Welck (noble family)

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The coat of arms of the baronial branch of the family from 1792.

Welck is the name of a Saxon noble family that was ennobled in 1785 .

history

The family appears in 1503 with Hans Welck as a citizen in Dresden . The brothers Karl and Rudolf were raised to the rank of imperial knighthood in 1785 , Karl received from the imperial vicar Elector Friedrich August III on June 22, 1792 . additionally the hereditary imperial baron class.

Karl's son Robert founded the branched, younger Riesa line that is still flourishing today. His brother Ludwig founded the older Oberrabenstein line, which became extinct in 1998 in the male line. The noble line founded by Rudolf died out in the male line in 1875.

For the family have Oberrabenstein , Riesa , Friedrichshain at Meissen and Radibor in Saxony played an important role. A family association has existed since 1891, initially in Dresden and since 1951 in Stuttgart .

coat of arms

The barons' letter of 1792 describes the coat of arms of the baronial branch of the family “as a shield divided or split from above, in the front or right silver field of which a full rose without a stem appears in its natural shape and color. The rear or left field is divided into five equal parts in the cross, so that the upper and lower parts are blue, the second and fourth golden, but the middle is black, in the latter two silver octagonal stars one above the other on the right, but on the left a silver half moon with right-turned horns can be seen. "

Personalities

Welck tomb in the cloisters of the Franciscan monastery in Meissen (1911)

The family name, individual life circumstances and character traits of the figure of Henri baron van der Welcke and his wife Constanze in Louis Couperus ' work “De boeken der kleine taren” (“The book of small souls”) is inspired by family members. By contrast, there was no Gertrud Freiin von Welck who was active as a writer around 1930 . There is also no other family with the same name.

literature

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  • Alfred Freiherr von Welck: Pictures of Life. Self-published, Radibor 1943.
  • Georg-Magnus Freiherr von Welck: Pictures of life. 2nd edition, self-published, Bonn / Bad-Godesberg 1992.
  • Stiftung Deutsches Adelsarchiv (Hrsg.): Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, pp. 52-54.
  • German Adelsarchiv (ed.): Genealogical manual of the nobility . Baronial houses. Volume XVII, Volume 107 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1994, pp. 498-511.
  • Georg Gotthelf Welck: The passage of Salzburg emigrants through Meissen. According to the report of the town clerk Georg Gotthelf Welck. In: Messages from the Association for the History of the City of Meißen. Volume 1, Issue 2, 1883, pp. 72-77.
  • Alfred Leicht: Résumés deserved Meissner. 4. The town clerk Georg Gotthelf Welck and Baron Carl Wolfgang Maximilian von Welck, district administrator in Meißen. In: Messages from the Association for the History of the City of Meißen. Volume 3, 1894, pp. 464-470.
  • HEF von Feilitzsch: On the family history of the German, in particular the Meissnian nobility from 1570 to approx. 1820. Starke, Großenhain, 1896, p. 347.
  • Henrich Freiherr von Welck: Excerpts from the papers of a Saxon. In: Messages from the Association for the History of the City of Meißen. Volume 8, 1910/1913, pp. 105-161.