Hoyos (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of the Hoyos (de Hoyos)

The originally Spanish noble family Hoyos , named after the place El Hoyo de Pinares in the province of Ávila , can be traced back to the 9th century. Juan de Hoyos immigrated with his family to Lower Austria around 1525 in the wake of the later Emperor Ferdinand I and was thus one of the earliest possible Spaniards in the country.

Possessions

Historical possessions

Juan acquired Stixenstein Castle near Ternitz and the rulership that went with it. The castle remained in the family's possession until 1937.

The older line, whose members became Imperial Counts in 1628 , died out in 1718.

The younger, whose members had been imperial counts since 1674, came in 1681 through the marriage of Leopold Karl Graf Hoyos (1657–1699) to Maria Regina Countess Sprinzenstein as Hoyos-Sprintzenstein in the possession of Horn , Rosenburg and Raan with the fortress Kamegg and Mold . In the 18th century it united all of the family's possessions: Gutenstein , Stixenstein , Hohenberg , Persenbeug Castle , Frohsdorf , Drosendorf , Horn and Rosenburg. The members of the family were mostly in imperial or provincial estates services. Vöstenhof Castle was family-owned from 1621 to 1912.

The Palais Hoyos on Vienna's Ringstrasse ( Kärntner Ring  5–7) was owned by the family until 1895 and is now part of the Hotel Bristol . The Palais Hoyos in Vienna-Landstrasse, built by Otto Wagner in 1889 , was owned by the family until 1957 and today houses the Croatian embassy.

Another family palace is the Palais Hoyos-Sprinzenstein in Vienna-Wieden.

Present-day possessions

Various members of the family still belong to Rosenburg Castle (since 1681), Horn Castle (since 1681), Drosendorf Castle (since 1679), Raan Castle (since 1681) and Hoyos Castle in Gutenstein (since 1595), as well as Castle in Upper Austria Schwertberg with the Windegg castle ruins (since 1911).

title

Juan de Hoyos , later also known as Juan von Hoyos, Freiherr zu Stixenstein was the first Hoyos to live in Austria .

The sons of Juan de Hoyos, Anton and Hans came in the entourage of Archduke Ferdinand, who later became Emperor, from Spain via Trieste and Carinthia to Lower Austria. The following family members also supported the young Ferdinand and all subsequent rulers of the House of Austria in central questions of politics and the preservation of the Catholic faith.

Johann Ernst Reichsgraf von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein

Johann Ernst Hoyos-Sprinzenstein

Johann Ernst was the son of Count Johann Philipp Joseph (1747-1803) and his wife Maria Christina Princess of Clary-Aldringen (1755-1821). At the age of 20 he joined the Austrian Landwehr and became the commander of a battalion that he maintained out of his own pocket - he even distributed his own fee among the officers of his battalion. With his battalion he took part in the campaigns of 1813, 1814 and 1815 in Italy and France. In the latter year he entered the army as a colonel (without salary). In 1821 he became a real privy councilor and then chief steward of King Ferdinand V of Hungary (later Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria). In 1826 he received the Grand Cross of the Leopold Order , in 1836 he was made Knight of the Golden Fleece and Major General , and around 1838 Lieutenant Field Marshal .

Ernst Karl Count of Hoyos-Sprinzenstein

Ernst Karl , Imperial Count von Hoyos-Sprinzenstein, was an Imperial and Royal Chamberlain and was appointed hereditary member of the manor of the Austrian Imperial Council in 1861 by Emperor Franz Joseph I. At times he was also its vice-president. From 1874–1883 ​​he was a member of the building commission for the Imperial and Royal Reichsratsgebäude built on Vienna's new Ringstrasse , today's parliament building . In 1864 he gave the town of Vienna (fixed contractually 1868) the Stixensteiner source close to since 1555 to Familienfideikommiss belonging Castle Stixenstein in Lower Austria . With this he made the construction of the first Viennese spring water pipeline possible .

coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms shows a silver diagonal right bar within a Hermelin shield border in blue , which is held by two golden dragon heads above and below in the throat; on the crowned helmet with blue-silver covers a growing green dragon .

Important namesake

literature

Web links

Commons : Hoyos (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christopher F. Laferl: The culture of the Spaniards in Austria under Ferdinand I. 1522–1564. Böhlau, Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-205-98780-2 , p. 346; and entry via Stixenstein on Burgen-Austria
  2. ↑ Anna Maria Sigmund : There is a castle in Austria - on the history of the construction and ownership of the Rosenburg . In: Nobility in Transition. Politics, culture, confession 1500–1700, catalog of the Lower Austrian regional exhibition Rosenburg 1990. Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-85460-019-4 , pp. 585–596.
  3. ↑ Entry on Hoyos, noble family in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
  4. ↑ Palais Hoyos on planet-vienna.com
  5. ↑ Entry about Palais Hoyos on Burgen-Austria
  6. ↑ Entry about Horn Castle in Burgen-Austria
  7. ↑ Entry about Drosendorf Castle on Burgen-Austria
  8. ↑ Schloss Hoyos on gutenstein.at ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gutenstein.at
  9. ↑ Entry about Schwertberg Castle on Burgen-Austria
  10. ↑ Entry on the Windegg castle ruins on Burgen-Austria
  11. ^ Family Hoyos - Rosenburg Castle . In: Rosenburg Castle . ( rosenburg.at [accessed on October 18, 2016]).