Arnswaldt (noble family)

Arnswaldt , also written Arnswald , more rarely Arneswalt and Ahrenswald, is the name of a Thuringian nobility family with the parent company of the same name near Stolberg in the Harz Mountains . The family is of a tribe and coat of arms with the extinct von Ascherode and von Tüticherode . Since the late 19th century, some members of the family have held the title of Freiherr or Baron .

history

The progenitor of the family is Bŭrchardus de Hohenstein , who first appeared in a document on September 4, 1178. As his brother, Hermanni de Arenswalt is named in 1217 , who at that time settled in the Arnswald (Aar forest or eagle forest, where eagles lived) near Uftrungen , and built his castle there on the head of this forest .

coat of arms

Blazon : In blue, a slanted, silver bar covered with three red roses . On the helmet with blue-silver covers an open eagle flight , as marked as the shield , right diagonally left and left diagonally right.

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  Arnswald coat of arms in the church of Kelbra

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  Coat of arms graphic by Otto Hupp in the Munich calendar from 1896

Personalities

• Christian Ludwig August von Arnswaldt (1733–1815), Minister
• Karl Friedrich Alexander von Arnswaldt (1768–1845), science politician, State Minister of the Kingdom of Hanover and curator of the Georg August University in Göttingen
• August von Arnswaldt (1798–1855), writer
• Bernhard von Arnswald (1807–1877), Chamberlain, Castle Captain, Lieutenant Colonel and Commandant of the Wartburg,
• Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Hermann von Arnswald (1813–1884) soldier, commandant of the Wartburg after Bernhard von Arnswald, married to Emma Caroline Jungherr (1820–1881),
• Werner von Arnswaldt (1839–1899), member of the Reichstag of the German-Hanoverian Party (Welfenpartei)
• Hermann von Arnswaldt (1841–1910), member of the Reichstag of the German-Hanoverian Party (Welfenpartei) ∞ Bertha von Arnswaldt, b. Holland (1850–1919), Berlin Salonière
• Georg von Arnswaldt (1866–1952), German forester; Founder of state nature conservation in Mecklenburg
• Werner Konstantin von Arnswaldt (1877–1941), German genealogist and author
• Hans Jürgen von Arnswaldt (1897–1988), German forester

literature

• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser, 4th year, Gotha 1903, pp. 67–71
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN  0435-2408
• Werner Arnswaldt: The Lords of Arnswaldt and their clan . Keller, Munich. Issue 1, 1914 digitized ; Book 6, 1st section, 1914 digitized

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Original in the Lower Saxony State Archives Wolfenbüttel 25 Urk 16, printed by Josef Dolle (arr.): Document book of the Walkenried monastery. Volume 1. From the beginning to 1300 . Hannover, 2002, p. 73, ISBN 3-7752-6010-2
2. ^ Josef Dolle (arrangement): Document book of the Walkenried monastery. Volume 1. From the beginning to 1300 . Hanover, 2002, p. 144
3. ↑ goods and a. in Kelbra (13th – 19th centuries).
4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume I, 1972

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