Saffron to Pfannberg
The Saffran zu Pfannberg (also Safran , Saffron and Safron ) were an aristocratic family originating from Styria and Carinthia and wealthy in Bohemia, which in 1711 was elevated to the imperial knighthood with noble von and in 1739 to the hereditary- Austrian baron.
history
In 1490 Gregor Saffran owned a Schwaig in the Bodental, today the Gasthof Sereinig , in 1524 she was called Mathy Safferan Schwayger . In 1541 the brothers Leonhard and Lorenz were the Saffran Schwayge .
Lorenz Ignaz Saffran , Lower Austrian court chamber procurator , was accepted into the imperial knighthood in 1711 with the addition "Edler von". Lorenz Ignaz was the Imperial Court Fiscal and Court Cammerrath in Vienna at the beginning of the 18th century . He was married to Dorothea Ursula, née von Ketten. His brother Friedrich served as Rittmeister in the Imperial Alt-Darmstadt Cuirassier Regiment .
Franz Anton von Saffran , the son of Lorenz Ignaz, was also the Imperial Chamber Councilor and Referendarius from 1723 . On April 16, 1733, he was accepted into the Styrian countryside. In 1739 he received a confirmation diploma as imperial knight with the addition: "Noble Lord", in the same year he was raised to the rank of baron. In 1742 Franz Anton von Safron was accepted into the estates of the Duchy of Carinthia.
The family was wealthy in Bohemia and Styria (including Pfannberg, Frondsberg Castle , Kellerhof in Hausmannstätten ) and took over the rule of the extinct Counts of Spanberg. Franz Anton von Saffran acquired the Pfannberg rule and castle ruins from the Jöchlingers in 1736. In Grafendorf, which was now called Neu-Pfannberg, he set up the rulership administration. His son Johann Nepomuk sold the rule to Johann Paul von Wildburg in 1769. In 1840 the Pöls Castle came into the possession of the family until it was acquired in 1854 by Friederike, Duchess of Oldenburg - married Baroness of Washington.
In 1857 Emanuel Freiherr von Saffran was a lieutenant colonel in the Imperial and Royal Adjutantencorps, head of the 1st department at the Provincial General Command in Vienna, and later Major General. He was a 3rd class knight of the Austrian Imperial Order of the Iron Crown .
coat of arms
A four-field shield, in the 1st and 4th black field with a golden bar a saffron flower, in the 2nd and 3rd white field a red rose with green leaves on the stem. The crest on the crowned helmet are two black eagle wings, with a golden bar and the saffron flower and in between the rose with green leaves standing upright (as in the coat of arms).
literature
- Carl Schmutz: Historical-topographical lexicon of Steyermark. Volume 3, Graz 1822, p. 425.
- Johann Christian von Hellbach: Adels-Lexicon. Volume 2, Ilmenau 1826, p. 360.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 8, Leipzig 1868, p. 10. (with further references)
Individual evidence
- ^ Tuschar: Ferlach. History and stories. 1996 , p. 351 f.
- ^ Karl Wilhelm Mayer: Statistics and Topography of the Duchy of Carinthia , Klagenfurt 1796, p. 77.
- ^ Joseph Carl Kindermann: Contributions to Patriotic Studies for Inner Austrian Residents , Volume 1, Grätz 1790, p. 228.
- ↑ Pfannberg in burgen-austria.com