House of Poschinger

The first documented branch of the House of Poschinger worked as ministeriales for the Prince-Bishops of Passau. Records of the family begin with Rapoto de Paskengen mentioned in 1140 as a witness of a donation to the Augustinian monastery of Aldersbach.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2KEEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5 |title=Monumenta Boica |publisher=Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften |year=1765 |volume=V |location=Munich |pages=302 |language=la}} Further branches existed in Posching (in the areas around Mitterfels, Metten, Deggendorf and later also in Pförring near Ingolstadt), at the estate of Sicklasberg near Konzell and as councillors in Straubing. The name Poschinger (often spelled Paskengen, Paschingen, Baskingin or Posching) originated probably from the Posching estate, which was owned by the bishops of Passau.{{Cite book |last=Knight of Poschinger |first=Karl |title=Zusammenstellung der Poschinger vor 1520 |year=1934 |location=Rosenheim |language=de |trans-title=List of Poschingers before 1520}}

The genealogical lineage of the family has continued uninterrupted since its inception and began with Joachim Poschinger from Pförring (1523-1599). Joachim Poschinger is considered to be a member of the Posching branch, which originated around 1262. After studying law and music at the University of Ingolstadt, he was a judge and administrator (Pfleger) in the service of the Barons of Degenberg at the castles of Linden near Viechtach and Neunußberg (1550-1568).{{Cite book |last=Pohl |first=Werner |title=Heimatkundliche Beiträge aus dem Viechtreich. Die Poschinger im Viechtreich. |year=1976 |volume=11 |location=Viechtach}} In 1568, he bought the glassworks estate of Zwieselau (district of Regen) in the Bavarian Forest from the House of Degenberg. This marks the beginning of the Poschinger tradition as owners of glassworks, which continues to this day. Joachim received his imperial coat of arms on October 19, 1547 in Regensburg from Petrus Apianus, imperial count palantine under Emperor Charles V. His son Paulus acquired the glassworks estate of Oberfrauenau in the Bavarian Forest in 1592, from this time on the seat of the progenitor branch.{{Cite book |last=Knight of Poschinger |first=Karl |title=Geschichte der Poschinger und ihrer Güter |year=1908 |location=Pullach near Aibling |language=de |trans-title=History of the Poschingers and their estates |pages= 10ff. and 31ff. and 130ff}}

Due to the possession of Oberanzenberg (since 1639) Wilhelm Poschinger received the noble title Landsass in Upper Palatinate on December 18, 1643 by Prince Elector Maximilian.{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/486179 |title=Neue deutsche Biographie |publisher=Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Historische Kommission |year=2001 |isbn=978-3-428-00181-1 |location=Berlin |pages=649 |oclc=486179}} From this time on, the family was part of the nobility in Upper Palatinate and was listed in the registers of the noble Landsassen.{{Cite book |last=Knight of Poschinger |first=Karl |title=Geschichte der Poschinger und ihrer Güter |year=1908 |location=Pullach near Aibling |language=de |trans-title=History of the Poschingers and their estates |pages= 47 ff}}

After Johann Michael I. Poschinger had already acquired the estates of Drachselsried and Wettzell in 1770, his son Georg Benedikt I. submitted a request to the Court Chamber of the Elector in 1784 to elevate the hereditary estate of Frauenau to the status of an independent feudal estate (Hofmark), which was granted on December 7, 1785. Georg Benedikt I. thus had the lower jurisdiction, police authority and certain administrative rights on all three estates.{{Cite book |last=Knight of Poschinger |first=Karl |title=Geschichte der Poschinger und ihrer Güter |year=1908 |location=Pullach near Aibling |language=de |trans-title=History of the Poschingers and their estates |pages= 129}}

The family received the hereditary imperial knighthood with the name Knight and Edler of Poschinger in Oberanzenberg for the following brothers:

• Dr. jur. utr. Johann Martin, Electoral Bavarian Court Advocate and Administrator of the Prince Elector (Pfleger). Later, he was a member of the Electoral Court Chamber Council of Palatinate and Bavaria, Royal Brewery Administrator and Director of the Bavarian Court Brewery Office (1798-1817) in Munich {{Cite book |last=Knight of Poschinger |first=Karl |title=Geschichte der Poschinger und ihrer Güter |year=1908 |location=Pullach near Aibling |language=de |trans-title=History of the Poschingers and their estates |pages= 130 ff}}
  (Progenitor of the discontinued Munich-Mannheim branch)
• Joseph Anton, Tradesman in Passau
  (Progenitor of the Berg branch, including Poschinger-Camphausen)
• Georg Benedikt I, Lord of the estates Oberfrauenau, Drachselsried, Wettzell, Neunußberg and Oberanzenberg
  (Progenitor of the Frauenau branch from which, among other branches, the baronial house originated)
• Ignaz Dominikus, Priest

