Nimptsch (noble family)
Nimptsch is the name of a Silesian nobility family .
Origin and history
The family is said to have got its name from a Gut Alt-Nimptsch near Nimptsch . It appears in a document for the first time on October 1, 1317 with Nycusco de Nymcz . Johann von Nimptsch was canon in Breslau in 1334 and in 1353 accompanied Princess Anna of Schweidnitz to Prague to marry King Charles IV.
The earliest documented property of the family was Stephanshayn in the Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer , which they owned from 1319 to 1626. Johann Friedrich von Nimptsch received the Bohemian baron status on March 10, 1660 with the title baron von Oelse or Ölse . Johann Heinrich and his brother Friedrich Leopold von Nimptsch, Barons von Oelse, were raised to the bohemian count on February 5, 1699. Finally, in 1732, Christoph Ferdinand Graf von Nimptsch received permission to combine his coat of arms with that of the extinct barons of Fürst and Kupferberg and to call himself Count von Nimptsch, Baron of Fürst and Oelse from then on.
Until the 15th century, the Nimptsch owned the Schmiedeberg and Warmbrunn lordships in the foothills of the Giant Mountains , which were later sold to the Schaffgotsch .
At the end of the 17th century Johann ( Hans ) Friedrich von Nimptsch was Governor of the Duchy of Schweidnitz-Jauer . He played a key role in the establishment of the Friedenskirche in Jauer , where a magnificent lodge commemorates the family. In 1660 the Nimptsch were raised to barons and in 1699 to counts.
In the 18th century the Nimptsch were the landlords of Hohenfriedeberg and after 1741 they belonged to the Catholic aristocratic opposition to Prussian rule.
The family moved to Moravia in the 19th century . It probably went out in 1877 with Karl von Nimptsch on Geiersberg in Eastern Bohemia. From 1775 the family owned the Palais Nimptsch in Vienna.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a unicorn fish , a black unicorn with a silver fish tail curved to the right, the hooves of the unicorn are golden, the horn alternating red and silver. The unicorn growing on the helmet with the red and silver covers .
People (selection)
- From 1785 to 1794 Günter Carl Albrecht von Nimptsch had an estate workers' settlement built for the Roßthal manor, later referred to as Neunimptsch .
- In 1794 Günter Carl Albrecht von Nimptsch had the baroque castle "Jochhöh" built in Pesterwitz near Dresden.
- Became famous for the 19th century Léocadie of Nimptsch (1802-1867), born von Gilgenheim , who, as the wife of officer Karl Friedrich von Nimptsch, gathered a circle of artists and statesmen around her on her Silesian estate in Jäschkowitz . Heinrich Laube was a private tutor here in the 1830s, August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben fell in love with the beautiful and witty Léocadie in 1833. Through her daughter Marie (1820–1897) she was the grandmother of the Salonière Marie von Schleinitz , b. von Buch , and the politician Hermann Fürst von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg .
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New General German Adels Lexicon , Leipzig 1864.
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Nimptsch, the counts, genealogy and current marital status . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 20th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1869, p. 362 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Alexander von Freyer, Barbara Skoczylas-Stadnik, Mirosław Szkiłądź: Kościół Pokoju w Jaworze / Church of Peace in Jauer. Yes 1994.
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, pp. 429-430, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN 0435-2408 .
Individual evidence
- ^ State Archives Wroclaw
- ↑ Entry about Palais Nimptsch on Burgen-Austria