Petz from Lichtenhof
The Petz von Lichtenhof are one of the families capable of being judged who provided the so-called Second State of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg - first mentioned in a document in 1450. Only capable of being judged from 1730 onwards, they no longer managed to be co-opted into the patriciate .
history
Like many of the Nuremberg families and later patrician families (see also: Imhoff , Oelhafen , Paumgartner and Scheurl ), the Petz came from the area around Lauingen . As the first representative of the sex, Michael Petz was resident in Nuremberg in 1450. They later became involved as long-distance traders and made wealth mainly through the textile trade.
As the sex of merit , they could occupy offices that otherwise could only be obtained through council capacity, but could not be elected to the inner council . As a result of the craftsmen's uprising in 1348/49, the Inner Council was expanded by 16 members in 1370. As a concession to the craftsmen - numerically the largest group of the population - in addition to representatives from the patriciate, one representative from each of the eight most respected trades was admitted to the council. Large merchants were often sent to represent the trades. The Petz represented the cloth makers.
In 1582, through his wife Marie Schönborn, Pius Petz acquired the Petzenschloss mansion, now named after the family, in Lichtenhof , Wirthstrasse 74-76. The family exercised patrimonial jurisdiction; since then she has been called Petz von Lichtenhof . In 1632, during the Thirty Years' War , the manor was the headquarters of the Swedish King Gustav Adolf .
They inherited the castle and estate in Schwarzenbruck from the Scheurl in 1876. In 1730 the Petz were able to take legal action and in 1813 they were enrolled in the simple Bavarian nobility.
Possessions (extract)
- Since 1583 the Petzsche Schloss (Petzenschloss) in the eponymous Lichtenhof
- Since 1876 the Petzsche Schloss (Petzenschloss) in Schwarzenbruck
Former possessions (extract)
- 1735–1802 the lower castle in Laufamholz
family members
- Hermann Hieronymus Petz von Lichtenhof (? –1797), Sergeant General
- Georg Christoph Wilhelm von Petz, founder of the Petz Family Foundation
- Dr. Wilhelm von Petz, founder of the Petzhaus (retirement home) in Schwarzenbruck
coat of arms
In gold, three black bear heads with red tongues, facing outwards above and to the right below
literature
- Petz from Lichtenhof . In: Johann Gottfried Biedermann : genealogy of the patriciate of the former imperial city of Nuremberg . Nuremberg 1854.
- Christoph von Imhoff (Hrsg.): Famous Nuremberg from nine centuries . Nuremberg: Hofmann, 1984, 425 pages, ISBN 3-87191-088-0 ; 2., erg. U. exp. Edition, 1989, 459 p .; New edition: Edelmann GmbH Buchhandlung, October 2000
- Michael Diefenbacher : Petz von Lichtenhof, family capable of court . In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).