Borch (Westphalian noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of the Borch

Von der Borch is the name of an old Westphalian noble family . It has its headquarters to this day at Gut Holzhausen in Holzhausen in the Höxter district .

The unrelated noble family von Borch is an abbey Bremen ministerial family that died out in 1502.

history

The von der Borch family has been documented in Detmold since 1310 . It appears for the first time in a document in 1328 with the brothers Johann and Hermann von der Borch . Arnd von der Borch , a brother of Bishop Simon von der Borch, married a Barta von Dreer (heir daughter) and settled on the Schultenhof zu Langendreer  - east of Bochum  , which was originally owned by the Counts of Isenberg-Limburg . In 1599 Langendreer was destroyed.

With Friedrich von der Borch , vassal of the Teutonic Order , the family appeared in Estonia in 1442. The noble family of Count Borch-Lubeschütz would later grow out of this Baltic branch of the family .

The family has been living on Gut Holzhausen in East Westphalia since 1483 . The family probably acquired the fief around 1464. They received the property from Prince-Bishop Simon III. zur Lippe , sovereign of the Principality of Paderborn .

In the second half of the 17th century Franz Otto von der Borch was councilor of Paderborn and court marshal. His brother Friedrich von der Borch (1640–1705) entered the imperial service as a colonel sergeant (equivalent to a major ) in 1656 and took part in the Turkish wars . Afterwards he was in command of Paderborn, entered service in Brunswick around 1670 as a colonel ( regimental commander ), then became vice-commandant of Hamburg and was finally in Brunswick service again. In 1682 he bought Gut Schönebeck  - today in Bremen- Vegesack . Five generations of this noble branch had their family residence here. The last was a Lieutenant General from Hanover . He left the estate to his brother, Colonel Clamor von der Borch. At the end of the 18th century, Schönebeck was merged with Holzhausen, and the family now appointed administrators there. The family sold Schönebeck Palace to the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen in 1952 .

The Borchshöhe location in Vegesack was named after the landowner Friedrich von der Borch around 1700 .

coat of arms

Count's coat of arms von der Borch (since 1783)

The family coat of arms shows three (2: 1) black jackdaws with red feet in silver . On the helmet with black and silver covers a jackdaw between open black flight .

In the middle shield of the count's coat of arms the jackdaws were in gold.

family members

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Original in the State Archives Detmold ; Otto Preuss and August Falkmann : Lippische Regesten , Volume 2, No. 720
  2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1859, p. 564

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