Karras (noble family)
Karras was an old Upper Saxon-Meissnian noble family that was widely ramified and is now extinct.
history
The family first appeared in a document on March 12, 1206 with the brothers Friedericus and Bartholdus Karaz . In the 13th century it was one of the most respected in the margraviate of Meissen . His main area of influence was in the Elbe valley between Meißen and Dresden . The spelling of the name varied between Caraz, Carras, Cares, Karis and Caras.
A Thamme Karras was mentioned as a liege lord of Coswig in 1421 . In 1467, Nickel, Heinrich and Georg Karras received a loan letter from the Meißner bishop about "Coßwigk, Köthewitz and the desert village of Pannewitz".
In 1496, Nickel Karras and his wife Anna donated 750 Rhenish guilders to build a parish church, which was completed the following year. The old church of Coswig is one of the most beautiful surviving village churches in Saxony today . The coat of arms of the Knights of Karras is located above the church portal. To the north-east of the church was the Karras family's moated castle . This property was sold by Hans and Georg Karras to Elector August I for 15,169 guilders in 1556 .
On this historical site there is now a villa from the 19th century, which has housed the Karrasburg Museum Coswig since 1996.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a silver crucian carp in red . On the helmet with red and silver covers a golden column with six black cock feathers, in front of whose shaft the fish appears across to the right.
Representative
- Nickel von Karras (feudal lord and founder of the first Coswig church)
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon
- Christian Friedrich Jacobi: Family tables and family arms of Karras , fascicle 1495 digitized
- Karras or Karraß, Karass, Karas, Kare. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 15, Leipzig 1737, column 221 f.
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, pp. 134-135, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN 0435-2408
Web links
- The Knights of Karras, In: historisches-coswig.de
- Literature on the von Karras family in the Wildenfels castle archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Codex diploma. Saxon. II 1, p. 71.
- ^ Repertory saxonicum: Köttewitz