Bernewitz (noble family)

Family coat of arms of the von Bernewitz family

Bernewitz (also: von Bernewitz , Freiherren von Bernewitz ) is a German and Kurland noble and literary family.

history

The lineage of the family can be traced back to at least 1540 ( Paul Bernewitz (1540–1606), bailiff and mayor of Goldingen in Courland ). She received the confirmation of the right to wear the title of nobility from the Instrumentierte Extrakt concerning the baronary origin of those von Bernewitz , issued in 1736 by the imperial notary Johann Gottfried Lange, and the approval to use the baron title in 1867.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the von Bernewitz family

• The family coat of arms shows a gold crowned red lion grimacing to the right in silver. On the helmet with red-silver covers three (silver-red-silver) ostrich feathers.
• The baron's coat of arms from 1867 is quartered: in fields 1 and 4 the family coat of arms, fields 2 and 3 in black three golden rafters. Two helmets, the right with blankets and crest as ordinary arms, on the left with black and gold ceiling diagonally-split two of black and gold buffalo horns.

origin

Neuendorf (Brück)

In 1476, the Brandenburg noble family von Bernewitz was mentioned as the owner of the manor Groß-Glienicke , the upper court and carriage service of Groß Glienicke , which was halfway between Potsdam and Spandau . In 1541 the family showed themselves to be the church patron of Dallgow (district of Dallgow-Döberitz ), which was subject to the rule of the Groß Glienicke estate at this time. The estate was sold in 1572 to Georg von Ribbeck , the Brandenburg governor of Spandau.

From 1599 to 1690 the von Bernewitz family owned the village of Neuendorf (Brück) in the Mark Brandenburg (first mentioned in 1337 as in villa Nyendorf and in the land register of Emperor Charles IV from 1375 as Nyendorf prope Brůgge , Nyendorf prope Brugge , Nyendorf prope Brůge ).

Known family members

• Johann Heinrich Carl von Bernewitz (1754–1821), Brunswick lieutenant general
• Wilhelm von Bernewitz (1808–1878), major general in Brunswick
• Alexander Bernewitz (1856–1919), martyr ; Provost of the diocese of Kandau
• Arthur von Bernewitz (1842–1920), Prussian major general
• Carl Hans Bernewitz (also Karl Hans Bernewitz , 1858–1934), sculptor and craftsman
• Alexander Hans Bernewitz (1863–1935), first regional bishop of Braunschweig
• Max Wilhelm von Bernewitz (1878–1940), mining engineer in Pittsburgh and a senior member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania . In 1926 published the groundbreaking Handbook for Prospectors , which was repeatedly reprinted and revised, and which is still considered a classic in mining science today. Many other publications, including a. Cyanide practice (1913), The value of oxygen breathing apparatus to the mining industry (1923, with Edward H Denny), The hazards of nonpermissible explosives (1924, with Spencer P Howell), Pittsburgh (1928), Saving gold by means of corduroy (1939), Cutting and polishing stones (1940, with Frank Lee Hess)
• Elsa Bernewitz (1880–1962), Baltic writer ; Novels and short stories : The girl Adelheid; The calling; Anne Dora Hagen; Companions; The raptured; The ages; Weather over the little godland; Farewell to Fraulein von Guhr; The experience of the gun girl; The homeless; The little seamstress Pauline; The little sorceress; The little house by the lake
• Ernst Bernewitz (1892–1921), astronomer at the Berlin-Babelsberg observatory , discovered the high density of the white dwarf Sirius B in 1921
• Ernst Heinrich von Bernewitz, constitutional lawyer and author ( The Basic Law understand , a didactic fiction book about constitutional and social reality, edited together with Konrad von Bonin, first published 1976)

literature

• Wolfgang Bernewitz: The Kurländische literary family Bernewitz. In: Baltic pedigree and family tables. Vol. 22, 1978, pp. 5-35.
• Roland Seeberg-Elverfeldt: The ancestry of the Bernewitz family. In: East German family studies . 20, 1972, p. 216.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Freiherrliche Häuser B II, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1957, pp. 25–32; 16, 1992, pp. 14-28.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, p. 349; XVII, 2008, p. 80 ISSN  0435-2408
• Otto Lehmberg, Karin Czech, Sigrid Träger: Groß Glienicke through the ages 1267-1997. Groß Glienicke 1997.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1869. Nineteenth year. P. 44f.