Bennewitz (noble family)

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Bennewitz , also Benewitz , Beynewitz is the name of an old noble family that appears for the first time at the end of the 13th century in the village of the same name Bennewitz near Torgau , and since the 14th century in the lords of Beeskow and Storkow and in Niederlausitz as vassals of the Strele and / or Bieberstein appeared. It went out by the beginning of the 18th century at the latest. Another branch of the family can be found in Upper Lusatia .

history

Origin and demarcation

The von Bennewitz came either from Bennewitz near Torgau or from Bennewitz in the district of Leipzig in Saxony. The family was first documented in 1289, when an Otto von Beynewitz witnessed a donation of twelve Hufen land in the village of Blumberg by Margrave Diezmann to the Mühlberg monastery . According to Leopold von Ledebur , the family is said to have lived in the village of Bennewitz near Torgau in 1445. With an Otto von Beynewicz the family is first documented in 1388 in the Beeskow / Storkow area.

The von Bennewitz family in Lower Lusatia must not be confused with the von Bennewitz family in Saxony, which was ennobled in 1541 . This one has a different coat of arms, a double-headed eagle surrounded by a wreath. According to George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , there is said to have been another von Bennewitz family in the Mansfeld region in the 14th century , which was also not related to this family.

Proof of ownership (incomplete)

Around 1400 Hans Bennewitz was councilor in Breslau . Whether he belonged to the nobility (and this noble family) is not known. In 1414 he bought the village of Mahlen near Trebnitz , which Heinz Bennewitz, perhaps his son, sold again in 1448.

In 1410 Nickel von Bennewitz took part as a mercenary leader of the Teutonic Order in the gang of Jon von Köckritz with two spears and a rifleman in the battle of Tannenberg . After receiving pay he left East Prussia again. In 1412 Jan Benewitz was a lay judge in Beeskow.

In 1418, Hentze / Heyntz Beynewitz owned the village of Oegeln (now part of the city of Beeskow) and the knight's seat there. In 1481 this property had passed to von Hake. In 1421 a Hannus Bewnencz (probably Bennewitz) sat on Koethen .

In 1451 Hans and Nigkel Beynewicz belonged to the men of the soft picture of Beeskow. They had their knight seat in Kummerow in 1475. The village of Kummerow (now part of the Lower Lusatian town of Friedland ) belonged to the Bennewitz family until 1574, when it passed to the von Zabeltitz family. Nickel is mentioned in another document from 1477. In 1484 he is mentioned in the Leipzig Council Book.

In 1452, the Brandenburg Elector Friedrich II. Elsen, the wife of Georg von Waldenfels, assigned the two villages of Rinow and Herbersdorf in the little country Bärwalde (today the municipality of Niederer Fläming , district of Teltow-Fläming ) as personal items. Elsen was the sister of Nickel von Bennewitz.

Until 1463 the Bennewitz owned part of the village Saarow , located on a peninsula in the Scharmützelsee (today a residential area of Bad Saarow ). The other part of the village is said to have belonged to the Biebersteins. After a feudal letter from Wenczlaw von Bieberstein dated June 17, 1463, the village, including the Benewitz part of father and Hensch Benewitz , went to von Löschebrand , who held Saarow until it died out in 1860.

In 1518 the Bennewitz had the taxes of three farmers in Bahrensdorf . They were able to extend this share to the taxes of six farmers by 1575. This share in Bahrensdorf came to the von Steinkeller family in 1576 . In 1582 they were able to acquire another ownership share in Bahrensdorf, the Lehngut Bahrensdorf with two hooves, which they could maintain until after 1621. This fiefdom was owned by Bennewitz auf Groß Beuchow (today part of the city of Lübbenau / Spreewald ). In 1625 this part appears in the possession of the von Köckritz family. The village Hartensdorf belonged before 1556 the family of Hobeck; The von Bennewitz family is named as the previous owner.

In 1521 an Erasmus Bennewitz was sitting on the Kietz in Beeskow.

Before 1553 they owned a Freihaus in Beeskow , which passed into the possession of von Kracht that year.

In 1556 von Bennewitz owned two farmers in Bugk (today a district of the city of Storkow ) or were entitled to collect their taxes. This share later fell to the Storkow office .

In 1592 Albrecht Kindler von Zackenstein sold three and a half hooves and a garden with six bushels of grain and oat fruit from the jug in Groß Beuchow to Wenzel von Bennewitz, who received a fiefdom letter about it on December 15, 1592. He had already acquired other shares in the village before that. In 1577 and 1581/84 a Hans von Bennewitz zu Groß Beuchow is mentioned in a document. However, it is not known what shares he had in the village. In 1584 he lent Arnt von Röbel 200 guilders on Leipchel . Wenzel von Bennewitz was married to Ammely von Wolfersdorf. In 1620 this part belonged to Hanns Wolf von Drandorf. Mülverstedt still leads the brothers Wenzel, George, Bernd and Siegmund Ulrich, who supposedly still sat on Groß Beuchow in 1632. 1644 two sons of Michael von Bennewitz are known. In 1694 a George Wilhelm von Bennewitz served in the Dohnaschen regiment.

