Warnsdorf (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Warnsdorf

The Warnsdorf were a noble family that settled from northern Bohemia and from the 12th century in Lusatia and Meißen . After around 1190 by Emperor Frederick I were treated for their participation in the Crusades to knighthood, several members were of sex in the service of the Emperor and King Frederick II. , Adolf of Nassau and . Rudolf II Its headquarters was in The village of Warnsdorf was first mentioned in the 14th century and is now the town of Varnsdorf in the Czech Republic , Děčín district in Ústecký kraj . The Warnsdorfs, which were later elevated to barons , acquired extensive goods in Lusatia and Bohemia. Most of the Warnsdorfs in imperial service before and at the time of the Habsburgs were Catholic.

coat of arms

In blue, a silver star over a lying silver crescent. On the helmet with blue-silver covers the shield image, the horns of the moon and the topmost star ray each covered with a blue-silver ostrich feather.

Known members of the sex

  • Hans (Hanuš) von Warnsdorf, mentioned in 1343
  • Heinrich von Warnsdorf († 1346), Commander of the Order of St. John in Zittau , author of Christian writings and possibly the Dalimil Chronicle
  • Hans von Warnsdorf († after 1489), until 1474 Governor von Glatz in the service of the Bohemian King Georg von Podebradad , without male descendants
  • Georg von Warnsdorf, in the 16th century on Schönbrunn (Herrnhut) , fought the peasant uprising in 1556
  • Hans-Georg von Warnsdorf, around 1620 lord of the castle in Schreibersdorf, today Pisarzowice (Lubań)
  • Hans Sigismund von Warnsdorf, around 1679 in Taubenheim / Spree and Tauchwitz
  • Johann Christoph von Warnsdorf, cousin of Hans Sigismund, around 1681 ibid.
  • Caspar von Warnsdorf, around 1700 at Gießmannsdorf Castle
  • Christoph Adolph Benjamin von Warnsdorf († 1716) on Taubenheim and Tauchwitz
  • Haubold Adolph von Warnsdorf, ibid. († 1729)
  • Gottfried von Warnsdorf (1739–1831), tutor of the future Emperor Leopold II , Austrian major general and Lieutenant Field Marshal
  • Wolfgang Ehrenreich von Warnsdorf (1704–1764), commander of the Würzburg Fortress , and his son Heinrich von Warnsdorf alias Philipp Ernst von Warnsdorf, (1745 Würzburg; 1817 Fulda ), Benedictine priest and papal administrator in Fulda
  • HC von Warnsdorf, Hessian Higher Court Director in Fulda around 1820, found an algorithm for the construction of open Rösselsprung sequences (so-called "Warnsdorf rule").

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, Nuremberg 1605, Section Knighthood and Nobility in Saxony (“Saxon”), plate 166.
  2. ↑ Archive link
  3. ^ Taubenheim , in: Gustav Adolf Poenicke (Ed.): Album of the manors and castles in the Kingdom of Saxony , Leipzig 1854 ff.
  4. ^ State Historical Information System Hesse
  5. ↑ HC vom Warnsdorf: The Rössel jump, the simplest and most general solution. Schmalkhalden (sic!) 1823.