Michna from Vacínov

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Michna von Vacínov , also Michna von Waczynowa , von Waczinow, von Waizenhof (f) en, von Waitzenhof (f) en and von Waitzenau were a noble family in Bohemia , of rural-bourgeois origin, which in the male line with Count Friedrich Johann Michna von Waitzenau ( * 1804; † December 23, 1877 in Prague ) has expired.

origin

The Michna come from Budyně nad Ohří and rose within less than 30 years from inheritance to the lordship of the Kingdom of Bohemia and received with Martin called Michna, Hasenburg'scher bailiff of the manor Budin an der Eger on August 14, 1598, dated in Prague from Emperor Rudolf II of Habsburg gave the Bohemian nobility in the Wladyken class with a nobility title (von Waczynow) and coat of arms. Your predicate name von Waczynow (today Vacinov), presumably after a former estate in the confluence of the Eger into the Elbe in the Leitmeritz district, changed in its writing forms at the takeover in the German language to different writing forms. His three sons founded the older count's house with Paul Michna von Waitzenhofen, the younger count's house with Sebastian Michna von Waczynow (Weitzenau) and the baronial house with Georg Wilhelm Michna von Waiczenhoff.

After the Battle of White Mountain near Prague, the administration of the Habsburg Imperial House gave the Michna a confirmation of the old Bohemian lordship, dated Vienna 1620 for Paul Michna von Waiczenhoff, Freiherr auf Konopischt (Konopiste) and Tloskow and his brother Georg Wilhelm Michna von Waiczenhoff , Baron von Chiesch (Chyse). They successfully participated in a consortium of lenders to the imperial administration and received real estate from expropriated Evangelical Lutheran rulers as pledge and later property, came to considerable wealth for three generations and resided in Prague. The three brothers Martin Michael, Johann Wenzel and Wenzel Ferdinand Freiherrn von Weitzenau received the Incolat in Bohemia in Vienna in 1637 , became Imperial Knights in 1638, and Bohemian Old Knights in 1663 . In Vienna, on January 14, 1711, the elevation to the Bohemian counts took place.

Personalities

  • Count Paul Michna von Waizenhofen (Vacínov) (* around 1572; † 1632 in Nuremberg in Franconia), baron on Konopischt and Tloskow, on Wlassim (Vlasim), Marssowicz (Marschowitz near Beneschau), Theusing (Touzim) near Karlsbad , Nehasitz (Nehasice) ) at Saaz and other possessions in Bohemia was a graduate of the College of the Order of the Jesuits in Ingolstadt in Bavaria, became imperial court secretary of the Lieutenancy in the Kingdom of Bohemia, general war commissioner in the Thirty Years War and assessor of the Reformation and rectification commissions for the sale of the expropriated properties of the Evangelical Lutheran nobleman during the re-Catholicization in Bohemia after 1620 and was last governor and privy councilor. He was married to Anna von Kobersdorf, had the daughter Anna Polyxena (* 1650), married to Heinrich Freiherr Slavata von Chlum and Koschumberg († 1654) and the son Wenzel († Prague 1657?), Married to Angelina Freiin von Zierotin, daughter of the Przemysl the Elder Baron von Zierotin auf Wiesenberg and his wife Countess Anna Schlik zu Passaun and Weißkirchen. Paul Michna gave Emperor Ferdinand II von Habsburg a loan of 100,000 guilders. After 1620 he received confiscated goods from Evangelical-Lutheran rulers from the imperial asset management, first as pledge and then by transferring ownership to cancel the loan as property. Paul Michna, together with Albrecht von Wallenstein , Hans de Witte , Karl von Liechtenstein and Jacob Bassevi , leased the coin shelf for Lower Austria , Bohemia and Moravia for one year from the imperial tax authorities on February 1, 1622 . This consortium in this so-called Kipper and Wipper era systematically reduced the silver content of the coins, the currency of the time, and thus worsened their monetary values ​​to their advantage and to the advantage of the emperor, whose credit requirements to cope with the Thirty Years' War increased continuously. The population and the mercenaries of the individual army groups were forced to accept the deteriorated coins, since payment with foreign coins was forbidden under penalty. This led to a hitherto unknown inflation of the monetary currency, which triggered famine, looting and all the unforgotten atrocities of the Thirty Years War. Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg was able to secure his rule and received 6 million guilders from the consortium when the lease year ended in 1623. Paul Michna von Waizenhofen was also on the financial winning side. On the Lesser Town in Prague, he bought a small summer palace built by Count Kinsky around 1590 and began expanding and converting the property into one of the most beautiful baroque palaces in Prague , today's Michna Palace (Palác Michnů z Vacínova).
  • Georg Wilhelm Michna von Waiczenhoff, Baron von Chisch auf Chiech (Chyze) (* around 1574, † 1640), regent of the imperial manors in Bohemia, married to the widowed Ursula von Oppersdorff († 1649), who was her first marriage to the royal. Bohemian Oberstlandrichter and Landvogt of Upper Lusatia Joachim Andreas von Schlik zu Passaun and Weißkirchen, executed on June 21, 1621 in Prague, was married. The son Siegmund Norbert Michna von Waiczenhoff († 1668), on Tloskow, Theusing and Konopischt, married to Maria Elisabeth Lazansky von Bukowa and Bodenbach († 1687) ended together with his cousin Wenzel, († 1657?), Son of Paul Michna von Waizenhofen (* around 1572; † 1632) built the Michna Palace on the Lesser Town in Prague. The grandson Karl Georg Wenzel Michna von Waiczenhoff, († Prague 1710), royal Bohemian judge assessor, was married to Anna Ludmilla von Kolowrat-Krakowsky, who entered into a second marriage as a widow with a knight von Raczin.
  • Emmanuel Peter Count Michna von Waizenau (born December 18, 1772 in Stienowitz (Stenovice) near Pilsen in Bohemia, † 1827 in Prague ), kk Rittmeister, a son of Karl Josef Michna von Waizenau (1727–1789), on Wobiedowicz and his wife the second marriage Johanna Countess Bubna and Liticz, was professor of economic sciences at Charles University in Prague and first secretary of the Patriotic-Economic Society in 1820 , married in 1801 to Maria Theresia Wiedersperger von Wiedersperg (1771-1848).

