Hellbach (noble family)
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.
literature
- Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon , 2 volumes. Ilmenau 1825/1826, Volume 1, pp. 532-533
- Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 1: A – K. Berlin 1855, p. 339 full text ,
- Otto Titan von Hefner : register of the flourishing and dead nobility in Germany , ed. Some German nobles. Volume 2. Manz 1863, p. 134
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon , Volume V, p. 95, Volume 84 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984
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Helbach. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 1212.
Hellbach. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 12, Leipzig 1735, column 1279.
Web links
- Hellbach family coat of arms on helbach.de