Kalitsch (noble family)
Kalitsch is the name of a noble family from Anhalt .
history
Since the 14th century the brothers Conradus and Themo dicti Kalacz, residentes in Crissowe (Kreischau, Weißenfels district) are considered to be the first members of the von Kalitsch family , who appear in a document on August 1, 1352 and in the same circle with the Hans brothers and George de Kalizsche appear in a document with Dölzig etc. from the Bishop of Merseburg around 1433 and 1460 . Since the 16th century, the von Kalitsch family lived mainly in the Principality of Anhalt-Köthen . Until the end of the 17th century, they were enfeoffed with various goods: Görzig , Biendorf , Osternienburg , Edderitz , Gnetsch , Riesdorf and Großwülknitz .
At the end of the 17th century, several members of the von Kalitsch family were in the service of the Anhalt-Zerbster princes and received from them the fiefs of Dobritz , Nutha and Hagendorf . From 1683 the manor Dobritz acted as ancestral estate. Later, the family also acquired the Kühnitzsch , Zwochau and Watzschwitz manors in the Kingdom of Saxony , Breitenheerda and Tännich in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach, as well as Karlstein in Neumark and Polenzko - Bärenthoren in Anhalt-Dessau .
In the first half of the 19th century only the lines of the royal Prussian forest master Freiherr Ludwig von Kalitsch auf Kühnitzsch and the Anhalt-Dessau district administrator and chamberlain Freiherr Friedrich von Kalitsch auf Dobritz existed.
With the landscape order of 1859 of the three Anhalt duchies to was after unification Duchy indication of the Parliament of the Duchy indication provided. 12 of the 36 deputies were elected by the knighthood. Under the 47 diet enabled manors, the family owned Kalitsch four: the manor Dobritz, manor Hagensdorf , manor Rutha and the manor Polenzko .
In 1945 the von Kalitsch family still owned the following goods: Dobritz Kühnitzsch, Nutha, Bärenthoren and Karlstein. The Polenzko and Taschenberg / Uckermark estates were leased. In the Soviet Zone , these goods were expropriated as part of the land reform .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows in gold a jumping, resisting black (red) wolf, holding a (silver) dog (lamb) in its mouth. On the helmet with black and gold (red and gold) covers the shield image.
family members
- Friedrich von Kalitsch (1786–1870) , landlord and district administrator (April 29, 1786 to February 7, 1870)
- Hermann von Kalitsch (1818-1891), landlord and member of the state parliament of the Duchy of Anhalt (April 17, 1818 to December 11, 1891)
- Friedrich von Kalitsch (1858–1938), Forstmann (October 28, 1858 to January 8, 1938)
- Werner von Kalitsch (1851–1923), landscape, animal and hunting painter, Anhalt Chamberlain
literature
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels , Volume 2, 1898, published by WT Bruer, pp. 160–165
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, p. 103, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN 0435-2408
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , 5th volume [Kalb – Loewenthal.], Leipzig 1864. P. 8 f digitized
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Document book of the Hochstift Merseburg, Halle 1899, p. 900
- ^ History of the von Kalitsch family, 1909
- ^ A b Johann Christoph Becmann: Historie Des Fürstenthums Anhalt . Samuel Tietzen, 1710, p. 232 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- ↑ Ferdinand Siebigk : Das Herzogtum Anhalt, Dessau 1867, p. 127 ff., Online
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VI, (see literature)
- ↑ J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, III. Volume, 2nd Division, 1st Volume; The flourishing nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia: nobles; Author: OT von Hefner, A. Grenser, GA von Mülverstedt, Ad. M. Hildebrandt; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, p. 191, plate 240