Aweyden (noble family)

Aweyden is the name of an old Prussian noble family .

history

The Aweyden are part of the nobility native to Prussia. The sex led formerly known Gerckin and is one tribe with 1,782 in the male line extinct Görkin Schwan Hofen . The family line begins in 1520 with Wilhelm Gerckin, whose descendants adopted the name Aweyden around 1580 after the manor Aweyden near Königsberg . On October 22nd, 1687, the Prussian upper ranks confirmed to the Aweyden brothers that they belonged to the old Prussian nobility. For a few generations the family then called themselves Aweyde , until on August 28, 1883 the Prussian approval for the resumption of the name Aweyden was issued.

Known family members

• Wilhelm Ludwig von Aweyde (1699–1762), Prussian colonel and chief of the Feldjägerkorps
• Adolf von Aweyden (* 1825), senior councilor in Wiesbaden
• Karl von Aweyden (1829-1891), Prussian lieutenant general and commandant of Posen
• Karl von Aweyden (1872–1918), military attaché in Stockholm

Historical property

• Allischken , Bartelsdorf, Gergehnen , Graudschen , Loyden, chug (1779-1852), companies , Polwitten, Speichersdorf and to 1876 Wilken, Gumbinnen Kr.

coat of arms

In red, a right-facing silver ox head with a neck and a silver leaf in its mouth. On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers, three silver heron feathers .

literature

• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Volume 1, WT Bruer, Berlin 1896, pp. 113-117.
• Johannes Gallandi : The von Aweyden. In: Old Prussian monthly . Volume 24, Issue 1/2, 1887, pp. 60-137
• Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg / Lahn 1972, p. 160.
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen Häuser , Justus Perthes , Gotha
  • A 1900, p. 34ff; 1901; 1902; 1904.
  • B 1925; 1932; 1937; 1941.
• Marcelli Janecki (arr.): Handbook of the Prussian nobility. Volume 1, Mittler & Sohn 1892, pp. 33-35.
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 1, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1859, pp. 154–155.
• Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Volume 1, Berlin 1855, p. 27 ; Volume 3, 1858, p. 185.
• J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg
  • Otto Titan von Hefner : III.02.I. The flourishing nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia: Nobles , 1857, p. 76 , Tfl. 98
  • George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : III.02.II.1. The Prussian nobility: supplements u. Improvements: Barons and Counts , 1906, p. 8, Tfl. 5
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 1, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, p. 155 ; Volume 5, 1839, pp. 17-18.