Zech (noble family)
The von Zech family were formerly a bourgeois, then ennobled from Thuringia and Saxony and still exist today.
history
On February 3, 1716, Bernhard Zech , who came from a middle-class background , was his wife Regina Elisabeth and their marital heirs to the Emperor Charles VI. in Vienna raised to the nobility and given them a coat of arms. Zech's son Bernhard (* December 6, 1681, † October 4, 1748) was given the status of imperial baron in 1729 and on August 14, 1745 was elevated to the status of imperial count during the Saxon imperial vicariate .
The family of the Counts von Zech-Burkersroda comes from the von Burkersroda family . The childless widowed Privy Councilor Countess Louise Christiane Dorothee von Zech geb. Freiin von Zech (1740–1815) adopted with the permission of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Prussia dated August 18, 1815, the governor Johann Christian August von Burckersroda , the son of her maternal brother, in child's place. The condition that the governor and his marital heirs should henceforth be called the Counts and Countesses von Zech, otherwise von Burckersroda, and should bear the Count's coat of arms of Zech .
coat of arms
The coat of arms is quartered , 1 and 4 in gold a half black eagle at the gap, 2 divided, above in black a growing golden lion , below in red and silver, 3 in blue a vine tendril with leaves and grapes. On the three crowned helmets on the right a flight of blue and gold divided across the corner , in the middle three ostrich feathers, on the left a growing golden lion. The covers are tinged black and gold on the right and blue and gold on the left.
Personalities
- Bernhard von Zech (1649–1720), minister and writer
- Bernhard Graf von Zech (1681–1748), court and judiciary
- Ludwig Adolph von Zech (1683–1760), Polish-Saxon real secret councilor
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Individual evidence
- ↑ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch, VI. Volume, 12th department, Dead Nobility of the Saxon Duchies, Nuremberg, 1907, p. 92, plate 73