Buildings associated with gender

  • Villa Amerika ( Michnův letohrádek ) in Prague's New Town , today the Dvořák Museum
  • Michna Palace ( Palác Michnů z Vacínova ) on the Lesser Town of Prague , today Tyršův dům, formerly a small summer palace of Count Kinsky, built in the Renaissance style , expanded in 1640–1650 and rebuilt in the Baroque style by the then owner Count Wenceslaus Michna. The garden front is designed by Francesco Caratti, the stucco work is by Domenico Galli.
  • Granovsky Palace ( Palác Granovských z Granova ) in Prague, a former customs building in the Teynhof trading post , the so-called Ungelt in Prague's old town, which Emperor Ferdinand I von Habsburg gave to the customs collector Jakub Granovsky von Granov after the customs duties were lifted had it converted into a palace in the Renaissance style with an entrance gate to Ungelt; after 1620 changing ownership and use.
  • Malostranské mlýny in Prague
  • Mühldorfský dům in Prague
  • Dům "V Templu" in Prague
  • Janov Castle

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BSB Volume XII b, page 617 v. ff.
  2. ↑ BSB Volume XLIV, pages 617-620.
  3. ↑ BSB Volume CXI, p. 984 ff.

literature

  • Constantin von Wurzbach : Michna, the counts, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 18th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1868, pp. 226–228 ( digitized version ).
  • Karl M. Swoboda (Hg): Baroque in Bohemia. Prestel Verlag, Munich 1964, p. 318, p. 320.
  • Franz Vlasak: The old Bohemian nobility and their descendants after the Thirty Years War, Prague 1866.
  • Procházka novel : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families. Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch 1973, pp. 187–189 (with the family tree and description of the coats of arms of 1598, 1626 and 1711).
  • Prager Nachrichten 30/1, Munich February 1979, p. 9.
  • The coats of arms of the Bohemian nobility - J.Siebmacher`s great coat of arms book. Volume 30, Bauer and Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch 1979, p. 148, illustration of the coat of arms on plate 68.
  • August von Doerr: The nobility of the Bohemian crown lands. From the Bohemian hall books of the aristocratic archives (copial books). Vienna / Prague, pp. 68, 91, 113, 119, 145 and 196.
  • Heribert Sturm (ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the History of the Bohemian Lands, Volume II (I – M). K. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1984, p. 84.
  • Karl Plicka, Emanuel Poche: Prague - A picture guide. Panorama Prag (German translation 1982), p. 128, text no. 295 and 296.