Loos from Losimfeldt
Loos von Losimfeldt ( Czech Loos z Losimfeldtu ) is the name of a Bohemian and, from 1861, Austrian noble family.
Maximilian Franz Loos (also Loß) came from Dux , where his father Martin Loos was councilor. He studied at the University of Prague in the 1640s and became a Bachelor of Philosophy in May 1647 , later receiving the title of Magister in Philosophy. During the siege of Prague (1648) he joined a student legion and fought on Charles Bridge and Na Rejdišti Street in Prague . When the army of Count Palatine Carl Gustav (who later became King Charles X of Sweden) attacked, he and his division defended the entrenchments on Karlov and was wounded on October 25, 1648. For this mission, he was awarded the Bohemian nobility title "von Losimfeldt" on May 20, 1657.
After completing his studies, Loos became an employee of the royal Lieutenancy in the Kingdom of Bohemia under Adam Matthias von Trauttmansdorff . He married Judith Dorothea, the daughter of the wealthy old town citizen Kaspar the Younger von Schwengfeld (Schwenckfeld), and had two sons. The elder Franz Karl (around 1650–1720) was a city councilor in Prague and probably died childless. The younger Anton Wenzel married Barbara Theresia Henykov (1665–1720) in 1684. The later descendants come from the third son Anton Wenzel and his son Anton Daniel (1693-1760), who settled in Benešov near Prague. His son Johann (1724–1800) was a surgeon here, as was his son Johann Nepomuk Franz (1757–1828). Two of his sons Franz Loos (1791–1841) and Leopold Loos (1801–1870) founded their own line, whose descendants lived in Prague until the middle of the 20th century. The older son Johann Wenzel (1782-1852) became the doctor of Prince Schwarzenberg in Lobositz . His eldest son, Franz Xaver Loos (1822-1859) was an official with the Schwarzenberg princes. He died at a relatively young age, so that his son Maximilian Franz Loos (1858–1953) was placed under the tutelage of his brother Heinrich Franz Loos (1825 – after 1870). He was Princely Schwarzenberg's main treasurer and lived with his family in Vienna . In 1857 he applied for the reinstatement of the unused nobility title for himself and his nephew. Since they could not directly prove their origin and because of the many descendants of the Loos family, the procedure took four years. It was not until December 18, 1861 that the Austrian nobility title Loos was confirmed by Losimfeldt .
Maximilian Franz Loos von Losimfeldt studied architecture at the Technical University in Vienna and had been the city architect in Aussig since 1890 . From 1895 active as a private architect in Teplitz-Schönau , he carried the name Max von Loos .
coat of arms
The coat of arms is quartered : in fields 1 and 4 in gold a growing black eagle, in field 2 in red a silver bar covered with three red roses and in field 3 in red an armored sword arm. On the helmet with black and gold blankets on the right and red and silver blankets on the left between two buffalo horns, a silver lion with a gold crown, a sword in the right paw and a stone in the left.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Genealogical pocket book of the knights and Aristocratic families, Brno 1877, Volume 2, pp. 484–486 - Online (accessed December 28, 2018)
- ↑ Noble family Loos von Losimfeldt (accessed on August 12, 2018)
- ↑ Noble family of the Bohemian countries and the Danube Monarchy - Loos z Losimfeldtu (Czech) (accessed on August 12, 2018)