Salza (noble family)

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Increased coat of arms of the entire family according to Siebmacher's coat of arms book (Plate 180, Braunschweigische )
Good Drehsa , Upper Lusatia
Kittlitz Castle
Hermann von Salza († 1239) as Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , with unprovable and only presumed membership of the family of those von Salza, which still exists today, after copper engraving in 1684 by Christoph Hartknoch
Statues v. l. To the right: Salza next to Feuchtwangen, Kniprode and Hohenzollern, in Malbork , in German Marienburg .

Salza (also Saltza or Counts, Barons and Lords of Sal (t) za ) is the name of an ancient noble family from Thuringia , which spread to the Baltic States , Bohemia , Upper Lusatia , Russia , Saxony , Silesia and Sweden .

history

The originally noble family of those von Salza comes from the homonymous place Salza , today Bad Langensalza , where they sat on the Dribogk / Dryburg (today Dryburg Castle ) and on the moated castle in the village of Ufhoven . The progenitor Burchard von Salza is mentioned in a document between 1162 and 1195. In 1174 Hugo von Salza and his brothers Günther and Hermann appear in the sources. As imperial officials, you were in possession of the right to mint and owned a mint in Salza in the 13th century , which is proven by coin finds. In 1345 the family sold the rulership and town of Salza. The Upper Lusatian branch appears for the first time in 1298 with Heilmannus de Sale and Heinricus de Sale . They were owners of lordly fiefdoms in the state of Görlitz and at the same time members of the city council of Görlitz .

The Upper Lusatian branch of the family, of whose original three lines Lichtenau , Linda (extinct in the 18th century) and Schreibersdorf (extinct in the 17th century), all three located near Lauban , only the line Lichtenau is in bloom, is documented from 1298 to today, only interrupted from 1945 to 2007, based in his homeland, including on the Sornssig , Jeßnitz and Wuischke estates and from 1909 on at Kittlitz Castle . Hermann Freiherr von Salza und Lichtenau (1978-2013) bought back the Drehsa estate in 2007 .

Members of the family now live in Germany and the United States of America, including the American swimmer Christina von Saltza .

Name bearer

Nolilitations

The von Salza family was raised to the baron and count status.

coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms shows a white ram's horn on red .

literature

  • Sebastian Beutler: A huge loss. With Hermann Freiherr von Salza und Lichtenau, not only a representative of the Upper Lusatian nobility dies. Much more is possible with him . In: Sächsische Zeitung Dresden, editorial office Löbau-Zittau, weekend supplement from 2/3. November 2013, p. 19
  • Walter von Boetticher : History of the Upper Lusatian nobility and their estates 1635-1815. Volume 2, Dresden 1913, pp. 687-711
  • Walter von Boetticher: The nobility of the Görlitz soft picture around the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. Görlitz 1927, pp. 203ff.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Freiherren A Volume IX 1975, pp. 436-439, Adelslexikon
  • Irmela Hennig: "We do a normal job" . There were once almost 200 large and small goods in Upper Lusatia. Some nobles returned to their homeland after reunification. The SZ spoke to Hermann Freiherr von Salza und Lichtenau about the life of the Lusatian nobility then and now. In: Sächsische Zeitung Dresden, Löbauer Zeitung, weekend edition from 29./30. October 2011, p. 9
  • Richard Jecht: History of the City of Görlitz. Görlitz in the 14th century. Görlitz 1923, p. 28ff.
  • Otto Posse: The family of Salza and Lichtenau. Separately printed in: The seals of the nobility of the Wettin region up to the year 1500. Volume 3, Dresden 1908, pp. 62–75
  • Carl von Salza and Lichtenau (ed.): Regesta of the Salza dynasty, which emerged from the old German gentry. Leipzig 1853 ( digitized version )
  • Saltza in: Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods , 1930
  • Regesta of the Salza dynasty, which emerged from the old German gentry in the Google book search

Web links

Commons : House of Salza  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files