Haugwitz

Haug joke is the name of a branched far, originating from the Meissen old noble family with the same parent company in the Erzgebirge. Since the Middle Ages, the lords of Haugwitz in Saxony, Silesia, Bohemia, Moravia, the County of Glatz, and resident in the Lausitz, and later in East Prussia were. They are tribal and arms related to the von Rechenberg.

History

Originally Haug joke probably came from Saxony. Legends lead the origin back to the Frankish nobility to the Carolingian period. Documented they appear for the first time in 1225 with Sifridus de Hugwitz and begin their regular series in 1474 with Matthew Haug joke.

In Moravia the Haugwitz had, inter alia, Bouzov the castle and manor Biskupitz. The Moravian branches of the family who settled in Namiest ( Náměšť nad Oslavou ) and Kojetin were collected in the 18th century to count. 1797 acquired this line the rule Ossowa and Rojetin. Today ( 2011) living representative of the count line in Germany, Canada and the USA as well - without the name " Count " or " Countess " - in Austria. Castle Namiest has been restituted after 1989 to the family.

In Silesia the Count's line had to 1945, the urban and estate Krappitz and the line "by Haug wit" the Gut Lähn.

In East Prussia, the family owned several estates in Heinrichswalde (now Slawsk ), mainly on the Trakehner bred.

Possessions in the county of Glatz

Headquarters of originating from Bohemia branch of the family in the county of Glatz was the Good upper Pish Schukowitzgasse, which belonged to the rule Pish Schukowitzgasse whose first well known name owner 1346 Otto Haug joke was, who was married to Gertrud von Pannwitz and thus got to Friedersdorf. The members of this branch of the family dressed numerous royal and imperial offices. Wenzel Haugwitz served from 1441 to 1454 as a captain of the Glatzer Regional Governor Hynek Kruschina of Lichtenburg. Heinrich von Haugwitz held from 1686 to 1691 the office of Verwesers at the provincial team and Franz Anton von Haug joke was 1741-1742 Governor.

Other villages and Gutsanteile in the possession of those were Haugwitz among others Birgwitz, Dürr Kunz village, Gabersdorf, Gellenau, Koritau, Möhlten, Lower stones and Tuntschendorf.

Osová Castle, Czech Republic

Krappitz Castle, Upper Silesia

Coat of arms

In red a fairly introverted black ram's head with golden horns; growing on the helmet with red and black ceiling of rams. The Haugwitz are with the computational salvors crest and cognate.

Personalities

• Georg von Haugwitz († 1463 ), bishop of Naumburg, his predecessor Peter Schleinitz is often mistakenly assigned to the family of Haugwitz
• Johann IX. Haugwitz, Bishop of Meissen
• Anna Haug joke, actually "una de Haug joke," is ad as a mother of Luther's wife, Katharina von Bora, and daughter of Jahn Haugwitz Castle Hirschenstein Same specified but is not historically verifiable
• Anna Margareta von Haugwitz calbe from 1640 the wife of the Swedish commander Carl Gustav Wrangel and " Countess of Salmis " famous
• August Adolph von Haugwitz (1647-1706), Lusatian Baroque dramatist
• Hans Adolph von Haugwitz, Governor of Upper Lusatia and administrator of the rule Hoyerswerda, lords of the manor of Upper and Lower -Spremberg (1660-1668), today the city Spremberg, stately tomb in the cemetery at the village church Spremberg no longer available
• Hans Ernst von Haugwitz, director of the Görlitz Principality landscape
• Friedrich Wilhelm von Haugwitz (1702-1765), statesman and civil servant
• Eugen Wilhelm Graf Haugwitz (1777-1867), Austrian Lieutenant-General and General
• Christian Haugwitz, 1786 Count Haugwitz ( 1752-1832 ), Prussian jurist, statesman and diplomat
• Luise von Haugwitz (1782-1855), writer, born of pipe
• Elisabeth Haug joke (* and † in the 13th century ), the mother of the Duchess Sophia of Legnica, born of Dyhrn