File:Zwiesel Waldmuseum - Wappen Poschinger.jpg|Coat of Arms - House of Poschinger

File:Wappen-Poschinger-Frauenau.jpg|Coat of Arms - Barons Poschinger of Frauenau

File:Wappen-Poschinger-Bray.png|Coat of Arms - Barons of Poschinger-Bray

The titles were granted on 17 September 1790 in Munich by the acting Imperial Vicar, Elector Charles Theodore of Bavaria. The matriculation in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the knight class took place on 30 January 1810 for Joseph Anton and on 30 June 1810 for his brothers Johann Martin and Georg Benedikt.{{Cite journal |year=1977 |title=Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels - Adelige Häuser B |trans-title=Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility - Noble Houses B |journal=Genealogisches Handbuch der Adeligen Häuser |language=de |location=Limburg (Lahn) |publisher=C. A. Starke Verlag |pages=422 ff |issn=0435-2408}}

In 1873, Georg Benedikt II. Knight of Poschinger, Lord of the Estate of Frauenau (Oberfrauenau) and others, was appointed hereditary Imperial Councillor (Reichsrat) of Bavaria.{{Cite book |last=Knight of Poschinger |first=Karl |title=Geschichte der Poschinger und ihrer Güter |year=1908 |location=Pullach near Aibling |language=de |trans-title=History of the Poschingers and their estates |pages= 142 ff}} In accordance with the order of succession, the entail passed on to his brother Eduard Ferdinand after the death of Georg Benedikt. The latter ceded it to his son Eduard Georg Benedikt in 1901, who was appointed as a member of the House of Councillors on 1 November 1901. Eduard Ferdinand Ritter von Poschinger was promoted to hereditary Bavarian Baron on 24 July 1901 in Munich by Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria with immatriculation in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the baronial class on 28 August 1901 with the extension of the name to Baron Poschinger of Frauenau.{{Cite book |title=Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels - Freiherrliche Häuser B |publisher=C. A. Starke Verlag |year=1971 |location=Limburg (Lahn) |pages=278 ff |language=de |trans-title=Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility - Baronial Houses B |asin=B00JG1O7IA}}{{Cite book |title=Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels - Adelslexikon |publisher=C. A. Starke Verlag |year=1999 |volume=X |location=Limburg (Lahn) |pages=501 ff |language=de |trans-title=Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility - Nobility Encyclopaedia}}

File:Poschinger-Mausoleum Frauenau.JPG|Poschinger Mausoleum in Frauenau

File:Poschinger-Mausoleum.jpg|Poschinger Mausoleum in Zwiesel

File:Frauenau - Kirche innen - Grabstein Michael Poschinger 1709-1787.jpg|Gravestone of Johann Michael I. Poschinger in Mariä Himmelfahrt (Frauenau)

File:Tutzing St. Peter und Paul Friedhof 892.jpg|Poschinger Grave in Tutzing

On April 6, 1908, the Royal Bavarian Chamberlain and Rittmaster Ottmar Knight of Poschinger, lord of the manor on Riegsee and others, who had married Gerda Camphausen, daughter of the banker and Royal Prussian Privy Councillor of Commerce Arthur Camphausen, in 1906, received permission to merge his name with that of the Camphausen family as Knight of Poschinger-Camphausen.

The decision of the District President on May 21, 1953 in Regensburg to change the name to Baron of Poschinger-Bray for Adalbert Baron Poschinger of Frauenau, who was married to Anna Maria, heiress of the extinct Counts of Bray-Steinburg, was not objected to by the German Nobility Law Committee (ARA) in Marburg on September 15, 1990.

