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Language of the text: English
Nobility: Nobles - Knights
Nobles in:Germany - Austria (Tyrol)
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Variations Last name: Hechenperger
Variations of surnames are frequent and mainly derive from involuntary acts such as translation errors or dialectal inflections or from voluntary acts such as attempts to escape persecution or acquisition of titles and properties of other families
Ancient and noble Tyrolean family, known as Hechenberger or Hechenperger, of clear and ancestral virtue, that has worldwide spread, over the centuries, with main branches in Switzerland, Germany and United States of America. The origin of this family name can be found in the locality Hehenberg, in the parish of Gampern, first mentioned in the year 1480 as Hohenperg. But this family appears in Tyrol since at least the XVII century. A Georg Hechenperger, or Hechenberger, was in fact living in Gundhabing, a small village near Kitzbühel, when, on June 22, 1695, he received the confirmation for the use of the coat of arms, by the Palatine Earl Johann Nivard Sutorj. Moreover this family, in all ages, always stood out thanks to the prominent figures which gave birth, in the public service, in the liberal and ecclesiastical professions and in the military service. From our archives: Hans Stephan, Tyrolean landowner, ...
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BlazonHechenberger
Variations Last name: Hechenperger
1. Coat of arms of family: Hechenberger
Language of the text: English
Per pale, 1.° on three hillocks in base a lion contourné; 2.° on three hillocks in base a griffin; both animals are holding the partiton. Crest: on three hillocks both animals of the shield holding a cross long.
Coat of arms of family Hechenberger from Tyrol reconstructed from a drawing preserved in "Bibliothek des Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum".
Party per pale argent; 1.° on three hillocks in base, vert, a lion contournè, or; 2.° on three hillocks in base, vert, a griffin, gules; both animals hold together a spear, or. Crest: on three hillocks in base, vert, the animals of the shield.
Source: Siebmacher's großes und allgemeines Wappenbuch, Bd. 5 (Bürgerliche Geschlechter Deutschlands und der Schweiz), 8. Abt.:Fünfzehnhundertachtundzwanzig bürgerliche Wappen, Nürnberg 1909, 61.
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