Schweinichen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Schweinichen

Schweinichen is the name of an old Silesian noble family . The lords of Schweinichen belonged to the ancient nobility in Lower Silesia . The name varied from Sweyn , Sweynchen , Sweynichen , de Swyne , from Schwein and Schweinoch . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

Schweinhausburg in Lower Silesia

The family is probably of Slavic descent and is first mentioned in 1230 with Tader, castellanus de Swina . The trunk series begins in 1256 with Gunczelin to Schweinhaus . Ancestral seat of the family was the important castle Swinia ( Schweinhausburg , today Świny) near Bolkenhain in Lower Silesia.

The members of the family were wealthy from an early age. In the second half of the 14th century, two lines were formed, of which the older Heinrich line , with the branches Borau , Jägerndorf and Kolbnitz (near Herrmannsdorf ), which partly also settled in the Kingdom of Poland , still exists today. The younger Günzel line on Schweinhaus, with the branches Mertschütz -Wisenthal and Niedersiegersdorf , became extinct in the 18th and 19th centuries.

One of the most important representatives of the family was the ducal-Liegnitzsche court marshal Hans von Schweinichen (1552-1616), who, with the description of his service at the court of three Silesian dukes, is one of the most well-known morals of the 16th century.

Pawelwitz Castle in the Wroclaw district of Psie Pole (Hundsfeld) came in 1892 through Marie von Schweinichen, nee. von Korn from the Breslau publisher family to the family and remained in the possession of Ernst von Schweinichen (1893–1973) until the expropriation in 1945.

  • Pawelwitz Castle

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those von Schweinichen

The coat of arms shows a jumping silver pig in red. The pig growing on the crowned helmet. The helmet covers are red-silver.

Heraldic saga

According to an old legend, the Schweinichen family comes from a Bohemian knight named Biwoy. He is said to have caught a wild pig by the ears in 716, which he brought to the Queen of Bohemia, Libussa . Impressed by the strength and courage, she gave him her sister Kascha to wife. Since then he has had the name of Schwein and his descendants named themselves Tremschinsky, Klapsky and Koschalowsky after their parent houses. All three later also had a pig's head in their coat of arms.

Well-known namesake

literature

  • Heinrich Graesse: German aristocratic history. (Reprint of the 1876 edition) Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig 1999. ISBN 3826207041 .
  • Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1923. Munich / Regensburg Publishing House 1923.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2002. ISSN  0435-2408 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leubuser Kopialbuch in the Breslau State Archives, sheet 39b; Grünhagen, Schlesische Regesten, no.362.