Hellbach (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Schwarzburgisch-Thuringian von Helbach from 1819

Hellbach is the name of an extinct Thuringian noble family , about whose age and origin little is known.

history

The family is said to originally come from Swabia . In the 12th century a member of the clan of the later Emperor Lothar III. have been knighted. In Zedler's universal lexicon , reference is made to an “noble family” of the “Helbach or Helbecke”, “from which Albertus appears as a witness in 1189”. In the second half of the 16th century they are said to have given up their nobility and their fiefdom of Mühlberg Castle , but not their coat of arms.

Nobility rise

Schwarzburg-Sondershausen nobility renewal with an improvement in the coat of arms on December 3, 1819 for Johann Christian Hellbach as Princely Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Hofrat in Arnstadt . He was with Charlotte Friederike Wilhelmine Ernestine of Berga married.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in gold two turned, upright, curved silver fish, encircling a rose. The motif on the helmet.

Coat of arms (1819)

The coat of arms, extended by two fields and a helmet, is square ; 1: a silver rose in gold between two inwardly curved, erect silver fish ; 2: in black, two silver halberds turning inwards with crescent-shaped axes on slanted silver shafts, 3: in a field divided by silver and red, a black bar (coat of arms of Berga ) covered with a running silver greyhound , 4: in blue a natural falcon . Two helmets with black and gold covers , on the right the rose among the fish, on the left the halberds.

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