Blankenfelde (noble family)
The noble von Blankenfelde family was one of the oldest patrician and council families in Berlin , which flourished between the 13th and 16th centuries and provided seven Berlin mayors during this time .
It is believed that the Blankenfelde (de Blankenfilde) were a warrior family of Saxon origin. Around 1220 they founded the villages of Blankenfelde in the Niederbarnim district and Blankenfelde in the Teltow-Fläming district and a village of the same name in the Neumark .
Family tribe list
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Johannes I. von Blankenfelde (1240–1320) Mayor of Berlin |
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| Johann I von Blankenfelde (1265–1333) mayor of Spandau in 1330 |
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| Jacob von Blankenfelde (1290–1370) Mayor of Berlin |
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Peter von Blankenfelde (1335–1382) Mayor of Berlin |
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Paul von Blankenfelde (1365–1443) Mayor of Berlin |
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Wilhelm von Blankenfelde (1390–1474) Mayor of Berlin |
Johannes II. Von Blankenfelde (* 1404) Mayor of Berlin |
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Thomas von Blankenfelde (1436–1504) Mayor of Berlin |
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Paul Heinrich von Blankenfelde (1460–1532) merchant and mint master |
Wilhelm the Elder J. von Blankenfelde (1465–1536) Berlin merchant |
Johann II of Blankenfelde (1471–1527) Archbishop of Riga |
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Johann III. von Blankenfelde (1507–1579) Mayor of Berlin |
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| Joachim von Blankenfelde (1529–1612) Mayor of Frankfurt (Oder) |
Johann IV of Blankenfelde (1542–1579) | Wilhelm IV of Blankenfelde (1575–1629) heir to Weissensee |
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| Christian von Blankenfelde († before 1663) Prime Lieutenant |
Hans Henning von Blankenfelde (1616–1689) heir to Oehna near Bautzen, court judge |
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| Hans Caspar von Blankenfelde († 1751) Lehnschulze Hindenburg |
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| Christian Wilhelm von Blankenfelde (1728–1795) infantry captain |
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| Eberhard Wilhelm von Blankenfelde (1770–1834) Lieutenant Colonel Gendarmerie |
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| Gustav Léo Eberhard von Blankenfelde (1813–1888) Lieutenant Colonel Infantry |
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| Alfred Gustav Eberhard von Blankenfelde (1862–1931) Commander Cavalry |
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| Wilke Mathias Alfred von Blankenfelde (1897–1961) major |
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| Sever Wilke Alfred von Blankenfelde (1927–1965) landowner of Burg Klüsserath |
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Family property
The Blankenfeldes were among the wealthiest aristocratic families. For a time they had two houses in the city. The parent house was the so-called Stephanische Haus at Spandauer Strasse 49. It was destroyed in the conflagration on Laurentius and Tiburtius Day in the summer of 1380. Paul von Blankenfelde had it rebuilt in solid stone in 1390. The Latin inscription in the new building read:
“ The von Blankenfelde, patricians of this town, restored this house with strong walls and pillars in the brick building around 1390, when Paul von Blankenfelde and Henning Strohband were mayors . You have placed your load on a cellar vault of seven bays. "
In 1470 and 1480, Thomas von Blankenfelde's main building was splendidly renovated. Finally, in 1612 it was sold to the Berlin trader Ambrosius Berndt. The house stood until 1889.
The coat of arms of the Blankenfelde (red bridle and two red stars in a white-blue field) adorn a capital at the main building in Spandauer Straße. Today it stands together with other ornaments in the Nikolaikirche or in the Märkisches Museum in Berlin .
The family also owned another house at Klosterstrasse 71 in the Barfüßer Kirchhof next to the Marienkirche . There is also talk of a house next to the “gray monastery of the barefooted”, for the monastery the Blankenfeldes are said to have donated more or less large sums of money. It may be the same house.
The von Blankenfelde family also had rural fiefs and property. In many villages they acquired the landed and sovereign sources of income, sometimes even entire villages. During the centuries of the Blankenfeld family history, properties in Seefeld , Wartenberg , Rodensee, Groß-Ziethen , Birkholz , Malchow , Herzfelde , Werder , Rüdersdorf , Blankenburg , Pankow , Weißensee , Altena , Hennickendorf and Kaulsdorf are mentioned, from which the family received lease and interest income related.
This income made the family economically independent, which gave them the freedom to participate in urban political life. The Blankenfeldes often held councilor and mayor positions.
At the beginning of the 17th century, the Blankenfelde family became more and more insignificant. After the parent company was sold, she retired to the remaining estate in Weißensee. In 1616 she also sold this last part of the property.
Street naming
Between 1891 and 1963 there was a Blankenfeldestrasse in Berlin-Mitte . It is controversial after which Blankenfelde this street was named. Either it is Paul von Blankenfelde (1365–1443) or Johann III. von Blankenfelde (1507–1579). The Blankenfelde road ran from the Schilling / corner Magazinstraße to contemporary flowers street and downtown buildings fell victim.
