Weichs (noble family)
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.
Obergriesbach Castle , Bavarian Swabia (owned by the family from 1468 to 1730)
Reconstruction of Dasing Castle , Bavarian Swabia (family owned until 1632)
Falkenfels Castle , Lower Bavaria (family-owned from 1607 to 1796)
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.
Rösberg Castle near Bornheim , (family owned 1623–1954)
House Wenne , Sauerland (family-owned since 1678)
Körtlinghausen Castle , Sauerland (built in 1714 by Franz Otto von Weichs, family owned 1645–1819)
Bladenhorst Castle , Castrop-Rauxel (family owned 1881–1926)
Borlinghausen Castle , East Westphalia (family-owned since 1926)
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
Coat of arms graphic by Otto Hupp in the Munich calendar of 1925
Coat of arms
The tip from the family coat of arms still appears in some Upper Bavarian and Sauerland local coats of arms.
Coat of arms of the municipality of Weichs
Coat of arms of the municipality of Ascha
Coat of arms of the municipality of Falkenfels
Coat of arms of the municipality of Obergriesbach
Coat of arms of the Loitzendorf community
Coat of arms of the community Eslohe
Coat of arms of Scharfenberg, part of the city of Brilon
Name bearer
- Clemens August von Weichs (* 1736, † 1815), last Landdrost in the Duchy of Westphalia and first President of the Hesse-Darmstadt government council in Arnsberg
- Engelbert August von Weichs zu Sarstedt (* 1755; † 1815), canon in Hildesheim, Münster and Paderborn
- Franz Stephan von Weichs (* 1717; † 1768), Canon in Hildesheim and Osnabrück
- Friedrich von Weichs-Glon (* 1832, † 1873), Austrian landowner and liberal politician
- Joseph Franz von Weichs (* 1745; † 1819), canon in Münster and Paderborn
- Joseph von Weichs (* approx. 1770; † 1826), Prussian district administrator
- Joseph Maria von Weichs (Imperial Baron von Weichs on Steingriff; 1756–1819), German administrative lawyer
- Maximilian von Weichs (* 1881; † 1954), German field marshal
- Philipp Franz von Weichs (* 1714; † 1755), Canon in Münster
- Wilhelm Joseph von Weichs (* 1716; † 1786), provost in Paderborn and canon in Münster and Hildesheim
- Wilhelm von Weichs-Rösberg (* 1825; † 1894), landowner and member of the Prussian manor house
See also
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Weichs an der Glan, the barons, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 53rd part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1886, p. 252 ( digitized version ).
- Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1925 . Book and Art Print AG, Munich-Regensburg 1925.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Freiherrliche Häuser, Volume 4 (1952), 37 (1966), 80 (1982) and 127 (2002), ISBN 3-7980-0827-2
Web links
- Entry about Weichs in New Prussian Adelslexicon
- Document requests for the von Weichs family from the Wenne archive / digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)
- Coat of arms of the "Weichser"
- in “ Coats of arms of German families , Augsburg? 1475 "
- in the " Book of Arms of the Holy Roman Empire , Nuremberg around 1554–1568"
- in Max von Spiessen : Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility , book 2, Görlitz 1901–1903, plate 330