Haugwitz

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Coat of arms of those of Haugwitz

Haugwitz is the name of a widely ramified old noble family from Meißnischen . Since the Middle Ages, the Lords of Haugwitz were resident in Saxony , Silesia , Bohemia , Moravia , the County of Glatz, as well as in Lusatia and later in East Prussia . They are related to the von Rechenberg family and their coat of arms .

history

The Haugwitz originally came from Saxony. Legends trace the origin back to the Frankish nobility at the time of the Carolingians . They first appear in a document in 1225 with Sifridus de Hugwitz and begin their trunk series in 1474 with Matthäus von Haugwitz .

Today's Haubitz near Borna is assumed to be the headquarters , which was first mentioned in a document as Hugewicz in 1350 . Relatively close to this is Haubitz near Grimma , which is also associated with the Haugwitzen.

In Moravia the Haugwitz u. a. the Bouzov and the rule Biskupitz . The Moravian branches of the family, who settled in Namiest ( Náměšť nad Oslavou Castle ) and Kojetín , were made counts in the 18th century. In 1797 this line acquired the rule of Ossowa and Rojetin . Today representatives of the count's line live in Germany, Austria, Canada and the USA. Castle Namiest is after 1989 to the family restituted Service.

In Silesia , the von Haugwitz family owned the Lehnhaus Castle near the Lower Silesian town of Lähn am Bober (today Wleń ) and the Counts' line owned the Krappitz estate and estate until 1945 . Schlawa Castle also belonged to the family from 1886 to 1945.

In East Prussia , the family owned some estates in Heinrichswalde (today Slawsk ), where mainly Trakehner were bred.

Possessions in the county of Glatz

Ancestral seat of the family branch in the County of Glatz, which came from Bohemia, was the Oberpischkowitz estate, which belonged to the Pischkowitz estate and was mentioned in 1361 as "Biskupicz". Its first owner known by name was Otto von Haugwitz in 1346, who was married to Gertrud von Pannwitz and thus came to Friedersdorf . The members of this branch of the family held numerous royal and imperial offices. Wenzel von Haugwitz was from 1441 to 1454 sub-captain of the Glatzer provincial governor Hynek Kruschina von Lichtenburg . Heinrich von Haugwitz held the office of administrator at the provincial governorate from 1686 to 1691 and Franz Anton von Haugwitz was provincial governor from 1741 to 1742.

Other possessions in the County of Glatz included Birgwitz , Dürrkunzendorf , Gabersdorf , Gellenau , Hausdorf , Koritau , Möhlten , Niedersteine and Tuntschendorf .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a right-facing black ram's head with golden horns in red . The ram growing on the helmet with red and black covers . The Haugwitz family are related to the Rechenberg family in their coat of arms and tribe.

  • coat of arms

  • Coat of arms of the Meißnischen von Haugwitz in Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605

  • Coat of arms of the Silesian von Haugwitz

  • Coat of arms of the Austrian von Haugwitz

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Haugwitz in the Silesian Wappenbuch

Personalities (chronological)

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Haugwitz, the family . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 8th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1862, p. 67 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Eberhard von Haugwitz: The story of the von Haugwitz family. Based on the documents and registers from the archives of Dresden, Naumburg, Breslau, Prague, Brno and Vienna. 2 volumes, with 4 coats of arms and 14 family tables, edit. by Eberhard Graf von Haugwitz, Duncker & Humblot publishing house, 1910.
  • Rüdiger Frommholz:  Haugwitz, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 92 ( digitized version ).
  • Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Jaromír Kotík: Letopisy Rodu Haugwitzů (Annals of the Haugwitz high nobility). In memory of Karl Anton Graf von Haugwitz, who died in 1995, for his family and friends. Vytiskla tiskárna CENTA, Veveří 39, Brno v roce 1997 (170 pages, mostly in Czech, ten articles in German; no ISBN)
  • Dagmar Ruzicka: Friedrich Graf von Haugwitz (1702–1765). Path, achievement and environment of an Austrian-Silesian statesman. Verlag Neue Wissenschaft, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-932492-48-X ; also: Philosophical dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 2000
  • Genealogical paperback of the German count's houses, Volume 9, 1836, p.228ff

Web links

Commons : Category: Haugwitz family  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Original in the archives of the Diocese of Meißen; in the New Lusatian Magazine . Volume 35, 1858, p. 345 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ http://www.architektur-blicklicht.de/schloesser-herrenhaeuser/gutshof-haubitz-grimma-leipzig/ Gutshof Haubitz at Architektur-Blicklicht.de
  4. ↑ Countess von Haugwitz in Bonn, Countess Droste zu Vischering born. Countess Haugwitz in Münster, Mark Graf Haugwitz in Canada, Patrick Haugwitz in the USA, Dr. Hanna El Kalak – Haugwitz in Vienna