The following estates and residences belong or have belonged to the house of Poschinger since the 16th century{{Cite book |last=Knight of Poschinger |first=Karl |title=Geschichte der Poschinger und ihrer Güter |year=1908 |location=Pullach near Aibling |language=de |trans-title=History of the Poschingers and their estates |pages= 16 ff}}{{Cite book |last=Haller |first=Marita |title=Traumschloss im Wald. Das ehemalige Schloss der Freiherrn Poschinger von Frauenau |publisher=edition Lichtland |year=2013 |isbn=978-3942509275 |location=Freyung |language=de |trans-title=Dream castle in the forest. The former castle of the Barons Poschinger of Frauenau}}{{Cite book |last=Peinkofer |first=Max |title=350 Jahre Poschinger in Frauenau |year=1955 |location=Frauenau |language=de |trans-title=350 Years Poschinger in Frauenau}}{{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/856807392 |title=Maxvorstadt |date=2013 |others=Richard Bauer, Stadtarchiv München |isbn=978-3-86222-089-2 |location=München |oclc=856807392}}

• Oberfrauenau
• Unter- and Oberzwieselau
• Buchenau
• Oberanzenberg near Kemnath
• Neunußberg
• Wettzell
• Drachselried
• Thalersdorf
• Irlbach
• Steinburg
• Schambach
• Poschinger Palace in Munich (Brienner Street)
• Riegsee near Murnau (Neuegling Castle)
• Ismaning (Ismaning Palace)
• Zengermoos near Munich
• Karlshof near Munich
• Theresienthal
• Ahausen near Landau a.d.Isar
• Pullach near Bad Aibling
• Rabenstein
• Unterbreitenau near Bischofsmais
• Villa Poschinger in Starnberg

File:Herrenhaus Oberfrauenau.JPG|Mansion in Oberfrauenau

File:Schloss Oberzwieselau.JPG|Oberzwieselau Castle

File:Schloss Buchenau (Lindberg)-2.JPG|Buchenau Castle

File:Irlbach-Schloss.jpg|Irlbach Castle

File:Schloss Neuegling GO-2.jpg|Neuegling Castle

File:Schloss Steinburg.JPG|Steinburg Castle

File:Johann_Michael_von_Poschinger.JPG

• Benedikt of Poschinger (1785–1856), Bavarian businessman and politician (Member of the State Parliament) {{Cite web |title=Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte - Benedikt von Poschinger |url=https://www.bavariathek.bayern/medien-themen/portale/geschichte-des-bayerischen-parlaments/person/1016443781 |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=www.bavariathek.bayern}}
• Johann Michael II. of Poschinger (1794–1863), Bavarian businessman and politician (Member of the State Parliament) {{Cite web |title=Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte - Michael von Poschinger |url=https://www.bavariathek.bayern/medien-themen/portale/geschichte-des-bayerischen-parlaments/person/1016443927.html |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=www.bavariathek.bayern}}
• Richard of Poschinger (1839–1915), Bavarian painter {{Cite book |last=Fisch |first=Georgine |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/170973831 |title=Richard von Poschinger, 1839-1915 : Monographie und Werkverzeichnis |date=1997 |publisher=Dietmar Klinger |others=Richard von Poschinger |isbn=3-932949-01-3 |location=Passau |oclc=170973831}}
• Wilhelm of Poschinger (1839–1895), Bavarian businessman and landowner
• Ludwig of Poschinger (1844–1917), Bavarian General of Cavalry
• Georg Benedikt II. of Poschinger (1845–1900), Bavarian businessman and politician (House of Councillors) {{Cite web |title=Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte - Georg Benedikt von Poschinger |url=https://www.bavariathek.bayern/medien-themen/portale/geschichte-des-bayerischen-parlaments/person/1016444044.html |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=www.bavariathek.bayern}}
• Heinrich of Poschinger (1845–1911), Author and Historian (Biographer of Bismarck)
• Henriette of Poschinger (1845–1903), Bavarian Glas Designer{{Cite web |title=Römer aus Theresienthal um 1890 |url=http://www.roemer-aus-theresienthal.de/buch5.html |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=www.roemer-aus-theresienthal.de}}
• Wilhelm of Poschinger (1864–1921), Bavarian Major General{{Cite book |last=hrsg. von Christian Zweng |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/263151783 |title=Stellenbesetzung der deutschen Heere 1815-1939 / 1. Die höheren Kommandostellen. |date=1990 |publisher=Biblio-Verl |isbn=3-7648-1769-0 |location=Osnabrück |page=673 |oclc=263151783}}{{Cite book |last1=von Dellmensingen |first1=Konrad Krafft |title=Das Bayernbuch vom Weltkriege 1914–1918. |last2=Feeser |first2=Friedrichfranz |publisher=Belser AG Verlagsbuchhandlung |year=1930 |volume=1 |pages=199}}
• Eduard Poschinger of Frauenau (1869–1942), Bavarian military officer, industrialist and politician (House of Councillors) {{Cite web |title=Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte - Eduard Poschinger von Frauenau |url=https://www.bavariathek.bayern/medien-themen/portale/geschichte-des-bayerischen-parlaments/person/1016444176.html |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=www.bavariathek.bayern}}
• Hans of Poschinger (1892–1951), Bavarian landowner and factory owner, also painter
• Egon of Poschinger (1894–1977), Bavarian landowner and factory owner, also painter
• Günther of Poschinger (1898–1958), Entomologist after whom the ground beetle Carabus Poschingerianus was named.{{Cite book |last=Chrambach |first=Eva |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51391775 |title=Kammzug und Pfauenauge : Geschichte der Jugendstilglashütte des Ferdinand von Poschinger in Buchenau |date=1999 |publisher=Morsak Verlag |others=Glasmuseum Frauenau |isbn=3-87553-532-4 |location=Grafenau |page=39 |oclc=51391775}}
• Hippolyt Poschinger of Frauenau (1908–1990), Bavarian industrialist, forester and politician (President of the Bavarian Senate){{Cite web |title=Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte - Hippolyt Poschinger von Frauenau |url=https://www.bavariathek.bayern/medien-themen/portale/geschichte-des-bayerischen-parlaments/person/12068358x.html |access-date=2022-08-05 |website=www.bavariathek.bayern}}{{Cite web |title=Hippolyt Poschinger von Frauenau |url=https://www.csu-geschichte.de/personen/detail/hippolyt-poschinger-von-frauenau/ |access-date=2022-08-07 |website=CSU Geschichte |language=de-DE}}
• Adalbert of Poschinger-Bray (1912–2001), German businessman, economist and politician {{Cite web |title=Mitglieder des Bezirkstages von Niederbayern ab 1954 |url=http://www.bezirk-niederbayern.de/de4/main1_7.htm |access-date=2022-08-05 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100518074423/http://www.bezirk-niederbayern.de/de4/main1_7.htm |archive-date=18 May 2010 |url-status=dead}}

