Brackel (Rhineland-Westphalian noble families)
Brackel is the name of three West German noble families from Westphalia and the Lower Rhine .
Origin and Lines
According to some information, a family of the same name should come from the Lower Rhine , according to others from Westphalia. Leopold Ledebur suspects three different families of the same name that do not have to be related to each other. For one thing, there are
- the nobles and knights of Brakel , who were related to the city of Brakel (Höxter district), on the other
- the family of the same name from Brackel , a district of Dortmund. Some members of the family came by the Teutonic Order in the Kurland and founded
- a Courland line Brackel (German-Baltic noble family) .
In Brackel near Dortmund there is the Coming Brackel . A family of the same name comes from the Lower Rhine from the village of Brackeln (near Jülich). A male member of this family, Georg von Brakel, founded a new Westphalian branch of the last named Brackel family by marrying into the noble family of those von Haxthausen zu Welda . The author Ferdinande von Brackel and her brothers, the publicist Otto von Brackel and the district administrator Hugo von Brackel , for example, come from this branch of the family . A Freiherr Georg von Brackel was canon of Hildesheim in 1806. Its origin is unknown. At the beginning of the 1930s, von Brackel zu Welda left their headquarters in Welda near Warburg . Some descendants who u. a. own the family archive, are located in the Warburg or Paderborn area.
There is also said to be a Dutch van Brackel family, whose Brackel Castle is said to be on the island of Bommel in the Betuwe region in the province of Gelderland.
Name meaning
The name Brackel or Brakel is derived from the Middle Low German word brake , which denotes a device used to break flax or a newly plowed land.
coat of arms
- The von Brackel zu Welda family: At the top in the gold and silver split shield, a three-lipped blue tournament collar . On the helmet with blue-silver covers a silver flight .
- The Dutch von Brakel family: In red, two silver salms facing each other, surrounded by eight gold crosses.
- The Courland noble family: a crowned deer head in a shield.
Name bearer
- Ferdinande von Brackel (1835–1905), author
- Franz Ferdinand von Brackel (1790–1873), member of the Westphalian provincial parliament, father of Ferdinande
- Otto von Brackel (1830–1908) publicist in Mexico, Mexico expert in Germany
- Hugo von Brackel , former district administrator in Paderborn
- Georg von Brackel (canon) was canon in Hildesheim around 1806
- Georg von Brackel (1828–1883), member of the Westphalian provincial parliament
literature
- Leopold von Ledebur: Dynastische Forschungen , Volume 2. Verlag Ludwig Rauh, Berlin 1853–1855, pp. 8/9.
- Heinrich Gottfried Philipp Gengler: Codex juris municipalis Germaniae medii aevi: on the constitutional and legal history of German cities in the Middle Ages. First volume. Enke, Erlangen 1863, p. 266.
- Leopold Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Nobility Lexicon. 1836, p. 296.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. 1855, p. 63f.
- Max von Spießen: Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility, with drawings by Professor Ad. M. Hildebrandt , 1st volume. Görlitz 1901–1903, p. 22.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gengler: Codex juris municipalis Germaniae medii aevi, p. 266.
- ^ Leopold Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adelslexikon. 1836, p. 296.
- ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. 1855, p. 63f.
- ↑ Schiller-Lübben: Middle Low German Dictionary. Kühtmann, Bremen 1875.