Taczanowski

The coat of arms of the Counts and Lords of Taczanowski: Jastrzębiec

Taczanowo Castle around 1860, Duncker Collection

Taczanow Castle (built in the late 18th century; expanded 1853–57 and 1922)

Neo-Gothic gate (1853–54), Taczanow Castle

Podrzecze Castle near Gostyń, Poland

Polish Home Army Grave of Hubert Taczanowski (1924–1944), killed in the Warsaw Uprising

Taczanowski is the name of a noble family from Wielkopolska who belong to the Jastrzębiec coat of arms . The Taczanowski family takes its name from the place Taczanowo in the former Krotoschin district in the province of Poznan , where the family was first mentioned in 1437.

Elevation to the Prussian count ad personam on May 17, 1854 in Charlottenburg with a diploma of September 6, 1854 for the royal Prussian chamberlain Alfons von Taczanowski , majorate on Taczanowo.

The elevation to the count status was extended on March 21, 1857 in Berlin to the first-born descendant ( primogeniture ) who, according to the decree of March 8, 1858, was also hereditary member of the Prussian mansion. However, both were linked to the Fideikommiss estate Taczanowo founded on January 14, 1856 .

The Austrian branch of the family is called Dassanowsky .

Coat of arms motto: Plus penser que dire

Name bearer

• Jan Scibor Taczanowski (15th century – 1468), Wojwode von Łęczyca around 1437.
• Andrzej (Andreas) Taczanowski (1660-18th centuries), Sobieski 's knight commander of the second Turkish siege of Vienna in 1683. See also Dassanowsky .
• Rafael Taczanowski (18th century), Chief Prefect of the Jesuit Order in Poland.
• Jan Taczanowski (1753–19th century), Trembowia Truchsess .
• Maksymilian Taczanowski (177? –1852), national revolutionary.
• Alfons Graf von Taczanow-Taczanowski (1815–1867), first count, hereditary member of the Prussian manor house .
• Władysław Taczanowski (zoologist) (1819–1890), ornithologist and zoologist .
• Edmund Taczanowski (1822–1879), Lord on Choryn; General in the Polish uprising from 1846 to 1848 and in Italy with Giuseppe Garibaldi .
• Władysław Taczanowski (politician) (von Taczanowski) (1825–1893), member of the German Reichstag .
• Anton Graf von Taczanow-Taczanowski (1847–1917), member of the Prussian manor house.
• Aleksander Taczanowski (1927–2001), first head of the post-communist re-establishment of the landowners' association in the Greater Poland Voivodeship ; Malta knights .
• Hubert Taczanowski (1960–), filmmaker and cameraman.

literature

• Gothaisches paperback of the count's houses , Perthes Verlag , Gotha 1857–1870
• PP Paprocki, Herby Rycerstwa polskiego, Kraków 1858
• Genealogical paperback of the knight and noble families (Brno paperback), Brno 1890
• Teodor Żychliński , Złota księga szlachty polskiej, Poznań 1879–1908
• Stefan Graf von Szydlow-Szydlowski and Nikolaus R. von Pastinszky, The Polish and Lithuanian High Nobility , Budapest 1944
• Simon Konarski: Armorial de la noblesse polonaise titrée, Paris 1958
• Günther Berger, “The family v. Dassanowsky: The Austrian line loyal to the emperor of the Polish Counts Taczanowski zu Taczanow, ” Krone und Reich: Journal of the Association of Austrians to Preserve the History of Austria, 1/2 1999, 13-15.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN  0435-2408 .