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Alten is the name of an old Lower Saxon, originally presumably noble noble family with ancestral home Ahlten in the " Great Free " near Hanover , which is first mentioned in 1182 with Dietrich von Alten , Ministerialer of Hildesheim Monastery.

history

The eponymous headquarters in Ahlten belonged to the Counts of Roden , as their ministerial officials it was administered by von Alten . A manor was only created there by later owners, when the magistrate in Ilten built an estate on the Roden'schen Hof in 1580, buying several other farms, for which he received the "noble liberties" in 1593.

From 1215 to 1904 the Wilkenburg manor was owned by the family.

Since 1280, the lords of Alten were also resident in the Linden knight's seat (in what is now the Hanover district of Linden-Mitte ) as an owner-occupied and fiefdom . The history of the family is closely linked to the history of the city of Hanover , which emerged from a manor of the Counts of Roden on the Leineübergang, which Konrad von Roden gave to Duke Heinrich the Lion as a fief between 1160 and 1168 . Members of the von Alten family seal here primarily as feudal men of the Counts of Roden and the bishops of Hildesheim and the Minden Monastery . The direct lineage of the von Alten family begins with Eberhard von Alten, who is documented in 1183–1210 . Descendants were Burgmannen at Lauenrode Castle , which the Counts of Roden had built across from the city of Hanover on the western bank of the Leine , and later also resided in the local Calenberger Neustadt . Before 1388, Cord von Alten built a Marienkapelle there on the Rosmarinhof, the predecessor of today's Neustädter Hof- und Stadtkirche St. Johannis .

From 1288 the von Alten family gave the Minorite Monastery of Hanover a property fiefdom on the Leine . In 1360, seven of the nine feudal courtyards on Burgstrasse in Hanover were owned by the Roden ministerial family von Alten, the other two owned by the Billung ministerial family von Lenthe .

The family is still wealthy in and around Hanover. Since 1302 it belongs to the location within the city limits Edelhof Ricklingen with the 14th-century Edelhofkapelle , which is a family foundation owned today. From 1334 to the 17th century the Wettbergen manor belonged to the family, which was bought back by the Linden line in 1885. She has also owned the Hemmingen manor since around 1400 until today . From the 15th century onwards, the Knights von Alten began to serve the Guelph dukes . Rittmeister Ernst von Alten received the manor Großgoltern as a fief from Duke Erich II in 1558 , at the same time as the manor Dunau . These goods are also managed by the family to this day.

Linden Castle in the Von-Alten-Garten in Hannover- Linden around 1912

In 1688 the family sold the Linden estate to Oberhofmarschall Franz-Ernst von Platen , albeit with a right of repurchase after 20 years, which was then extended to 1728. Graf Platen built the Lindener Schloss and, after purchasing additional courtyards, had the 7-hectare Von Alten Garden laid out as a baroque garden. In 1728 there was then a legal dispute, which lasted almost a century, over the value of the Linden Castle and the premises designed around it. It was not until the time of the Kingdom of Hanover , in 1816, after winning the Battle of Waterloo and the associated elevation of Major General Carl von Alten to the rank of count , that the von Alten and von Platen families came to an agreement, making one of the oldest family estates, supplemented by one Magnificent baroque palace and park, which fell back to the Altens in exchange for compensation. Carl von Alten kept his little Friederiken castle as his residence for life . In the last year of the Second World War , Linden Castle was destroyed by the air raids on Hanover in 1945 ; most of the land had already been sold for the construction of the Hanover-Linden district ; the remaining areas and the Wettbergen estate were sold after the war and the proceeds were invested in apartment buildings in the city and in the newly acquired manors Söderhof (since 1970) and Binder .

In 1888 the Posteholz estate was acquired, which is also still owned by the family.

At times, members of the family were also resident on estates in Westphalia , Pomerania and Silesia .

The von Alten , together with the von Ilten , von Jeinsen , von Heimburg , von Knigge , von Münchhausen , von Reden , von Bennigsen , von Linsingen and von Rössing, form the circle of the noble families of the Principality of Calenberg .

Status surveys

The elevation to the Hanoverian count status on July 21, 1815 in Carlton House was for Carl August von Alten (1764-1840), royal British and Hanoverian general of the infantry and state minister, who died on April 20, 1840 without a heir, with extension of the count status (primogenitur; in the event that the former dies childless) on November 8, 1816 in Carlton House to his older brother General Victor von Alten .

The elevation to the Prussian count status with name extension "von Alten-Linsingen" (primogenitur and linked to a Fideikommiss to be established ) took place on January 18, 1901 in Berlin for the Prussian chamberlain Carl von Alten , landlord on Linden and others. A few years later the name was increased by "von Alten Blaskowitz".

Coat of arms graphic by Otto Hupp in the Munich calendar of 1904

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows seven red diamonds , each with a golden nail head, lined up diagonally to the right . On the helmet with its red and silver covers there are seven red arrow flippers, each equipped with a black cock feather.

There is a community of coats of arms with the noble von Garmissen family, who also come from the Hildesheim monastery .

Known family members

General Carl von Alten (1764–1840) on the battlefield of Waterloo
Enclosed family grave site of part of the Linden branch of those von Alten in front of the chapel at the Linden mountain cemetery

Selection of well-known family members, sorted alphabetically

More name bearers

Derived municipal coat of arms

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Old family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnold Nöldeke : Minorite monastery. in: The art monuments of the province of Hanover. Volume 1, H. 2, Part 1, Hanover, self-published by the Provinzialverwaltung, Theodor Schulzes Buchhandlung, 1932 (Neudruck Verlag Wenner, Osnabrück 1979, ISBN 3-87898-151-1 ), pp. 215-220.
  2. ^ Helmut Plath : Hanover in the 11th century. in: History of the City of Hanover . Volume 1: From the beginning to the beginning of the 19th century. [Eds.] Klaus Mlynek , Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei GmbH & Co. Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , p. 17 ff .; here: p. 19.