Beulwitz (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Beulwitz

Beulwitz is the name of an old Thuringian noble family . The Lords of Beulwitz belong to the Eastern nobility. Branches of the family still exist.

history

origin

The family was first mentioned in a document in 1137 with "Erwin de Bulewicz". The family line begins with the knight Hartmund, who was named in documents between 1265 and 1310.

Beulwitz , the family home of the same name, is now part of the city of Saalfeld in Thuringia. Earlier spellings of the family name were "Bulewitz", "Bulwitz", "Belwitz", "Bielwitz", "Beulwitz" and "Beilwitz". In older literature a Sorbian origin is assumed.

Expansion and possessions

The progenitor, Hartmund Beulwitz, who appeared in a document from 1265, was a Count of the Schwarzburg council and castle captain of Blankenburg . Of his four sons, only Dietrich was able to continue the tribe. His son Heinrich (I), who was named in documents from 1333, was the father of three sons, of whom Georg was the founder of the Schwarzburg and Heinrich (II) the Vogtland line. The fiefdoms acquired by the family initially remained in the community of both lines.

Early on, from 1540, the Lords of Beulwitz were members of the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of the Franconian knight circle and also belonged to the Vogtland knighthood .

Later, relatives were able to acquire significant property in the Russian principalities , in the Saxon Vogtland, in Saxe-Weimar , in Saxe-Meiningen and in Bavaria . In more recent times the family was wealthy in Braunschweig-Lüneburg and in Prignitz . In the first half of the 18th century, a line also came into possession and prestige in the Kingdom of Denmark . In the Kingdom of Saxony , the goods Erlbach in Vogtland, Eubabrunn and Schwand (now part of Weischlitz ) were family-owned. A branch came to Hanover in 1760 with the Oberappellationsrat Ludwig Friedrich von Beulwitz (* 1726). He was initially a member of the Princely Waldeck government and died in 1796 as a privy councilor in Braunschweig-Lüneburg . Because of the possession of the Wieckenberg estate , the family belonged to the knightly nobility of the Lüneburg landscape .

Important relatives from more recent times included the Duke of Württemberg Chamberlain Albrecht Anton von Beulwitz. His grandson Carl Christian Franz Freiherr von Beulwitz (* 1786) became a Bavarian treasurer and member of the Royal Bavarian Border, Toll and Hall Office in Nördlingen . Karl August von Beulwitz died in 1799 as a Prussian major general. Heinrich Emil Friedrich August von Beulwitz was adjutant general of the Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach , major general and real secret councilor . After Galicia , the family came in 1802 with Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Beulwitz. He died in 1821 as an imperial-royal chancellor in the tobacco administration. His son Baron Wenzel von Beulwitz (* 1810) became the Imperial and Royal Superior Office Controller at the main customs and clearance office in Lemberg .

On October 15, 1911, a gender association was established with a family foundation that holds family days in the odd years.

Status surveys

Carl Christian Franz Freiherr von Beulwitz, Bavarian treasurer, was registered on March 31, 1818 in the baron class of nobility in the Kingdom of Bavaria. On December 15, 1830, Otto Heinrich, Emma Henriette, Hilmar Camillo and Otto Friedrich, children of the royal Saxon major out of service Philipp August Heinrich von Beulwitz, were enrolled in the aristocratic class of the Bavarian aristocratic registers. On September 14, 1854, the brothers Hilmar Camillo, Bavarian sub-lieutenant in the 1st Cuirassier Regiment, and Otto Heinrich Woldemar Freiherr von Beulwitz, Bavarian postal official in Hof , were entered in the baron class of the Bavarian aristocrats.

Franz Freiherr von Beulwitz, Wuerttemberg major general, received on February 4, 1884 with the highest decree (or on February 12, 1884 in Stuttgart by ministerial letter) a Württemberg recognition of the baron class. His son Leo Freiherr von Beulwitz, kuk chamberlain and ministerial vice-secretary, received an Austrian prevalence of the baron class as a foreign one by ministerial decree on October 20, 1884 in Vienna .

Ludwig von Beulwitz, royal Saxon colonel at disposition , was entered in the royal Saxon nobility register on December 7, 1905 under the number 233 and Emma von Beulwitz, née Zimmermann, on October 3, 1912 under the number 419.

Nobility family

The Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility mentions another gender of the same name. Ernst Beulwitz , Bavarian major general a. D., received the Bavarian nobility on February 9, 1901. An entry in the aristocratic registers in the Kingdom of Bavaria was made on February 16, 1901. The coat of arms awarded is divided, at the top an increasing silver crescent moon accompanied by two silver stars, at the bottom a blue star in silver.

Depiction of the coat of arms in the parish church of Töpen

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a sighted silver crescent in blue accompanied by three (2, 1) silver stars. On the helmet with blue-silver helmet covers a red-armored silver rooster .

Known family members

literature

Web links

Commons : Beulwitz family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Thuringian State Archives Rudolstadt. A VIII, 8c, No. 6, sheet 6.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, pp. 374-375.
  3. ↑ a b c New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 4, pp. 394-396.
  4. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 66.