Pachelbel from Gehag
Pachelbel von Gehag (also Pachelbl von Gehag) is the name of an old family from Bohemia, which has been traceable since 1395 and was raised to the imperial nobility in 1610 .
history
The family first appears in a document in 1395 in Oschwitz near Arzberg with the farmer Pachelbel (Elbel am Bach) and begins its uninterrupted line of family members with Hans Pachelbel, councilor in Eger , dead in 1440. His grandson Wolfgang Pachelbel, mayor of Wunsiedel , received on July 23, 1528 to Speyer a letter of coat of arms. His grandsons, cousins Wolfgang, Herr auf Pograth, Harleß and Gehag, mayor of Eger and Alexander Pachelbl, owner of the Dunkelhammer near Wunsiedel, were raised to the imperial nobility status on June 19, 1610 in Prague with the addition of "von Gehag" to their name. The Count Palatine-Zweibrücken envoy in Paris Georg Wilhelm Pachelbel received on August 4, 1759 in Vienna the imperial nobility confirmation with "von Gehag". On December 4, 1907 ( highest cabinet order from Highcliffe Castle ) the Prussian chamberlain and Rittmeister Carl von Pachelbel-Gehag, Fideikommissherr on Nehringen -Keffenbrink received the Prussian baron status as "v. Pachelbel-Gehag-Ascheraden ", primogenitur and linked to the undivided Fideikommiss possession of Barons Schoultz von Ascheraden with Nehringen, Keffenbrink, Dorow and Rodde with Camper, Grimmen district in Western Pomerania.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows in blue on a green hill a golden pelican with raised wings, scratching the breast with his beak. On the helmet with the blue and gold covers the pelican. At Siebmacher , a silver pelican standing in the nest is emblazoned with its breast tearing open .
Known family members
- Wolf Adam Pachelbel von Gehag (1599–1649), Bohemian patrician and mayor of Eger
- Georg Wilhelm von Pachelbel (1717–1784), German diplomat
- Heinrich Christian Friedrich von Pachelbel-Gehag (1763–1838), German government councilor and regional president
- August Heinrich von Pachelbel-Gehag (1795–1857), Prussian officer, civil servant and landowner
- Rüdiger von Pachelbel (1926–2011), German diplomat
See also
- Pachelbelhaus in Eger
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, pp. 117–118
Individual evidence
- ↑ Muster book in the town archive of Eger
- ^ Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series
- ^ Otto Titan von Hefner , Alfred Grenser , George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch, III. Volume, 2nd Division, 1st Volume; The flourishing nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia: Nobles, 1878, p. 290