Gruttschreiber (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Gruttschreiber

Gruttschreiber also Gruttschreiber von Zopekendorf or Gruttschreiber von Czopekendorf is the name of a Silesian noble family .

history

There are conflicting sources about the origin of the family. According to documents that were later burned in the Michelau monastery near Brieg , originally from the Rhine , she came to Westphalia early on and from there turned to Austria. As early as 1241, a Gruttschreiber is said to have been an imperial captain in Breslau . The secure and consistent master series starts at 1420 with Matthias Grotschreiber provided with a Landschadin was married. Of his descendants, Wenzel Gruttschreiber first called himself around 1480 after his estate in Zopfkendorf near Neustadt in Upper Silesia . The family rose in the sovereign administrative service of the princes of Liegnitz .

Michelau castle and market town (today Michałów), came into the possession of the Gruttschreiber in the 16th century

On July 4, 1696 Adam Friedrich von Gruttschreiber with the nobility Edler lord of Zopekendorf and 13 April 1699 for Christoph Franz von Gruttschreiber hereditary is a baron of the family arrived . The family was widespread and wealthy in Silesia and Slavonia , but also in the Crown Lands and Brandenburg .

Baron Joseph Adam von Gruttschreiber (1769-1845) was promoted to government councilor, district administrator of the Neustadt district in Upper Silesia and landscape director by 1826 . He had seven estates in Upper Silesia, including Jaryszów . However, he was guilty of misappropriating cash funds and as a result was sentenced to personal loss of nobility in 1826. A total of 14 children born before the loss of the nobility came from his marriage, making him the progenitor of the Catholic line. After 1826 he was named in the public papers without a nobility mark or title of baron and died impoverished.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is split in gold and blue with a springing silver bracket . Growing on the helmet with blue-gold helmet covers of the bracke .

The baronial coat of arms is golden rimmed , the shield is a golden thread through squares of blue and red. In the middle of a heart sign with the trunk emblem. 1 and 4 a crowned silver pike , 2 an armored arm holding a gold star , 3 a silver flag placed at an angle. Three helmets, on the first the hound, carrying a swan on the head , on the second the flag, on the third the arm. The ceilings blue-gold and red-silver.

Relatives

literature

Web links

Commons : Gruttschreiber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels-Lexicon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1863, pp. 82-83
  2. ↑ a b Loss of nobility in Prussia 1794–1870; Basics, theories, application and practice of the Prussian aristocratic suspension (accessed on February 19, 2016)
  3. ^ Institute for German Aristocracy Research: Nobility Losses in Prussia 1794 to 1870 (accessed on February 19, 2016)
  4. ↑ Institute for German Aristocracy Research: Civilian aristocratic occurrences across time (accessed on February 19, 2016)