Goose (Merseburg noble family)
The von Gans were a knightly noble family in the Merseburg Abbey and in the Querfurt rulership .
history
The family was first mentioned in 1269 with Heinemann and Heidenreich Gans in Halle . As vassals of the noble lords of Querfurt they held a noble farm (goose farm), as Burgmannengut zu Querfurt. In 1354, Fritze dictus Gans cives nostri is in a Merseburg document. Wiprecht Gans († 1361) was a captain and councilor from Querfurt. His epitaph, in the parish church of St. Lamperti in Querfurt, has been lost. Fredericus Gans, noster notarius, was a notary from Querfurt in 1391. In 1505 Friedrich (Fritz) Gans sat at Querfurt, bailiff of the monasteries in Nieder- and Oberschmon, Grockstedt, Liederstedt and Spielberg. The family died out at the end of the 16th century.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows the head and neck of a goose. The motif on the helmet. A different coat of arms, which was found under the ruins of the goose farm in Querfurt, shows three geese in the shield and a goose on the helmet. It was also on an epitaph in Schmon from 1664. Coats of arms related to the Brandenburg goose to Putlitz , that of Geusau and that of Dieskau . Not related to the Thuringian goose from Tennstedt and goose from Weberstedt (coat of arms: an ibex).
literature
- George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : Medieval seal from the Harz countries , second part: Fritz Gans zu Querfurt , in: Journal of the Harz Association for History and Archeology , Volume 2, 1869, p. 126ff