Campe (noble family, Hildesheim)

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Coat of arms of those of Campe, Hildesheim

Campe , also Campen or Campe from the House of Deensen , is the name of an old noble family from the Hildesheim diocese . The family, some of which still exist today, belongs to the nobility in Lower Saxony . A bourgeois line has existed since the 18th century.

history

origin

The Hildesheim von Campe family must not be confused with other noble families of the same name. For example, a noble von Campe family from the Duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg appears in the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility from 1974 , which also has a different coat of arms . In Kneschke's New General German Adels Lexicon from 1860, six noble families with the name Campe are mentioned.

The von Campe family is related to the noble family von Elze, which died out in 1530 and was first documented in 1142 with Bernhardus de Aulica . The uninterrupted line of trunks begins with him . The knight Hartung von Elze , he is mentioned in a document from 1318, first seals on November 5, 1325 under the name of Campe and with the Camp family coat of arms, which his descendants then carried on.

Spread and personalities

Deensen around 1654

Deensen , the ancestral home of the family and today a municipality of the integrated municipality of Eschershausen-Stadtoldendorf in the southeast of the Holzminden district in Lower Saxony, was first mentioned in 1220 as Dedenhusen. The village appears as Deddenhusen in documents from the 13th and 14th centuries. In 1483, after the Hussite Wars , Godewart von Campe received the place as a manor . He was allowed to rebuild the devastated village and occupy it with his followers. Deensen in the former county of Everstein (which became Lüneburg after the Welfish inheritance divisions ) probably received the camps as a fiefdom of the Counts of Dassel .

Later a moated castle could be built, which became the center of the settlement. The castle complex fell into disrepair over time, and the present mansion was only built on the foundations of the old moated castle in 1825. The cellar vaults and sandstone walls are still preserved today. The moat was later backfilled.

As early as 1390, members of the Braak family owned property. According to Kneschke, the Lords of Campe owned the Deensen estate as early as 1400 and Stadtoldendorf and Giesenberg in 1470 . In 1501 Johann and Gort II. Von Campe divided the paternal inheritance among themselves. Johann received Oldendorf and Giesenberg, his brother Gort received Deensen. They founded the two lines to Oldendorf and Deensen. In 1704 the Oldendorfer line split into the two branches of Oldendorf and Giesenberg. Since the two brothers and donors of the branches died without offspring, their possessions fell to the Deensen line.

Significant relatives have emerged from the family. Asche von Campe appears in 1592 as Canon of Minden . Ashes Burchard Karl Ferdinand von Campe inherited the Deensen estate, which the family has owned for centuries. In 1851 he entered the civil service as director of the district court in Holzminden and later became Minister of State in the Duchy of Braunschweig. Burchard von Campe, royal Saxon lieutenant , received an entry in the royal Saxon nobility book on July 26, 1906 under the number 245 . Rudolf von Campe (1860–1939) was government president of the Prussian administrative district of Minden in Westphalia from 1917 to 1920 . His son Carl von Campe (1894–1977) entered the diplomatic service in 1921 and was active in the Foreign Office at the end of the Second World War . From 1952 he was ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Chile . Siegfried von Campe (1885–1972), son of General of the Artillery Friedrich von Campe and his wife Anna von Wedelstädt, was district administrator in various circles and President of the War Graves Commission in Lower Saxony.

In 1970 the Deensen manor, which temporarily existed as a majorate , was sold by the von Campe family after 500 years of ownership.

There is a family foundation.

Civil line

The descendants of the Hildesheim noble family von Campe, Burchard von Campe (1659-1703), co-lord of Deensen, from his second marriage to the pastor's daughter Anna Margarethe Goslar, were no longer counted as nobility. His grandson Joachim Heinrich Campe (1746-1818), son of the Brunswick landowner and cloth merchant Burchard Hilmar Campe, was a teacher and tutor of Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt . As a representative of reformist educational concepts, he became head of an educational institution and publisher of the Braunschweigische school bookshop.

His nephew August Friedrich Andreas Campe (1777–1846) was a major publisher and bookseller. He started out as an apprentice to his uncle. In 1823 he took over the leadership of the reform efforts in the German book trade with an expert opinion on Schlichtegroll's plan to found a South German bookseller exchange. In 1825 he enforced stock exchange regulations in Leipzig and became co-founder and first chairman (until 1828) of the German Booksellers Association .

Other members of the bourgeois line included Julius Campe (1792–1867), after whom the Julius Campe Prize is named, and August Campe (1773–1836), co-founder of the Hoffmann & Campe publishing house . In 1806 August married Elisabeth Campe (1786–1873), the daughter of the bookseller Benjamin Gottlob Hoffmann .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The coat of arms is split. Right of gold and red geschacht , left black with no image. On the helmet with red and gold helmet covers, a five-fold natural peacock whisk stuck in a red shaft.

Coat of arms history

The coat of arms appears for the first time as a seal imprint in 1325. According to Johannes Letzner's Dasselischer und Einbeckischer Chronik (1596), p. 190, the coat of arms shows a divided shield , half yellow and the other part with six white and six black boxes. On the helmet a golden crown , on it a column and on top of it a peacock's tail.

In Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book (1605), plate 179, the coat of arms of the Campe is used by the Brunswick family. There the shield is in the right half of red and gold, on the crowned helmet is a pointed red hat with a gold button and three peacock feathers (2, 1). The blazon reads: the front part of the shield is red and yellow, the other part black. On the helmet a yellow crown, the hat red with a gold button, the feathers green and the helmet cover red, yellow and black. In later editions of the book of arms, the front part of the shield is nested in gold and red.

JH Steffens gender history of the Hochadelichen house of Campe on Isenbüttel and Wettmarshagen (1783), p. 141, describes the Camp coat of arms after an entry by Dietrich Julius von Campe. In the right half of the shield, which is divided lengthways, are the indicated ten red and white boxes. The crowned helmet wears a pyramidal red cap or pointed pillar on which a peacock's tail stands. The helmet covers are red and gold. In the book of arms of the Kingdom of Hanover (1856), C 60, the motto was Sola Bona Quae Honesta .

According to Kneschke's coat of arms of the German baronial and aristocratic families (1856), the coat of arms of those of Campe is: “Divided lengthways, on the right of gold and red in five rows, each with two fields, boxed, on the left black without a picture. On the shield is a crowned helmet, which has a red shaft decorated with a peacock's tail of five (2 and 3) feathers. The helmet covers are red and silver. "

Coat of arms

Coat of arms of the municipality of Deensen

Elements and colors from the von Campe family crest still appear on the Deensen municipal coat of arms.

Name bearer

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 2, pp. 203-204.
  2. ↑ a b c d Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, p. 222.
  3. ↑ Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, p. 221.
  4. ↑ Karl Jaenicke (Ed.): Document book of the Hochstift Hildesheim and its bishops. Part 1; # 228
  5. ^ Hermann Hoogeweg (ed.): Document book of the Hochstift Hildesheim and its bishops. Volume 4; No. 853
  6. ↑ a b eschershausen-stadtoldendorf.de
  7. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobeligen houses . 2nd year 1901, p. 189.
  8. ^ Ferdinand Spehr :  Campe, Asche Burchhard Karl Ferdinand von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1876, p. 731 f.
  9. ^ A b Hans Lülfing :  Campe. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 110 ( digitized version ).
  10. ↑ a b c d The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families . Volume 2, pp. 77-79.