flanß (1668–1733) appeared with the title of nobility, which was not objected to in the Kingdom of Prussia . His family spread to the Rhineland, among other places, where the heir daughter of Adam von Wolff-Metternich took over the family's permanent castle Aldenrath . Her son Johann Adam von Flanß received the castle in 1626, but in 1655 the castle again passed into the possession of Count Wolter Franz von Geul, Freiherr von Hoensbroech, through marriage . The Silesian tribe continued to flourish after 1850.

The Regensburg- born pharmacist and Saxon-Gotha court and chamber councilor in Gera Johann Jakob (von) Flanß (1744–1823) was raised to imperial nobility on February 24, 1787 in Vienna . After the death of his first wife, Susanna Magdalena Albrecht (1738–1793), he married Freiin Wilhelmine Helene Ernestine von Richter (1772–1841) in 1794 . This second marriage resulted in five daughters, but only one, Luise Henriette Amalie von Flanß (1795-1820), survived the father. She carried the parental estates Gauern , Brauniswalde, Friedrichswalde, Mielsdorf and Beesdorf, to her husband Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Heinrich Eugen von Reisewitz († 1831), first lieutenant in the General Staff .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms of the primeval and Silesian Flanß shows in silver a black eagle with the head and neck of a wolf ( wolf eagle), wearing a red crescent moon on its chest . On the helmet with black and silver covers an open flight , divided four times by silver and black , each covered with an upright red sword .

The coat of arms (1787) shows in silver a black eagle with a wolf head turned to the right, the chest covered with a silver crescent moon. On the helmet with black and silver covers a raised red sword between an open black flight covered with two silver bars .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Gotthelf Gersdorf : Codex diplomaticus Saxoniae regiae . Volume 1, Leipzig 1882
  2. ^ Georg Wilhelm von Raumer : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis continuatus. Volume 2, Berlin / Elbing 1833, p. 285
  3. ↑ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : J. Siebmacher's great Wappenbuch , Vol. VI, Department 4, The dead nobility of the Province of Prussia , Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1874
  4. ^ Robert Wilhelm Rosellen: History of the parishes of the deanery Brühl. P. 293ff
  5. ↑ Monument to the secret chamber councilor von Flanz, born Albrecht, heir, feudal and court wife on Friedrichsheide , Dresden 1793, ( digitized version )