In the "Bartthuss von müllen his performance by Vatter und Mutter anno 1666" he listed: "3. My father father mother a panwitzen out of the house Cathlo in Kotwiczschen 4. The same mother a benwiczen out of the house Salie (?) In Niederlaußicz in Liebischen ”.

The alleged property of the family in Vehlefanz and Groß Ziethen could not be verified using the historical local dictionary; there is only proven possession of a von Bernewitz family. It is completely unclear whether this is prescribed for Bennewitz or an entirely different family. In Bornsdorf near Luckau, the Bennewitz had no property, unlike Ledebur. It is confused with Bahrensdorf, which was also called Bornsdorf in the 16th century .

Proof of ownership in a Neuendorf 1612 has not yet been determined more precisely, as has Baudach ( Crossen district ). The evidence of ownership given by Ledebur in Collm (probably Weißkollm ), Lohsa and Oelsa (probably Oelsa near Löbau) in Upper Lusatia has not yet been proven by (other) sources.

coat of arms

Shield: a jumping black ibex on a white background; Helmet : three ostrich feathers, black, white and black; Ceilings : black and white

As a variation, a growing ibex also appears on the helmet.

supporting documents

literature

  • Rudolf Lehmann : Historical local lexicon for Niederlausitz. Volume 1: Introduction and Overviews. The districts of Luckau, Lübben and Calau. Hessian State Office for Historical Regional Studies, Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-921254-96-5
  • Joachim Schölzel: Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg. Part IX: Beeskow-Storkow. Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1989, ISBN 3-7400-0104-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 3: T – Z, Addendum A – Z. Rauh, Berlin 1855, online at Google Books ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 194) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.books.google.de
  2. ^ Albert Heinrich von Köckritz: The Köckritze in Voigtlande, Meissen & Saxony. Prickarts, Mainz 1871, online at Google Books (p. 60)
  3. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis : Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents. Part 1 (A) Volume 20. Reimer, Berlin 1861, online at Google Books (p. 367)
  4. ↑ a b Leopold von Ledebur: Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy. Volume 1: A-K. Rauh, Berlin 1855, online at Google Books ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (P. 48) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.books.google.de
  5. ↑ GA von Mülverstedt : J. Siebmacher’s large and general book of arms in a new, fully ordered and richly increased edition with heraldic and historical-genealogical explanations. 6. Volume 5. Section: The dead nobility of the province and Mark Brandenburg. Verlag von Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1880
  6. ^ Gerhard Pfeiffer: The Breslau patriciate in the Middle Ages. Trewendt & Granier, Breslau 1929, snippets from Google Books (p. 269)
  7. ^ Sven Ekdahl (edit.): The pay book of the Teutonic Order 1410/1411. Part II: Indices with personal history comments. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-412-20583-6 , preview on Google Books (p. 26)
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  10. ^ Woldemar Lippert: Document book of the city of Lübben. III. Tape. The documents of the city and the office of Lübben, the lords of Zauche, Pretschen and Leuthen. 353 p., Dresden, Verlag der Wilhelm und Bertha v. Baensch Foundation 1933 (p. 47)
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  14. ↑ Leipzig Council Books 1466–1500 2.1. Council Book 1 (1466-1489). PDF (p. 266)
  15. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel: Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis: Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents. Part 1 (A) Vol. 11. Reimer, Berlin 1856, online at Google Books (p. 175)
  16. ^ Rudolf Hermsdorf: Between Dolgen and Skirmish. Chronicle of the localities of the Reichenwalde parish district. Part 1: From prehistoric times to modern times. Self-published, Storkow 1934, pp. 32, 38.
  17. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel: Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis: Collection of documents, chronicles and other source documents. Part 1 (A) Volume 20. Reimer, Berlin 1861, online at Google Books (p. 513)
  18. ↑ Götz Freiherr v. Houwald: The Niederlausitz manors and their owners. Volume III: District of Lübben. 454 p., Neustadt an der Aisch, Verlag Degener & Co., owner Gerhard Gessner, 1984 ISBN 3-7686-4109-0 (p. 114)
  19. ↑ Götz Freiherr von Houwald : The Niederlausitzer manors and their owners. Volume IV: District of Kalau Part I. Verlag Degener & Co., owner Gerhard Gessner, Neustadt an der Aisch 1988, ISBN 3-7686-4120-1
  20. ↑ Houwald Volume II, Sorau District (p. 536)
  21. ↑ Lieselott Enders : Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg. Part III: Havelland . Weimar 1972.
  22. ↑ Götz Freiherr von Houwald: The Niederlausitzer manors and their owners. Volume V: Luckau district. Verlag Degener & Co., owner Gerhard Gessner, Neustadt an der Aisch 1996, ISBN 3-7686-4145-7 (p. 37 ff.)
  23. ↑ The “chosen” families of the Brandenburg knighthood. In: newspaper for the German nobility. 3rd year, no. 15, February 19, 1842, pp. 71–73, Nordhausen and Leipzig, online at Google Books