Rackel (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Rackel

The von Rackel family was an old noble family from Upper Lusatia with the parent company of the same name in Rackel , about ten kilometers east of Bautzen .

history

The strong similarity of the coats of arms and the spatial proximity of the ancestral houses, namely in the vicinity of the city of Weißenberg , suggest that the von Rackel and the noble family von Nostitz are tribal equivalence, albeit not documented . The sex appears for the first time in a document with the naming of a Johann the elder v. Rakil , who donated a lake device to the church in Guttau in 1331 .

Throughout the entire early history of the family up to the 17th century, the fact that the currently known genealogy has gaps runs through it. Nevertheless, two main lines can be identified in the Margraviate of Upper Lusatia as early as the 14th century. Heinrich von Rackel appeared at Daubitz as early as 1381 . This line, which almost exclusively used the lead names Hans and Balthasar , was to reside in the place mentioned until 1666. It is not known whether the line then became extinct or merely sold its property around Daubitz and migrated. Members of this were vassals of the Muskau rule .

The second line presumably remained in the possession of the Rackel family estate , even though it was not until 1452 that Hans Rackil, a man from this family, was mentioned by name. Melchior Albrecht von Rackel sold the Rackel inheritance in 1665 and later appeared as the leaseholder of the Lichtenau estate near Lauban . With him the Rackel line died out in the male line. Apparently, the two older lines of the von Rackel family got into economic difficulties over the Thirty Years' War , as they left behind an indebted manor in Daubitz and the named Melchior Albrecht from the Rackel line was later only named as a tenant.

Regardless of this, around the same time, that is, in the middle of the 17th century, two further lines of the family appear in Upper and Lower Lusatia , which are previously in an unknown genealogical connection to the older ones mentioned above. Of these younger lines, the zu Litschen with only two generations (father Heinrich Ernst and son Leuther Christoph) was only a short episode in the family history.

The fourth and last line - Walter von Boetticher called it "Line Linderode-Quolsdorf" - began with the state elder of the Lords Sorau and Triebel Adolph von Rackel on Linderode in Lower Lusatia and from then on flourished in both Upper and Lower Lusatia. Linderode (or the material to be divided Central Linderode II) remained since before 1601 until the death of Maximilian Rudolph of doctor blade 1739 in the family and then went about his daughter Anna Elisabeth († 1783), married with Günther Sigismund of Bomsdorff , these Family over. Friedrich Erdmann von Rackel, who lived in Schöneiche ( Steinreich municipality ) in Lower Lusatia, acquired the Quolsdorf estate in Upper Lusatia in 1737 , which, by the way, was in the immediate vicinity of the Daubitz line's headquarters. Members of this line held various offices in the state administration in the late 17th and 18th centuries. Parts of the family can also be historically proven in Silesia and Prussia .

coat of arms

The shield is divided by red and blue, on it two silver horns turned outwards and with the mouthpieces pointing downwards, which are connected by a black band. On the uncrowned helmet with red and silver covers there are nine black cock feathers as a gem.

literature

  • Walter von Boetticher : The nobility of the Görlitz soft picture around the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. In: New Lusatian Magazine . Volume 104, 1928, pp. 172f.
  • Walter von Boetticher: History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and their estates 1635-1815. Volume 2, Görlitz 1913, pp. 520-527.
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 7, Leipzig 1867, p. 312.
  • Hermann Friedrich Knothe : History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and its goods from the XIII. until the end of the XVI. Century. Leipzig 1879, pp. 433-436.
  • Hermann Friedrich Knothe: Continuation of the history of the Upper Lusatian nobility and its goods from the middle of the 16th century to 1620. In: New Lusatian magazine. Volume 63, 1887, pp. 130-131 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Knothe: Upper Lusatian nobility. P. 433.
  2. ^ Knothe: Upper Lusatian nobility. Pp. 434-436; Boetticher: Nobility of the Görlitz soft picture. P. 172f.
  3. ↑ Boelcke / Arnim: Muskau. P. 43f.
  4. ^ Knothe: Upper Lusatian nobility. P. 434.
  5. ^ Boetticher: Upper Lusatian nobility. Volume 2, p. 523.
  6. ↑ Family tree Anna Elisabeth von Bomsdorff, geb. from Rackel
  7. ^ Boetticher: Upper Lusatian nobility. Volume 2, pp. 524-527.