Links

Herbaries

Arnaud Bunel, Héraldique européenne - a herbary of European ruling families, as well as gentry and aristocracy.

Mały Herbarz Adama Kromera i przyjaciół (eng.: Small Herbary by Adam Kromer and Friends) - one of the best Polish pages devoted to the Polish gentry and municipal heraldry.

Genealogies

Paul Theroff, An Online Gotha - the page contains the genealogs of European ruling families and some aristocratic ones. An Internet version of the so-called Almanachs de Gotha.

Miroslav Marek, Genealogy.eu - the page contains the genealogies of European ruling, aristocratic and noble families. You can find quite many families from Silesia, Poland, The Czech Republic and Germany.

Davide Shamà, Genealogie Delle Famiglie Nobili Italiane - the page contains mainly the genealogies of Italian noble families. Unfortunately, logging in is necessary.

Almanachs de Gotha

Institut Deutsche Adelsforschung - the page contains the index of families whose genealogies were published in Almanachs de Gotha, published before 1944 by the publishing house J. Perthes.

C.A Starke Verlag z Limburga - the page contains a link to the PDF file (Gesamtverzeichnis) with te index of families whose genealogies were published in the post-war issues of Almanachs de Gotha (germ.: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels).

Galleries

Galeria Malarstwa Polskiego (eng.: Gallery of Polish Paintings) - a gallery of Polish painters' works. You can see here quite a lot of historical paintings, e.g. The cycle History of civilisation in Poland by Jan Matejko.

Web Gallery of Art - a page with European paintings' works. A big selection.

E-books

herbaries

Johann Siebmacher, Wappenbuch, 1605 - a herbary of ruling and noble families from the area of the Holy German Empire.

Alfred Freiherr von Krane, Wappen- und Handbuch des in Schlesien (einschliesslich der Oberlausitz) landgesessenen Adels, Görlitz 1901-1904 - a herbary of the Silesian gentry.

Leonard Dorst, Schlesisches Wappenbuch oder die Wappen des Adels im Souverainen Herzogthum Schlesien der Grafschaft Glatz und der Oberlausitz, Bd. 1-3, Görlitz (1847) - a herbary of the Silesian gentry.

Konrad Blaźek, Der abgestorbene Adel der Provinz Schlesien und der O. Lausitz, Theil 1-3, Nürnberg 1887-1894 - a herbary of the Silesian gentry.

J.I. Bagmihl, Pommersches Wappenbuch, Stettin 1843-1855 - a herbary of the Pomerania gentry: Coats of arms on the website of Warcisław Machura and all herbary on the website Zachodniopomorska Biblioteka Cyfrowa Pomeriania.

Общий Гербовник дворянских родов Всероссийской Империи, 1798-1836, 1863-1917 - a herbary of noble families from the Russian Empire. You can also find there many crests of Polish families that lived under Russian annexation.

Carl Arvid von Klingspor, Baltisches Wappenbuch. Wappen sämmtlicher, den Ritterschaften von Livland, Estland, Kurland und Oesel zugehöriger Adelsgeschlechter, Stockholm 1882 - a herbary of families from Courland, Livonia and Estonia. You can also find there quite a lot of crest of Polish gentry and aristocracy.

Max von Spießen, Wappenbuch des Westfälischen Adels, 1901/1903 (on Website GenWiki) - a herbary of families from Westphalia. You can also find there many crests of families that lived in Poland and others Countries.

Hugo Gerard Ströhl, Oesterreichisch-Ungarische Wappenrolle, 1890 - the crests of the Austrian-Hungarian Monarchy, its kingdoms, lands and provinces.

Hugo Gerard Ströhl, Deutsche Wappenrolle, 1897 - it is not the whole book, but it contains a large part of the crest of German states from the 19th century.

uniforms

Richard Knötel, Uniformenkunde, 1890 - an album with uniforms of European armies (mostly German) from the modern era up to 19th century.

albums

Alexander Duncker, Die ländlichen Wohnsitze, Schloesser und Residenzen der ritterschaftlichen Grundbesitzer in der preussischen Monarchie... - an album containing drawings and description of noble residences from the are of the Prussian Kingdom in 19th century. Quite a lot of information about the owners of castles, palaces and manors.

Dictionaries, lexicons

Neue Deutsche Biographie - a German biographical dictionary, published from 1953. You can find there also bograms of Silesian artists. The last volume (No. 23) contains the entries up to the word Schwarz.

Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie - a German biographical dictionary, published in the years 1875-1912. You can also find quite a lot of Silesian biograms.

Zedler-Lexikon - a German lexicon published in the years 1732-1754. You can find there quite many entries regarding Polish noble families.

Retro-bib - a page with the access to the online version of i.a.: Meyers Konversationslexikon (4 issue from 1885-1892); Brockhaus' Konversationslexikon (14 issue from 1894-1896).

Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich (eng.: Geographical dictionary of the Polish Kingdom and other Slavic countries) in the resources of Domeny Internetowych Repozytoriów Wiedzy; Biblioteki Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego; Małopolskiej Biblioteki Cyfrowej; - one of the most important Polish dictionaries, which up till now has not found a successor; Silesia is also within it scope.

Take a glimpse

Montes Tarnovicensis - the most important publication of the Oficyna Monos from Tarnowskie Góry, with which I have been cooperaring since it was was established .

Wikipedia - wolna encyklopedia; (eng.: Wikipedia-free encyclopedia ) - on of the most interesting online encyclopedias. I have published in polish version of Wikipedia many articles regarding the history of Silesia and Silesian gentry.

Castles and palaces of silesian aristocracy

Palace "Jedlinka" - a residence located in Jedlina Zdrój – its history is mostly connected with the Seher-Thosses and The Pücklers. The last pre-war owners were The Boehms.

For relaxation

Polish Mountains; Polish underground - websites of Tomasz Rzeczycki. His book "Góry Polski" (eng. "Mountain of Poland") presents a few interesting details from the history of the development of all mountain ranges in Poland (also in Silesia) – from the Bieszczady to the Izerskie Mountains.