Zedlitz (noble family)
Zedlitz is the name of an old Silesian noble family that the nobility of Pleissenland comes.
history
The family can be traced back to the ancestral castle in Zedtlitz near Borna in Saxony (today Zedtlitz Castle ). The first known bearers of the name are the brothers Henricus and Otto de Cedelitz . They were ministerials of the empire or the diocese of Naumburg and appear for the first time in 1190.
Lines
Around 1320, nine Zedlitz brothers were resident in Silesia , seven of whom founded the lines Kauffung , Leipe , Liebenthal , Neukirch, Nimmersatt, Schönau (16th / early 17th century) and Wilkau.
- The Leipe line acquired the Bohemian baron class in 1735 and the Prussian count class in 1741.
- The Neukirch line acquired the imperial baron status in 1610 and the Hungarian count in 1722, and the Prussian baron in 1741; she was enrolled in the Bavarian baron class in 1910 .
- In 1608, the Nimmersatt line received the Bohemian baron status.
- The Wilkau line was raised to the Prussian count status in 1764.
Another Bohemian line, Zedlitz von Schönfeld , was expropriated after the Battle of White Mountain (1620).
Post office
The Zedlitz family (1908) , a nobility of letters, goes back to a Theodor Neumann , who was ennobled with his sister Elisabeth in Berlin on January 15, 1889. The diploma was awarded on April 28, 1870 at the Wartburg . They were the stepchildren and, since 1888, also the adopted children of Königlich Pruss. Secret upper government councilor and president of the Prussian maritime trade , Octavio Freiherr von Zedlitz and Neukirch .
Counts Zedlitz and Trützschler
The family of Zedlitz and Trützschler goes back to Gottlieb von Trützschler and Falkenstein , the nephews and heirs of Nicolaus Graf von Zedlitz in Frauenhain and Rungendorf. He was raised to the rank of Count of Prussia on February 22, 1810.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the Zedlitz family: “In red a silver sword belt buckle with a thorn stuck through the base of the shield. On the helmet with red-silver covers an open silver flight (later sprinkled with red drops of blood). "
A coat of arms changed in 1608 for the Very Hungry line shows the same coat of arms, but on each helmet it has an open black flight, sprinkled with red drops of blood.
The coat of arms of the Counts of Zedlitz and Trützschler: "Quartered, in fields 1 and 4 in red the silver belt buckle with an inserted pin (also in inverted triangular form, Zedlitz's family coat of arms), in fields 2 and 3 in gold a black sloping bar (Truetzschler von Falkenstein) . "Upper coat of arms consisting of three helmets:" Helmet 1 (middle) with black and gold covers on the right, red and silver covers on the left, a black eagle covered with a golden crescent moon; Helmet 2 (right) with black and gold covers, a man's trunk clad in black with two golden wings covered with a sloping beam instead of the arms; Helmet 3 (left) with red-silver covers an open silver flight sprinkled with red drops of blood. "
Historical coats of arms
Coat of arms of the von Zödlötz family in Konrad Grünenberg's Wappenbuch, 1602–1604
Known family members
- Adolf von Zedlitz and Leipe (1826–1906), Prussian lieutenant general
- Carl von Zedlitz-Trützschler (1800–1880), Prussian administrative officer, district administrator and regional president
- Conrad-Otto von Zedlitz and Neukirch (1870–1945), forest master and head of several forest districts in the province of Silesia
- Conrad von Zedlitz and Neukirch , District Administrator, Waldenburg (Schles)
- Constantin von Zedlitz-Neukirch (1813–1889), Police President of Berlin (1856–1861)
- Dietrich von Zedlitz-Leipe (1859–1946), German administrative officer and manor owner
- Elisabeth Countess von Zedlitz-Trützschler (* 1826), provess of the Magdalenenstift in Altenburg
- Ferdinand Freiherr von Zedlitz and Neukirch (1833–1907), Prussian district administrator
- Fritz von Zedlitz (1861–1968), Prussian major general
- George William Edward Ernest von Zedlitz (1871–1949), New Zealand professor and Senate member of the University of New Zealand
