Weichs (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of the Weichs

Weichs is the name of an old Bavarian noble family . The gentlemen von und zu Weichs come from the Bavarian nobility. Their headquarters in Weichs an der Glonn is now a municipality in the Dachau district near Munich . Since the 17th century, branches of the family have also been located in the Cologne Rhineland and in the Electoral Cologne Westphalia .

history

The family with Conradus de Weichs was first mentioned in a document in 1221 . He was based in Weichs near Dachau , but members of the family subsequently acquired other important goods.

The Lords of Weichs held the office of treasurer in the diocese of Freising for centuries . In 1410 Degenhart von Weichs was appointed Bishop of Freising.

From the 15th century they formed two main lines, an older Bavarian-Austrian and a younger Bavarian-Electoral Cologne line. The older line had four branches: to Steingriff , Falkenfels , Obergriesbach and Dasing , but all of them, except for the later Austrian branch Obergriesbach , became extinct.

The younger line came to Kurköln at the beginning of the 17th century and formed three branches. An older one in Körtlinghausen in the Sauerland , which went out again in 1819, a middle one in Rösberg in the Rhineland and a youngest in Wenne in Westphalia . Your city seat was the Weichs'sche Hof in Arnsberg.

From 1645 to 1819 Körtlinghausen was owned by the von Weichs family. The Castle Körtlinghausen was in 1714 by the Hildesheim architect Justus Wehmer as Barockanlage for the chief hunter Baron Franz Otto von und zu Weichs built; In 1830 it passed to the Barons von Fürstenberg , who still own it today. In 1729, Justus Wehmer built a curia in Hildesheim for the cathedral cantor Johann Bernhard Joseph von Weichs, which later housed the episcopal Konvikt .

Clemens Freiherr von und zu Weichs (* 1736, † 1815), Lord of Wenne, was Landdrost in the Duchy of Westphalia and director of the Westphalian knighthood . Of his sons, Franz Philip became Freiherr von Weichs canon of Paderborn and a secret councilor in the prince-bishopric of Paderborn . Wilhelm Anton Freiherr von Weichs was canon of Münster and Maximilian Friedrich Freiherr von Weichs , lord of Rösberg and Weichs, secret council and canon of Bamberg , became director of the government of the Grand Duchy of Hesse .

Since the Senioratsbesitz the family estate Weichs in sex lasted until 1852, was both the older, since 1623 baronial line, as well as in Rösberger branch, which since 1636 also baronial younger line, the designation barons and from Weichs on the Glon common.

The members of the Wenne family call themselves barons von Weichs zur Wenne . 1806 married Kaspar Karl Ferdinand Anton Franz Freiherr von Weichs zur Wenne (* April 6, 1777, † October 25, 1850 in Geijsteren Castle), son of Clemens von Weichs , Maria Anna Countess von und zu Hoensbroech . As a result of the marriage, the Dutch estate Geijsteren near Wanssum came into the family. The Dutch members of the family were accepted into the Limburg knighthood in 1816 and bear the name Baron de Weichs de Wenne. The Geijsteren Fort was destroyed in a bomb attack in 1944.

1926 acquired Klemens Empire Freiherr von Weichs to Wenne after selling the risk of mining damage castle Bladenhorst the Borlinghausen castle , which has since family center is its offspring.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows an ascending black tip in silver . On the helmet are two wings , slanted in silver and black , between which a natural monkey perches on a red cushion , looking at itself in a mirror. The helmet covers are black and silver. The coat of arms of the Bavarian-Electoral Cologne line wears two helmets with the same crest and monkeys sitting opposite each other.

Historical coats of arms

  • Coat of arms from Scheibler's book of arms from 1450

  • Coats of arms of the two Bavarian families von Weychs from 1560

  • Coat of arms graphic by Otto Hupp in the Munich calendar of 1925

  • Coat of arms of those from Weichs zur Wenne

Coat of arms

The tip from the family coat of arms still appears in some Upper Bavarian and Sauerland local coats of arms.

Name bearer

Portrait of Clemens August von Weichs

See also

literature

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