found: Work cat.: Berühmte Schlösser und Gärten Europas, c2006:p. 12-18 (Familie Metzsch; descended from Lutoldus von Pöllnitz (1283), who took family name from the village of Mesic (today Miesitz); Conrad Metzsch as an official in Mylau, 1400, and connected with Mylau and its castle until the last owner Joseph Levin Metzsch (1508-1571); several Metzschs living in Mylau, early 17th cent.; removed to Reichenbach and Friesen, in the latter which the family took up residence, 1720-1945; by 1900 seven main branches)
found: Geneal. Handbuch d. Adels : Adelslexikon:Bd. 9, p. 14-15 (Metzsch, also Metsch; Lutheran and Catholic, ancient Thuringen noble family; beginning with Gotscaleus de Polnicz (1238) after the name of the inherited village of Mesitz (now Miesetz) near Neustadt a.d. Orla; ennobled as imperial barons, Vienna, 1699 (Metsch); entered in royal Saxon registry of nobility, 1904 (Metzsch))
found: Krumhermersdorf [Saxony, Germany] web page, Aug. 1, 2008:"Die Grundherren Krumhermersdorfs Familie von Metzsch" (Familie von Metzsch; also Metzsch; the Krumhermersdorf Kirchenbuch of 1654 notes that Friedrich Metzsch of Reichenbach and Friesen was lord of the manor; additional records indicate the von Metzsch remained in residence until 1780)
