THE CHRONICLE OF THE LANZL FAMILY
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Short History
The region of origin of the Lanzls is the Upper Palatine (Oberpfalz) and Lower Bavaria (Niederbayern). In 1520 a Lanzl appeared in Boham near Volkenschwand (in the vicinity of Mainburg). Johann Lanzl was born in 1548 in Oberschwillbach, Pfarrei Woerth, near Erding. Around the mid 17th century, Lanzls are authenticated in the Communities of Stadl bei Bleich, Trumling und Gumping which belonged to the Market Community of Nittenau in Upper Palatine (Oberpfalz).
Professor Brechenmacher, Stuttgart, derives the name Lanzl from the Old German man’s name Lance or from the names with the prefix Lant- (Lantbert, Lantbald, Lantfrid etc.) Lanzl is the Bavarian form. Other ways of writing the name are Lanzel and, for a while in the old days, Laenzl.
Lanzl Family Coat of Arms
The coat of arms of the Lanzl family is
described as follows:
Gules, a griffon issuing argent, armed
and beaked or, langued azure, holding in the dexter claw a quill argent and in
the sinister a hoe of the same. The
feather is the symbol of the intellectual members of the family and the hoe
represents the farmers and craftsmen. The
crest gules and argent with the griffin of the arms.
The coat of arms was received on the 18th of April, 1941 by Dr. Helmut Lanzl, Dornbirn, Austria and entered on the same day in the ‘Deutsche Wappenrolle buergerlicher Geschlechter des Vereins fuer Geschlecter=, Wappen= und Siegelkunde “Der Harold” zu Berlin’ as Nr. 1626/41 as well as in J. Siebmachers ‘Groszem und Allgemeinen Wappenbuch’, buergerlicher Teil, Band V, Neue Folge II (Heft 617), Nuernberg 1942.
According to his instructions, all bearers of the name Lanzl or Lanzel are entitled to its use. An old coat of arms which was once granted in former times to a bearer of our name could not be found.
Numerous coats of arms were granted to the name Lanz , also to Lanzelius etc., but these have nothing to do with Lanzl. Also a transition from the name Lanz into Lanzl could not be made.