Harrach

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Family coat of arms of those of Harrach

Harrach is the name of an old Austro - Bohemian noble family . The lords , barons and counts of Harrach belonged to the high nobility . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

The family from South Bohemian and Upper Austrian nobility is mentioned for the first time in 1195 in the documents of the Ranshofen Monastery , which at that time belonged to the Duchy of Baiern . After Genealogists and Heraldiker Martin Kolar (1836-1889) the Harrach are from the genus Wladyken Haracher of Harach at Rosenberg in Bohemia , which with Beness of Horach and his brothers as a witness of the brothers Heinrich and Witiko by Rosenberg in a patronage certificate of the pin Hohenfurt first appears in 1272 or with Dietmar von Harouch, probably from Harrouche near Freistadt in Upper Austria . The line of trunks of the extinct count's house of the Hrzebenatz von Harrach begins in 1439.

Another secured line of tribe begins in the 13th century with Przibislaus von Harrach ( Přibyslav z Harachu ; also z Horochu ) who came from a Vladiken family from the South Bohemian village of Hora or Harachy . Przibislaus descendants acquired important properties in the Mühlviertel , Styria and Carinthia .

Rohrau Castle , Lower Austria, headquarters of the older line (since 1524); today owned by the Counts Waldburg-Zeil
Prugg Castle , Lower Austria, still owned by the younger line today

Leonhard III. von Harrach bought the Rohrau dominion in Lower Austria in 1524 . Rohrau Castle later became the family seat. His son Leonard IV. (1514-1590) received by Emperor Charles V by diploma from January 4, 1552 for himself and all his family to the kingdom baron and was elevated to the peerage Bohemian 1577th In 1585 he was accepted into the Order of the Golden Fleece by Philip II .

On November 6, 1627 was Karl Freiherr von Harrach , the father-in Wallenstein , Emperor Ferdinand II. In the imperial counts collected while the rule Rohrau the county appointed. The members of the family carried the title of Count or Countess of Harrach zu Rohrau and Thannhausen . Through his sons Leonhard Karl and Otto Friedrich , Count Karl became the progenitor of the older line at Schloss Rohrau and the younger line at Schloss Prugg (or Pruck) in Bruck an der Leitha , which is still owned by the family today.

In 1700, Emperor Leopold sold the rule and the Freistadt Castle in the Mühlviertel as free property to Count Ferdinand Bonaventura I from the younger line . His great-granddaughter Rosa married Prince Joseph Kinsky in 1777, and so rule passed to the Kinsky family . Ferdinand Bonaventura II. Von Harrach obtained for himself and the descendants of his brother Friedrich August 1752 admission to the Swabian Imperial Counts College as "personalists" (i.e. without acquiring any imperial territory) and thus the imperial estate , whereby this line belonged to the high nobility . Because of this, the head of the younger line was granted the title of illustrious by a decree of the kuk Hofkanzlei in 1841 . At the beginning of the 18th century, the Salzburg Prince Archbishop Franz Anton von Harrach was elevated ad personam to the rank of imperial prince by Emperor Leopold I.

Johann Nepomuk XII. At the end of the 18th century, Count Harrach zu Rohrau and Thannhausen sold the Vienna Majoratsgarten and the Majoratsgut Wlkawa (Vlkava) and transferred the Majorat to the allodial rule of Starkenbach (Jilemnice) and set up a family fidei commission on it . The seat of the older line was the Horní Branná Castle , in the middle of the 19th century Franz Ernst Count Harrach-Rohrau had the representative Bürgles Castle (Hrádek u Nechanic) built in the Sadowa reign . At the same time he had the Harrach crypt on the Holy Cross built in Horní Branná as a family burial site, into which the coffins from the old burial place in the St. Alois hospital chapel were later transferred. After the Second World War, all family estates in Czechoslovakia (including Dolní Přím Castle since 1773) were expropriated.

Ferdinand Joseph (1763–1841), the youngest son of the Prugg line, founded a Silesian, partly Protestant line on Rosnochau , Sisterwitz , Klein Krichen and Tiefhartmannsdorf . His daughter Auguste (1800–1873) became the second wife of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III in 1824 .

