Bornstedt (noble family)

This article describes the Bornstedt noble family from Magdeburg. For the Thuringian and Middle Mark aristocratic family, see Bornstaedt .

Coat of arms of the Magdeburg von Bornst (a) edt

The Lords of Bornstedt , also Bornstädt , is the name of a Magdeburg noble family .

history

The family is named after its ancestral seat Bornstedt near Neuhaldensleben, which is proven by the family no later than 1363 and first appeared in documents with Hermann von Bornstedt, 1232 monk in Hillersleben monastery and Heinrich von Bornstedt, 1237-1247.

Vollenschier manor (2010)

The family was also wealthy in the Magdeburg region of Hornhausen (1650) and Oschersleben (1670), Klein Rottmersleben and Tundersleben (1311) and Vollenschier (1734-1800). In Mecklenburg , Jessenitz (1818–1845) Wessin (1808–1817) belonged to the estates. From there, the Bornstedt are said to have spread to Denmark .

Conrad Emanuel von Bornstädt, clerk at the Tribunal in Moravia , received the letter of nobility in Prague on April 18, 1648 , then the imperial knighthood in Vienna on April 17, 1669, the incolate on February 21, 1672.

In Upper Silesia, the Guttentag Castle and the Skronskau estate in the Rosenberg district were owned by Bernhard Heinrich von Bornstedt († 1752) and his son Friedrich Leopold Ludwig von Bornstedt and his son Carl and grandson Joseph. Their coat of arms was that of the Thuringian Bornst (a) edt with battlements and wall breakers, according to the proclamation table for the Order of St. John.

Together with von Bornstaedt , who belonged to the Thuringian nobility , an all-sex association was founded in Berlin on October 16, 1913.

Known family members

• Adelbert von Bornstedt (1807–1851), publicist and revolutionary
• August Gottlieb von Bornstedt (1698–1772), Prussian major general
• Bernhard Heinrich von Bornstedt (1693–1752), Prussian lieutenant general
• Dietrich Eugen Philipp von Bornstedt (1726–1793), Prussian lieutenant general
• Emil von Bornstedt (1804–1885), Prussian lieutenant general
• Hans Ehrentreich von Bornstedt (1722–1807), Prussian lieutenant general
• Heinrich Ehrentreich von Bornstedt, lieutenant general in Electoral Saxony

coat of arms

The tribe coat of arms shows a red Tatar hat put on in silver . On the helmet with a red-silver blanket, a hat with five ostrich feathers (silver or gold, red, silver, red and silver or gold) as in the shield.

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  Coat of arms of those of Bornstädt in Silesia and the Marche

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  Coat of arms of those of Bornstädt in Moravia, 1669

The fact that the silver parts of the coat of arms were also shown in blue is an erroneous assumption of the discoloration of the originally silver tinging due to oxidation to bluish.

literature

• from Bornstedt . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Third volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1899, p. 46-53 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
• Genealogical manual of the nobility, Adelslexikon . Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974 ISSN  0435-2408 , pp. 17-18.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses . Volume 1, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1900, p. 106 ff. (Family and older genealogy); 1901, p. 103 ff. ( Digital.ub.uni-duesseldorf.de ).
• Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 1, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1859, pp. 580-581 ( books.google.de ).
• Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Volume 1, Ludwig Rauh, Berlin 1855, p. 89, ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de ).
• Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755/1864). Rostock 1864, pp. 30-31, ( books.google.de ).
• Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 1, Verlag Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, pp. 286–287, ( books.google.de ).

Web links

Commons : Bornstedt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry of the family “v. Bornstedt ” in the Wildenfels Castle Archives
• Family coat of arms of the "v. Bornstedt ” in the Priborn manor
• Family "v. Bornstedt “ to the nobility of the Altmark

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kneschke (lit.), partly with reference to Gauhe books.google.de and Sinapius books.google.de , where he points out the uncertainties of the actual spread to Silesia and Moravia and the multiple confusion with the Bornstaedt .
2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, p. 18.
3. ↑ Georg Scheibelreiter: Heraldry. 2006, p. 35 f., Books.google.de