Prashma

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Family coat of arms of those of Prashma and Belkow

Praschma (Czech Pražmové for Bílkova , even Páni for Bílkova ) is the name of Moravian Uradelsgeschlechts .

history

The family first appeared in a document in 1253 with Smil von Belkow , Burgrave of Vöttau , who died on Marchfeld in 1278 , and his brothers Marquard, Ratibor and Jarosch von Belkow. Belkow ( Bilkau ) is the family seat in southwestern Moravia at this time. After the Chudwein ( Chudobín ) property north of Olomouc , Beneš Chudobin first called himself “Pražma” in 1417 . With the confirmation of the coat of arms in Vienna on April 30, 1625, the brothers and cousins ​​Karl, Benedikt, Johann and Wilhelm Pražma von Bilkov were raised to the baron status by Emperor Ferdinand II . The Oberstlandrichter Hans Bernhard Praschman, Baron von Bilkaw, lord of Wagstadt , was appointed to the Bohemian count by Emperor Ferdinand III. raised in Pressburg on May 24, 1655.

Different lines

In 1639 Johann acquired the Silesian rule Rybnik , former property of the Lobkowicz princes . His third marriage daughter, Anna Helene, was married to Hartwig Erdmann von Eichendorff , an ancestor of the poet Joseph von Eichendorff . This line of the family, whose descendants later settled in the Rybnik area, died with Johann Bernhard III. Prashma in the early 18th century.

The first line of genealogy was continued by Wilhelm Graf Praschma (1677–1731), since 1712 royal governor of the Duchy of Wohlau . From his mother, Maria Ludovica Countess Oppersdorf († 1737), he had taken over the rule of Friedek in Silesia . From his third marriage to Caroline Countess Almesloe (1706–1770) Johann Nepomuk (1726–1804) emerged, who in 1777 founded the place Praschma southeast of Friedek .

Johann, married to Maria Countess Zierotin (1723–1786) at Falkenberg Castle in Silesia, concentrated on the administration of this rule and in 1798 sold Friedek to Marie Christine of Austria , a daughter of Archduchess Maria Theresa , married Sachsen-Teschen. This ended the settlement history of the Count Praschma family in Friedeck. Johann's son of the same name (1756–1822) acquired the rule of Falkenberg by marrying Maria Anna Countess Zierotin (1761–1793). The castle later remained the seat of the family until the family was expelled in 1945 as a result of the Second World War.

The descendants who now live in Germany, South Africa , Austria and the USA come from a grandson of Johann Nepomuk, the Reichstag member Friedrich Wilhelm Graf Praschma at Falkenberg Castle (1833–1909), who lived with Maria Countess zu Stolberg-Stolberg (1843–1909) in three new lines. 1918) was married. Their son was the politician Hans Graf Praschma . The current head of the family Michael Praschma also descends from his son Friedrich-Leopold.

Justus Graf von Praschma was called by Maria Bertha Countess von Korff Schmising Kerssenbrock, geb. Countess Westerholt (1907–1998), adopted and inherited Brincke Castle in Westphalia.

Saxony-Altenburg line

The last Duke of Sachsen-Altenburg , Ernst II , abdicated on November 13, 1918 and lived in the GDR until his death in 1955. The male line of the Sachsen-Altenburg family died out in 1991. However, the great niece of Duke Georg von Sachsen-Altenburg , Princess Marie (1888-1947), adopted Theodor Franz Graf Praschma (* Breslau 1934) as Prince of Sachsen-Altenburg, Duke of Saxony, Count Praschma, Baron von Bilkau and in 1939 in this way ensured that the name Sachsen-Altenburg was retained, even if it was not part of the Wettin tribe. Franz Prince of Saxony-Altenburg died in 2012. His son is Henning Prince of Saxony-Altenburg.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Count Praschma, barons of Bilkau
  • The family coat of arms shows golden deer antlers in blue. The antlers on the helmet with blue and gold covers .
  • The coat of arms on the occasion of the elevation to count status in 1655 is the same as the family coat of arms, only the count's crown rests between the helmet and shield

people

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Codex diploma. Moraviae III 171
  2. ^ Thomas Gehrlein: The House of Saxony-Altenburg, formerly Saxony-Hildburghausen, 1st edition Börde-Verlag Werl 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811993-5-2 (portrait)
  3. ↑ Nordkurier: Obituary (accessed September 24, 2017)

Literature and Sources

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), ISSN  0435-2408
    • Count's houses IX. Volume 72 of the complete series, 1979
    • Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, 1999, p. 524
  • Augustin Weltzel : History of the noble, baronial and countess family of Praschma . Ratibor 1883
  • Hans Graf Praschma: History of the rule Falkenberg . Falkenberg 1929
  • Thomas Gehrlein: The House of Saxony-Altenburg formerly Saxony-Hildburghausen , 1st edition Börde-Verlag Werl 2009, ISBN 978-3-9811993-5-2