Pranckh (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Pranckh
Vischerstich of Pranckh Castle
Vischerstich of Pux Castle
Siegmund Freiherr von Pranckh , Bavarian General and Minister of War
Hans Freiherr von Pranckh (right) with the Heimwehr leaders Richard Steidle and Reinhart Freiherr von Bachofen-Echt
Epitaph of Pernhart von Pranckh in Sankt Johann-Köppling
Pranckher death shields in the Seckau basilica

Pranckh is the name of an old noble family that the Styrian nobility comes from and is detected there documented since the early 12th century. It is one of the oldest families in Austria and had its headquarters at Prankh Castle in Prankh near Sankt Marein . In addition to the Styrian main line, there were also lines in Salzburg , Carinthia , Lower Austria and Bavaria . In 1628 he was raised to the status of imperial baron and in 1719 to the status of imperial count. Many of their names can be found in high court and state offices of the Prince Archbishopric of Salzburg . Branches of the family still exist in Austria, Germany , France and the USA to this day .

history

Origin and Styrian line

The family originally comes from Feistritz in Styria and first appears in a document in 1135 in a testimony by Wolfkerus de Branka , who testified that his brother Pilgrim von Feistritz donated to the Admont Benedictine monastery . They were knights of the originally high free von Feistritz-Traisen, who later founded the Augustinian Canons' Monastery of Seckau under Adalram von Waldeck , a descendant of the Aribones , in 1140 , which explains the close relationship with Seckau. After their employers died out, they became ministerials to the sovereign and subsequently appointed several provosts of the monastery, among them Arnold, Ortolf, who can be traced back to the renovation and new construction of the monastery, and Ulrich II von Pranckh. The family crypt was also in Seckau. The red marble graves of the noble Johannes Pranckhher von Pranckh and Ernst Pranckhher von Pranckh have been preserved to this day .

With Ulrich von Pranckh, documented in 1242, the uninterrupted line of the family begins . In 1298 Friedrich von Pranckh and the heiress Anna von Pux married, who was descended from the Holy Countess Hemma von Gurk and her coat of arms, possessions in Styria and Carinthia, as well as the future ancestral seat of the Pranckhher, in Styria near Teufenbach am Pux Castle , located in the upper reaches of the Mur, contributed to the marriage. However, the seat of the manor was not moved to the upper Mur Valley to Pux until 1425 . Part of the family stayed in St. Marein, where Turkish invasions increased during this time . However, they did not dare to attack the castle.

In 1459 Ernst Pranckher Ritter von Pranckh auf Katsch granted the Admont Benedictine Abbey the right to collect tithes and the Zehenthof zu Peterdorf in today's market town of St. Peter am Kammersberg to emphasize the Pranckh family's relationship with the Abbey. In addition, the family maintained close contact with the Benedictine monastery of Göß , including an abbess.

Lower Austrian line

In 1550, Ernst von Pranckh zu Bockfliess, district captain in the district under the Manhartsberg , established the Lower Austrian line. Eustachius Pranckh von Rickersdorf, who acquired the Veste Hof an der March, and his son Friedrich von Pranckh , who relocated the same castle to the higher Hofberg and thus laid the foundation stone of today's Schloss Hof , which was later owned by Prince Eugen von, came from her Savoy was acquired. As the oldest proven owner of Engelhartstetten , the community of Schloss Hof, the family coat of arms is still to be found today, two red crossbars on both sides of the lords of Pranckh in the community coat of arms .

Salzburg line

Ulrich von Pranckh († 1416/1420) is considered the progenitor of the blooming line, from whom the line of descendants has been determined with the utmost reliability. The closer progenitor is Rupprecht von Pranckh († 1575). His son Roman founded the Salzburg line of Pranckhher in 1594 by marrying Anna Susanna von Überacker , who belonged to the Bavarian nobility. 1628 was Johann Christoph Ritter von Pranckh, War Council, Steward and spurs, Mr. on Pux, Poppendorf, Rhine Valley and Fronsberg and all blood relatives of Emperor Ferdinand II. In the realm baron collected in 1651 was admitted to the Salzburg state stem. 1719 were the brothers Ferdinand Josef and Georg Wilhelm, Lord of Schönau, Hallenau and Zinzendorf, by Emperor Karl VI. granted the dignity of the imperial count.

In 1765 Leopold Graf von Pranckh, colonel and commander of the laudable 2nd Bavarian district regiment, became lord and farmer of Salzburg.

Bavarian line

Siegmund Amadeus Freiherr von Pranckh (* 1768) descended from the Salzburg branch. After serving in the prince-archbishopric and Austrian military service, he moved his seat to Bavaria and was appointed royal chamberlain and lieutenant colonel there. His son Siegmund (* 1821) became royal Bavarian Minister of War and General , who initiated the Bavarian army reform of 1868 and played a key role in the conclusion of the November treaties and thus the accession of the Kingdom of Bavaria to the North German Confederation . In 1873 he returned to Styria to take over the allodified Fideikommiss rule Pux von Ludwig († 1880), the last pranckh of the Styrian line.

Possessions

Most of the Pranckh family's possessions were in the upper Murtal valley . These included next to Castle Pranckh and Castle Pux and Castle Pux among others, the Styrian gentlemen :

Upper Austria :

Lower Austria :

Salzburg :

Vienna :

Slovenia :

Present ownership

The Pux , Hautzenbichl and Windern castles and the former cave castles Schallaun and Luegg are currently privately owned by the family.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms of the von Pranckh family shows two crossbars tinned on both sides in silver; The gem consists of red and silver blankets with a pair of red horns on the right and a pair of silver horns on the left, each of which has a color-changing comb on the outside.

