Birckhahn (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Mecklenburg Berkhahn
Family coat of arms of the Prussian Berkhahn

Birckhahn is the name of an originally Mecklenburg and later Prussian noble family .

history

The family can be traced back to the Mecklenburg Berkhahn , who were wealthy there from 1316 to 1520 in Zehlendorf . Due to the equality of coats of arms, historians of the 19th century agree that a tribal relationship with those of Moltke is very likely. The family was first mentioned in a document in 1247 with the knight Konrad Berkhahn. The lineage begins with Mathias Birckhan in Mecklenburg in 1450, or with his presumed son Hans Birckhahn in Geyerswalde in Prussia , documented from 1480-1490. As early as the 16th century, the family transplanted to East Prussia and divided into three lines, two of which expired at the beginning of the 19th century and only the Seyerswalde line continued to exist.

Karl Wilhelm von Birckhahn, Prussian captain and heir on Polgsen in the Wohlau district , was elevated to the Prussian baron status on January 7, 1787 . His widow Jeanette, b. von Sebottendorff (1765–1837) received in 1834 a “nobility recognition for entry into the Rhenish nobility register ”. The adoptive son Carl von Birckhahn († after 1836) was recognized as a baron with name and coat of arms on February 13, 1818.

The family achieved the Silesian Incolate three times. First on February 13, 1781 for the later major general Jakob Albrecht von Birkhahn (1733–1801), hereditary lord of the Bailiwick of Leschnitz , Ellguth, Niewe and Raswadze , all in the district of Groß Strehlitz , then for the district administrator of the Pleß district for Wilhelm von Birckhahn ( 1744-1819), on Radlin and Mschanna on February 19, 1793, and on July 17, 1798 for Karl Freiherr von Birckhahn on Kontopp in the Grünberg district .

Further property ownership

Mecklenburg
Prussia
Silesia
  • Arnsdorf (1804–1830), Nixen (1804–1830), Ober Marklowitz and Wilhelmstal

Relatives

  • Jakob von Birckhahn (1580–1585), district administrator and governor of Riesenburg
  • Sigismund von Birkhahn, 1606 Starost von Soldau
  • Jakob Albrecht von Birkhahn (1733–1801), Prussian major general
  • Wilhelm von Birckhahn (1744–1819), District Administrator of the Pleß district
  • Siegmund Ernst von Birckhahn, Prussian captain, 1745 knight of the order Pour le Mérite

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Prussian barons of Berkhahn
  • The original Berkhahn tribe from Mecklenburg had three black cocks in the shield . On the helmet with black and silver covers a black grouse, alternatively a peacock mirror .
  • The family coat of arms shows a black black grouse in silver. On the helmet with black and silver blankets a growing black black grouse.
  • The family's coat of arms around 1900 shows a black black grouse on green ground in silver. On the helmet with the black and silver covers the black grouse like in the shield.
  • The baronial coat of arms (1786/1787) is quartered , 1 and 4 in blue on a green hill a right-facing black black grouse, 2 and 3 in gold on a green hill a palm tree . Two crowned helmets with red and gold covers, the black grouse on the right and the palm tree on the left. Two black eagles crowned and armored in gold as a shield holder .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755) ; Rostock 1864, pp. 23-24.
  2. ↑ a b Friedrich Crull : The coats of arms of the genders of the team that occurred until 1360 in the present borders of Meklenburg. In: Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology : Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 52 (1887), p. 88.
  3. ↑ a b c Year Book of the German Nobility , Volume 3, 1899, p. 31.
  4. ↑ a b Maximilian Gritzner : Chronological register of the Brandenburg-Prussian ranks and acts of grace from 1600–1873 , Berlin 1874, p. 49 , p. 82 and (Supplements) p. 10.
  5. ^ Yearbook of the German Nobility , Volume 3, 1899, p. 33.
  6. ^ Konrad Blažek: The dead nobility of the Prussian Province of Silesia , 1894, p. 3.
  7. ↑ a b c Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 1, Rauh, Berlin 1856, p. 66 ; Volume 3, 1858, pp. 201-202.
  8. ↑ Gustaf Lehmann: The knights of the order pour le mérite. Volume 2, Mittler , Berlin 1913, p. 28, No. 198. ( Digitized version of the Göttingen University Library )
  9. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and aristocratic families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description , Volume 4, Weigel, Leipzig 1857, pp. 38-39.