Baudissin (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Baudissin

Baudissin ( pronunciation : [ ˈbaudɪsiːn ]), also Baudis , Bauditz , is an originally Meissen noble family from Upper Lusatia , who settled in Schleswig-Holstein since the beginning of the 17th century and went to Denmark in a branch.

history

The name is first recorded on March 10, 1326 with a Johannes de Boudissin in the Saxon main state archive in Dresden . The "safe trunk line" is since 1455 with Nickel v. Baudissin zu Solschwitz notarized. The sex probably arose from the ministry of the Wettins and named after the city of Bautzen (until 1868 Budissin ). (Deviating from this, the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility from 1958 assumes Klein-Bautzennear Bautzen as the ancestral seat of the Baudissin, which is only known under this name from 1419, after the acquisition by the city.) The Sollschwitz property was shared with the von Penzig family until about 1600 and then gave up. Anna and Christiane von Baudissin became abbesses in succession in the monastery of St. Marienstern from 1554–76 .

Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin (1579–1646), field marshal

Since 1633, bearers of the name v. Baudissin or v. Bauditz also joined the Holstein knighthood, where they belong to the Recepti group . The field marshal in the Thirty Years' War , Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin , who married Sophia von Rantzau (1620–1697), a daughter of Gerdt von Rantzau-Breitenburg , was the first to be accepted. In 1635, Count Anton Günther from Oldenburg gave him the Neuenfelde estate near Elsfleth . However, Wolf Heinrich died on his estate in West Prussia.

His younger son Heinrich Günther (1641–1673) owned the Cronsburg and Rixdorf estates near Kiel. His older son Hinrich Conrad (1661–1714) founded the Danish line (from) Bauditz , the younger Wolf Heinrich (1671–1748) was raised to Imperial Count in 1741 and founded the Schleswig-Holstein line of the Counts of Baudissin . The latter married Dorothee von Buchwaldt (1683–1709), who brought Gut Knoop in the Duchy of Schleswig into the marriage. In 1761 his son, Count Heinrich Christoph von Baudissin, acquired the Rantzau estate in the Duchy of Holstein and combined the holdings of Rixdorf, Knoop, Rantzau, Projensdorf (acquired in 1750) and Lammershagen in his hand. Through his marriage to Countess Susanna Magdalena Elisabeth von Zinzendorf-Pottendorf (1723–1785) in 1813 the Austrian possessions of her family came to the Baudissin. Under their sons Heinrich Friedrich and Carl Ludwig , the family split into the lines Knoop (with Rixdorf, Tram, Tresdorf , Pronstorf , Uhlenhorst and Neu Nordsee) and Rantzau (with Lammershagen and the Austrian goods) at the end of the 18th century .

Heinrich Friedrich's wealthy wife, the writer Caroline von Schimmelmann (1759–1826), excused Knoop, had the old moated castle demolished there and the classical manor house built. Her sons were Friedrich Carl (on Knoop), Christian Carl and Joseph Franz (until 1838 on Projensdorf, from 1840 on Borstel ). In 1869 Knoop was sold by Eduard von Baudissin , not least because of the gambling debts left by his grandmother Caroline. Christian Carl's son Wolf Friedrich Ottomar married Théonie von Mesmer-Saldern (1817–1855) in 1842, whose brother Aimé von Mesmer-Saldern bequeathed the Schierensee estate to his nephew in 1889. In 1968 it was sold by the Baudissins to the publisher Axel Springer and the Augustenhof estate near Osdorf was acquired for it. Borstel had already been sold in 1930.

Carl Ludwig's third son, Heinrich August Graf von Baudissin-Zinzendorf-Pottendorf (1795–1834), on Rantzau, inherited in 1813 from his great-uncle Count Karl von Zinzendorf the Lower Austrian lordships of Karlstetten , Doppel and Wasserburg . In 1816 he added the name and the coat of arms of those of Zinzendorf- Pottendorf to his name and was enfeoffed with the Oberstlandjägermeisteramt in the land under the Enns . The Austrian goods were sold in 1912 and the Rantzau estate, the last of the old family estates, was gradually sold from 1965.

Status survey

The elevation to the imperial count came through the diploma of the Saxon Elector Friedrich August II. (In his capacity as imperial vicar ) of February 28, 1741 for Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin (1671–1748), cabinet minister and general of the Electorate of Saxony, and his descendants.

The Danish branch Bauditz is listed in the Danish nobility directory Danmarks Adels Aarbog in various editions from 1909 to 1959 as a member of the Danish nobility.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three silver hip horns with a golden tip and border in blue , arranged in a three-pass ( triskele ). Helmet ornament and helmet cover: on a blue-silver puffed helmet with similar covers, three ostrich feathers - silver, blue, silver .

The Count's coat of arms, awarded in 1741, shows the (gold-rimmed) family coat of arms as a heart shield in a red squared shield . In the first and fourth fields two silver wings, not connected by the armpits, with a gold star in between. In the second and third fields, a man's arm in armor, turned to the right, with armpit rails and with a curved sword in his bare fist. On the shield rests a count's crown with nine pearls, over which there are three crowned helmets. On the crown of the middle three blue ostrich feathers, on the one on the right the wings with the star and on the one on the left the arm with the sword. The covers of the middle helmet are blue and silver, those of the other two are red and silver. Shield holder : two silver-reinforced, opposing black griffins.

The coat of arms of 1816 combined with the Zinzendorf is similar, but the heart shield is split and shows the horns on the right, and is split by black and silver on the left (for the Zinzendorf family coat of arms, but their family coat of arms is actually four). A fourth helmet with black and silver covers is inserted in the third position, on top of it two buffalo horns with black and silver quarters (Zinzendorf family coat of arms helmet), on which a gold studded, red banded black horn hangs (hereditary country hunter's office in Austria under the Enns).

The municipal coat of arms of Karlstetten is derived from the family coat of arms.

  • Family coat of arms

  • Count's coat of arms (1741)

  • Count's coat of arms (1741) in color

  • Coat of arms of the Danish Bauditz

  • Municipal coat of arms Karlstetten

Well-known namesake

Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin (1671–1748), cabinet minister and general (1671–1748), first count

Danish branch:

  • Hinrich Conrad Bauditz , engineer officer and portrait painter (1661–1714), ancestor of the Danish Bauditz
  • Adolph August Bauditz (1696–1763), chief forester of Duke Friedrich Karl of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön, son of Hinrich Conrad
  • Carl Bauditz (1741–1816), Danish lieutenant general, son of Adolph August
  • Ferdinand Christian Fürchtegott Bauditz (1778–1849), Danish major general à la suite, son of Carl
  • Carl Gustav Heinrich Bauditz (1780–1849), Danish major general in the artillery, son of Carl
  • Christian Bauditz (1815–1909), Danish lieutenant general
  • Peter von Bauditz (1817–1864), Danish officer and sculptor, son of Carl Gustav Heinrich
  • Sophus Bauditz (1850–1915), Danish educator, author and playwright, nephew of Peter

literature

Web links

Commons : Baudissin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ after Steinmann (Lit), p. 87