Widmann-Sedlnitzky

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Union coat of arms of the Counts von Widmann-Sedlnitzky from 1871

Widmann-Sedlnitzky is a family with roots in Moravia and Austrian Silesia , which is counted among the Austrian nobility due to its hereditary membership in the manor house .

history

Anton Freiherr von Widmann (born October 13, 1805; † September 10, 1866) inherited the Wiese property, served in the army, was kuk chamberlain and landowner and married Countess Leopoldine Sedlnitzky von Choltitz on May 15, 1834 (born November 13, 1812) , Odrowons-Sedlnitzky line, Lady of the Star Cross (1843) and only child of Maria Anton Wenzel Franz Bernhard Ferdinand Count Sedlnitzky, Baron von Choltitz(* December 4, 1776; † March 9, 1850), Herr auf Geppersdorf and Nassiedl, kuk chamberlain, Privy Councilor, President of the Appeal Court in Brno, and Countess Maria Anna Josepha Elisabeth von Wilczek (* December 6, 1781 - March 12 1850). Leopoldine brought the Silesian estates Lodwitz and Stremplowitz as a dowry into the marriage, from which son Victor emerged.

Victor Freiherr von Widmann-Sedlnitzky (* September 8, 1836, † January 25, 1886) was married to Anna Lazar von Lazareff (1837-1900) and joined the army in 1854 as a lieutenant. On October 29, 1868, he became a member of the manor house as a delegate from Moravia.

In the Potocki cabinet , the landowner was appointed Minister of Defense on May 5, 1870. However, he lost this office after two months through an imperial handwriting. It had come to the public that in 1857, as a first lieutenant in the Liechtenstein Uhlans, he had lost a lawsuit against a confectioner.

In February 1868 the baron applied for his elevation to the rank of count and for permission to add the name “Sedlnitzky” to his own (the Sedlnitzky family had been the imperial count since July 25, 1695). Interior Minister Count Taaffe then recommended that the ruler carry out this act.

The kuk chamberlain and landowner Victor Freiherrn von Widmann received on December 9, 1870 (diploma from March 5, 1871), while his maternal great-uncle Leopold Count Sedlnitzky von Choltitz was still alive , royal Prussian privy councilor and the last member of the male line of his family, by a very high resolution Emperor Franz Josefs I. the permission to transfer the count status, name and coat of arms of Count Sedlnitzky von Choltitz to himself. His name was now Victor Count Widmann-Sedlnitzky, Count and Lord von Choltitz, Baron von Widmann. On September 27, 1874 he was accepted as a hereditary member of the Austrian manor house.

Luka nad Jihlavou Castle

Anton Viktor Leopold Count von Widmann-Sedlnitzky (born June 1, 1865 in Dyhernfurth , † February 11, 1949 in Graz ), son of the above, hereditary member of the manor house, was kuk chamberlain and real secret councilor . He married Gabriele Dentice from the Principe de Frasso house on July 25, 1892, died in 1949 and is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

As one of 64 noble families, the Widmann-Sedlnitzky family had a hereditary seat in the manor house , the upper house of the Austrian Imperial Council .

The family owned the baroque castle in Luka nad Jihlavou (English: meadow by the hedgehog ). In 1948 the family was expropriated and evicted and the property was scattered.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of Count Sedlnitzky 1695

Sedlnitzky 1695 : In a red shield a silver torn upper mouth with a large gagged beard hanging down from both sides. In the middle is an arrowhead turned upside down (Odrowons family). According to more recent information, a silver throwing iron or a silver one with a gagged beard attached below. A crowned helmet rises on the count's crown, which carries a peacock frond of eight feathers in three rows (3 2 3). The shield's coat of arms is placed across the middle row so that the arrowhead is turned to the right. A peacock whisk rises up, pierced across by the heraldic figure, through which a silver throwing iron with the beard is set across. The helmet covers are silver and red. Emblem: "Qui durat vincit."

Coat of arms of the Barons von Widmann 1730

Widmann 1730 : Shield quartered with a heart shield, the latter bordered in black and gold, in which an armored curved arm with sword, then a middle shield divided obliquely to the left by red and blue, fields 1 and 4 in gold with a blue lily, 2 and 3 in blue with a golden crescent moon Face. Three crowned helmets, on the left a flight in gold and black, on the right two flights facing each other, the left one in gold with a blue lily, the right one in blue with a golden crescent in the middle the image of the heart shield. The helmet covers are gold and black on the left, gold and blue on the right.

literature

Web links

Commons : Widmann-Sedlnitzky  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses, Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1857, p. 722
  2. ^ Reichsraths Almanac for the session. in Commission at Alfred Hölder, 1885, p. 112
  3. ↑ Stenographic minutes of the manor house of the Reichsrat. Volume 2, Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1869, p. 1275
  4. ^ Gustav Kolmer: Parliament and Constitution in Austria: 2nd Volume 1869-1879. kuk Hofdruckerei, Vienna 1903, p. 54
  5. ^ Fränkischer Kurier - Nürnberg-Fürther Latest news from June 2, 1870, p. 156
  6. ^ Roman Procházka : Genealogical handbook of extinct Bohemian gentry families, supplementary volume. Oldenbourg Publishing House, 1990
  7. ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner (ed.): Siebmacher's great and general book of arms, in a new, increased edition. P. 63
  8. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Volume 23, Graefliche Häuser B II, 1960
  9. ^ Gerhard Kurzmann , Ottfried Hafner: Dead in Graz. Living Austrian history on the St. Leonhard Cemetery , Graz 1990, p. 190
  10. ↑ History of Luka Castle (Czech)