Tschirschky (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Tschirschky

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

  • Coat of arms of the von Tschirschky (1847 Leonhard Dorst)

  • Coat of arms of those von Tschirschky in the Silesian coat of arms book

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 .

Grave of Carl von Tschirschky (1802–1833) near Vlotho

Other personalities:

Family possessions

  • 1914 Gut Kobelau / Kobyla Głowa

  • 1920 Gut Kunsdorf / Podlésie Niemcza

  • 1700 Groß-Wilkau / Wilków Wielki Palace

  • 2013 Arnsdorf / Miłkowice Castle

  • 1900 Pristram Castle / Przystronie

  • 1800 Peilau-Gladishof Castle / Piława Górna

  • 1815 Nieder Peilau / Piława Dolna Castle

  • 1860 Kittelau / Kietlin Castle

  • 1860 Gut Schlanz / Kobierzyce

  • 2014 Gutshof Klein Glien

literature

Web links

Commons : Tschirschky (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ State Archives Wroclaw, Silesian Regesten 4816
  2. ^ Heimatverein Treuenbrietzen "History and stories from the market": A district administrator as a third honorary citizen
  3. ^ Marineattaché, Books LLC, Wiki Series, Memphis USA, 2011, p. 5