Carnap (noble family)
Carnap is the name of a merchant and councilor family in Barmen and Elberfeld .
history
The regular series begins with Johann Staelgen († after March 1614), the owner of the first 1466 documentary mentioned courtyards Leimbach and Carnap in Barmen and bleach grater seater in Barmen. He married Catharina von Carnap around 1570 . Both descendants carried the family name " von Carnap " after the Carnap family estate . Already in the Beyenburger official account of 1466 there is talk of the taxable Heyne zu Carnap and Goddert zu Carnap . The name Carnap comes from the Middle Low German word for bay window or extension.
The family is divided into four lines:
- Carnap (Bornheim House): Prussian nobility and baron class on September 13, 1825 in Berlin for Gerhard von Carnap , lord of the manor on Bornheim am Rhein . On October 11, 1845 (exhibited in Sanssouci ) there was an increase in his coat of arms .
- Carnap (Elberfeld): Prussian nobility recognition on February 9, 1830 for the descendants of the merchant and councilor Johann von Carnap, who died in 1793 . These were the merchant and landowner Karl Friedrich von Carnap and the two brothers Wilhelm von Carnap , factory owners, and Johann Bernhard von Carnap (1799–1836), merchant in Elberfeld and father of Peter von Carnap .
- Carnap (Haus Marschwitz): Prussian nobility on February 9, 1898 in Berlin with diploma from April 28, 1898 in Berlin for the royal Prussian captain Eugen von Carnap .
- Carnap-Quernheimb: Prussian name and coat of arms association with those of Quernheimb on April 10, 1865 in Berlin for the royal Prussian captain Georg von Carnap .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms from 1830 and 1898 shows a gold star above and a silver horse pram below in a shield divided by silver and blue . On the helmet with blue-silver covers five (b.-s.-b.-s.-b) ostrich feathers (also alternating black and silver).
Name bearer
- Abraham Peter von Carnap (1766–1838), merchant and councilor in Elberfeld
- Carl von Carnap (1790–1869), Prussian major general
- Christa von Carnap (1921–2010), German painter and ceramicist
- Claus von Carnap-Bornheim (* 1957), German classical scholar
- Ernst von Carnap-Quernheimb (1863–1945), Africa explorer
- Georg von Carnap-Quernheimb (1826–1910), Prussian lieutenant general
- Johann Adolf von Carnap (1793–1871), Lord Mayor of Elberfeld
- Johannes von Carnap (1698–1746), Mayor of Elberfeld
- Kaspar von Carnap (politician, 1648) (1648–1727), German politician, mayor of Elberfeld
- Kaspar von Carnap (politician, 1709) (1709–1768), German politician, mayor of Elberfeld
- Kaspar von Carnap (politician, 1755) (1755–1823), German politician, mayor of Elberfeld
- Peter von Carnap (politician, 1635) (1635–1693), German politician, mayor of Elberfeld
- Peter von Carnap (politician, 1659) (1659–1736), German politician, mayor of Elberfeld
- Peter von Carnap (politician, 1669) (1669–1736), German politician, mayor of Elberfeld
- Peter von Carnap (politician, 1696) (1696–1760), German politician, mayor of Elberfeld
- Peter von Carnap (politician, 1823) (1823–1904), German landowner and politician
- Peter Wilhelm von Carnap (1752–1824), German businessman and politician, mayor of Elberfeld
- Wilhelm von Carnap (1680–1749), Mayor of Elberfeld
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume II. Volume 58 of the complete series. Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, ISSN 0435-2408
Individual evidence
- ^ Walter Dietz: " Barmen before 500 years ", contributions to the history and local history of the Wuppertal, Volume 12, Born-Verlag, Wuppertal, 1966
Web links
- Two coats of arms of the Lords of Carnap in the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility