Saurma (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Saurma-Jeltsch line

The Counts of Saurma, barons from and to the Jeltsch , are a noble Silesian family .

history

The family originally comes from Gefrees in Upper Franconia near Berneck and begins its line of roots in 1420 with Conrad Sauermann. In 1508, the Breslau aldermen, councilor, merchant and patrician Konrad Sauermann acquired the Jeltsch estate . In 1518 he had the castle on the Oderinsel converted into a palace. On August 29, 1530 he was raised to the nobility with a coat of arms improvement and his descendants in 1647 to the imperial baronage (as Saurma von und zu der Jeltsch ).

In 1798 the older Catholic line (on Jeltsch-Laskowitz) was raised to the Prussian count status, while retaining the title of imperial baron , as Count of Saurma, barons from and to the Jeltsch . The younger Catholic Lorzendorfer line was raised to the Prussian count status in the Primogenitur in 1840 , the other line members carried the baron title Saurma von der Jeltsch ; at the same time the evangelical Ruppersdorfer line was raised to the primogenic count status, it partly wrote itself Sauerma .

The family provided numerous Silesian manor owners as well as Prussian officials and politicians.

Possessions

The family's oldest possession since 1508 was the Jeltsch rule in the Principality of Ohlau , which was combined with three other formerly episcopal estates in 1569 to form a Fideikommiss , which covered 2,200 hectares. In 1623 a fire destroyed the Jeltsch Castle, the reconstruction was followed by the turmoil of the Thirty Years' War , through which the castle was devastated again; it remained in ruins afterwards. The family took up their new seat in neighboring Laskowitz , later the castle there served as a hunting seat for the family living in Breslau. In 1829 Gustav Graf von Saurma-Jeltsch had a new castle built northeast of the town of Laskowitz, which was expanded in 1886 and 1894. The goods Zindel ( district of Breslau ) and Suckau ( district of Glogau ) were also connected to the Jeltscher entails .

A younger line of the family owned the Lorzendorf and Oberstruse estates near Neumarkt, as well as the Sterzendorf Fideikommiss . Another line owned the Majorat Ruppersdorf with Zülzendorf, Nimptsch district (today Sulisławice, Powiat Ząbkowicki ). Around 1900 Nimmersath Castle was also owned by the Saurma.

Due to the flight and expulsion of Germans from Silesia and the associated expropriations, the family lost their Silesian property in 1945. Today, through marriage, Plausdorf Castle in Hesse is family-owned.

coat of arms

Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605
Coat of arms on the epitaph made in 1545 for Nikolaus Uthmann (1475–1550), his three wives and his children: (from left) 1. Uthmann and Schmolz , 3. Sauermann on Jeltsch
Coat of arms of the Counts of Saurma-Ruppersdorf
  • The family coat of arms shows a golden slanting bar in blue, in it a running red wolf. On the helmet with the red and gold helmet covers the wolf growing with a bare sword in its mouth.
  • The coat of arms from 1530 (Jeltsch line) is split in blue on both sides, on the right a half silver eagle at the split, on the left the family coat of arms. The crest like on the trunk helmet.
  • The coat of arms from 1600 (lines Jeltsch, Lorzendorf and Zülzendorf) shows in a split shield on the right a gold crowned golden lion in black, on the left a black crowned eagle in gold. On the helmet with black and gold covers the eagle.
  • The coat of arms from 1846 (line Ruppersdorf and Zülzendorf) shows in a split shield on the right in blue half a golden eagle at the gap, on the left in red in a golden diagonal bar a running natural fox. Three helmets: On the right with red and gold covers a gold crowned and armored black eagle, on the middle one with red and gold covers on the right and blue and gold covers on the right, the fox growing with a shiny gold sword in its muzzle, on the left one with blue-gold covers three (red-gold-blue) ostrich feathers. Shield holder: two forward-looking, wild men with green wreaths around their heads and loins, each leaning on a club with their free hand.

Known family members

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Saurma family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , p. 272
  2. ↑ GHdA -Adelslexikon, Volume XII, Volume 125 of the complete series
  3. ^ Necrology about Hugo von Saurma