Barons coat of arms

Blazon: The increased coat of arms of the Barons von Pranckh zu Pux is quartered ; in fields 1 and 4 is the family coat of arms; two silver counter battlements each in red; In fields 2 and 3 there are three silver lance tips in red on the right (the boar feathers of those von Pux). The 1st helmet shows the tribe gem; with red and silver covers a pair of buffalo horns, red on the right and silver on the left, decorated with black tufts of feathers on the outside; the second helmet has a closed flight on red and silver covers, covered with three silver, inclined lance tips.

Explanation: The increase in the coat of arms came about through the marriage between Friedrich von Pranckh and Anna von Pux , which was united in 1628 through a diploma from Emperor Ferdinand II .

Count's coat of arms

Blazon: The coat of arms of the Counts of Pranckh zu Pux is quartered; the family coat of arms is centered as a heart shield ; in fields 1 and 4 there are three silver lance tips, each slanted to the right, by Pux; fields 2 and 3 are divided obliquely to the left of the coat of arms of those of Colaus in red and silver; on it are three crowned helmets with red and silver covers; the 1st helmet has a closed flight with three silver, inclined lance tips; the second helmet has a pair of red and silver buffalo horns divided over a corner; the third helmet is decorated with three ostrich feathers, red-silver-red.

  • Coat of arms of those of Pranckh zu Pux in the Styrian Wappenbuch, 1567

  • Count's coat of arms of those of Pranckh zu Pux in the register of arms of the Austrian monarchy, 1837

  • Baron coat of arms of those von Pranckh zu Pux in the coat of arms of the Austrian monarchy, 1840

  • Count's coat of arms of those of Pranckh zu Pux in the register of arms of the princely and countless houses of the Austrian monarchy, 1856

  • Count's coat of arms of those of Pranckh zu Pux in Siebmacher's book of arms of the Salzburg nobility, 1883

  • Count's coat of arms of those of Pranckh zu Pux in Siebmacher's book of arms of the Lower Austrian nobility, 1918

Coat of arms elements in municipal coats of arms

The municipality of Engelhartstetten in Austria shows the elements that can also be found in the family coat of arms of the von Pranckh family: in confused colors, two crossbars that are tinned on both sides.

  • Coat of arms of the Engelhartstetten community

Name bearer

Pranckher helmet

Funeral helmet of the von Pranckh family

The von Pranckh family's funeral helmet is one of the most famous medieval pot or bucket helmets with a crest (also heraldic helmets) , as only the helmet of the Black Prince from Canterbury has survived . The helmet, whose additional front reinforcement indicates its use as a tournament helmet, probably belonged to Albert von Pranckh, who wore an almost identical helmet with a Zimier in the seal, and came from the first half of the 14th century. In addition to the golden pair of buffalo horns, the helmet gem has silver combs on the outside, which are trimmed with leather. After a crusade it was donated to the Seckau monastery, where it hung over the Pranckhher crypt together with two of the family's death shields . In 1878 it was acquired for the imperial collection in Vienna; it is currently in the armory of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna.

literature

Web links

Commons : Pranckh (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Werner Hammerl, Pranckh
  2. ↑ Nekrolog auf Siegmund Freiherrn von Pranckh in Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde (MGSLK) XXVIII, 1888, 436 Volume 28, 1888, p. 436 f.
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h Bernhard Peter, Seckau Abbey
  4. ↑ a b c d Count Friedrich Lanjus von Wellenburg, The blooming generations of the Austrian nobility (PDF; 1.5 MB), p. 43 f.
  5. ^ Document book of the Duchy of Steyermark II, 1
  6. ↑ Aristocratic history: for the connection cf. Highly free sex of the Lords of Weichselberg
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Seeau Foundation, Pranckh zu Pux
  8. ↑ Stift Göß in Wikipedia
  9. ↑ Engelhartstetten market town, Schloßhof
  10. ^ Lower Austrian provincial government, announcement by the Lower Austrian provincial government about the award of a coat of arms and the approval of the community colors for the community Engelhartstetten , issued on February 18, 1986.
  11. ↑ a b Salzburgwiki, Pranckh
  12. ↑ Franz Pichler: The land register, land register records and land registers of Styria. (4 volumes), Steirisches Landesarchiv, 1967, 959. Prankhische Gülten. ( Chapter 959. pp. 1089-1094 , pdf, landesarchiv.steiermark.at).
  13. ^ Aquilin Julius Caesar , Description of the Duchy of Steyermark, Volume 2, p. 97
  14. ^ Aquilin Julius Caesar, State and Church History of the Duchy of Steyermark, Volume 3, p. 182
  15. ↑ a b Werner Hammerl, Burgen-Archiv | Directory of persons
  16. ↑ The state archives in Bavaria, Grafschaft Ortenburg documents ( Memento of the original from October 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gda.bayern.de
  17. ↑ Kleeblatt - magazine for heraldry and related sciences, heraldic peculiarities: death shields  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.wappenkunde-niedersachsen.de  
  18. ↑ Count Franz von Meran, Der Pranckhher Helm from Seckau Abbey