Opole-Bronikowski
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Oppell and Oppeln-Bronikowski are the names of two tribes of one and the same old noble family from Lausitz with the headquarters of the same name in Oppeln near Löbau , which is first mentioned in a document with Werner de Opal in 1261.
history
The direct lineage of the von Oppeln-Bronikowski family did not begin until Heinrich von Oppeln , who settled on what was then the eastern German border of Poland and in 1412 acquired the Bronikowo estate near Fraustadt . As was customary at the time, he took over the name of his estate in his family name and called himself from then on - including his descendants - von Oppeln-Bronikowski . The family has nothing to do with the city of Opole in Upper Silesia.
The original family line of Oppell continues to exist independently, cf. also Oppel .
The German-Polish noble family was wealthy in Greater Poland , the Neumark and West Prussia . Since 1970 one branch has owned the East Frisian Berum Castle .
coat of arms
Blazon : The coat of arms (oldest seal from 1387) shows a silver grappling hook on a blue background diagonally upwards . The helmet with blue-silver covers carrying three silver ostrich feathers as a crest .
According to tradition, members of the family once put the Saracens to flight with grappling hooks .
Known family members
Oppell
- Johann Georg Oppeln (von Oppel), privy councilor, co-signer of the Kötzschenbroda armistice certificate in 1645
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppel (1720–1769), Saxon chief miner and co-founder of the Freiberg Mining Academy
- Julius Wilhelm von Oppel (1766–1832), German statesman
- Carl Wilhelm von Oppel (1767–1833), director of the Meissen porcelain factory
- Karl Friedrich Gustav von Oppell (1795–1870), Saxon Minister of War
- August von Oppell (1827–1909), Prussian general of the infantry
- Hans Leo von Oppell (1846–1915), Saxon Chamberlain and Rittmeister
- Hans Ludwig von Oppell (1800–1876), Saxon police director, founder of the Hechtviertel in Dresden
Opole-Bronikowski
- Johann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1679–1765), Polish and Swedish military, later Prussian major general , known as the "progenitor of the hussars"
- Adam von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1714–1778), Saxon general, leader of the Calvinists in Poland
- Karl Ludwig von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1766–1842), Prussian lieutenant general and adjutant to King Friedrich Wilhelm III.
- Mikołaj Oppeln-Bronikowski (1767–1817), Polish general, Stewardess of the Duchy of Warsaw , Knight of the Order of the White Eagle
- Alexander von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1783–1834), German writer
- Rudolf von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1826–1894), Prussian general of the infantry
- Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (General, 1826) (1826–1904), Prussian Lieutenant General
- Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (General, 1857) (1857–1925), Prussian general of the infantry
- Kazimierz Bronikowski (actually Oppeln-Bronikowski; 1861–1909), Polish Germanist
- Friedrich von Oppeln-Bronikowski (1873–1936), German writer
- Hermann von Oppeln-Bronikowski (General, 1899) (1899–1966), German major general in World War II and 1936 Olympic champion in dressage / team
See also
literature
- from Oppell . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . First volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1896, p. 856–875 ( dlib.rsl.ru - and from Oppeln Bronikowski).
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN 0435-2408
- Opole von Bronikowski of the Schaede tribe. In: Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. Justus Perthes, Gotha 1910, p. 570 ( digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de ), Justus Perthes, Gotha 1915, p. 703-704 ( digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de ).
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses. The nobility born in Germany (primeval nobility). 1917. Eighteenth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1916, p. 608 ff.
