Walck (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Walck family
Family grave stone in Speyer, 1907

The nobles von Walck were a Palatinate or Bavarian noble family .

Family history

With a diploma dated July 7, 1792, Elector Karl Theodor von Bayern in his capacity as imperial vicar elevated the Palatinate-Neuburg government councilor and imperial vicariate court judge Johann Simon Walck (born March 4, 1748) to the hereditary nobility, with the predicate " Noble von" . He was the ancestor of the Palatinate-Bavarian noble family of the nobles von Walck. Simon von Walck later held the office of a real secret council and 1st government secretary of the Altmühlkreis in Eichstätt . This corresponds to the current office of a district administrator .

A branch of the family lived in Speyer in the 19th and 20th centuries , where a tombstone with the family coat of arms has been preserved in the main cemetery . From this line Elisabeth Josefine von Walck (1888–1969) married the brother of the artist Hans Purrmann and for many years ran the Purrmann family's parents' painting business in Speyer with her husband Heinrich Christian.

coat of arms

The quartered coat of arms shows in fields 1 and 4 in gold the German imperial eagle growing out of the red shield base , 2 and 3 in silver a blue bar with a golden letter “W” (here: Walk written). Two helmets , on the right with black and gold covers the imperial eagle, on the left with blue and silver covers a flight marked as fields 2 and 3.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Haus der Kunst Munich: Hans Purrmann: Exhibition, Haus der Kunst Munich, March 23 to May 20, 1962 , catalog, 1962, page 60; Excerpt from the source
  2. after J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, Volume II, Section 1; The nobility of the Kingdom of Bavaria; Author: OT von Hefner; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1856