Berg (Mecklenburg noble family)
Berg is the name of a Mecklenburg noble family .
history
In 1701, the Rostock merchant Johann Friedrich Berg acquired the Mecklenburg goods Poppendorf , Bussewitz and Billenhagen . His grandchildren, the brothers Karl Friedrich Berg , ducal Holstein captain and Gustav Heinrich Berg , royal Swedish and heir to Groß Stove and landgrave Hessian captain and heir to Poppendorf, were authorized by August the Strong on January 16, 1742 through his function as imperial vicar in Dresden raised to the imperial nobility. The Mecklenburg recognition of the nobility took place for both on July 29, 1750.
In addition to the goods already listed, the Berg also owned Niendorf as a deposit from 1731 to 1761.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a red bar covered with three black spheres. On the helmet with red and silver blankets on the right and black and silver blankets on the left, a green mountain.
See also
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, pp. 331-332, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Arligen Häuser (B) Gotha 1912 ( family and older genealogy), until 1937 (continuations)
- Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). Rostock 1864, pp. 17-18