Pirch
Pirch is the name of an ancient Pomeranian noble family from Western Pomerania .
history
The family, which was also called von Pirchen in the past , came to Pommerellen with the Teutonic Order , where it is mentioned in documents with several relatives in the 13th and 14th centuries.
The tribe series begins with Jasborn Pirscha or Pyrsza from Bohemia, a knight and general of the Teutonic Order. In 1299, as a reward for his services, the Order gave him the villages of Rettkewitz , Chotzlow and Vitröse near Lauenburg in Western Pomerania . In Pomerania, he was also with the villages Nibbanzin or Wobensin, Noßino (United Nossin) Charvarti, Windesparo, Nosincke (small Nossin) Gaffert and Wundichow invested .
Even under his sons Jeschke and Gützlaff , the family was divided into the Lauenburger and Stolpsche main lines, named after the two districts in Pomerania in which the goods were located. In the first half of the 19th century, the Lauenburg i. Pom. resident family branch goods in Anbendin, Baargeld, Buckowin , Chotzlow , Krampkewitz, Rettkewitz, Saulinke, Tauenzin and Zewitz .
The von Pirch family produced important officers over generations, the majority of whom belonged to the Stolp line.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a slanting silver (also gold) crucian in blue . On the helmet with blue-silver (blue-gold) covers, two golden (or blue) keys placed in the St. Andrew's cross in front of a natural peacock's tail.
Coat of arms of the von Pirch family
Coat of arms of the von Pirch family
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Known family members
- Michael Lorenz von Pirch (1687–1761), Lieutenant General of Saxony.
- Dubislav Nikolaus von Pirch (1693–1768), Lieutenant General of Saxony.
- Ewald George von Pirch (1728–1797), Prussian administrative lawyer and from 1769 to 1797 President of the Court Court in Köslin.
- George Lorenz von Pirch (1730–1797), Prussian major general.
- Franz Otto von Pirch (1733–1813), Prussian general of the infantry.
- Nikolaus Heinrich von Pirch (1736–1808), commandant of Graudenz and Prussian major general.
- Johann Ernst von Pirch (1744–1783), French colonel.
- Georg Dubislav Ludwig von Pirch (1763–1838), Prussian lieutenant general.
- Otto von Pirch (1765–1824), Prussian lieutenant general.
- Christoph Wilhelm Rüdiger von Pirch (1767–1846), Prussian major general.
- Otto Ferdinand Dubislav von Pirch (1799–1832), Prussian captain and travel writer.
literature
- Ewald George von Pirch : Genealogical news of the sex of those v. Pirch in Western Pomerania from 1376 to 1786.
- Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon of the Prussian Monarchy , Volume 2, Berlin 1855, p. 200.
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : Pantheon of the Prussian Army. Berlin 1835, pp. 272–276, online in the Google book search
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adelslexicon . Leipzig 1837, Volume 4, p. 37, online in the Google book search
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin 1847, Volume 3, pp. 147–149, cover p. 291, text and illustration in the Google book search
- On the history of the Pirch family, especially in aphorisms about the history of war. Three episodes in: Journal of Art, Science and the History of War . Volume 100, 4th - 6th Heft, Berlin 1857, pp. 42–55 , 1st continuation: pp. 107–148 , end: pp. 184–217.
- Pirch . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 13 . Altenburg 1861, p. 152 ( zeno.org ).
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1867, Volume 7, pp. 156–157, online in the Google book search
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses , Gotha, Justus Perthes , AA, 1923 St., v. Pirch, pp. 489-496.
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Genealogical handbook of the nobility , CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn)
- Volume 38, pp. 336-344, 1966.
- Nobility Lexicon. Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, 1999, p. 378.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Part II, Volume 2, Stettin 1784, p. 1078, No. 72.
- ↑ a b Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 2, Berlin 1855, p. 200.
- ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon . tape 2 . Leipzig 1838, p. 24 ( online in Google Book Search).