Cramon (noble family)

Cramon family coat of arms

Cramon or Cremon is the name of a family of the Mecklenburg nobility that still exists today .

origin

The noble family Cramon (also written Cremon or Cremun) is first mentioned in 1245 with the knight Henricus de Cremun, a ministerial of Count Gunzelin II of Schwerin . The parent company of the same name was in Cramon near Malchow . The Cramon can be traced back to Hermann von Cramon (who worked around 1250). The extent to which they gave their name to Cramon , one of the oldest villages in Northwest Mecklenburg , in the Middle Ages is not documented, but it can be assumed. In this context, Friedrich Schlie also refers to a clergyman Franco de Cremun, who in nearby Viecheln under the Schwerin Bishop Berno, together with others, carried out the Christianization of the Abodrites in the area around Schwerin with reference to the Mecklenburg document book .

For the period from 1281 to 1300 a Gottfried von Cremon is documented as councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck , who in 1300 took over his property, consisting of the village of Schattin and half of the villages of Wulfsdorf, Blankensee and Beidendorf (all today the Lübeck-St. Jürgen ), sold to the Lübeck Johanniskloster . The family had already become advisable in the patrician imperial city in the 13th century.

Seal and coat of arms of the von Cramon family

Seal of Conrad de Crammon , 1316

The oldest seal of the family of a Konrad von Cramon comes from the year 1316. The coat of arms contained therein is split and shows half a red Katharinenrad in silver on the right , a black bar in red on the left. On the helmet with red and black covers, half a lying bike in front of an open black eagle flight. The black color of the bar can be a traditional mistake, which can stem from the fact that silver was sometimes actually used in colored coats of arms for silver, which can take on a blackish color after oxidation . Other images show the bar in silver, the helmet covers in red and silver.

The secret seal of the years 1351-1371 of the Lübeck bishop Bertram Cremon shows him kneeling with raised hands in prayer under a depiction of Saint Catherine of Alexandria enthroned under a canopy. It clearly shows the veneration of Catherine in the noble family von Cramon already expressed in the family coat of arms by the Katharinenrad.

Members of the von Cramon family

• Gottfried von Cremon († 1300), councilor in Lübeck
• Bertram Cremon († 1377), canon in Hamburg and from 1350 bishop of Lübeck
• Adelheid von Cramon, daughter of Herman von Cramon auf Borkow and Woserin, was a nun in 1488 and prioress in Dobbertin Monastery from 1491 to 1498 , after a visitation. Sister Dorothee was a nun in the Dobbertin Monastery from 1508.
• Johann von Cramon (1528–1601) to Woserin, Mecklenburg district administrator and from 1589 to 1601 provisional in the Dobbertin monastery
• August von Cramon (1861–1940), German officer, last lieutenant general in the First World War
• Detlev Yves von Cramon (* 1941), German neurologist
• Johanna Helene Eleonore Erdmute von Cramon (1918–2009), German writer; Daughter of August von Cramon, widow of Karl Ernst Rahtgens , the party to the attack on 20 July 1944 was
• Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel (* 1962), agricultural economist, professor at the Georg-August University of Göttingen
• Viola von Cramon-Taubadel (* 1970), German politician (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), member of the Bundestag

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  Grave slab of Bishop Bertram Cremon in Lübeck Cathedral with the coat of arms of the von Cramon family

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  Epitaph August Friedrich von Cramon (1687–1719), Lord of Ilow , in the Himmelkron monastery church with the von Cramon coat of arms

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are nine entries by daughters of the von Cramon families from Ilow, Lischow and Borkow from the years 1738–1918 for inclusion in the aristocratic women's monastery .

Name and coat of arms association

Coat of arms of those of Cramon-Taubadel

Roschkowitz Castle

In 1897 the Prussian name and coat of arms were united with the von Taubadel family, who originally came from Taupadel in the vicinity of Jena , for the Fideikommissherren on Roschkowitz in the then district of Opole, Bertram von Cramon as von Cramon-Taubadel . Bertram was the heir to his maternal uncle Wilhelm Traugott von Taubadel auf Roschkowitz, now called Roszkowice, a district of Byczyna ( Eng .: Pitschen ).

Well-known members of the von Taubadel family were the Swedish-Weimar major general George Christoph von Taubadel († after 1643) and the Prussian major general Ernst Balthasar Siegmund von Taubadel . The diploma presented in the Neues Palais in Potsdam was linked to the possession of the Fideikommiss Roschkowitz. Hans-Jürgen von Cramon-Taubadel (1901–1985) was a well-known German fighter pilot.

literature

• Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). Rostock 1864, p. 49 (digitized version)
• Genealogical paperback of the primeval nobility , Volume 1, Brno 1891, pp. 117–118
• Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, reprinted Schwerin 1992, ISBN 3-910179-06-1
• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Aristocracy , Volume 3, 1899, published by WT Bruer, p. 91 - (digitized version)
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobligen houses (A) Gotha 1900 ( trunk series ), 1901-1939 (supplements)
• Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Publishing house by Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920, pp. 242–243. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
• Genealogical handbook of noble houses A 10, Volume 45 of the complete series, Limburg / Lahn 1969, pp. 53–58; Adelslexikon Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, 1974, p. 366; A 28, volume 138 of the complete series, 2005, pp. 34-47; Adelslexikon Volume XVII (Supplements), Volume 144 of the complete series, 2008, p. 165
• Dagmar Jestrzen: Catherine of Alexandria: the crusaders and their saints. Lukas Verlag 2010, therein pp. 72–74: A confession in a like-minded environment: the Mecklenburg knights of Cramon and the counts of Schwerin.

Web links

Commons : Cramon (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MUB , Volume I, 566, Schwerin 1863, Google Book Search
2. ^ MUB , Volume I, 125
3. ↑ Schlie , Vol. 2, p. 645
4. ^ Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925, No. 248.
5. ↑ Jestrzen (2010), p. 72 ff.
6. ↑ Johanna Rahtgens. Farewell & new beginning - my life. Norderstedt, 2007. Books on Demand.
7. ↑ Johanna Rahtgens. Follow the voice of conscience. A memorial report at the German Resistance Memorial Center Berlin 2008
8. ↑ Axel Smend. Obituary for Johanna Rahtgens ( Memento of the original dated May 12, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. German Resistance Memorial Center Berlin 2009 
9. ^ Bernhard von Poten :  Taubadel, George Christoph von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 37, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 418-420.
10. ↑ Hans-Jürgen von Cramon-Taubadel in the English language Wikipedia