Borstell

Coat of arms of those of Borstell

Borstell is the name of an ancient nobility dynasty . It was named after the headquarters of the same name .

history

The family was first mentioned in a document in July 1209 with the brothers Otto and Berwardus de Borstele in a document from Margrave Albrecht II of Brandenburg .

The sex was wealthy exclusively in the Altmark. Borstell's possessions included the goods Bellingen , Borstel , Brunkau , Cobelack, Dahlen , Darenstedt , Döbbelin , Eichstätt, East and West Insel, Langen Salzwedel , Miltern , Nahrstädt , Ostheeren, Poritz , Schartau , Schindelhöfe, Schinne , Schorstädt, Groß - and Klein Schwarzlosen , Groß Schwechten , Stegelitz , Vielbaum , Windberge and Wollenrade. The Borstell were also employed in Mecklenburg.

On September 20, 1820, Marie Brummer's adoptive daughter of Wilhelmine von Borstell received the Prussian recognition of the nobility Borstell , when the family coat of arms was attached.

Borstell coat of arms

The Altmark Borstell are not to be confused with the Lower Saxon nobility of the Borstell family , which was named after the family house of the same name near Bützfleth and was first documented with Nicolaus de Borstele on January 16, 1312. This bore three (2, 1) red roses in the silver shield and three (silver-red-silver) ostrich feathers on the helmet with red-silver covers .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a green shamrock in silver , from whose columns three black eagle wings emerge. On the helmet with black and silver covers, four black ostrich feathers, between which there are three blue lance flags with pennants waving to the left. There is a relationship between the coat of arms and that of von Bismarck

Well-known namesake

• Daniel Heinrich von Borstell (1638–1705), regional director of the Altmark
• Hans Friedrich Heinrich von Borstell (1730–1804), Prussian lieutenant general
• Ludwig Friedrich Hans Christoph von Borstell (1759–1846), Prussian major general
• Karl Leopold Ludwig von Borstell (1773–1844), Prussian general of the cavalry, member of the Council of State and knight of the Order of the Black Eagle
• Karl Heinrich Emil Alexander von Borstell (1778-1856), Prussian lieutenant general
• Ludwig von Borstell (1787–1839), Prussian colonel, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
• Louis Ernst Eduard von Borstell (1812–1899), Prussian lieutenant general

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility, Adelslexikon . Volume II. Volume 58 of the complete series. P. 24. CA Starke Verlag. Limburg (Lahn) 1974. ISSN  0435-2408
• Wilfried Rogge: The Altmark aristocratic family von Borstell . Self-published, Schinne 2015, ISBN 978-3-943845-15-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis: Collection of documents, chronicles and other sources for the history of the Mark Brandenburg and its rulers. Part I, Volume 3, page 91
2. ^ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy , Berlin 1855, Volume 1, p. 90
3. ^ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, p. 31
4. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradelige houses , 13th year 1912, p. 146
5. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Volume A VII, page 67, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1965