Trach
Trach is the name of an old baronial Silesian noble family .
history
The family was called Trach, Drach or in Latin Draco. The earliest documentary evidence comes from the Principality of Liegnitz in Lower Silesia . Conrad Draco documents on March 19, 1253 in Liegnitz. Stefan Trach was court judge in Liegnitz and Brieg and was mentioned in a German document on the Sunday before Christmas 1361. In 1324 the family appeared in Upper Silesia wearing a costume from Brzezie (later Birkau), court judge in Ratibor . On September 28, 1699, Johann von Trach and his cousins Heinrich, Karl Friedrich and Georg Heinrich were awarded the old Bohemian baron class. The family owned extensive estates in Upper Silesia (including the small town of Kieferstädtel ) and became very wealthy through the establishment of industrial plants such as iron hammers and blast furnaces. The Trach family died out in their Austrian line in 1861 and in the Prussian line after 1812 in the male line .
The name of branches of the Rothkirch family is carried on through adoption .
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 2, p. 249
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Trach von Birkau, the gentlemen, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 46th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1882, p. 258 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Ludwig Igálffy-Igály: The Barons Trach von Birkau . In: Communications from the Beuthener History and Museum Association . No. 19/20 (1958/59) , pp. 134-157 .
Web links
- Trach. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 44, Leipzig 1745, column 1796.