Blixen (noble family)
Blixen is the name of an aristocratic family that can be traced back to Vorpommern in 1239 and was wealthy south of Greifswald until the 20th century .
The baronial line Blixen-Finecke has been wealthy in Sweden since 1756 and in Denmark since 1801.
history
The family first appeared in a document in 1239 with Hinricus Blixino and traditionally begins its line of genes with Clawes Blixen around 1500.
The most important possessions in Western Pomerania were Klein Zastrow (from 1305 to 1848), Sestelin (1284 to 1848), Jargenow and Negentin .
Friedrich August von Blixen (1663-1731) was accepted into the Swedish nobility and the knight's house in 1723 . Wealthy in Sweden (Näsbyholm) since 1756 and in Denmark (Dallund) since 1801, the Baron Carl Frederik von Blixen-Finecke sold the West Pomeranian goods Klein Zastrow and Sestelin in 1848.
The second branch, on Jargenow and Negentin, died out in the male line with Gustav Adolf von Blixen in 1852. His sister's descendants, married Franz, owned the Alt Negentin and Alt Jargenow estates until the first half of the 20th century.
Klein Zastrow manor house
Barons von Blixen-Finecke
In 1756, Conrad Christoph von Blixen , heir to Klein Zastrow, received the Näsbyholm estate in Skåne from his father-in-law, Christian Hinrich von Finecke , as guardianship for his eldest son Conrad Christian , as Fideikommiss . In 1772 he was raised to the status of a Swedish baron. His second son, Carl Philipp von Blixen, received the Dallund estate on Funen in Denmark (in the municipality of Søndersø Sogn ) on the basis of a will from the Danish Chamberlain Theodosius Ernst Frederik von Finecke in 1801 . In 1802 he was raised to the Danish baron and also took the name Blixen-Finecke .
His grandson Carl Frederik von Blixen-Finecke sold the West Pomeranian goods in 1848. In 1915 his son Frederik sold Dallund Castle, so that the main line has lived exclusively on Näsbyholm (in the historic province of Malmöhus län ) in the southern Swedish city of Skåne since then .
A son from Carl von Blixen-Finecke's second marriage to Augusta von Hessen-Kassel , Axel von Blixen-Finecke, received the Hesselagergaard estate on the Danish island of Funen as a gift from his father-in-law in 1904 when he married Bertha Castenskiold. The Barons von Blixen-Finecke are still based there today.
Today there is a Swedish line, the Barons von Blixen-Finecke on Näsbyholm near Trelleborg , and a Danish line, the Barons von Blixen-Finecke on Hesselagergaard, Funen.
Dallund Castle on Funen
Näsbyholm Castle in Skåne
Hesselagergaard Castle, Funen
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a shining golden sun in blue, from which three golden lightning bolts flash in the Schächerkreuz. On the helmet with blue and gold blankets a left-facing Moor's head adorned with a silver forehead band and shot through from behind by a silver arrow.
Baron coat of arms
Gravestone with the alliance coat of arms Blixen and Parsenow in the chapel Alt Jargenow
Name bearer
- Hans Christoph von Blixen (* around 1636; † before 1720), district administrator in Swedish Pomerania
- Conrad Christoph von Blixen (* 1716; † 1787), Swedish general
- Carl Philipp von Blixen (* 1749, † 1829), from 1802 von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish general
- Karen Christence von Blixen-Finecke , née Dinesen, (* 1885; † 1962), Danish writer, also known as Tania Blixen, Isak Dinesen, but above all Karen Blixen , author of the novel Out of Africa (1937, German: Africa, dark alluring world ), which became world famous through his film Beyond Africa
- Bror von Blixen-Finecke (1886–1946) from the Näsbyholm house, Swedish baron and big game hunter in Kenya and British East Africa, brother of Hans von Blixen-Finecke senior. and husband of the Danish writer Karen Blixen (see above)
- Carl Frederik von Blixen-Finecke (1822–1873), Swedish landowner and Danish politician, grandfather of Bror and Hans von Blixen-Finecke
- Hans von Blixen-Finecke senior (1886–1917), Swedish dressage rider and fighter pilot
- Hans von Blixen-Finecke junior (1916–2005), Swedish eventing rider and officer
Individual evidence
- ^ Pomeranian document book . Vol. 1, p. 299
literature
- Carl Gesterding : Genealogies and / or family foundations Pomeranian, especially knightly families. First collection. G. Reimer, Berlin 1842, pp. 75ff. ( Digitized version ) (especially for the period before 1600 very faulty and out of date)
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Vol. 2, Stettin 1846, pp. 97ff. Digitized
- Gabriel Anrep : Svenska adelns Ättar-taflor. Vol. 1, Norstedt & Söner, Stockholm 1858, p. 221 ( Google books ). (Outdated and faulty, recommendation: follow-up work by Gustaf Elgenstierna , Den introducerade svenska adelns ättartavlor, Stockholm 1925–36).
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, pp. 432-433, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN 0435-2408
- Dirk Schleinert : On the history of the von Blixen family in Western Pomerania (Between Schwinge and Peene, H. 2) , Magdeburg 2008. ( Family table in the appendix also still with errors, better at: Dirk Schleinert, Out of Pommern. The transition of the von Blixen family to Sweden and Denmark , In: Martin Krieger, Joachim Krüger (Hrsg.): Regna firmat pietas. State and statehood in the Baltic Sea region. Ceremony for the 60th birthday of Jens E. Olesen. Greifswald 2010, ISBN 978-3-86006-359- 0 , pp. 341-357).
- Dirk Schleinert : Strövtåg i släkten Blixens historia i Pommern 1239–1852 (Forays through the history of the Blixen family in Pomerania 1239-1852) , in: Personhistorisk tidskrift 2012: 1, pp. 83–97.
- Dirk Schleinert : Blixen, barons of Blixen-Finecke, family of. In: Dirk Alvermann , Nils Jörn (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon für Pommern . Volume 1 (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series V, Volume 48.1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-412-20936-0 , pp. 27-30.
