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Nostitz

Nostitz refers to

  • Nostitz (Weißenberg) , a suburb of Weißenberg, Saxony
Nostitz (Weißenberg)

Nostitz is a suburb of Weißenberg in the federal state of Saxony in Germany. The Nostitz family is named after it.

The theologian and author Adam Gottlob Schirach (1724–1773) was born in Nostitz.

Category:Villages in Saxony

Nostitz (family)

The Nostitz family is a Silesian aristocratic family, named after Nostitz in Saxony, with a history dating back to 1280.

Notable members of the family have included:

  • Franz Anton Nostitz-Rieneck (1725–1794), Bohemian nobleman and patron
  • Friedrich Moritz von Nostitz-Rieneck (1728–1796), Habsburg Field Marshal and President of the Hofkriegsrat (Military Council)
  • Johann Nepomuk von Nostitz-Rieneck (1768–1840), nephew of Friedrich Moritz and Feldmarshall-Leutnant in the Napoleonic Wars
  • August Ludwig von Nostitz (1777–1866), Prussian general
  • Helene von Nostitz (1878–1944), writer and salon Dame
  • Nick Nostitz (born 1968), German photographic journalist