The Palais Harrach in Vienna was sold to the city in 1975. The town of Harrachov in the Czech Republic is named after the family, where a glassworks had been producing Harrach glass since the beginning of the 18th century . In addition to Harrachov, Horní Branná and Zvíkov also have the Harrach family coat of arms in the municipal coat of arms.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms shows a golden ball in red , which is decorated with three (2: 1) silver ostrich feathers, the upper ones facing diagonally outwards; on the helmet with red-silver covers a closed red flight with the shield image.

Coat of arms history: With a diploma dated August 26, 1708, Emperor Joseph I granted the last of her line (none of her family) at the request of Aloys Thomas Raimund von Harrach's second wife , Anna Cäcilia von Thannhausen (* March 14, 1674 - February 15, 1721) Tribal or coat of arms affinity to the flourishing family of Thannhausen ), a merging of coats of arms Harrach-Thannhausen. The male descendants were now allowed to call themselves Counts of Harrach zu Thannhausen .

Count's coat of arms

Blasonierung: The Count arms of Harrach to Rohrau and Thannhausen shows according to the Crest association Harrach Thannhausen 1708 a gevierten sign (from a Grafenkrone covered) heart shield, in the root crest; Field 1 and 4: a golden feathered eagle's claw in black († Thannhausen); Field 2 and 3: split by gold and red and covered with a black and silver split rafter († Aeckherlin); On the shield (covered with a count's crown) rest four crowned bow helmets [ piston tournament helmets ] : of the two inner helmets facing each other, the front one with red and silver covers shows a wing marked with the family coat of arms, the rear one with black and gold covers the eagle's claw growing († Thannhausen), of the two outer helmets, the front one with black and gold covers shows two black buffalo horns , each with six silver ostrich feathers on the outside (second helmet for Harrach), the rear one with red and silver covers a closed flight, its right wing black, the left is labeled like the second shield field († Aeckherlin) .

Well-known namesake

Family portrait from 1755: Franz Xaver (1732–1781), Maria Josephina Lobkowicz (1727–1788), Maria Rosa Harrach (1721–1785), Maria Anna Lodron (1725–1780) and Ferdinand Bonaventura II (1708–1778), governor-general Lombardy

literature

Web links

Commons : Harrach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (Heuger: Monumenta boica, III, vol. 5, p. 275)
  2. ↑ (see: Roman von Procházka : Genealogisches Handbuch erloschener Bohemian Herrenstandfamilien. Supplementary volume. Edited by the board of the Collegium Carolinum (Institute) , Research Center for the Bohemian Countries, R. Oldenbourg Verlag Munich 1990 ISBN 3-486-54051-3 , p. 63f Harrach from the house of the Hrzebenarz von Harrach with elevations in rank up to 1708 and the depiction of the coat of arms: a golden ball in red, set with three ostrich feathers oriented towards the ends of the shield; as a helmet decoration: two buffalo horns, each set with five silver ostrich feathers.)
  3. ↑ Homepage of the family museum ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / harrach.nwy.at
  4. ↑ http://www.hbranna.cz/historie-obce/branna-harrachu/
  5. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Fürstliche Häuser Vol. XIII, Ed. 1987, pp. 184ff.
  6. ↑ www.burgenkunde.at, Palais Harrach
  7. ↑ Glass and porcelain gallery in the Palais Harrach ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.harrachgalerie.at
  8. ↑ a b Karl Emich Graf zu Leiningen-Westerburg : A Countess Harrach library sign. In: Ex libris: Book Art and Applied Graphics Volume 6 (1896), p. 113f. ( Digitized version )
  9. ↑ See the coat of arms designed by Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt in: Alfred Freiherr von Krane, coat of arms and handbook of the nobility resident in Silesia (including Upper Lusatia) , Goerlitz 1901 - 1904 or Johann David Köhler's weekly historical coin amusement, fourth part, published in 1732 , P. 127