
Praschma or Pražma (fully Praschma of Bilkau and Falkenberg; cs, Pražmové z Bílkova or ''Páni z Bílkova''; pl, Prazma) is a
Moravia
Moravia ( , also , ; cs, Morava ; german: link=yes, Mähren ; pl, Morawy ; szl, Morawa; la, Moravia) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
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n noble family.
Notable members include Jan Nepomuk I. Ferdinand Pražma (1726–1804), the founder of the Czech village
Pražmo
Pražmo is a municipality and village in Frýdek-Místek District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 900 inhabitants.
Geography
Pražmo lies in the historical region of Cieszyn Silesia. The municipality is most ...
; Friedrich von Praschma, member of the Reichstag and co-founder of the
Centre Party (Germany)
The Centre Party (german: Zentrum), officially the German Centre Party (german: link=no, Deutsche Zentrumspartei) and also known in English as the Catholic Centre Party, is a Catholic political party in Germany, influential in the German Empire ...
; and Hans Praschma von Bilkau, Reichstag member from 1902 to 1918, member of the Prussian House of Representatives, and Bailiff Knight Grand Cross of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
The family seat was in the town of
Niemodlin
Niemodlin (; german: Falkenberg O.S., Falkenberg Oberschlesien; szl, Ńymodlin) is a town in Opole County, Opole Voivodeship, Poland, with 6,315 inhabitants (2019).
History
The community was first mentioned as ''Nemodlin'' in a 1224 deed and r ...
(then known as Falkenberg) until the end of World War II, when the town became part of the nascent
Eastern Bloc
The Eastern Bloc, also known as the Communist Bloc and the Soviet Bloc, was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America under the influence of the Soviet Union that existed du ...
.
References
Noble families
Moravian nobility
Prussian nobility
German-language surnames
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