- Gustav Archibald von Zedlitz-Leipe (1824–1914), landowner and member of the Prussian manor house
- Hans von Zedlitz-Leipe (1833–1889), Prussian district administrator
- Hans Georg von Zedlitz , Strasbourg Stettmeister , signed the on September 30, 1681 capitulation of Illkirch with
- Hans-Siegmund von Zedlitz (* 1906), District Administrator
- Heinrich von Zedlitz and Neukirch (1863–1943), Prussian civil servant and district president
- Joseph Christian von Zedlitz (1790–1862), Austrian poet
- Karl Abraham von Zedlitz (1731–1793), Prussian minister
- Karl von Zedlitz (1789–1869), Prussian major general
- Kaspar Konrad Gottlieb von Zedlitz and Neukirch (1765–1842), Prussian district administrator
- Konrad von Zedlitz and Neukirch (1789–1869), Prussian major general
- Konrad-Sigismund von Zedlitz and Neukirch (1931–2018), German major
- Ladislaus von Zedlitz and Nimmersatt († 1628), Commander of the Johanniterkommende Striegau, chamberlain of the Breslau bishop Karl of Austria
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch (1792–1864), German writer, statistician and historian
- Octavio von Zedlitz-Neukirch (1840–1919), German politician, MdR
- Otto von Zedlitz and Neukirch (1787–1865), Prussian major general
- Otto Eduard Graf von Zedlitz and Trützschler (1873–1927), German ornithologist and writer
- Robert von Zedlitz-Trützschler (1837–1914), Prussian civil servant, minister of education
- Robert Graf von Zedlitz-Trützschler (1863–1942) , German administrative officer and son of the Prussian minister of education of the same name
- Robert von Zedlitz and Neukirch (1872–1937), District Administrator, Waldenburg (Schles)
- Siegmund von Zedlitz (1536–1610), Chamber President of Upper and Lower Silesia
- Sigismund von Zedlitz and Neukirch (pseudonym Hegewald; 1838–1903), German hunting cynologist and hunting writer
- Wilhelm von Zedlitz-Neukirch (politician, 1786) (1786–1862), German district administrator and member of parliament
- Wilhelm von Zedlitz-Neukirch (politician, 1811) (1811–1880), German MP
- Wilhelm Ernst von Zedlitz-Neukirch (1848–1923), landlord and member of the Prussian manor house
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Zedlitz, the barons . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 59th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1890, p. 258 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Theodor Bohner : Court Marshal Graf Zedlitz-Trützschler: A curriculum vitae from our time. Nieder-Großenborau, district of Liegnitz 1936, Rob. Count von Zedlitz-Truetzschler.
- Robert Freiherr von Zedlitz and Neukirch: The sex of the lords, barons and counts of Zedlitz in family tables from the first appearance to the present. Berlin 1938 (JA Stargard).
- Ingeborg and Caspar Freiherr von Zedlitz and Neukirch: The Zedlitze in Silesia. Ruhpolding 1997.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon. Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses , fifth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1855, p. 711ff. ; Sixth year, 1856, p. 794ff. ; Twenty-first year, 1871, p. 800ff.
- Genealogical-diplomatic yearbook for the Prussian state. Volume 2, 1842 p. 282ff.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1905. Sixth year, p.904ff
- Marc Zirlewagen : Zedlitz and Neukirch, (Gottlieb) Heinrich Frhr. v .. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 25, Bautz, Nordhausen 2005, ISBN 3-88309-332-7 , Sp. 1561-1566.
Web links
- Zedlitz . In: Heinrich August Pierer , Julius Löbe (Hrsg.): Universal Lexicon of the Present and the Past . 4th edition. tape 19 . Altenburg 1865, p. 542-543 ( zeno.org ).
- Zedlitz im Brockhaus 1837
- Coat of arms of the Zedlitz and Trützschler
Individual evidence
- ^ Otto Dorbencker , Regesta diplomatica nec non epistolaria historiae Thuringiae II 1, Jena 1898, No. 863
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume FAX, CA Starke-Verlag, 1977, p. 465.
- ↑ p. 432
- ↑ Jan Harasimowicz (ed.): Enthusiasm and freedom thinking: Contributions to the art and cultural history of Silesia in the early modern period . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar, 2010. ISBN 9783412206161 , p. 62 f.