Bodelschwingh (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Bodelschwingh

Bodelschwingh (also Bodelschwing , Bodelswing or Bolschwing ) is the name of an old Rhenish - Westphalian noble family . The Lords of Bodelschwingh belong to the ancient nobility of the County of Mark . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

Bodelschwingh House , the family's original ancestral home

origin

Originally the family called Speke (also Specke ) and was probably of noble descent. Since the end of the 13th century, members of the family have appeared in the civil service of the Counts of Mark as judges and droste .

The first member of the family was the knight (miles) Giselbert Speke in documents in 1298 . He was a judge in Bochum and died before 1327. His son Ernestus dictus Speke de Bodelswinge appears in documents in 1318 and in 1320 as Ernestus de Bodelschewinge. His brother Gerlach is the progenitor of the Westhusen family.

The place Bodelschwingh with the eponymous headquarters Haus Bodelschwingh is today a Dortmund district and belongs to the Mengede district .

Expansion and possessions

Members of the family became hereditary bailiffs of the imperial direct court Frohnde, judges of the courtiers of Frohnde who lived in the county of Dortmund , wood judges to Huckarde in the forest of Meinelo and mayors of the feudal court and court court to Marten of the Abbey Werden . In the 14th and 15th centuries, the Bodelschwingh and Westhusen appeared as chairmen of the free court in Bodelschwing near Dortmund. They received the office of heir guardian in the Archbishopric of Trier and, in part, carried the title of baron under customary law . Gisbert, Herr zu Bodelschwing, was enfeoffed as the eldest of the tribe in 1537 with the entire Mengede court .

From the 15th century the Bodelschwingh belonged to the most powerful families in Central Westphalia. They were wealthy in Westphalia and the Rhineland and subsequently made it to Livonia . The Lords of Bodelschwingh received high state and court offices from the Counts of Mark and the Dukes of Kleve and had a great influence on the Westphalian knighthood. Still in the 18th and 19th centuries were home Bamenohl , Good Binkhoff , castle Geretzhoven , House Heeren , House Heyde , Rodenberg , Schloss Sandfort , Schörlingen and Good Velmede owned or part-owned by the family.

In the second half of the 15th century, two major lines formed. The older one on Bodelschwing went out in the 18th century and was inherited by the Plettenberg : The heiress Anna Luisa Freiin von Bodelschwingh on Bodelschwingh married in 1788 the baron Karl Wilhelm Georg von Plettenberg (1765-1850), who with Prussian approval his name that of the Bodelschwingh and added his coat of arms accordingly. He founded the line of the Barons von Bodelschwingh-Plettenberg belonging to the Plettenberg male line , which was raised to the Prussian primogeniture count status in 1888 and bequeathed Haus Bodelschwingh in 1907 to the barons of Innhausen and Knyphausen , who still own it today.

The younger Bodelschwingh line on Mengede died out in the 17th century. The branches on Haus Ickern (extinct in the 18th century) and on Haus Velmede near Weddinghofen had split off from the older one . The Velmede estate came into the possession of the Bodelschwingh around 1633 through the marriage of Rainer von Bodelschwingh to Anna Felicitas von Oeynhausen zu Grevenburg, who had inherited it from her mother Metta von der Hegge. In 1636 Velmede was married to the Ickern, Brockhausen and Loburg branch.

Franz Christoph (1754–1827) married Friderike Freiin von Plettenberg in 1785, heiress of Haus Heyde, Gut Binkhoff , Haus Bögge and Burg Nordhof . In 1786 he acquired the nearby Töddinghausen estate. Her eldest son, Carl von Bodelschwingh (1800–1873), President of the Province of Westphalia and Prussian Finance Minister, founded the Bodelschwingh zu Heyde line, the second son, Ernst von Bodelschwingh the Elder (1794–1854), District Administrator of Tecklenburg, Upper President of the Rhine Province and Prussian finance and interior minister, Herr zu Velmede und Töddinghausen, married Charlotte von Diest. The marriage had seven children, including the future pastor Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder (1831-1910) as the fifth son . He was the founder and head of the Von Bodelschwingh Foundation Bethel and a member of the Prussian state parliament . His brother Franz von Bodelschwingh (1827–1890) inherited Velmede and in 1872 became Imperial Chief Forester at the Forestry Directorate of the Reichslande Alsace-Lorraine in Kolmar. He had 13 children, of whom the third son Franz von Bodelschwingh (1862–1933) inherited Velmede and Töddinghausen; In 1896 he also acquired Schwarzenhasel Castle and its forest in Hesse. He put his nephew and adopted son Ernst von Bodelschwingh (1906–1993), a son of Pastor Wilhelm von Bodelschwingh (1869–1923) , as heir . This was followed on Velmede by his son Friedrich-Wilhelm von Bodelschwingh (* 1935), on Töddinghausen the second son Gisbert (* 1937). Reinhard von Bodelschwingh took over Schwarzenhasel.

The Livonian line, also called von Bolschwing, founded an East Prussian branch in the 17th century .

Status surveys

Udo von Bodelschwingh (1840–1921), Prussian chamberlain , master of ceremonies and colonel , received a Prussian approval for himself on October 8, 1883 in Baden-Baden to continue the title of baron by means of the highest cabinet order .

On July 20, 1634 Heinrich Wilhelm Bolschwing was enrolled in the first class of the Courland Knighthood. On April 3 (April 15) 1862 there was a Russian recognition for the use of the baron title by Senatsukas . An Austrian recognition for guiding the Baron title took place on December 7, 1896 Vienna Otto Baron von Bolschwing, owner of Ruth in the Lower Styria .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a red bar in gold , in the upper field a diamond-shaped blue clasp ( Fürspan ). On the helmet the blue clasp between an open golden flight covered with a red bar . The helmet covers are red and gold.

Known family members

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh the Elder (1831–1910)

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Darpe : History of the city of Bochum. Bochum 1894.
  2. ↑ Dortmund Document Book, Supplementary Volume 1, Number 604.
  3. ^ Johann Dietrich von Steinen : Westphalian history. Volume 3, p. 484.
  4. ↑ Bodelschwingh, House Velmede