Dwarfs (noble family)
Zwerger (also from and to Zwerger) is the name of an old Bavarian noble family .
history
The family was first mentioned in a document in 1295. In 1354, the two dwarfs Otto and Wolfhart received the village court in Prittriching . The traceable line of trunks begins in 1430 with Chunrat Zwerger († 1465), farm and mill owner, fisherman and innkeeper on the Zwergern peninsula in Walchensee . On December 5th, 1532 his grandchildren, the brothers Hanns , Chunradt , Jörg and Martin received a ducal Bavarian coat of arms. Dr. jur. utr. Johann August Zwerger, canon and consistory assessor, was raised to imperial nobility on July 25, 1625 in Vienna with the entire family . With an imperial decree by Ferdinand der Ander, the entire family was exempted from all taxes and in 1627 notary Dr. Sengler confirmed for the first time.
The imperial nobility confirmation with the predicate von und zu was issued in Vienna on June 24, 1737 for Niclas von Zwerger, margravial Burgau forest master and his nephews the Oberstwaldmeister in Tyrol Johann Georg von Zwerger, and the KK Salzpfannhausverwalter zu Hall in Tyrol , Johann Martin von Zwerger. Georg Alois von Zwerger , the auditor for the court chamber of the Electorate of Bavaria , received another confirmation of the imperial nobility in Munich on September 25, 1790 from Elector Karl Theodor von Pfalzbayern in his function as imperial vicar .
Dr. theol. Franz Christoph von und zu Zwerger, prince-bishop of Augsburg and clerical councilor of Constantine , enrolled in the aristocratic class of the Bavarian knighthood on June 9, 1815.
The crest
- The coat of arms of 1532 shows a bearded dwarf in blue clothing with five golden buttons and black shoes in silver on a golden three-mountain, holding up a silver stone with his right hand to throw it, the left hand resting on his hip. On the helmet with the blue-silver covers the dwarf with the stone growing.
- The coat of arms from 1625 and 1737 shows a golden shield with the German imperial eagle , with an Austrian heart shield . In a silver tip grafted into the base of the shield you can see a crowned man in blue clad in gold, standing on a golden mountain, holding a silver stone in his raised right hand. On the crowned helmet with right black and gold and left red and silver helmet covers the man growing between two blue eagle wings .
Relatives
- Franz von Zwerger , Mayor of Ravensburg from 1821 to 1856
- Rudolf von Zwerger (1902–1945), German geologist and geophysicist
- Dr. phil et. Dr. theol. Johann Augustin von und zu Zwerger, University Chancellor of the University of Vienna and Provost of St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna
- Johann Baptist von und zu Zwerger (1824–1893), Prince-Bishop of Seckau
- Johann Nepomuk von und zu Zwerger (born April 28, 1796 in Donaueschingen , † June 26, 1868 in Cannstatt ) was a German sculptor and university professor
See also
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, pp. 588-589, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408
- Friedrich Cast (Ed.): South German noble heroes, or history and genealogy of the princely, counts, baronial and hereditary houses residing in the southern German states or associated with them, with details of their possessions, coats of arms, the statesmen, diplomats who emerged from them, Heroes, scholars and artists and their members living in the presence of them.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pankraz Fried , Sebastian Hiereth : Historical Atlas of Bavaria. Part of Old Bavaria, double volume 22/23. Landsberg district court and Rauenlechsberg nursing court. Commission for Bavarian State History, Munich 1971, p. 147.