Bruiningk (noble family)

Coat of arms of the Barons of Bruiningk

Bruiningk is the surname of an extinct German-Baltic noble family , which had lived in Narwa since 1660 and which became extinct in 1927. The family was accepted into the Livonian , Kurland and Ösel knighthood .

history

The ancestors of the Bruiningks probably came from Westphalia , they could have come to Lübeck at the end of the 16th to the beginning of the 17th century . There is documentary evidence that Heinrich Brüningk moved from Lübeck to Narva in 1660 and died there as a councilor in 1697 . A family connection to Adolf Brüning (1634 - 1702) cannot be ruled out. From his descendants, Axel Heinrich Bruiningk was raised to the imperial-Roman nobility on August 14, 1737 and in 1777 to the imperial baron status. Since the nobility diploma was not issued until 1777, he no longer experienced this ennoblement personally. In 1747 they received the Livonian indigenous community and existed until 1927.

Stem row

Heinrich Brüningk (* ​​around 1643, † 1697), from Lübeck, merchant and councilor in Narva

• Heinrich Brüningk (* 1675 in Narwa; 1736 in Riga ), Herr auf Suddenbach, pastor at the German St. Johannis Church in Narwa, Livonian General Superintendent
  • Axel Heinrich von Bruiningk (* ​​1705 in Narwa, † 1775 in Hellenorm), Livonian district administrator , state councilor, imperial-Roman nobility in 1737, imperial baron diploma 1777, Livonian indigenous man 1742
    • Ludolf August Freiherr von Bruiningk (* 1739 in Riga, † 1802 in Tartu ), Holstein Gentleman , Regierungsrat
      • Karl Axel Christer von Bruiningk (* ​​1782 in Hellenorm; † 1848 in Dorpat), Livonian district administrator, Courland indigenous group 1840
        • Ludolf August von Bruiningk (* ​​1809 in Dorpat; † 1891 in Dorpat), district judge in Dorpat ⚭ Marie Dorothe von Bruiningk, Princess von Lieven (1797 - 1839)
          • Axel Heinrich Edmund von Bruiningk (* 1846 in Dorpat, † 1885 in Meran), art historian
          • Gottfried Robert Hermann von Bruiningk (* 1849 in Dorpat; † 1927 in Riga) assessor at the Livonian court court, Livonian knighthood archivist, knighthood treasury deputy, knighthood secretary, 1877 admission to the ösel aristocratic register in 1877. With him, the Bruiningks family died out in 1927.
  • Friedrich Justin von Bruiningk (* 1707 in Narwa, † 1774 in Wesselshof), theologian
    • Heinrich von Bruiningk (1738 - 1785), Bishop of the Evangelical Brethren congregation
      • Heinrich Friedrich von Bruiningk (* 1773 in Zeist; † 1850 Landeshut (Silesia) ), theologian

Possessions

Manor on the Hellenorm Manor

The Hellenorm manor was a knight's seat . It was first mentioned in 1641 when it belonged to the Wrangel family. After the Northern War , the estate belonged to the Dücker family and the Bruiningk family. In 1850 Johann Theodor von Middendorf bought the estate, the last owner was the ornithologist Ernst von Middendorf.

coat of arms

The family branches had both a baronial and two imperial noble arms. The free arms of Magnificent Bruiningks is escutcheon into red and black of gold and geschachteter in 3 rows sign foot, the upper part of a Pegasus with green shamrock in its mouth. On the shield the crown of barons and 2 helmets. An open silver flight rises from the right helmet ; From the left helmet sits a high, gold and black hat with a hat that is placed on a crown and has 2 ostrich feathers in the cuff . Red and silver helmet cover , shield holder 2 resisting green unicorns with golden horn. The coat of arms "von Bruiningk adH Hellenorm", Reichs A. August 14, 1737 and "von Bruiningk from the house of Wessfelhof", L. Reichs A. 23 August 1780 existed as further coats of arms.

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  Coat of arms of the Bruiningk zu Wesselshof

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  Coat of arms of those Bruiningk zu Hellenorm

literature

• Adelslexikon , Volume 2, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg / Lahn 1974, pp. 137-138; Volume 17, 2008, p. 133
• Nicolai von Essen (Berb.): Genealogisches Handbuch der Oeselschen Ritterschaft , Tartu, 1935 pp. 465-466, 687
• Hermann Baron Bruiningk, The Bruiningk family in Livonia: family history news : with 23 illustrations in the text, commissioned by N. Kymmels Buchhandlung, 1913 (digitized)
• August Wilhelm Hupel : Materials on a Liefland aristocratic history, according to the order adopted by the last matriculation commission . Along with other shorter essays etc: 15-17, Verlag Johann Friedrich Hartknoch , 1788, p. 712 (No. 165 Bruiningk)
• Carola L. Gottzmann , Petra Hörner: Lexicon of the German-language literature of the Baltic States and St. Petersburg . De Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019338-1 , p. 307-310 . ( Digitized version )
• Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods (new series) . Volume IV., Hamburg 2014, pp. 19–44.
• Maximilian Gritzner : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms , III. Volume, 11th section, The nobility of the Russian Baltic provinces (Estonia, Courland, Livonia, Ösel) , 1st part, The Knighthood , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1898, pp. 131, 261–264.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Bruiningk. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• The Bruiningk family in Livonia; Published on April 4, 2010 in Adels-Histori, Digital Library, Genealogies, Heraldry
• The domestic : a weekly for d. Daily story Liv-, Esth- u. Kurlands, Volume 10, Verlag Kluge, 1845, original from Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, digitized March 1, 2012 (Nekrolog May 5), column 342

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Treasury Deputy in Livonia was a knightly electoral officer elected for three years and an assistant to the Land Marshal in the administration of the Knight's Treasury. With him, the cash deputies had to ensure that the cash desk was not burdened with unnecessary expenses. Baltic legal dictionary. Baltic Historical Commission e. V., accessed on March 9, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Eneli R .: Discover places in Estonia that have a connection to Germany. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 8, 2018 ; accessed on March 9, 2019 . 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.  
3. ^ ^{A b c} Carl Arvid Klingspor : Baltic Wappenbuch , Stockholm 1882, p. 71 , Tfl. 19th