Hartitzsch (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Hartitzsch

Hartitzsch (also Hartsch , Hartzsch , Hartisch , Hartič , Hartic , Hartitz , Hartusch ) is the name of a Bohemian-Meißnisches noble family . The family's possessions were mainly in the Saxon Eastern Ore Mountains .

history

Dorfchemnitz manor around 1855

According to legend, the ancestor of the Fischer family was said to have been on the Danube and brought a German emperor to safety from enemy persecutors across the river, whereupon he was given the nobility. Another legend tells that the fisherman set fire to a Saracen fleet on a crusade and was knighted for it. According to legend, the ancestral seat of the von Hartitzsch family was a Hartic castle near Johnsdorf in Bohemia .

In the 14th and 15th centuries, the family appears as a patrician dynasty of the city of Freiberg who had come to prosper through mining . She provided several councilors, city elders and mayors there. The trunk series begins with the councilor and mayor of Freiberg Nicolaus Hartusch , who appears in a document from 1340-1365. On April 14, 1414, Johannes Hartus seals a certificate.

Voigtsdorf manor (around 1860)

Little by little they also acquired larger estates outside the city of Freiberg and soon passed into the landed gentry . In 1340 they were enfeoffed with Dorfchemnitz , 1364 with Pretzschendorf and 1365 with Weißenborn . From 1477 on, silver ore was mined mainly north of Weißenborn, later also lead, tin and copper ore with a heyday in the 16th century up to the Thirty Years' War; the manor remained in the family's possession until 1802.

In 1366 it was enfeoffed with Voigtsdorf and Friedebach , in 1398 with Lichtenberg , in 1401 with Helbigsdorf and Weigmannsdorf , and in 1465 with Wolfsgrund and Röthenbach . At the end of the 15th century they were able to buy Colmnitz , Tanneberg and Langenau and in the 17th century Bieberstein , Böhrigen , Ebersbach , Krummenhennersdorf and Neukötitz .

In Bohemia they owned the estates of Maltheuern (from 1535), Kolosoruk (from 1576) and Johnsdorf (from 1590); However, they lost these possessions in 1623 after the Battle of White Mountain as a Protestant noble family. Since 1723 the chamberlain Ludwig Adolph von Hartitzsch († 1753, married to Maria Elisabeth Dorothea von Bose ) was hereditary. Fief and court lord on Schnellroda and after him his son Alexander until 1755. In the 18th century the family still inherited Steinbach . Hans Adolph von Hartitzsch , in Dorfchemnitz and Voigtsdorf, acquired the Heyda and Knatewitz estates in the early 19th century and Röhrsdorf in 1820 . With him, the sex died out in the male line in 1857. His goods fell to his nieces, who brought them into the families von Lüttichau (Dorfchemnitz and Voigtsdorf), von der Groeben (Röhrsdorf) and von Carlowitz (Heyda) through marriage .

coat of arms

Coat of arms on the manor Dorfchemnitz
Hereditary funeral in Dorfchemnitz

The coat of arms shows two upright silver fish (hard) turned away in blue. On the helmet with blue and silver covers on the right, an open flight of red on the right and silver on the left .

The fish in the coat of arms are supposed to symbolize the fisherman's profession as a legendary progenitor.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. Original in the Main State Archives Dresden, No. 5633

literature

  • Peter Hatzsch: Genealogy of Hartitzsch . Offenbach 2009, self-published
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVII (Supplements), Volume 144 of the complete series, pp. 301-302, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2008, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Eckardt, E. (1999): Chronicle of Weißenborn ; 2nd Edition; Parish Weißenborn; Weißenborn; P. 118
  • Valentin König: Nobility History Vol. II (1729) pp. 449 - 474.

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