Teuchern (noble family)
Teuchern (formerly also called Tuchern ) is the name of an originally noble, noble, Saxon-Eastern, later Wettin ministerial family.
history
The family had their ancestral home in the town of the same name and Castle Teuchern between Weißenfels and Hohenmölsen and named themselves after this. Its origins go back to the time of the Counts of Groitzsch. First mentioned in a document with Beterich von Teuchern as an opponent of Count Wiprecht von Groitzsch around 1079 and later with Horwin von Tuchern in 1174, Ekkehard from 1181 to 1197 and Hermann from 1195 to 1196. In 1303 Friedrich Burgmann was the Rudelsburg . They are documented from the 11th to the 16th century in Saxony , Thuringia and Brandenburg .
coat of arms
Blazon : Two blue bars in a shield made of red and silver. On the helmet with red-silver covers two buffalo horns drawn and tinged like the shield.
Coats of arms related to those of Münch and those of Würchhausen.
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Vol. 9, Leipzig 1870, p. 172 digitized