Niebelschütz (noble family)
Niebelschütz is a family of the Silesian nobility , which was widespread in Lower Silesia and Upper Lusatia and which still exists today.
history
The family derives its name from the headquarters of Nebelschütz near Kamenz in Upper Lusatia and first appeared in a document on February 3, 1289 with Peter de Nebelsicz , with whom the family line began . Until 1945 the Niebelschitz owned extensive land in Lower Silesia . So were z. B. Gleinitz with Taubemühle since 1446 and Stummberg Duchy of Glogau since 1460 in family ownership . Metschlau in the later district of Sprottau had been owned by the family since 1794, Dahme bei Wohlau since 1859.
coat of arms
Two silver swan's heads facing each other in blue, with long, curved necks and red beaks. On the helmet with blue-silver covers a red column with three (blue-silver-blue) ostrich feathers and removed from the goosenecks.
Relatives
- Albert Ottomar Ferdinand Hagemeier called von Niebelschütz (1805–1880), Prussian lieutenant general
- Hanns Ernst Leopold von Niebelschütz (1817–1874), Prussian district administrator
- Benno von Niebelschütz (1830–1892), Prussian district administrator
- Ernst von Niebelschütz (1879–1946), art historian, editor and writer
- Günther von Niebelschütz (1882–1945), German infantry general
- Wolf von Niebelschütz (1913–1960), writer and historian
literature
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , fourth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1903, p. 610 ff .; Eighteenth year, 1917, pp. 590–593.
- Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian Monarchy , Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 146 f.
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN 0435-2408 , pp. 413-414.