Blanckenburg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Blanckenburg

Blanckenburg , also: Blankenburg is the name of an old noble family from the Uckermark , which in the meantime was able to spread to Mecklenburg , Pomerania and via the Neumark to Poland and West Prussia .

history

The Blanckenburg in Mecklenburg is said to be mentioned in a document as early as 1173 . In Pomerania the family first appeared with Anselm von Blankenborch in 1253 and named themselves after their ancestral home near Prenzlau . With the Teutonic Order , the family also came to the Mansfeld area in the 16th century . While the Mecklenburg line was already extinct at the end of the 17th century, other lines expanded to Poznan and Silesia .

The family appeared in three tribes as early as the Middle Ages , the closer connection of which is not certain.

The progenitor of tribe A in the 15th century was Alter Hasso in Moitzelin. His descendants divided into two lines, of which the Polish-Silesian, after it was raised to the rank of baron on April 22, 1799 , expired in the middle of the 19th century. The second, Pomeranian-Thuringian line transplanted to Hamburg with Werner Venz around 1880. The Prussian officer and later writer Christian Friedrich von Blanckenburg (1744–1796) also belonged to tribe A. All later members of this line are descendants of the Prussian major Karl Julius Eduard von Blanckenburg (1802–1798).

Tribe B was donated by Richard von Blanckenburg , who was heir to Rogzow , Leppin , Blauentin, Petershagen and Moitzelfitz around 1450 . His descendants were divided into three lines, with the first and third line donated by Georg Heinrich von Blanckenburg (1717–1779) and Peter Ludwig von Blanckenburg (1728–1798) also extinguished in the 19th century, that of Henning Anselm von Blanckenburg (1720–1775) donated the second line, however, persists. Henning Karl Moritz von Blanckenburg (1815–1888), Prussian Real Privy Councilor, General Landscape Director , and heir to Zimmerhausen and Cardemin continues this line.

Tribe C begins with Hans von Blanckenburg , who was the heir of Karkow in 1471 . Karkow remained in the family's possession until 1804, Strachmin was acquired in 1794 and Strippow in 1805. Hermann Georg Ferdinand von Blanckenburg (1797–1880), heir to Strippow, is the ancestor of all later members of this line.

A family association has existed since 1886.

The gender is not to be confused with the Harz Counts of Blankenburg , who appeared in the main lines Rheinstein , Regenstein and Heimberg and which went out in 1599.

Also not part of the family, even though the crest similarity suggests kinship with her ancestor, the Prussian Colonel Heinrich von Blankenburg , December 1, 1884 in Berlin by extraordinary cabinet order ennobled by Blankenburg .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a sideways turned silver head and neck of a goat (or ram) in the blue shield. On the helmet with blue-silver blankets, a pelican turned to the right on the nest, feeding its three chicks.

The coat of arms in the diploma from 1885 for the Blankenburgs, who were ennobled in 1884, shows a gold-reinforced silver pelican on its nest with three cubs in a black shield on a four-pinned gold wall . On the helmet with black and silver blankets a natural-colored owl sitting on a white roll of paper, ready to fly.

Known family members

Witnesses in kind

In the church of St. Nikolai in Pretzsch there is a grave slab epitaph made of sandstone with a bas-relief of Margaretha von Blankenburg, born in the north wall of the choir. von Haugwitz (1571–1629), wife of Joachim Ernst von Blankenburg.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albrecht v. Blanckenburg.
  2. ^ Leopoldina: Newly elected members 2009 (PDF file)
  3. ^ Member entry of Friedhelm von Blanckenburg at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on April 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ Hans-Joachim Böttcher : Historical grave monuments and their inscriptions in the Dübener Heide . Ed .: AMF. No. 165 , August 2005, p. 28 .