Moscon
Moscon is the name of an inner Austrian noble family , which in the older literature was also written Moskon, Moschkon, Maskhon, Moschkhon or similar and was mainly wealthy in Lower Styria and Carniola . Members of this family made important contributions to the economic development of this region in their time and left behind a great cultural heritage.
history
The Moscon, Lantheri, Qualandro, Valvasor and others belonged to those families who increasingly immigrated to Carinthia , Krain and Styria as entrepreneurs, businessmen and merchants from northern Italy and settled here since the end of the 15th century . Some of these immigrants quickly achieved great wealth through the trade in wood, slaughter cattle, cloth and other goods or through hammer mills , construction companies and mining companies and also managed to convert to the nobility.
16th Century
The Moscon came from Lombardy , most likely from Bergamo or the surrounding area. As early as 1500 they were resident in the Lower Styrian town of Pettau (today Ptuj in Slovenia ) as merchants. "Alex Muscan" is mentioned in the renewal of the city rights from 1513 as a house owner in the third district and had civil rights and market freedom .
Another branch of the family settled in the Carniolan state capital Ljubljana (today Ljubljana in Slovenia) and applied for civil rights. A court record from that time has been preserved and reported: “Innocent Moschkon has been granted civil rights in the condition that one has to be married for a whole year after being unmarried and weyll be allowed to marry. But where he is not married to the exit of the jars, he is 100 florins (rh.) To be paid instead of falling into peen. 1526 Friday October 25th. "
Family members of the Moscon are also mentioned by name in a list of the Ljubljana merchants from 1544. Francesco, Apoloni, Bernard and Anton Moscon are named as merchants of the city. They mainly traded in fur , cattle hides and leather and made profitable business. As early as 1551, the city citizen and trader Francesco Moscon and his wife Margarete acquired property on the city market.
Sebastian Moscon, also a member of the family, leased a copper mine belonging to the domain of the Barons of Ungnad around the year 1540 and began to expand the ore mine near Samobor in Croatia . By introducing more advanced mining and smelting methods, he succeeded in tremendously increasing copper production and making a considerable fortune.
In the late autumn of 1581 Johann Baptist Valvasor, who immigrated from Telgate near Bergamo to Carniola at the end of the 1530s, died at his Thurn am Hart Castle in Lower Carniola (today Srajbarski turn near Krško in Slovenia). Since he himself had no offspring from two marriages, he left the majority of his enormous fortune to the children of his late sister Katharina-Franziska. She was married to the Laibach citizen and trader Franciscus Moscon, who had died in the 1560s, and had eight children with him. The five nephews, Johann-Alexander, Innozenz, Peter, Michael and Markus-Anton, inherited his estates and lordships from the uncle's estate, the three nieces Elisabeth, Elinitta and Cassandra received large amounts of money. For the Moscons, this inheritance provided the basis for rapid advancement into society and the nobility of Carniola and Styria during the 17th century.
Name bearer
- Alfred Freiherr von Buttlar-Moscon (* 1898, † 1972), 6th and last Fideikommissherr von Pischätz, writer, poet and translator.
- Maria Anneta Freiin von Moscon married Freiin von Buttlar zu Brandenfels called Treusch (* 1867, † 1898).
- Julius Franz Alfred Freiherr von Moscon (* 1839, † 1927), 5th Fideikommissherr von Pischätz, member of the Austrian Reichsrat and the Styrian Landtag.
- Anton Albert Freiherr von Moscon (* 1782, † 1822), 3rd Fideikommissherr von Pischätz, pomologist and agronomist .
- Franz Xaver Seyfried Freiherr von Moscon (* 1750, † 1838), 4th Fideikommissherr von Pischätz.
possession
In Carniola
- Billichgrätz / Polhov Gradec
- Breitenau / Zalog
- Brunnfeld / Pipanovo
- Flödnig / Smlednik
- Gurkfeld / Krško
- Gutenwerd / Otok
- Habbach / Jablje
- Kieselstein / Kiselstein
- Klingenfels / Klevevž
- Laas / Lož
- Country road / Kostanjevica
- Loitsch / Logatec
- Mokritz / Mokrice
- Obergurk / Vrhkrka
- Ortenegg / Ortnek
- Preissegg / Prežek
- Ratschach / Radeče
- Reifnitz / Ribnica
- Rutzing / Rocin
- Schwarzenbach / Črni potok
- Siebenegg / Žebnik pri Radečah
- Thurn am Hart / Šrajbarski turn
- Vistula Castle / Višnja gora
In Styria
- Alt-Kainach (1755 to the beginning of the 19th century)
- Montpreis / Planina
- Upper Lichtenwald / Sevnica
- Pischätz / Pišece
- Reichenburg / Rajhenburg
- Reichenstein / Reštanj
- Reittereck (1660 to around 1850)
- Tüffer / Laško
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Moscon, the barons . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 19th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1868, p. 129 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Falk von Gagern: Mokric, The home of Friedrich von Gagern , Hamburg / Berlin, 1962.
- Hans Pirchegger: Lower Styria in the history of their dominions and guilds, cities and markets . R. Oldenbourg publishing house, Munich, 1962.
- Josip Žontar: Drobec registra ljubljanskega nakladniškega urada iz leta 1544 . In: Kronika časopis za slovensko krajevno zgodovino . 16th year, Ljubljana, 1968.
- Majda Smole: Graščine na nekdanjem Kranjskem , Ljubljana, 1982.
- Andreas Moritsch, Ed .: Alpen-Adria, Zur Geschichte einer Region , Klagenfurt, 2001, ISBN 3-85013-730-9
- Norbert Weiss: The urban system of the former Lower Styria in the Middle Ages , Graz, 2002, ISBN 3-901251-26-X
