Gaffron (noble family)

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Gaffron the name of a is Silesian Ur needle gender that to possess Oberstradam in Polish Wartenberg also Gaffron and Oberstradam and for the possession of Kunern in county Miinsterberg also Gaffron-Kunern calls.

There is no regular relationship with the Silesian Prittwitz-Gaffron .

history

origin

As with many Silesian noble families, the origin of the Gaffron family has not been conclusively clarified. Johann Sinapius , the Silesian nobility expert of the 17th century, suspected a connection to the Polish noble families Gawroński (Gawrony). However, this idea is not taken up by corresponding Polish standard works. There is no documentary evidence of Polish ancestry. From a heraldic point of view, this can also be practically ruled out. The coat of arms of the Silesian Gaffron (two buffalo horns on a red shield ) does not belong to the Polish family coat of arms and the aforementioned Polish families Gawroński have completely different coats of arms ( Rawicz , Rola and Świnka ). A connection to Poland was therefore rejected in the German standard works. The family appears for the first time in 1358 in the district of Groß Wartenberg in Lower Silesia in the district of Groß Wartenberg in Lower Silesia: Przibko von Gaweron sells his Buschka estate in the Wartenberg district to Thamo von Hayn (document from Duke Konrad I von Öls and Cosel-Beuthen.) December 1329: Werner von Pannwitz donates income from his estate Naselwitz, Nimptsch district , to a nunnery in Breslau. a. Janco von Gavron (document from Duke Boleslaus III of Liegnitz.) Due to its early appearance in the Groß Wartenberg district, the Gaffron located there is considered the family's ancestral property.

Status survey

On October 15, 1840 Hermann von Gaffron-Oberstradam auf Kuhnern was elevated to the status of a Prussian baron by the highest cabinet order in Berlin with a diploma from April 23, 1845.

Real estate

The most important early property of the family in the Principality of Oels is given: Mahjau in the Trebnitz district (owned around 1387, sold in 1448), Buschka (later a desert village in the Groß Wartenberg area, sold in 1358), Gaffron (owned before 1358, sold before 1481 ), Trembatschau (owned in 1440, sold shortly after 1572) and Ober Stradam (owned before 1557, two shares sold in 1611 and 1635 respectively). A few members can still be found in the 17th century in: Dalbersdorf (until 1663), Tschermin (until 1678) and Domtaschine (until before 1694). Most of them then descended into the dispossessed nobility. The Münsterberg line of the family was an exception: Sigmund von Gaffron-Oberstradam left the Oels area and in 1628 moved to the Haltauf estate in the Münsterberg district, which he acquired in 1639 from the parents of his wife Anna von Saurma-Jeltsch. His son Max (1632–1677) died early in Austrian military service, which is why his son Adam Abraham should be brought up Catholic. To get around this, he joined the Danish army. His son Palle Max (born August 12, 1714 in Schleswig) came back to Silesia, received the Haltauf estate from his aunt Juliane, and in 1737 Kunern from his wife, and in 1740 acquired Mittel Schreibendorf and had a family crypt and lodge built into the church there. In 1800 the descendants acquired March village . For a short time (until 1787) the family still owned Türpitz and Warkotsch in the Strehlen district. When the last baron of the family, Theodor von Gaffron , sold Kunern, Haltlauf and Märzdorf to the House of Saxony-Weimar on November 17, 1882, his descendants lost the baron class attached to Gut Kunern. As the final estate of the von Gaffron family in Silesia, Mittel Schreibendorf was sold in 1899.

people

  • Siegismund von Gaffron and Oberstradam the Elder († 1652), governor of the state rule Groß Wartenberg March 19, 1620 - June 10, 1625
  • Abraham Adam von Gaffron and Oberstradam (* 1665; † May 11, 1738), Royal Danish Lieutenant General
  • Ernst Christian Gottlieb von Gaffron and Oberstradam (* May 12, 1741; † December 26, 1803), on Kunern, Münsterberg District, District Administrator of the Münsterberg District (1780–1803) and Director of the Principality of Münsterberg and the County of Glatz
  • Hermann Freiherr von Gaffron-Kunern (1797–1870), Silesian landowner, administrative officer and member of the Prussian manor house
  • Maximilian Friedrich von Gaffron and Oberstradam (* December 15 or 22, 1727; † April 26, 1800), on Zobel (since 1764), Liegnitz district, district administrator of the Liegnitz district (1781–1794)
  • Rudolph von Gaffron (1821–1901 / 03), officer in the Austro-Hungarian army and owner of the manor
  • Theodor Freiherr von Gaffron-Kunern (1823–1899), Silesian landowner, Prussian chamberlain and member of the Prussian manor house
  • Auguste Hyrtl , b. von Gaffron and Oberstradam (1818–1901), writer
  • Antonie Brehmer-Gaffron , b. von Gaffron and Oberstradam (1833–1908), writer
  • Klaus von Gaffron (1946–2017), photo artist

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows two black buffalo horns in red. On the helmet with red and silver covers three (1.2.) Wreaths made of peacock feathers .

The baronial coat of arms (1845) shows silver and black buffalo horns, above the baron's crown the helmet of the noble coat of arms, plus a second one with the black and silver buffalo horns.

The family's motto : "Si Perdis Honorem, Omnia Perdidis" (= lost honor, lost everything; since the battle of November 13th 1677 near St. Margareth in Hungary).

The oldest printed coat of arms can be found in the Scharffenberg'schen Wappenbuch , from around 1578. In the Münsterberg district, some epitaphs with the Gaffron coat of arms have been preserved, for example at the church of Schreibendorf , Strehlen district . After 1740, Palle Max von Gaffron had a family box and crypt system built into it.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Sinapius, Vol. 2, pp. 633 and 635.
  2. ↑ For example: Kasper Niesiecki , Herbarz polski Kaspra Niesieckiego , Vol. 1–10, Leipzig, 1839–1846, or Uruski, S., Rodzina. Herbarz szlachty polskiej , Vol. 1–15, Warsaw 1904–1931. Only Emilian von Źernicki-Szeliga ( The Polish aristocracy and the aristocratic families from other countries who joined them , vol. 1, Hamburg 1900, p. 261) once again mentions the Gawroński families, but only refers again to Sinapius.
  3. ↑ For example: Kneschke, Vol. 3, p. 425, and Zedlitz-Neukirch, Vol. 2, p. 489.
  4. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm von Sommersberg: Silesiorum rei historicae et genealogicae accessiones ... , Leipzig 1732, p. 134.
  5. ↑ Colmar Grünhagen and Konrad Wutke : Codex diplomaticus Silesiae , Volume 22: Regesta on Silesian History 1327-1333, Breslau 1903, p. 83, document number 4898. The information to be found in the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility, Vol. 67, as recently as 1978: ' S. 327–33, certificate number 4848 'must be corrected!
  6. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873. Berlin 1874, p. 106 and addendum p. 13.
  7. ↑ Franzkowski, p. 314.
  8. ↑ Franzkowski, p. 354.
  9. ↑ Austrian National Library , Signature 49.P.24, S. 111th