Seilern (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Seilern and Aspang

The counts of Seilern and Aspang are from Flanders originating Austrian noble family.

history

With the imperial court chancellor Johann Friedrich von Seilern, the family rose to the rank of knight in 1684, baron in 1693 and imperial count in 1713 and thus at the same time to the nobility . He had started as a councilor to the Elector Karl Ludwig I of the Palatinate in Heidelberg, then went to Vienna, converted to the Catholic denomination and there finally became Supreme Court Chancellor Emperor Leopold I and his successors Joseph I and Charles VI. ascended. He is considered the author of the pragmatic sanction .

origin

According to Constantin von Wurzbach , according to old heraldic books, the ropes belonged to the Swabian knighthood of the 14th century, with offices in Pforzheim , St. Gallen , in the Upper Palatinate and in Nuremberg . In fact, the father of the court chancellor was a master dyer named Johann Jakob Seiler, born in Speyer around 1600, who according to evidence lived in Ladenburg between 1636 and 1648 and died in Heidelberg around 1666 .

Johann Friedrich Graf Seilern adopted his nephew (son of his half-sister) Johann Friedrich Kichelier (or de Keuckelier) (1676–1751), who continued the tribe, name and title as Count von Seilern and Aspang . His great-grandfather in the male line was Arnold de Keukelier (around 1550–1615) from Bruges , a court wallpaperer in Heidelberg, who married Catharina van Heist in Frankenthal in 1574 . Among their descendants were - besides the great-grandson Johann Friedrich Kichelier - also barbers , tailors and ballad writers .

Possessions

In 1711 Johann Friedrich (I.) acquired the castle in Aspang-Markt and was therefore founded in 1713 under the name of Seilern and Aspang . Just one year after his death, in 1716, his nephew and heir Johann Friedrich (II.) Sold it back to the original owner family, the Counts of Pergen. In 1724 he acquired the Lukov (Luckow) castle in Moravia with the associated estate Freistadtl - Luckow - Kralitz , from which he established a Primogenitur - Entrepreneurship in 1751 . This included numerous villages that bought themselves free from inheritance in the late 18th and early 19th centuries .

His son Christian August also acquired the Lower Austrian rule of Litschau with Litschau Castle in the Waldviertel near the Bohemian border from the bankruptcy of Johann Anton Graf von Kuefstein in 1772 . He built a small, new one as a hunting seat next to the decaying old castle. Both belong to the family to this day.

In addition, in 1780 he acquired the rule of Hetzendorf from Maria Theresa , the estate of Hetzendorf Castle near Vienna, which, however, remained in the Habsburg possession. His residence in Hetzendorf was the Gall-Hof. In 1782 he also bought the Klosterneuburg possessions in Hetzendorf. His son Josef already sold everything in 1803. 1800–1801, the last elector and archbishop of Cologne, Archduke Maximilian Franz of Austria , who was expelled during the Napoleonic wars, lived in the Gall-Hof , brother of the two emperors Joseph II and Leopold II.

Since the Moravian lukov castle, located on a mountain, was abandoned as early as 1750 and the estates administration to the village Lukov and moved to Freistadtl had been and the castle then in ruins, the family that built 1887-94 near this village Castle Lešná as new center of power. She held the estates in Freistadtl, Luckow and Kralitz until they were expelled in 1945. After the Russians withdrew, they moved into Litschau Castle in the Waldviertel, which had been plundered and devastated inside.

In 1881 the widowed Countess Elisabeth von Seilern-Aspang built the Villa Seilern in Bad Ischl. In 1923, Carl Hugo Graf von Seilern and Aspang (1899–1988), on his mother's side a grandson of the American banker Charles Frederick Woerishoffer, who was born in Germany, bought Wasserburg Castle in Pottenbrunn , Lower Austria, which is still owned by the family today. His brother Oswald (1900–1967) acquired Schönbühel Palace on the Danube in 1930 and the associated Aggstein castle ruins . These also still belong to the Seilern-Aspang family. The youngest brother, Antoine Seilern and Aspang (1901–1978), was a well-known art collector.

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Familie Seilern-Aspang  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical Dictionary of German History , Volume 3, 2014, p. 2616
  2. ↑ Seiler, Johann Jakob
  3. ^ Counts of Seilern and Aspang
  4. ↑ GHdA , Adelslexikon , Volume XIII, Limburg an der Lahn 2002, p. 278 f.
  5. ↑ Genealogy Leukers-Paul: Kichelier / De Keuckelier
  6. ↑ It was not until 1850 and 1960 that Hetzendorf was settled, parceled out and built on; see: Hetzendorf (suburb) at www.geschichtewiki.wien.gv.at
  7. ↑ Charles Frederick Woerishoffer in: The History of Wall Street