Blome (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Blome

Blome is the name of an originally Lower Saxon noble family that came from the Calenberg nobility and came to Holstein around 1400 , later also to Schleswig and Denmark . It went out in 1945.

history

The family first appeared in a document on December 12, 1342 with the Wunstorf squire Thederich Blome , who in 1361 sealed a greyhound in a shield in a document from the Wennigsen monastery .

With Didrik Blome (Blum, Blumen), who is said to have led a squadron of riders from Braunschweig to Holstein around 1400 and who settled in Holstein, the uninterrupted line of the family begins . From 1413 to 1420 Didrik was bailiff to Tondern in Schleswig and married a daughter of Schack von Rantzow (Rantzau). Of the couple's descendants, the brothers Hans von Blome fell on Seedorf and Heinrich von Blome, bailiff at Gottorf Castle in 1500 in the battle of Hemmingstedt . Hans von Blome, lord of Seedorf in the Segeberg district, councilor and bailiff of Hadersleben , and Dietrich von Blome, lord of Hornstorf, were involved as councilors in the inheritance settlement that King Frederick II of Denmark made with Duke Adolph I in Holstein . Otto von Blome was the ducal district administrator in 1640, Hans von Blome was chief district hunter, and Wolff (Wulf) and Dietrich von Blome are listed as Danish secret councilors and knights of the Dannebrog Order in 1698 . The Blome became one of the most respected families in the Duchy of Holstein and acquired significant property. Significant houses in Schleswig-Holstein were built by the Blome, including Hagen , Heiligenstedten , Salzau and the Blomenburg .

Count Otto von Blome (1795-1884)

Count Otto von Blome (1795–1884) finally united the entire family property with a dozen estates in his hand. In 1819 he was raised to the Danish feudal count , together with his uncle Otto von Blome auf Heiligenstedten . In Salzau , from 1881 he built the palace, which was oversized even for a large complex of goods. His only son, Count Gustav von Blome (1829-1906) , came from his second marriage with Princess Klementine Bagration (1810-1829 ). Klementine was actually an illegitimate daughter of Princess Katharina Bagration with the Austrian State Chancellor Prince Klemens Wenzel von Metternich . The son Gustav entered the Austrian diplomatic service after the Schleswig-Holstein War in 1848/1849. He moved to Austria-Hungary , where he and his father bought properties, became Catholic in 1857 and had ten children. From 1926 Hagen, Heiligenstedten, Blomenburg and Büttel were sold. With Gustav’s grandson Hans Graf Blome, the male line died out in 1945. The Salzau property fell to Josephine Maria Countess von Thun und Hohenstein , née. Countess von Blome (1902–1984), who sold it in 1964.

Nobility uprisings

In Denmark the family appeared partly in the feudal counts, partly in the barons .

The diplomat Otto von Blome (1770–1849), Lord of Heiligenstedten, Bahrenfleth, Campen, Bekhof and Bekmünde, Danish Lieutenant General and envoy to the Imperial Russian court, was on estate together with his nephew of the same name, Otto von Blome (1795–1884) Salzau and Blomesche Wildnis , Danish chamberlain and Rittmeister , the eldest son of his late brother Friedrich von Blome, by a resolution of King Friedrich Vl. of Denmark from September 11, 1819 to the Danish feudal count.

Possessions

Goods of Otto Blome (1589–1645)
Later acquisitions

Blomestrasse in Heiligenstedten is named after Otto Blome I, who served as a diplomat in the Danish service for years .

Family archive

The family archive (with real estates) came to the Schleswig-Holstein state archive in Schleswig in 1959 and 1965 with the estate archives of Salzau and Heiligenstedten .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in a blue shield a silver greyhound with a gold collar jumping open to the right. A tail of eight peacock feathers (4 and 4) stands on the helmet with its blue and silver covers . In early variants, the silver greyhound leaps to the left or runs to the right. The greyhound's collar is also described as being red, decorated with precious stones.

