Knappitsch (noble family)
Knappitsch , also Knapitsch , was the name of an Austrian noble family that originated in Carinthia. The family was raised to the nobility by Empress Maria Theresa of Austria . 1775 followed the award of the nobility title " noble ", after which family members were dubbed as noble von Knappitsch . While some branches of the family remained in the bourgeois class, branches of the noble family still exist today.
Possessions
The family's possessions exceeded those of some of the imperial principalities of that time.
Obertrixen Castle
Ehrenbichl Castle
Silberegg Castle
Tigring Castle
- Obertrixen Castle
- Ehrenbichl Castle
- Silberegg Castle, owned from 1814 to 1890
- Tigring Castle, owned until 1846
- Mayrhofen Castle
- Lordship of Friesach
coat of arms
The family coat of arms is quartered:
1 right half Roman Empire, 2 and 3 blue with a silver lily, 4 in gold three high limestone peaks, in the foreground on a green hill walled castle with gate, pointed turret and two side wings, wall, house and tower covered in red. Crowned helmet: ceiling in front of the Roman Empire, behind blue-white; open flight divided, in front of gold and black, behind of blue and silver.
Personalities
- Franz von Knapitsch (1911–1980), landowner and member of the state parliament
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Hermann: Text to Joseph Wagner's views from Carinthia . F., edler von Kleinmayr, 1844 ( google.at [accessed on May 18, 2019]).
- ↑ Niedermayr G. Literature excerpt . Retrieved September 5, 2019 .
- ↑ Archive. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Archive. Retrieved March 15, 2019 .
- ^ Johann Siebmacher: J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch: in a new, fully ordered and richly increased edition with heraldic and historical-genealogical explanations . Bauer and Raspe, 1879 ( google.at [accessed March 15, 2019]).
- ↑ Illustration in Siebmacher, Kärtner Adel, plate 18