A Poschinger street exists in Frauenau as well as in Drachselsried, Deggendorf, Ismaning and Murnau. There is also a Poschinger street in Munich, named in 1906 in honor of Johann Michael III. of Poschinger, with Thomas Mann's home at Poschinger street 1. The Poschinger street in Berlin was named after Heinrich of Poschinger in 1908 and the street of the same name in Salzburg was named after Wilhelm of Poschinger in 1903. There is also the Lake Poschinger in the northern Isar valley near Munich.

• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Adelige Häuser B. Edition 64, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1977, {{ISSN|0435-2408}}.
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Adelslexikon.Edition 119, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999.
• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels. Freiherrliche Häuser B. Edition 48, C. A. Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1971.
• Genealogisches Handbuch des in Bayern immatrikulierten Adels. Band XXX, Wissenschaftlicher Kommissionsverlag Stegaurach, Stegaurach 2014.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: Neues allgemeines deutsches Adels-Lexicon, Edition 7, Leipzig 1867
• Karl Ritter von Poschinger: Geschichte der Poschinger und ihrer Güter. Pullach bei Aibling 1908.
• Karl Ritter von Poschinger: Zusammenstellung der Poschinger vor 1520. Rosenheim 1934.
• Karl und Ludwig Ritter von Poschinger, Hippolyt Freiherr Poschinger von Frauenau, et al.: Verzeichnis der Nachkommen des Joachim Poschinger. 2014.
• Max Peinkofer: 350 Jahre Poschinger in Frauenau. Frauenau 1955.
• August Sieghardt: Die Poschinger in der Oberpfalz. in: Die Oberpfalz. Edition 43, 1955.
• Ingeborg Seyfert: Die Poschinger von Frauenau als Glashüttenherren im Bayerischen Wald. in: Amtlicher Schulanzeiger für den Regierungsbezirk Niederbayern. Edition 5, 1971.
• Werner Pohl: Die Poschinger im Viechtreich: Als Pfleger von Linden u. als Hofmarksherren von Neunußberg, Wettzell, Drachselried u. Thalersdorf. Viechtach 1976.
• Hermann Wagner: Die Aufschreibungen des Franz Poschinger (1637–1701) vom Glashüttengut Frauenau. Sauerlach 1985.
• Marita Haller: Traumschloss im Wald. Das ehemalige Schloss der Freiherrn Poschinger von Frauenau. edition Lichtland, Freyung 2013.

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