Harras (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Harras, after Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt , between 1900 and 1920
Portrait of Valten von Harras in the Church of Magdala (detail) with the coat of arms v. Harras and his wife Katharina v. Witzleben (oil painting from the Cranach School)
Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book 1605

The von Harras family was an old knightly noble family from Thuringia and Mansfeld as well as members of the Erfurt patriciate .

history

origin

The name was probably borrowed from the place Harras in the Kyffhäuserkreis (district of the municipality Oberheldrungen ).

The von Harras belonged to the vassals of the Landgraves of Thuringia and also the Counts of Beichlingen . Albrecht von Harras was the first to be mentioned from 1268 to 1289. 1301 Heinrich v. Harras related to the bishop of Merseburg , Heinrich IV., Called Kindt. A Henricus dictus Harras appears in 1331 as a Mansfeld vassal. An Albrecht von Harras owned an estate in Gorsleben in 1369 and was a Beichling castle man. The knight Hermann von Harras d. Ä., Colonel and field captain under Elector Friedrich and his three brothers, Balthasar, Werner and Jorge (Georg) von Harras, held the castle in Burgscheidungen as a fief from 1441 to 1445 . Hermann von Harras' four sons are mentioned in a 1467 Querfurt document.

distribution

In 1455 the Harras brothers are enfeoffed with Magdala . In Mansfeld Gehofen Hans had in 1498 an estate of Harras. A Lieutenant Friedrich Wilhelm von Harras bought Gr. Oberingen from those of Eberstein . Family seats were in Gehofen, Großobringen, Gorßleben, Horburg , Karsdorf , Lichtenwalde , Magdala, Ulrichshalben , Sinderstedt and on the castle, later on the manor Oßmannstedt until 1735. In 1832 the Prussian premier lieutenant Carl v. Called Harras. In 1839 Bruno mentions a Hugo von Harras and his daughter Elisabeth, who married Rudolph von Blankenau . He also mentions a Gero von Harras. His daughter Claudia was married to Robert von Harras. A Curt is said to have emerged from the connection. In 1922, Sommerfeldt also mentions an ancestor named Kurt von Harras by referring to a novel by Friederike Lohmann .

coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms shows a silver bar on a black shield; on the helmet with black and silver helmet covers an open flight , as marked and tinged as the shield , between a golden goblet decorated with peacock feathers.

Personalities

See also

literature

  • Gert Petersen: Dietrich von Harras - around 1430 to 1499, life and deeds of a nobleman in the service of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation , 2nd edition Chemnitz 2007
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New General German Adels Lexicon , digitized
  • Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon , Volume 5, 1842 digitized
  • Franz Karl Wissgrill, Karl von Odelga: scene of the rural Lower Austrian nobility from the lords and knights from the 11th century to the present day , volume 4 digitized
  • Rolf-Torsten Heinrich: Erfurt Wappenbuch , part 1 digitized

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CAH Dr. Burkhardt: Ernestine Landtag files. Volume I. The state parliaments from 1487 - 1532. In: Thuringian historical sources . New episode, volume 5. Jena, 1902. Page 147 ff., No. 273.