Hallberg (noble family)
The Lords of Hallberg are a German noble family, barons and imperial counts with Swedish roots. You were u. a. based at Haus Broich near Jülich .
history
The family name comes from the nickname Hohlberg , which an Anderson is said to have acquired in 1276 in a war between Sweden and Denmark when storming a fortified mountain. He is to a military leader under the Swedish king I. Magnus have been. Anderson's son Johann, general under Magnus II of Sweden , received the imperial nobility diploma in Vienna. A descendant of Johann, Alexander August von Hohlberg († 1602), envoy in Madrid, received a baron diploma under the name Hollberg . The name Hallberg developed from Hollberg .
The aforementioned Alexander August is said to have bought a Hergern castle in the Grand Duchy of Berg . His descendants were u. a. Electoral Palatinate envoys at the Viennese court, secret councilors and war commissioners.
In 1740 Peter Theodor von Hallberg bought the Broich house near Jülich. Another part of the family came into the possession of Schloss Pesch in Meerbusch through marriage . They also acquired Haus Horst in the Mönchengladbach district of Giesenkirchen and Haus Böckum in Duisburg - Huckingen . The members of the Pesch line held the title of Imperial Count from 1790.
Possessions
Attenbach house , Hennef
Böckum House , Duisburg-Huckingen
Broich House , Jülich
Fußberg Castle , Gauting
Hallberg Castle , Fußgönheim
Horst House , Mönchengladbach
Pesch Castle , Meerbusch
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coat of arms
The Hallbergs seated on Haus Pesch had the coat of arms shown in the picture with the following blazon: square, first quarter, in silver, a tree on a piece of ground, green; second, two-tailed red gold crowned lion in silver; third quarter, likewise, the lion turned to the left; fourth, natural-colored foot, cut off below the knee, in green, tied around the top; all over with a gold central shield with a black, gold-billed, stolen and crowned eagle; on the shield the count's crown, set with three helmets tinged blue, the middle one with gold and black, the right one with a silver and green cover, the left one with a silver and red cover, on the middle one the eagle of the middle shield, on the left the leg of the fourth quarter ; Shield holder: two white, black-billed and red-footed swans, each holding a fringed lance flag with its claw turned away, in which three silver swans swimming in gold.
This coat of arms can also be found on the gravestone of Mathias Graf von Hallberg, who died in 1848, in the old cemetery of Lank .
An earlier variant of the coat of arms of the Lords of Hallberg at Pesch Castle does not yet contain the foot for Fußgönheim or the Hallberg Castle located there. The center shield was also missing.
Personalities
- Heinrich Theodor von Hallberg (1725–1792), Imperial Count as well as Electoral Palatinate and Electoral Palatinate-Bavarian diplomat
- Jakob Tillmann von Hallberg (1681–1744), baron, court chancellor of the Electorate of the Palatinate and conference minister as well as builder of the Fußgönheim Palace
- Karl Theodor von Hallberg (1752–1840), Bavarian lieutenant general
- Theodor von Hallberg-Broich (1768–1862), German writer and explorer, founder of Hallbergmoos
literature
- Dietmar Ahlemann: Herren von Hallberg , in: Huckinger Heimatbuch, Volume 3, Duisburg 2015, p. 279 f.
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Volume 5 (Supplement-Volume), Leipzig 1839, p. 207 and the same, Second Supplement, Leipzig 1843, p. 49.