Bar (noble family)

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Older coat of arms of those von Bar
Younger coat of arms of those von Bar

Bar (also Baer ) is the name of a Lower Saxon noble family from the nobility of the Osnabrück country. Branches of the family still exist today. Because of the identity of the name and coat of arms, a tribal relationship to the noble family of the von Behr is assumed.

history

The family first appeared in a document in 1204 with the ministerial Hugo Bere or Ursus (lat .: bear ). Presumably he is one of four sons of Eberhard Bere , who appeared in the entourage of Henry the Lion at the end of the 12th century . The other three sons were probably Werner (mentioned 1259), Lippold (mentioned 1224/25) and Hugold (mentioned 1231), who are considered to be the founders of the three branches of the von Behr family . They were mentioned by name as Bere (or Ursus in document Latin ) and had the black bear in their coat of arms. However, there is no relationship to the Counts and Dukes of Bar in Lorraine .

Since the 14th century, the Lords of Bar have provided the hereditary lands of the Diocese of Osnabrück and the later Principality of Osnabrück .

In 1259 the knight Hugo Bar is mentioned as Ministeriale of the bishopric of Osnabrück at Stockum Castle in Bissendorf . The original seat since 1341 has been the picturesque moated castle Alt Barenaue , later Hassebrock, Blankenburg, Bruchhausen and since 1862 Schloss Neu Barenaue in Bramsche . The old and new Barenaue are still owned by the family today.

In 1884 Otto von Bar zu Barenaue inherited the Langelage estate (district of Bohmte ) from the Counts of Münster . Langelage had already owned the bar around 1445 and was then acquired around 1683 by the von Oer family, from whom the Münster inherited it in 1764. Langelage is still owned by the Bar.

In 1892 the Klein Siemen estate in Mecklenburg also came to the family and was expropriated in 1945.

Via Otto von Pestel's widow , who married Ludwig von Bar for the second time in 1922 , the Bruche estate came to the von Bar family, who still own it today.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the von Leden and von Bar families at the Ledenhof palace in Osnabrück

Blazon : The family coat of arms shows a black bear in silver . The later common coat of arms shows in silver a black bear with a gold collar climbing on an oblique black-silver chess. On the helmet with the black and silver covers a bundle of black notched sticks.

Known family members

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Bar family  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Bar, Osnabrück noble family. In: Historical commission at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): New German biography. First volume: Aachen – Behaim. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1953, pp. 579-580.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Philippi: Osnabrücker Urkundenbuch. Volume II, 1896, p. 15, No. 22.
  2. ^ Website Gut Stockum in Bissendorf
  3. ^ New general German nobility lexicon. by EH Kneschke , 1859.
  4. ↑ Entry on Haus Langelage in the private database “Alle Burgen”. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
  5. ↑ Herbord Sigismund Ludwig von Bar family tables and news from the Bar family, de Bare, de Barn . Kissling'schen Buchdruckerei, 1840. p. 29; Digitized version accessed March 30, 2020