Adelebsen (noble family)
Adelebsen (also Adelepsen or Adelips ) is the name of an old noble-free Brunswick noble family . The lords of Adelebsen belonged to the Göttingen nobility .
history
origin
Originally the family was based in Wibbecke and called themselves von Wibbecke . The knight Bertholdus miles de Wicbike appears as the first member of the family in 1111 . After moving to Adelebsen Castle , the brothers viri nobiles et honesti Thitmarus et Bodo frateres de Adelevessen were first mentioned in documents in 1234. They named themselves after their ancestral seat, Adelebsen Castle near Adelebsen an der Schwülme .
Like Thitmar and Bodo, two Bertolde appear in the second half of the 13th century as nobiles , noblemen . They were related by marriage to other important families from this area, including von Plesse, von Schwalenberg and von Schladen.
Expansion and possessions
In addition to their property in Adelebsen, members of the family were able to acquire the Palatinate Grona and the associated lordship of Grone near Göttingen as an imperial fief. But already at the end of the 14th century these possessions fell to the city of Göttingen. The oldest Calenberg fiefdom is from 1347.
In 1305 there was a feud with Heiligenstadt . Relatives became Burgmannen to Burg Hardenberg near Northeim , to Lipperode near Lippstadt and officials in Rusteberg near Göttingen. Later branches of the family, especially in the Göttingen area, to Duderstadt , Edingen, Güntersen , Lerne, Minnigerode, Moringen , Obernfeld , Schwiegershausen , Lehne zu Berenshausen and Westerode became possessions. The Fideikommiss Adelebsen founded in 1856 was dissolved and part of it was transferred to the Adelebsen Castle Foundation.
The lords of Adelebsen belonged to the knightly nobility in the Calenberger Land and in more recent times have served in the ducal Brunswick-Lüneburg or electoral Hanoverian services. They received high state and court offices and provided numerous officers in the royal Hanoverian army.
With the councilor Georg Freiherrn von Adelebsen, who died on December 1st, 1957, the male line of the family died out.
Status surveys
Georg von Adelebsen, inheriting commissioner on Adelebsen, was on June 30, 1903. Kiel by diploma in the Prussian baron charged. According to the highest cabinet order , Berlin January 27, 1903, the title in Primogenitur was tied to the property of the Fideikommiss.
coat of arms
Family coat of arms
The family coat of arms is split and divided twice, blue-silver-blue on the right, silver-blue-silver on the left. Two buffalo horns on the helmet , which are divided like the shield. The helmet covers are blue-silver.
Local and municipal coats of arms
Elements and colors from the coat of arms of the Adelebsen family still appear today in some of Lower Saxony's local coats of arms.
Coat of arms of the municipality of Adelebsen
Coat of arms of Barterode , district of Adelebsen
Coat of arms of Wibbecke , district of Adelebsen
people
- Reinhard von Adelebsen (1826–1883), landowner, German officer, member of the Reichstag
See also
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN 0435-2408
- Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1926. Buch u. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1926.
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Year book of the German nobility , Volume 1, 1896, published by WT Bruer, p. 1 - digitized
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 1, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1859, page 11. ( digitized version )
