Campenhausen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Barons of Campenhausen

Campenhausen is the name of a Livonian noble family . The family seat was the former Orellen estate .

history

Letter of purchase for the Orellen and Kudum estates dated August 15, 1728

The secured lineage of the Campenhausen family begins with the merchant Hermann Kamphusen, who had a child buried in Lübeck on March 14, 1595 . On December 5, 1622 the son of the same applied in Stockholm , the civil rights and was among the 48 elders of the citizenry. Two of his sons, the Royal Swedish Lt. Col. Lawrence († 1672) and the Royal Swedish Deputy Commander of Riga , Johann Herrmann (1641-1705), were 1665 and 1667 in the Swedish nobility and in 1672 in the Swedish knighthood added . In 1742 the Russian Lieutenant General Balthasar von Campenhausen enrolled in the Livonian Knighthood . On July 11, 1744, Balthasar was accepted into the Swedish baron class with the express permission of the Russian court of tsars . The right to use the Baron title of Campenhausen was recognized by the Russian side with Senatsukas No. 10002 of December 7, 1854. Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen is the progenitor of all family members and barons of Campenhausen who are still alive today, and it was he who bought the later Orellen estate for himself and his family in 1728.

The Campenhausen developed into the lines Orellen, Wesselshof, Loddiger and Ilsen in the 19th century. Most of the family members still alive today come from the Orellen family. The history of the von Campenhausen family in Livonia ended with the Bolshevik era at the beginning of the 20th century . From 1920 the Latvian state began expropriating the large German landowners. Some Campenhausen lived in Latvia until 1939, despite the destruction of their economic existence. After the conclusion of the Hitler-Stalin Pact in 1939, the Campenhausen and the last remaining Germans were resettled in the Reichsgau Wartheland . From there they fled to the West at the end of the war in January 1945. The current family members of the Campenhausen live mostly in the western part of Germany and in Sweden.

To maintain tradition, the von Campenhausen family maintains contacts with the Baltic Knighthoods , founded in 1949 , the successor organization to the Estonian Knighthood, which was dissolved in 1920 . The Campenhausen family archive was deposited at the Herder Institute in Marburg and is now available there for research into Eastern European history.

  • Gut Orellen (painting by Eugen Dücker , 1862)

  • Orellen Manor (2010)

  • Wesselshof Manor House (2009)

  • Wesselshof mansion (2001)

coat of arms

The increased baronial coat of arms of Campenhausen

The coat of arms from 1665 and 1667 shows a two-towered red castle with a closed gate in silver on a green ground, above it three blue feathered golden arrows, the outer ones ascending, the middle one overturned. On the helmet with red and silver blankets behind an upright natural laurel wreath, two bare arms, twisted with red ribbons, twisted and spattered with blood and holding two facing blue feathered golden arrows.

Name bearer

  • Balthasar (I.)

  • Balthasar (II.)

  • Balthasar (III.)

  • Sophie

  • Axel

Web links

Commons : Campenhausen (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manor under the oaks, Orelles and the von Campenhausen family in Livonia. Catalog of the exhibition in the Rundale Palace Museum and in the Herder Institute Marburg, 1998, pp. 28–45.
  2. ^ Johann Friedrich von Recke and Karl Eduard Napiersky : General writers and scholars encyclopedia of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland , vol. 1., Mitau 1827, pp. 321–327.
  3. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthoods , Part 1,1 ,: Livland , Bd.:1, Görlitz, 1929, p. 24.
  4. ↑ Olavi Pesti: Balthasar Freiherr von Campenhausen and Saaremaa in aai.ee viewed on June 28, 2011.
  5. ↑ Baltic Knighthoods - District Group Hessen / Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.baltische-ritterschaften.de
  6. ^ Association of the Baltic Knighthoods V.
  7. ↑ Manor under the oaks, Orelles and the von Campenhausen family in Livonia. Catalog of the exhibition in the Rundale Palace Museum and in the Herder Institute Marburg, 1998, p. 10.
  8. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, pp. 223-224.

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