Brenken (Westphalian noble family)

Coat of arms of those from and to Brenken

Brenken is the name of a Westphalian noble family from the village of the same name Brenken near Büren , which belongs to the primeval nobility of the Paderborn bishopric .

history

The family first appears in a document in 1102 with Rado de Brenken . Together with the von Haxthausen , the von Krewet and the von Stapel it belonged to the Haupt-Meyern, the four pillars of the monastery.

The stone house by the church tower in the village of Brenken is considered to be the original family home. For a long time family members also lived on the Wewelsburg , later also in the Bruchshof am Wasser in the village of Brenken, from 1513 for a short time in the newly built and later heavily damaged castle Erpernburg and also briefly in the castle on the Brede, built between 1550 and 1565 near the village of Brenken, which was destroyed in the Thirty Years' War , then from 1515 in the Old Castle in Wewer and after 1711 in the newly built Erpernburg Castle .

The line from Brenken to Wewer expired in 1817. Its heir was Franz Joseph Freiherr von Brenken zu Erpernburg, who thus owned the Old Castle in Wewer. His son Friedrich acquired in 1838 by the family of the Imbsen built around 1685 Castle Wewer together with the associated land and thus united the two previously separate estates into one. Today it is owned by the von Brenken-Papen family.

Franz Josef Freiherr von und zu Brenken adopted his nephew Georg Ferdinand (* 1941), a son of his sister Clarissa from his marriage to Dr. jur. Georg Count Droste zu Vischering . In 1948 the name was changed to Georg Ferdinand Freiherr von und zu Brenken. Later the farmer and forester, who has been married to Rosa Countess von Nostitz-Rieneck since 1968, inherited the Erpernburg Castle. The management of the father's estate is now managed by the eldest son Franz Josef Freiherr von und zu Brenken (* 1968), who married the 29-year-old Julia-Theresia Ilona Countess von Ingelheim, called Echter von und zu Mespelbrunn , in 2011 .

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  Ruin of the Niedernburg in Brenken

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  Erpernburg Castle in Brenken

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  Wewer Castle

Coats of arms variant of the von Brenken family

coat of arms

The split coat of arms shows three blue poles in gold above, six (3: 2: 1) red roses in silver below. On the helmet with blue and gold covers on the right and red and silver covers on the left, two buffalo horns sheathed in blue and gold and on the outside decorated with six red roses.

The von Brenkenhoff family had a similar coat of arms without any known genealogical connection.

Franz Josef Freiherr von und zu Brenken gave his nephew, later adoptive son and heir, Georg Graf Droste zu Vischering (* 1941) the right to use the family coat of arms of von and zu Brenken. The German Nobility Law Committee decided on a non- objection to this in 1962.

Family members

• Franz Joseph von und zu Brenken (1757–1832), member of the imperial estates of the Kingdom of Westphalia
• Friedrich Carl von und zu Brenken (1790–1867), member of the Westphalian Provincial Parliament
• Georg Ferdinand von und zu Brenken (* 1941), German forest and farmer.
• Hermann von und zu Brenken (1820–1894), member of the German Reichstag, entails commissioner for Wewer and Alfen, from 1870 also for Erpernburg, lived in Wewer near Paderborn.
• Reinhard Franz von und zu Brenken (1818–1870), District Administrator and member of the Reichstag of the North German Confederation, the Customs Parliament and the Prussian Manor, Fideikommissherr zu Erpernburg from 1867 to 1870. Lived in Holthausen near Büren.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Westphalia. Document book vol. 1, no. 173
2. ↑ Duncker Collection ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF file; 262 kB) 
3. ↑ Erpernburg Castle ( Memento from January 20, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Led into marriage by the bishop. In: New Westphalian . April 12, 2011, accessed February 19, 2020 . 
5. ^ According to Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series
6. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, Limburg / Lahn 1974, p. 95
7. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, Limburg / Lahn 1974, p. 94

See also

• List of the Paderborn noble families
• List of Westphalian noble families

Web links

Commons : Brenken family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Documents from the Haus Erpernburg archive in Büren / Digital Westphalian document database (DWUD)

literature

• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, p. 94, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1974, ISSN  0435-2408
• Genealogical manual of the baronial houses A 5, volume 30 of the complete series, 1963, pp. 26–31 (Frhr. V. Brenken), pp. 31–32 (Frhr. Vu zu Brenken - Count Droste zu Vischering); A 12, Volume 74 of the complete series, 1980, pp. 21-23 (Frhr. V. Brenken), p. 24 (Frhr. Vu zu Brenken - Count Droste zu Vischering)
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser Gotha 1849 (series), 1853-1940 (continuations)
• Isa Freifrau von Elverfeldt, Die Ritter von und zu Brenken , Wewer Volume III, 2015 and Die Freiherren von und zu Brenken , Wewer Volume IV, 2015. Nicolibri bookstore, Paderborn-Wewer.
• Norbert Reimann, The barons from and to Brenken. 800 years of family history in the Paderborn region. Paderborn, Bonifatius-Verlag 2019, 265 pages and 10 family tables, ISBN 978-3-89710-835-6 .