Carnitz
Carnitz is the name of an extinct Pomeranian noble family .
history
The Carnitz called themselves after their parent company of the same name Carnitz in the Greifenberg district and were first mentioned in a document in 1374 when they acquired two farms in Gützelfitz . The continuous line of trunks began with Matthias von Carnitz , who lived at the beginning of the 15th century. From the 16th century, individual members could occupy influential positions in the civil service. Around 1560 , Caspar von Carnitz was the royal Pomeranian captain of Treptow , Erasmus Conrad von Carnitz (* 1658, † 1689) Kurbrandenburg Oberhofmarschall and castle captain and Joachim von Carnitz († 1718) Kurbrandenburg and royal Prussian Privy Councilor, President of the Principality of Cammin , Oberhauptmann and Higher War Commissioner in Western Pomerania .
The entire property owned by the sex with Carnitz , envy , Nitznow , Mötzow , Gützelfitz and United Zapplin gathered in 1740 in the hands of Adolf Carl von Carnitz († 1808), of the 1761 Chamberlain was appointed. In 1791 he was raised to the Prussian count status. Since he remained without an heir, he sold all of his goods to Chamberlain Siegmund Ludwig Joachim von Brockhausen in 1798 . He died in 1808.
His remaining estate came to relatives from the black line of those von Haxthausen , who called themselves Haxthausen-Carnitz from 1811 .
The old Carnitz goods came to Ferdinand Ludwig Elbe (* 1791; † 1857) in 1840 , who then donated a Fideikommiss . His descendants, each in possession of the goods, called themselves von Elbe-Carnitz from then on .
coat of arms
The coat of arms of those of Carnitz belong to the coat of arms group Hirsch über Schach .
- The family coat of arms is divided obliquely to the left, a leaping natural stag above in silver, and below in blue and silver. On the crowned helmet with blue-silver covers three (silver-blue-silver) ostrich feathers.
- The count's coat of arms (1791) is quartered with a heart shield (= family coat of arms). 1 and 4, split by silver and blue with two golden keys placed in the St. Andrew's cross ; Divided 2 and 3, above red, a silver sickle, with three tufts of grass on the upward curvature, below gold, a red half-comb wheel. On the shield covered with a count's crown three crowned helmets with blue and silver helmet covers; the middle one shows the three ostrich feathers of the family coat of arms; on the right helmet a black, gold-crowned eagle with a knocked-out red tongue, a golden beak, golden clover stalks in the wings and the crowned golden name FR on the chest; on the left helmet two buffalo horns , the right one by blue and silver, the left one by silver and blue divided across. Two red backward-looking griffins with knocked out tongues and drooping tails serve as a shield holder .
See also
literature
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin, Volume II., Pp. 85–88 , Tab. 32 (family coat of arms), Tab. 33 (Count's coats of arms) and Tab. 36, No. 3 (older seal).
- Siegfried von Boehn : The Pomeranian family v. Carnitz. In: German Family Archives Neustadt Aisch 1986, Volume 92, pp. 289ff
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, p. 247, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1974; Volume XVII, (Supplements), 2008, p. 146
- Gothaisches Genealogical Pocket Book of the Count's Houses Gotha 1868 (Appendix)
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Leipzig 1855, pp. 81-82
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1860, p. 230
- Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Berlin 1855, Volume 1, p. 137 ; 1858, Volume 3, p. 225