Cossel (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Cossel near Tyroff 1832

Cossel , also Kossel , is the name of a post-aristocratic family with roots in Electoral Saxony , later Brandenburg and Mecklenburg .

There is no regular relationship to the Brandenburg- Prussian gentlemen von Cosel or the family of Countess Cosel .

history

The family derives its name from the village of Koselitz and was first mentioned in documents in 1491 with Hans Kosselitz, citizen and homeowner of Mühlberg . The line of tribe begins with Broß Kosselitz, ancestral farm owner to Koßdorf bei Mühlberg, mentioned in a document from 1550–1595. From the 17th century the name "Kossel" caught on in the family.

1724 was issued for the brothers Johann Detloff, Johann David, Georg Friedrich Paschen and Kossel, and their cousins Peter Christopher and Daniel Kossel a crest letter from Hofpfalzgrafen Christian Stilck.

Jersbek estate around 1747

In 1755, Emperor Franz I raised the court and judicial council, later Danish conference councilor Paschen Cossel († January 7, 1805) to the hereditary imperial knighthood. In 1774 he acquired the Jersbek estate in Stormarn. He had no offspring and adopted his nephew Eberhard Christopher von Cossel (born March 25, 1753 in Hamburg (St. Petri), † June 15, 1832 in Reinbek near Hamburg).

The Prussian major and commander in the 9th Artillery Brigade Richard Kossel received the Prussian nobility in Berlin in 1871.

Possessions

Jersbek Estate 1774–1819

coat of arms

The coat of arms, issued in 1755, is divided according to Lehsten with a heart shield split in silver, black and red without a picture. It is divided in front by black and silver with a red sword, set on the tip with a golden crown, sloping upwards to the right; in the back a black eagle in a silver field. A so-called golden Hercules lion skin hangs down from the heart shield on a red chain of three links in the blue base of the shield . Two crowned helmets: on the first a growing golden left-faced lion, on the second a growing black eagle. The helmet covers are red and silver on the right, black and silver on the left.

In Konrad Tyroff , Book of Arms of the Prussian Monarchy , Volume 2 (published posthumously in 1832), plate 100, the coat of arms is almost exactly the same, only the eagle is shown in the golden field, as is Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , Neues Preussisches Adels-Lexicon ( 1836) on page 377 describes.

Kneschke describes the coat of arms slightly differently: shield divided lengthways, with a shield base and heart shield. Heart shield divided by stakes (lengthwise) of silver, black and red, without picture. To the right, divided transversely by black and silver, with a red sword standing on the base of the shield, placed obliquely to the right, the tip of which is set in a golden crown; on the left, in silver, an inward-looking, golden-armored, black eagle, the right wing of which is half covered and the right claw completely covered by the heart shield, and in the blue base of the shield a right-facing, golden lion, which is ringed around the lower tip of the heart shield by means of a The ribbon is hanging. There are two crowned helmets on the shield. A crowned, golden lion grows up out of the right helmet, looking inward, and the left helmet bears an inward-looking, gold-armored, black eagle.

A copper engraving from around 1850 shows the coat of arms with the two helmets described, but the details of the shield vary: in the blue base of the shield a golden pan head looking forward ; the double split of the heart shield covered by a lion standing on a pedestal.

Family coat of arms of Cossel
Coat of arms of those of Cossel (copper engraving around 1850)

Name bearer

Paschen von Cossel (1714–1805), lawyer in Hamburg, canon and syndic of the cathedral chapter, Danish conference councilor
Johann Detloff von Cossel (1702–1780)
- Eberhard Christopher von Cossel (1753–1832), Danish budget adviser
  - Doris von Cossel, married. Lütkens (1793–1858), German painter and teacher
  - Christian Ludwig von Cossel (1801–1867), Danish chamberlain, master forest and hunter for Holstein and Lauenburg, knight of the Dannebrog order
  - Johann Detloff von Cossel (1805-1891), Danish bailiff, knight of the Dannebrog Order
    - Otto von Cossel (District Administrator) (1845–1915), Prussian District Administrator
      - Otto von Cossel (genealogist) (1883–1967), genealogist and author
      - Hans von Cossel (1886–1975), lawyer, bank director, social welfare functionary
      - Maximilian von Cossel (1893–1967), officer

literature

Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description: With historical and documentary evidence. Volume 4, Leipzig 1857, pp. 74f.
Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). JG Tiedemann, Rostock 1864, p. 48f.
Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses , first year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1907, p. 116ff
German Gender Book , Volume 57 (= Mecklenburgisches Gender Book, Volume 1), Limburg (Lahn) 1928, p. 252 ff. ( Digitized version of the Mazovian Digital Library)

Web links

Commons : Cossel family - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Adelslexikon, Volume II., In the series Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Limbg. ad Lahn 1974, pp. 350-351.
↑ Lehsten (lit.), p. 48.
^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Leipzig 1836, p. 377.
↑ New Nekrolog der Deutschen , No. 191: Eberhard Christopher Edler v. Cossel , p. 471 f.

[GHdA-Lex-1] Adelslexikon, Volume II., In the series Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Limbg. ad Lahn 1974, pp. 350-351.

[2] Lehsten (lit.), p. 48.

[3] Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Leipzig 1836, p. 377.

[4] New Nekrolog der Deutschen , No. 191: Eberhard Christopher Edler v. Cossel , p. 471 f.