Jordaki Wassilko from Serecki

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Iordachi Freiherr Wassilko von Serecki, 1860

Baron Jordaki Wassilko von Serecki (born March 4, 1795 in Berhometh ; † November 6, 1861 in Chernivtsi ) was an Austro-Romanian landowner, politician and member of the manor of the Austrian Imperial Council from the Wassilko family .

Life

Iordaki von Wassilko, autograph 1854
Anna of Kalmucki

Jordaki was raised by private tutors and administered after the death of his father Basil Ritter von Wassilko (1761-1825) his property. In Rohozna he married Anna Pulcheria von Kalmucki on November 15, 1826 (born November 3, 1811 in Rohozna / Bukowina, † August 22, 1896 in Chernivtsi ).

As one of the first landowners, he had German families settle in Bukovina on the Mihodra near Berhometh on a 20-year contract dated March 10, 1837 . He leased land, 246 folds and lent wood rights for one to two guilders a month, which were inexpensive at the time . As of 1844, there lived in Mihodra distributed over 30 house numbers and 36 shared apartments, a total of 161 people.

In the 1840s, Jordaki began building and expanding his manor house, thus laying the foundation stone for the future Berhometh Castle . Lopuszna (Lăpuşna or Lopuşna) , with its “special water”, he had expanded into a medicinal bath . Among other things, hydrotherapy according to Prießnitz was used there. The health resort was greatly enhanced as such when the designated Crown Prince Karl Ludwig of Austria was a guest at the Jordaki on August 3 and 4, 1855 and also visited the spa . There he allowed the healing fountain there to be called “Carl Ludwig Fountain”. The spa town was allowed to call itself Bad Lopuschna , a name that it carried until the end of the Habsburg monarchy. Then and now it was one of the most important health resorts in Bukovina .

Iordaki was the patron saint of the parish of St. Nicholas in Berhometh. In 1843 the (Orthodox) church had 2,236 parishioners together with Schipoth (Șipotele pe Siret) , Mazuri, Bursuci and Lopuszna (Lăpușna). He also built a school, which was inaugurated in 1861 with six classes.

Extract from Fhr.-Brief for Jordaki Rr. Von Wassilko 1855

The petition to the Emperor of Austria to convert the Galician province of Bukovina into a duchy of the crown of the same name was supported and signed by many respected Romanian nobles and dignitaries from Bukovina, including Eudoxius von Hormuzaki , with his brothers Alexander , Constantin , Georg and Nikolaus. The petition was postulated and written by Jordaki in German and Romanian in 1849 under the title “Promemoria for the Bukovinian national petition from 1848” / “Promemoria privind petiția țării (landului) Bucovinei din anul 1848”. This act was confirmed, but only implemented in 1861.

The nobleman had been awarded the Order of the Iron Crown, 3rd class , since 1854 . He was raised to the status of Austrian baron with the title of nobility "von Serecki" by the very highest resolution of Emperor Franz Joseph I on July 14, 1855 . The title of baron applied to him and his biological descendants.

On December 13, 1860, after the installation of the centralized government of Anton von Schmerling in Austria, new perspectives arose for a positive solution to the problem of the status of Bukovina. On December 27, the federalist baron held a conference on his estate in Berhometh with representatives of the city of Chernivtsi and the Bukovinian boyarism with the aim of drafting a new memorandum for the Bukovina.

The baron had been a member of the State Council (later Reichsrat) for many years until 1861 . When it was founded on April 18, 1861, just a few months before his death, he moved into the newly established Upper House of the Austrian Imperial Council , the so-called manor house , as the first and only Bukovinaer of this time .

On the night of Wednesday, November 6th, the baron suffered a violent stroke from which he died. He was buried three days later with great pomp in the family's own cemetery in Berhometh. The tombstone is no longer preserved. His most ardent wish to set up a Fideikommiss for his eldest son Alexander remained unfulfilled during his lifetime.

