Ahlimb (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Ahlimb

The Ahlimb were an aristocratic family from Brandenburg that died out in the male line in 1830.

history

The von Ahlimb, presumably ancestral relatives of the von dem Knesebeck , were an old knightly family of the Altmark with the ancestral estate Ahlum . The family branched out early into the Ruppin rule and, from the 14th century, also into the Uckermark . 1447 the family was with the Erbhegemeisteramt in Werbelliner Heide invested . While the Altmark and Ruppin branches became extinct in the 15th century, the Uckermark branch flourished until the death of the Prussian Rittmeister and Majoratherr on Ringenwalde , Ahlimbswalde and Ahlimbsmühle , Gustav Andreas von Ahlimb on June 4, 1830.

His son-in-law, the Prussian Chamberlain Baron Hermann von Saldern adH Plattenburg (1801-1854) received the Prussian name association of Saldern, called von Ahlimb , on September 5, 1827 . He was on 15 October 1840 as of Saldern-Ahlimb in the Prussian count conditions raised .

The family also owned other estates at Bechlin ( Ruppin ); Bölkendorf , Britz, Golze, Lunow and Parstein (all Angermünde ); Poratz with Vorwerk Julianenhof ( Templin ); Essenhal ( Oberbarnim ) and Zolchow ( Prenzlau ).

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a shield divided by silver and blue , a blue unicorn bursting above , and below two silver unicorns jumping against each other from the side edges. On the blue and silver puffed helmet with blue and silver blankets, a growing silver unicorn in front of a natural peacock frond .

Relatives

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian class elevations and acts of grace from 1600–1873 , Berlin 1874, p. 92.
  2. Gritzner, Chronologische Matrikel ... , p. 105.
  3. ^ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the German count's houses , Justus Perthes , Gotha 1841, p. 443 ; 1874, p. 17f.