Mirbach (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Mirbach

Mirbach is the name of an old Rhenish noble family . Mirbach , now part of the Wiesbaum community in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate , was declared the headquarters in 1900.

history

The family is first mentioned in a document in the second half of the 13th century with Theodoricus miles de Merbach . The Lords of Mirbach belong to the Rhenish nobility. You are a member of the Rhenish Knighthood and placed the first knight captain there.

In the 15th century, members of the family acquired Neublankenheim Castle (located between Ahütte and Ahrdorf near Blankenheim in the northern Eifel) and Arloff Castle (today a district of Bad Münstereifel ) and the goods belonging to it. In the course of time, the family was able to spread particularly in the Duchy of Jülich-Berg . Later they became fiefs of the electors of Cologne and Trier . Harff Castle near Kaster (demolished in the early 1970s for open-cast lignite mining) was acquired through marriage in 1654, and Graven House through inheritance in 1769 . Branches of the family reached as far as Lorraine and the Principality of Liège .

One line came to Courland in the middle of the 16th century . Emmerich I. von Mirbach († 1597) received the Pussen estate near Windau (today Ventspils in Latvia ) with a total of 35,000 hectares, initially as a pledge and on November 4, 1579 as hereditary property.

In Sorkwity (Sorquitten) in Warmia-Masuria, a neo-Gothic castle was built from 1850 to 1856.

Friedrich Gotthard von Mirbach, who was raised to the rank of Bohemian count by Emperor Leopold II as King of Bohemia in 1791 , had come to Bohemia from Courland and there acquired the rule of Kosmanos (today Kosmonosy in the Czech Republic ). With Johann Wilhelm Freiherr von Mirbach zu Harff from the Prussian Rhine Province , the family was raised to the rank of count by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia in 1840 after the birthright . In the absence of a male heir that put his nephew Richard Freiherr von Vorst-Lombeck and Gundenau to Fideikommisserben one. In 1850, with royal approval, he took the name Graf von Mirbach-Harff and the Mirbach coat of arms. Count Alfons von Geldern-Egmont, whose mother Gabriele was a born Freiin von Mirbach, received the name Mirbach-Geldern-Egmont from King Ludwig II of Bavaria in 1877 . He owned the Fideikommiss Roggenburg in Swabia , donated by his father, Count Alfons, in 1877 . Prince Regent Luitpold appointed him hereditary Imperial Councilor of the Crown of Bavaria in 1909 .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a silver eight-tailed deer antler with grind in black . On the helmet with black and silver covers, two four-ended silver stag poles.

Historical coats of arms

  • Coat of arms of the Barons von Mirbach in the Baltic Book of Arms (1882)

  • Family coat of arms of those of Mirbach (1887) - " BELIEVING AND CONSISTENT "

Family members / namesake

literature

  • Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1911 . Book u. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1911.
  • Leonard Korth: The Graeflich Mirbach's archive at Harff. Documents and files on the history of Rhenish and Dutch areas. First volume. 1194-1430. In: AHVN In: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine. Issue 55 (1892). Pp. 1-349.
  • Leonard Korth: The Graeflich Mirbach's archive at Harff. Documents and files on the history of Rhenish and Dutch areas. Second volume. 1431-1599. In: Annals of the historical association for the Lower Rhine. Issue 57 (1894). Pp. 1-481.
  • Franz Menges :  Mirbach, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 17, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-428-00198-2 , pp. 554-556 ( digitized version ).
  • Ernst Freiherr v. Mirbach: History of the Mirbach family. Potsdam / Berlin 1903–1925; 3 parts.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, pages 86-88, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses, Volume 13, P. 637ff, digitized

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ St-Archiv Koblenz, directory of the possessions of the St. Thomas an der Kyll monastery
  2. ↑ Ingrid Brunner Durchs wilde Masuren , Süddeutsche Zeitung September 12, 2019, p. 33