Ligsalz (patrician family)
The Ligsalz family (different spellings Liegsalz and Ligsaltz ) was a wealthy Munich patrician family who were raised to the nobility in 1583 as Ligsalz zu Ascholding .
history
The first documentary mention comes from about 1272, when a Conrad Ligsalz traveled to Rome with two other representatives of the citizenship to confirm the division of the parish of St. Peter and the simultaneous elevation of the Marienkapelle to the parish of Our Lady . The family name Ligsalz can certainly be traced back to the salt trade or a salt basket. The league salts belonged to the numerous wealthy Munich patricians such as Pütrich , Katzmair , Barth or Dichtl , who built their castles on the lakes in the foothills of the Alps in the 15th and 16th centuries in order to pass the time with hunts and boat trips in summer. As early as 1469, the Hofmark Ascholding came into the possession of the family. Hofmarken are also mentioned in Farchach , "zu Hueb", Deutenhofen , "Färchhausen", "Fueßberg" and "Randeck". From 1606 to 1742 the Hofmark Oberumbach was also owned by the family.
The merchant Andreas Ligsalz ultimately drove bonds to the city of Antwerp , the governor of the Netherlands and the kings of Spain , England and France to bankruptcy in 1561. However, the Ligsalz family recovered financially and was ennobled in 1583. In 1739, Ferdinand Freiherr von Ligsalz zu Ascholding, the last bearer of the name, died.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a silver slanting bar in red with a slanted black arrow on it. On the helmet is an open or closed flight that repeats the shield sign. The helmet covers are red-silver. The Munich patrician families Schrenck and Ridler wore the same coat of arms in the Middle Ages .
The line of Ligsalz zu Ascholding combined the family coat of arms with the coat of arms of the Pötschner (a silver salt barrel in red on a green three-mountain) in a squared shield.
