Tschirschky (noble family)
Tschirschky (also Tschierschky ) is the name of an old Silesian - Bohemian noble family .
history
Origin legend
The nobility of the Tschirschkys is traced back in old chronicles to the alleged great deed of their ancestor. This is said to have been a Bohemian charcoal burner who earned his living by burning charcoal in the forests of Bohemia . There he was attacked one day by a buffalo , a “fierce beast” (probably a bison ). Although he was unarmed, he managed to kill the animal with his bare hands. His sovereign, a Polish prince, to whom the charcoal burner presented the dead animal, then gave him the forests in which he pursued his trade as a fief as a reward for his deed.
With the award of this property, the charcoal burner became a free man and henceforth counted among the knights and nobles. Since then, the Tschirschkys are said to have belonged to the ancient nobility.
Guaranteed history
By the turn of the millennium, the Tschirschkys were recognized as free lords and listed in the heraldry of the Silesian royal houses . The family was first mentioned in a document on March 10, 1329 with Jeschko Schirousky , on Stuse, as a feudal man of Duke Heinrich VI. from Breslau , with which the uninterrupted trunk line begins. Later a Saxon, a Silesian and a Brandenburg line were formed. The family was particularly extensive in Silesia, Bohemia and Brandenburg.
The progenitor of the Silesian line is Ernst Leonhard, born in 1657, who, according to a chronicle from Liegnitz , was a man “in whose beautiful body a very noble spirit lived”. After a career in the service of the Dukes of Holstein-Plön and the estates of the Duchy of Brieg , he died in February 1721.
The Silesian Tschirschkys were originally very wealthy. During the Thirty Years' War and the Wars of Liberation , they lost many possessions, so that in the 19th century only their headquarters in Kobelau - about a thousand acres in what would later become the Frankenstein district - remained.
Günther von Tschirschky (* June 21, 1860; † 1914), who had moved up into the line of succession after the accidental death of his older brother, married Johanna Countess von Limburg-Stirum (1866–1943) in 1887 . The marriage had eight children, including the officer Bernhard von Tschirschky , the student Hans Adam von Tschirschky, the lady-in-waiting Sibylla von Tschirschky and the diplomat Fritz Günther von Tschirschky . In 1904 Günther von Tschirschky also took over the possessions of his wife's father, the politician and diplomat Friedrich zu Limburg-Stirum , in Bromberg in [Posen Province | Posen]. Lobsen's rule consisted of the four estates Buchen, Eberspark, Tatay and Lobsonka and comprised ten thousand acres and large forests. Tschirschky moved the manor house to the central Gut Buchen.
coat of arms
The tribe coat of arms shows a forward-facing black buffalo head with a gold nose ring in red . On the helmet with red and silver covers, two silver buffalo horns.
Coat of arms of the von Tschirschky family in Siebmacher's book of arms around 1701
Well-known representatives
A well-known representative of the Brandenburg line was Major General Hans Wolfgang Levin von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1864–1935), who took part in the First World War and the Free Corps battles in the Baltic States as commander of the 3rd Guard Uhlan Regiment .
Heinrich Leonhard von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1858–1916), who as an imperial German diplomat from 1909 to 1916 held the post of German ambassador to Austria-Hungary, is considered the most prominent representative of the Saxon line .
The officer Bernhard von Tschirschky and the diplomat Fritz Günther von Tschirschky came from the Silesian line .
Other personalities:
- Bernhard Hans Levin von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1862–1930), Prussian district administrator in the Zauch-Belzig district
- Bernhard von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1888–1916), Prussian naval officer, commander, naval attaché in the Ottoman Empire
- Ernst Richard von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1822–1904), Prussian officer and commander of the Duke Braunschweig Infantry Regiment No. 92
- Friedrich August Albrecht von Tschirschky (1792–1799), Prussian major general, commander of the Wesel Citadel
- Heinrich Friedrich Levin von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1828–1852), Prussian district administrator in the Zauch-Belzig district
- Carl Wilhelm von Tschirschky (1735–1803), Prussian major general
- Carl Otto Heinrich von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1802–1833), Prussian officer, revival preacher, pietist, separatist
- Otto Julius von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1852–1861), Prussian district administrator in the Zauch-Belzig district
- Julius Friedrich von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1737–1814), since 1774 Mr. von Peilau-Schlössel
- Benno von Tschirschky-Reichell (1810–1878), landowner Gut Schlanz and Prussian politician
- Adolf von Tschirschky and Bögendorff (1828–1893), Saxon lieutenant general
- Mortimer von Tschirschky (1844–1908), German majorate leader and parliamentarian
Family possessions
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XV, Volume 134 of the complete series, pp. 60-62, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2004, ISSN 0435-2408
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description. With historical and documentary evidence. Volume 3, Leipzig 1856, pp. 422-423
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 9, Leipzig 1870, pp. 300-302
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1858. Eighth year, p. 777ff Tschirschky-Reichell
Web links
- Johann Georg Theodor Grasse: The saga treasure of the Kingdom of Saxony 727) The coat of arms of the Lords of Tschirschky. , Volume 2, Dresden 1874, pp. 115-116; Source: Zenodot Verlagsgesellschaft mbH ; License: Public domain
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adelslexicon or genealogical and diplomatic news , Leipzig 1837, p. 281: the Lords of Tschirschky
Individual evidence
- ^ State Archives Wroclaw, Silesian Regesten 4816
- ^ Heimatverein Treuenbrietzen "History and stories from the market": A district administrator as a third honorary citizen
- ^ Marineattaché, Books LLC, Wiki Series, Memphis USA, 2011, p. 5