Prückner (patrician)
The Hofer patrician family Prückner provided several mayors of Hof and was elevated to the nobility in a sideline in the 17th century.
Family history
Main line
The ancestor of the Hof Prückner family was Hans Prückner from Kronach , who served as a captain in the fight against the Hussites Emperors Sigismund and King Albrecht and who settled in Hof. His son Hans Prückner also distinguished himself in the campaigns of the emperors Maximilian and Friedrich .
Hans Prückner (1485–1547), called Johann Pontanus, was mayor of Hof and donated an altar with mass for the Michaeliskirche , there is also a family coat of arms, his mother was buried near the altar. He and his wife were buried in the monastery church . Lucas Cranach the Elder portrayed him, but the portrait has been lost since the siege of Hof in 1553. Another mayor was the white tanner Matthaeus Prückner (1568–1641), he was buried in the Michaeliskirche. His son Adam Lorenz Prückner donated a bell for the Leonhardskirche in Köditz in 1643 ; he was buried there in a crypt. In 1688 Johann Georg Prückner donated a painting ( Jesus and the adulteress ) for the coffered ceiling of the hospital church in Hof.
Johann Nicolaus Prückner (1758–1820) gained fame as a local researcher. He was a teacher at the Hof high school , then pastor of the Hospital Church and later worked in Pilgramsreuth . His son Flaminius Philipp Christian Prückner (1788–1864) founded the first chemical factory (for the production of Glauber's salt) in Hof and invented a method for extracting soda.
Secondary lines
Caspar Prückner, who was also mayor of Hof at the end of the 16th century, came from a branch line. His gravestone with coat of arms is on the outer wall of the Lorenz Church . The Prücknerstrasse in Moschendorf is named after Wolf-Oswald Prückner (1569–1633) . He came into the possession of the Stelzenhof . As a family member, Hans Prückner was raised to the nobility in 1623. The family sat as Prückner von Krötenbruck on what is now the Sachs manor . The aristocratic line died out in 1651.
The mayor Georg Prückner was injured in a sword fight in 1581 after a court session and a subsequent drink in the Ratskeller and succumbed to his injuries.
Today's spread of the family
Family members of the main and secondary lines are now common in Hof and throughout Germany. The actor Tilo Prückner was a prominent figure .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms is represented differently. In Köditz the motif is a peacock waving its wheels on a three-bay golden bridge . The coat of arms is divided into silver and blue. The helmet covers are silver and blue. The crowned crest ends with buffalo horns and peacock feathers.
literature
- Herrmann Prückner: The family trees of the Hofer Prückner and Hutschenreuther families . In: Archive for the history of Upper Franconia . 66th volume. Bayreuth 1986. pp. 461-470.
- Johann Nicolaus Prückner: Synchronism and curriculum vitae of the teachers at the Hofer Gymnasium from 1502 to 1817. Northeast Upper Franconian Association for Nature, History and Regional Studies , Hof 1999. ISBN 3-928626-33-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Köditz (ed.): St. Leonhard Köditz - 1641 . Köditz 2009. pp. 34, 40.
- ↑ http://www.hospitalkirche-hof.de/Download/hospital.pdf p. 42
- ^ "Journal for technical and economic chemistry, Volume 16" by Otto Linné Erdmann (Leipzig 1833) http://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10707693_00446.html