Königswarter (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the barons of Königswarter 1870

The barons of Königswarter are an Austro-Hungarian noble family of Jewish origin, whose name is derived from the Czech town of Königswart , from which the family originally came. The family worked in Fürth and Frankfurt am Main and later performed again in Austria-Hungary and Moravia.

history

The founder of the wealth of this family was the privileged wholesaler Moritz Königswarter (* 1780 - June 12, 1829 in Vienna). His son Maximilian Königswarter (1817–1878), a former deputy of the Seine department in the French legislature, became a Portuguese baron. His request for confirmation of this foreign title came because of the fall of Napoleon III. not to be dealt with. The sister of Baron Maximilian, Josephine (April 13, 1811 - May 14, 1861), married her cousin in 1829, the banker's son from Frankfurt am Main, Jonas von Königswarter (1807–1871), grandson of Jonas Königswärter, whose son had lived in Fürth Marx (Markus) had settled in Frankfurt am Main as a banker around 1824 .

Palais Königswarter on Vienna's Ringstrasse

Jonas was raised to the Austrian knighthood on March 25, 1860 in Vienna, and to the Austrian baron on October 26, 1870 there.

Hermann Freiherr von Königswarter , a grandson of Jonas, also received the Hungarian baronate on March 13, 1897 and the title "de Csabacsüd" on June 6, 1897.

Jonas Freiherr von Königswarter built a Ringstrasse palace in Vienna.

Known family members

coat of arms

1870: Quartered and covered with a blue heart sign - inside a golden beehive swarmed by five bees in a semicircle on green ground; 1 in gold five silver-feathered wooden arrows, held together by a red ribbon; 2 and 3 in blue, a red-tongued golden lion turned inwards; 4 in gold a white dove soaring with a green olive branch in its beak. On the helmet with blue and gold covers, a flight divided by gold and blue. Shield holder: two golden lions. Motto: "Candide secure".

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Eduard Angelberger: "Semi-Gotha - Geadelte Jewish Families", Salzburg 1891, no. 244
  2. http://www.coresno.com/adelslexikon.html?type=atom&start ... - Austria
  3. a b Drewes, Kai: Jüdischer Adel: Nobilitierungen von Juden in Europa des 19. Century . Campus Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-593-39775-7 ( page 353 ).
  4. a b Editor: Königswarter , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie , Vol. 12 (1979), p. 362; online version as German biography
  5. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser 1887 to 1933