Woyrsch (noble family)
Woyrsch is the name of an old Bohemian noble family . Branches of the family still exist today.
history
The Bohemian noble family von Woyrsch originally came from the parent company Protivetz near Písek ( South Bohemia ). It appeared for the first time on February 22, 1417 in a document with Bohuslav von Protivetz (around 1370-1417), with whom the direct line of trunks begins.
From his sons Bohuslav and Peter von Protivetz (1400–1463), Peter first took the name Woyrsch (Old Slavic Wojierz / Wojirz for the German baptismal name Hoier ). Nikolaus Woyrsch von Protivetz moved to the Troppau region in Moravian Silesia around 1500 .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows two silver arrows pointing diagonally upwards to the right; on the helmet with red and silver covers an open red flight , each pierced by an oblique inwardly directed silver arrow .
Name bearer
- Karl Wilhelm Remus von Woyrsch (1814–1899), German politician
- Felix Woyrsch (1860–1944), German composer
- Remus von Woyrsch (1847–1920), Prussian field marshal and member of the Prussian manor house
- Günther von Woyrsch (1858–1923), German manor owner, administrative and court official and politician
- Udo von Woyrsch (1895–1983), German general, member of the Prussian State Council and later of the Nazi Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ↑ Princely Schwarzenberg. Archive in Wittingau, document no.187 B.
literature
- Year book of the German nobility , Volume 3, 1899, published by WT Bruer, p. 838 - digitalized
- B. Clemenz: General Field Marshal v. Woyrsch and his Silesians, Glogau 1919
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch (Uradel) 1938 (with stem series and older genealogy).
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A volume VII, page 401, volume 34 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1965, ISSN 0435-2408