Webern (noble family)

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Webern is the name of a noble family from the municipality of Salurn in the autonomous province of South Tyrol in Italy , which also branched out in Styria and Carinthia in Austria .

history

Origin and possession

Paul de Thesadories ( Webern ) was a landowner in Salurn around 1574 . He was the great-grandfather of Johann Jakob Webern , Fiskal in the Koenigsberg court in Tyrol as well as licentiate and Fiskal at the Bozen court , and his brother Josef Anton Webern , merchant , adjunct court assessor and councilor of Ljubljana (today: Ljubljana , capital of Slovenia ).

Josef Eduard von Webern , a descendant of Johann Jakob, led the family to Styria . His son Anton Eduard von Webern (* 1817) was the mountain administrator of the Austrian Alpine Mining Society and led the line from Carinthia to Schwabegg (part of the Neuhaus community ). The family lived there at Pregelhof Castle . His son Karl Eduard von Webern (* 1850) was Imperial and Royal Ministerialrat of the Ministry of Agriculture and owner of the Lambrechtsberg copper mine . He was married to Amalie Geer (* 1853). The composer Anton Friedrich Wilhelm von Webern comes from this marriage .

Nobility elevation and confirmation of nobility

Family grave in Schwabegg (Neuhaus municipality) in Carinthia , Austria

The nobility was raised in 1574 by Emperor Matthias for Paul Weber, landowner in Salurn with the title "de Tesadoris" (de Tessitoris, dt. Von Webern ). The Erbländisch-Austrian knightly nobility confirmation on August 15, 1731 by Emperor Karl VI. as "Noble von Webern" for the brothers Johann Jacob Webern as a tax in the court in Königsberg in Tyrol and Joseph Anton Webern as a merchant and adjunct court assessor in Laibach . On June 24, 1753, both received the prince-bishop's Trident nobility "von Webern".

Coat of arms of the von Webern family

coat of arms

Blazon : square , 1 and 4 in red a golden lion with a winemaker's knife in the right front paw and a blue bunch of grapes in the left front paw, 2 and 3 in blue an oblique right silver wave bar in which a natural fish swims upwards: on the helmet with red and gold blankets on the right and blue and silver blankets on the left, a growing young man dressed in red with a gold collar and cuffs, in his right a vintner's knife, in his left a green, leafy blue grape .

literature

  • Salurner Büchel , Salurner noble families, page 85, Universitätsverlag Innsbruck, Klebelsberg 1956.
  • Directory of the parish of Salorno donated offices , o. J.
  • Genealogical pocket book of the noble houses of Austria , p. 588f., Verlag Otto Maass & Söhne, 1905.
  • Genealogical handbook of nobility : Adelslexikon Volume XV. Volume 134 of the complete series. Limburg (Lahn): CA Starke Verlag, 2004. ISBN 3-7980-0834-5
  • Hanspeter Krellmann: Webern . Rowohlt-Verlag, 5th edition, 2001.
  • Jörg Köstler and Max Wank: The Carinthian Landsmannschaft . Issue 9/10, 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hanspeter Krellmann: Webern , page 8f., Rowohlt-Verlag, 5th edition, 2001
  2. ^ Genealogical pocket book of the noble houses of Austria , page 589 (Webern), 1905, with a description of the coat of arms
  3. ↑ Genealogical pocket book of the noble houses of Austria , page 588f., 1905
  4. ↑ GHdA Adelslexikon Volume XV (Vol. 134), 2004