Barmstede (noble family)

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The coat of arms of the Knights of Barmstede

The Barmstede were a knightly noble family that operated in southern Schleswig-Holstein in the 12th and 14th centuries and had regional importance.

history

The knights were an old Saxon noble family and moved to their ancestral home near Barmstedt . It is not clear whether they gave themselves the name of their place of origin or whether it was named after them. There is a presumption that the family comes from the former place Barmstede near Bremen or that the name was derived from Barmigstide , Barmierstide or Barmstide . You were in the service of the Counts of Schauenburg . The first knight of this family, whose name has been passed down with certainty, was Heinrich I (Henricus) , Advocatus de Barmstede , who was named as a witness in a document of Heinrich the Lion in 1149 and who was able to judge his manor on behalf of the Schauenburgers .

The family owned extensive lands in Holstein and Stormarn , the main focus of their property was initially in the area of ​​today's Barmstedt and the neighboring villages. The knights had a castle built in Krückau and the church in Barmstedt , they were involved in founding the city of Krempe and built two castles near Uetersen in the 12th century , where they later had their residence, and a bridge over the Pinnau . There, at the very end , at the very end of their property, under Heinrich II. In 1234 they also founded the Uetersen Monastery , which was under the sovereignty of the Archdiocese of Bremen . Heinrich II was one of the most important men under Adolf IV. He appeared in many of the count's documents of the time as one of the top signatories. Lambert von Barmstede was briefly bishop of Ratzeburg in 1228 ; his grave slab in the Ratzeburg Cathedral has been preserved.

However, the knights of Barmstede were not just men of honor. In 1267, a hearing took place in the St. Johannis Church in Eppendorf , during which Otto von Barmstede had to pay a compensation payment of 300 marks to the city of Hamburg because of the robbery of Hamburg ships on the Stör .

The knightly dynasty died out around 1375, the property partly fell back to the Counts of Schauenburg and later passed to the Dukes of Gottorf and finally to the Counts of Rantzau . The Barmstedt knight is now stylized on the city's coat of arms.

Drawing of the grave slab.

Legend

According to a legend, the knight Heinrich II von Barmstede is said to be buried under a tombstone in the monastery cemetery in Uetersen. There is no proof that it is really the knight of Barmstede. This panel was removed from Friedhof in 1995 to protect it from further deterioration due to weather and air pollution . It was in weeks of work preserved and is now on the inside of the cloister attached.

family members

The family tree of the Knights of Barmstede

Very little is known of the family members. Despite intensive research into old records and church registers, not all members of the family could be identified. Part of it was also destroyed by fires and looting of the Uetersen monastery by the Swedes in 1658. The family table shown shows all the members of the family who have been identified to date. Virgarte Raboytze (1385), who lived in a Wurt in the castle area of Plön, is not listed in this family tree . It is not clear how it was related to the family. There is a presumption that she was connected to Lüder von Raboisen.

Rose Ritter von Barmstede in the Uetersen Rosarium

Honor

A rose was named after the knights of Barmstede, especially the knight Heinrich II. Von Barmstede, in 1959 as thanks for the donations for the construction of the Cistercian monastery in Uetersen, from which today's Uetersen monastery and the rose town of Uetersen arose.

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