Tschirnhaus

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Family coat of arms of those of Tschirnhaus

Tschirnhaus (also Tschirnhauß , incorrectly Tschirnhausen ) is the name of an Upper Lusatian nobility .

history

This family had its parent company in Tschernhausen near Seidenberg . The first representative of the family was Heinrich Scerhusen , who first appeared in a document in 1385. The lineage of the family begins in 1442 with Hans Czirnhause .

From 1494 the Tschirnhaus owned the Bolkenhain castle fief . In 1532, Katharina von Lichtenburg , wife of Hans Tschirnhaus, renounced her rights and treasures to the castle and town of Bolkenhain, and all Tschirnhaus' heirs acknowledged receipt of the pledge on May 7, so that the Wroclaw Bishop Jakob von Salza was now the legal owner.

The family later split into two houses: Mittelwalde in the County of Glatz and Wederau in the Duchy of Jauer . The house Mittelwalde was in Prague in 1606 in the erbländisch-Austrian baron raised the house Wederau received in 1721 the title of Count .

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the von Tschirnhaus family is split; right red without picture, left divided by black, silver, red and black. On the helmet with black, red and silver covers, two buffalo horns marked like the halves of the shield.

Coat of arms of the barons of Tschirnhaus

The coat of arms of the barons of Tschirnhaus is quartered, with the family coat of arms in the 1st and 4th fields, in the 2nd and 3rd two slanted black tree trunks cut in gold (coat of arms of the Berka von Dubá or the relatives of Lichtenburg) . It has two helmets, on the right that of the family coat of arms, on the left with black and gold blankets in front of a natural peacock tail consisting of six feathers and a red cushion with yellow tassels. On it a silver carp (from Lichtenburg).

Count's coat of arms

The count's coat of arms corresponds to the baronial one, but has three helmets; on the right the trunk helmet, on the middle one with the red and silver cover on the right, the black and gold cover on the left, the sloping tree trunks in front of a flag waving like the shield of the coat of arms on the left; on the left the helmet of Lichtenburg. There are two golden griffins standing against it as a shield holder .

people

See also

literature

  • Curt Reinhardt, On the genealogy of those von Tschirnhaus, in "Der Deutsche Herold" No. 61/1910.
  • The same one that Tschirnhaus u. Bolkenhain on Mittelwalde, in "Glatzer Heimat" No. 16/1930.
  • Hans Friedrich u. Carola v. Ehrenkrook, lineage of the Silesian noble families I, Görlitz 1941.
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch (Uradel). 1933 (family tree), and 1937 (family tree and older genealogy)
  • Hans-Joachim Böttcher: Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus - The genius admired, fought and hushed up , Dresden 2014, ISBN 978-3-941757-42-4 .
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke , New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, p. 297 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Bolkoburg near Bolkenhain . Edited from archival sources by Heinrich Schubert, 2nd edition. Schweidnitz. Published by Georg Brieger. 1895. pp. 14-16
  2. ↑ Mittelwalde
  3. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels-Lexicon , Volume 2, p. 297 .
  4. ↑ Michael Sachs: The flight of the evangelical wife Anna Magdalena von Reibnitz (1664– ~ 1745) with her five children from Silesia, threatened by forced Catholicization, in 1703 - a mood picture from the age of the Counter Reformation and Pietism. In: Medical historical messages. Journal for the history of science and specialist prose research. Volume 34, 2015 (2016), pp. 221–263, here: p. 236.