Pilsak from Wellenau
Pilsak von Wellenau , also Pilsak Edle von Wellenau , is the name of an Austrian noble family that was first mentioned in 1657 in the northern Bohemian town of Schüttenitz near Leitmeritz with Joannes Plzaczek and his widowed mother Margaretha , who bought a house there (see on this: the Pilsak family ).
Nobility rise
On December 5, 1825 in Vienna , the then captain of the Vienna garrison - Artillery -Distrikts Wenzel Pilsak (1779-1855) from Pokratitz (now part of Litomerice) until 1848 Upper director of the rifle factory in Vienna and Steyr and kk Major General Austrian, in the Nobility with the predicate "Edler von Wellenau" raised. With the death of his second son Eduard Pilsak von Wellenau (1823–1907), major general and artillery director at the general command in Brno , the family died out in the second generation of the male line in 1907.
coat of arms
Quartered, 1 in blue a golden ray sun in the right upper corner, 2 in red two silver lilies next to each other, 3 in red two slanted golden cannon barrels, 4 in blue a silver lion, in the right front paw swinging a bare sword. On the helmet with blue-silver blankets on the right and red-gold blankets on the left, the lion grows.
Name bearer
- Wenzel Pilsak von Wellenau (1779–1855), Austrian kk major general and chief director of the fire rifle factory in Vienna and Steyr
- Eduard Pilsak of Wellenau (1823-1907), Wenceslas son, Austrian kuk Field Marshal Lieutenant and artillery director at the General Command in Brno
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume X, Page 371, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISBN 3-7980-0819-1
- Brno Genealogical Paperback , 1870, 1884 and 1891
- Genealogical paperback of the noble houses of Austria , O. Maass' Sons, 1906/07 ( excerpt )