Of his four sons, only the above-mentioned Alexander continued the sex. His application for the establishment of a family entail was granted on November 10, 1888 and he named it in honor of his father "Jordaki Freiherr von Wassilko-Serecki'sche Realfideicomiss".

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the barons Wassilko von Serecki, 1855
 Blazon : “A blue shield in which an upright arrow from a crescent turned down with a sickle and star-studded crescent moons, all gold. On the main edge of the shield rests the golden Freyherrnkrone on which a tournament helmet is set in its sights, from which blue, gold-backed helmet covers hang down. The helmet is adorned with a golden crown from which a natural peacock feather emerges, two rows of five feathers each, which is pierced by a golden arrow across to the right behind the middle one. "

Photo gallery

  • Bad Lopuszna (before 1900)

  • Grave of Anna von Kalmucki

  • Berhometh Castle 1900

literature

  • The Gothaischen Genealogical Pocket Books of the Nobility S – Z. P. 606, GB 1919.
  • Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses. Part B, Volume 114, 1941, pp. 536-537.
  • Ion Nistor: Istoria Bucovinei. Editura Humanitas, Bucureşti 1991.
  • Erich Prokopowitsch: The nobility in Bukowina. Publishing house "Der Südostdeutsche", Munich 1983.
  • Alfred Lindheim, knight of: "Archduke Carl Ludwig", 1833–1896. A picture of life. KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1897.
  • Ion Drăguşanul: Bucovina faptului diverse. Volume 1,2, Editura Bucovina Viitoare, Suceava 2002.
  • Gottfried Count Finck v. Finckenstein (ed.): “Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses”, vol. 1, Editura Verlag des Deutschen Adelsarchivs, Marburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-9817243-2-5 .

Web links

Commons : Wassilko von Serecki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ahnenpass (III. Reich) of Eva Lucretia Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, b. Countess Wassilko von Serecki.
  2. ↑ Raimund Friedrich Kaindl, The Settlement System in Bukowina since the Occupation by Austria: With special consideration of the settlement of the Germans. With the use of the documentary materials from the estate of FA Wickenhauser, Vienna 1902, p. 235 f.
  3. ↑ G. Sion: "Suvenire contimpurane", Editura POLIROM, Iași 2014, Chapter XXVIII.
  4. ^ Alfred Lindheim, Knight of, Archduke Carl Ludwig, 1833-1896. A picture of life. KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1897, pp. 47–48.
  5. ↑ monitorulsv.ro
  6. ↑ Authors
  7. ↑ Promemoria
  8. ↑ Hof- und Staats-Handbuch des Kaiserthums Österreich, Part 1, kk Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1856, p. 60.
  9. ^ Johann Siebmacher: The nobility of Galicia, Lodomeria and Bukowina. In: J. Siebmacher's great book of arms. Volume 32, Verlag Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1985, p. 110.
  10. ↑ coresno.com , Collegium Res Nobilis Austriae: The nobility of Bucovina.
  11. ↑ a b Letter of nobility from Jordaki Freiherr Wassilko von Serecki.
  12. ↑ Ştefan Purici: Mișcarea națională românească în Bucovina între anii 1775–1861 , Editura “Hurmuzachi”, Suceava 1998, p. 231.
  13. ^ Austrian Academy of Sciences: The Habsburg Monarchy: 1848–1918. Constitution and Parliamentarism: Volume 2; Volume 7, Issue 2, p. 2183.
  14. ↑ Das Vaterland No. 266, from Friday, November 15, 1861, p. 2.
  15. ^ Reichsgesetzblatt for the kingdoms and states represented in the Reichsrat, edition 211 of the hand edition of Austrian laws and ordinances, Annex 179, publisher: Aus der Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1888, p. 783 ff.
personal data
SURNAME Wassilko von Serecki, Jordaki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austro-Romanian landowner and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Berhometh
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 1861
Place of death Chernivtsi