Walcher from Molthein

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Johann Georg Walcher von Molthein (1785-1854)

The Walcher von Molthein were from 1854 an Austrian noble family , from 1873 in the knighthood .

The Walcher von Molthein came from the coppersmith family Walcher zu Absam in Tyrol , who originally came from Graubünden and owned the copper works at Braitweg near Absam, and came to Vienna in their branch via Moldautein in Bohemia . From 1917 to 1964 the family owned Schloss Feldegg .

Members

  • Peter Georg (III.) Walcher (1743–1792), merchant and kk postmaster of Moldautein ⚭ Johanna geb. Eissner von und zu Eisenstein (1747–1797, Pacher widowed in first marriage, Grim married in third marriage)
    • Johann Georg Walcher (1785–1854), chief accountant of the Austrian National Bank , raised to the Austrian nobility in 1854 with the title of Molthein, ⚭ 1818 Franziska Welzl von Wellenheim (1798–1874)
      • Leopold Walcher von Molthein (1824–1911), diplomat, 1873 Austrian knighthood ⚭ I. 1863 Camilla Malanotti (1839–1872), ⚭ II. 1877 Emilie Katharina Mollwo-Moberly (1828–1904)
        • Günther Walcher von Molthein (1864–1864)
        • Humbert Walcher von Molthein (1865–1926), architect
        • Alfred Walcher von Molthein (1867–1928), art historian and art collector, ⚭ 1893 Anselma Welzl von Wellenheim (* 1866)
          • Bernhardine Walcher von Molthein (* 1898)
          • Leopoldine Walcher von Molthein (* 1902)
          • Johann Georg Walcher von Molthein (1903–1969)
        • Martha Walcher von Molthein (1868–1952) ⚭ 1891 Bruno Demel Ritter von Elswehr (1867–1910), court and ministerial advisor in the kk ministry of the kk house and exterior, brother of the Egyptologist Hans Demel
        • Hareth Guido Friedrich Walcher von Molthein (* 1870)

coat of arms

Coat of arms 1854

The coat of arms from 1854 shows a red shield, crossed by a flooded silver crossbar with a curved silver tip placed over it and reaching to the main edge. A floating iron anchor in each upper crossing. The point runs through a wall of reddish blocks along the edge of the foot with six battlements and three loopholes, out of which a double-tailed red lion, holding a green palm branch in its right paw, grows. Helmet with an open red flight, covered with a silver flooded crossbar between the red lion with the palm branch. Helmet covers: red with silver.

Coat of arms 1873

The coat of arms from 1873 shows a curved tip, fields 1 and 2: in red a silver wavy bar, above an iron anchor, field 3: in silver a double-tailed red lion growing out of a red battlement wall, holding a green palm branch in its right paw. Two crowned helmets, both with red and silver covers, helmet 1 (right): a red flight on the right and a silver flight on the left, covered on both sides with a corrugated beam in the opposite color, helmet 2 (left): a growing double-tailed red lion in its right paw holding a green palm branch.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Sudetendeutsche Familienforschung , annual issue 1978, p. 183 f.