On the shield of the count's coat of arms there is the count's crown , and on it three crowned helmets. From the right helmet the wind chime of the shield leaps inwards; the middle helmet has a peacock's tail made of ten feathers (5 and 5) (helmet of the family coat of arms), and the left a growing, inward-looking golden lion. The shield is held by two crowned, outward-looking golden lions, and the whole thing is usually surrounded by a coat of arms covered with a crown. The helmet covers are blue and silver. The Latin motto is: Aut mors aut vita decora .

Name bearer

  • Count Otto von Blome (1770–1849), Danish diplomat
    Nobility Benedict von Ahlefeldt , née Blome
  • Knight Hinrich Blome
  • Otto Blome (1589–1645) at Nienhof and Kaltenhof, died in a duel, ∞ Dorothea von Ahlefeldt
    • Benedikt Blome (1627–1688), on Nienhof, Kaltenhof and Birkenmoor, ∞ Sophie von Reventlow
      • Otto Blome (1684–1738), Danish chief court marshal, at Nienhof, Kaltenhof, ∞ Amalie von Oertzen b. Friis
  • Christoph von Blome (1657–1729), Privy Councilor and Danish Minister
  • Wulf Blome (1651–1735), owner of Hagen , provost in Preetz
  • Christoph Blome (1691–1743), owner of the Bahrenfleth estate
  • Wulf Blome (1728–1784), on Bahrenfleth etc.
  • Count Otto von Blome (1770–1849), Danish diplomat, from 1819 count, on Heiligenstedten, Bahrenfleth, Campen, Bekhof and Bekmünde
  • Otto von Blome (1735–1803), portrait by Jens Juel
    Friedrich Blome (1769–1818), ∞ Countess Charlotte von Platen-Hallermund
  • Count Otto von Blome (1795–1884), from 1819 count, builder of Salzau and Blomenburg, on Lammershagen and Friedeburg, ruler of the Hagymádfalva rule in Hungary, ∞ I (1822) Princess Albertine zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein, ∞ II (1828 ) Princess Marie Clementine Bagration, ∞ III Countess Julie Friederike Sophie von Platen-Hallermund
  • Count Gustav von Blome (1829–1906), Austrian diplomat, Catholic in 1857, at Montpreis, Lower Styria, Salzau etc., ∞ Countess Josephine von Buol-Schauenstein
4 sons, 6 daughters
  • Adeline (1838–1908), ∞ Count Ferdinand von Hardenberg (1826–1870)
  • Baron Adolf von Blome (1798–1875), Danish envoy to London, owner of the estates Bahrenfleth, Bekmünde, Bekhof and Blomesche Wildnis, ∞ Countess Franziska von Reventlow
  • Otto von Blome (1735–1803), at Heiligenstedten, Bahrenfleth, Campen, Bekhof and Bekmünde, canon, officer and Danish diplomat
  • Baron Rudolf Blome († 1920)

literature

  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation , Volume 3, Leipzig 1854, p. 32f digitized
  • The library of the Counts of Blome-Heiligenstedten: Auction (Volume 1): History (including many German chronicles and a Napoleon collection), cultural history, literature, geography, travel, archeology including important copper engravings from the 17th and 18th centuries: auction on February 25 and 26, 1927 (Catalog No. 25). Hamburg: Hans Götz bookstore 1927 ( digitized version )
  • The library of the Counts of Blome-Heiligenstedten: Auction (Volume 2): In particular German chronicles, German and French literature and old illustrated travel books: May 1927 (Catalog No. 28). Hamburg: Hans Götz bookstore 1927 ( digitized version )
  • Otto Hintze: History of the ancient noble family of Lords and Counts Blome. 1929
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, p. 436, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN  0435-2408

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sudendorf, document book of the dukes of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, Volume II, No. 22
  2. ^ State Archives Hanover
  3. ↑ Entry in the central database of bequests