Knorr (noble family)

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Knorr was the name of a baronial , now extinct noble family of the Habsburg monarchy.

history

Georg Christian von Knorr was born in Oettingen in 1691 and was a Lutheran preacher. He came to Vienna as secretary to Empress Elisabeth Christine and entered the Austrian civil service. After converting to the Catholic faith, he became a councilor and of Emperor Charles VI. knighted. In 1738 he married Maria Katharina von Peinthemar, daughter of the Hungarian magnate Ignaz Freiherrn von Peinthemar († 1727) and his wife Maria Cordula, née Holler von Doblhoff . He died on January 22nd, 1762 and had four children: Christoph Christian, Maria Franziska, Katharina and Josef.

Christoph Christian von Knorr (1740–1803) became general in 1801; he was married to Susanne Künert, the marriage remained childless. His sister Maria Franziska (1742-1820) entered the Order of the Salesian Sisters . Josef von Knorr (March 13, 1746 to June 1, 1789) was first a captain in the Wolffenbütterschen Infantry Regiment and then transferred to the Austrian civil service, where he was appointed Imperial District Administrator. He married Maria Theresia von Kees (1748–1827), sister of Franz Georg Ritter von Kees . From this marriage there were five children, of which the youngest daughter Susanne died soon after the birth (August 27, 1785 to September 9, 1785). After Josef's death, his widow married Count Josef Stiebar zu Buttenheim (died February 13, 1825). He was the owner of Stiebar Castle (near Gresten ), located near the Styrian border , which passed to the sons from Maria Theresa's first marriage - the second marriage remained childless - and thus became the ancestral castle of the Knorr family.

Josef von Knorr's son of the same name was the Imperial and Royal State Councilor Josef Freiherr von Knorr (1782–1839), who owned Stiebar Castle to his three daughters from his marriage to Emilie von Metzburg (1807–1856), daughter of Johann Nepomuk Freiherr von Metzburg (1780–1839) ), inherited. The eldest daughter was the poet Josefine von Knorr (1827–1908). The two younger daughters were Emilie "Emmy" von Knorr (April 14, 1829 to February 9, 1897) and Marie, born on October 26, 1838, married to her cousin Eduard Reichsritter von Raab. She died before the end of the first year of marriage, on April 6, 1861, after giving birth to a daughter, Marie von Raab (1861–1938), married Baroness Klezl-Norberg.

Joseph's younger older brother Bernhard Freiherr von Knorr (1776–1838) also entered the civil service. He was a real court secretary at the general court chamber and earned merit by building up the library of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna . His marriage to Marie Caballini von Ehrenburg (1794-1856) in 1810 had four daughters and one son. The eldest daughter Marie Freiin von Knorr (December 10, 1810 to July 1, 1856) married Eduard von Vivenot, the brother of the surgeon Rudolph von Vivenot , on November 16, 1833 . Children from this marriage were Eduard von Vivenot (1835–1901), General Ernst von Vivenot (1837–1919) and Consul General Franz von Vivenot (1845–1938). The second daughter, Therese (1816 to July 10, 1864 in Baden near Vienna), remained unmarried. The third daughter, Anna (1817 to March 3, 1875) married the Reich Finance Councilor Josef Ritter von Holzer-Peinthemar (1811 to September 27, 1881). The fourth daughter Katharina (1819 to March 5, 1882 in Gmunden ) married Anton Kratky (1800–1880), accountant of the Imperial and Royal Family Fund Accounting. She also died childless. The son Franz Freiherr von Knorr (1815 to April 20, 1857) also entered the civil service and was married to Susanne Babo. Since he died childless, the family of the Barons von Knorr died out with him in the male line.

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