Dücker (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Dücker family

Dücker is the name of a Westphalian noble family , which with the Teutonic Order spread to the Baltic States and from there to Sweden and Tyrol .

Westphalia

The Dücker family is part of the Limburg nobility.

As early as 1190, Goswin Dukere was mentioned in a document as Vogt of Valkenburg in Brabant . Knight Henricus Ducere follows in 1220. Finally, Henrich dictus Ducker is mentioned in a document on January 10, 1299 as an early representative of his family. He bequeathed some goods to Fröndenberg Abbey .

They are said to have initially owned the castle or Dücker Castle near Kempen . At the Ruhr the Dücker are considered to be the builders of House Kemnade , where they can be traced back to 1266. She is also named as the first tenant for House Heisingen . Another Henrich Dücker sold the third part of the Horst house to the Counts of the Mark in 1315 .

In Westphalia, numerous lines of the sex formed, which differed by different surnames. So there was the Dücker called Neiling, called Overling, called Umberg, called Westenfelde, called in den Doernen, called in der Netelenbeck, called Nünum, called von Ostendorp.

Members of the family served as ministerials to various gentlemen. Some served the Counts of Cleve , others the Abbess of Essen , the Counts of Lippe and others. Wennemar Dücker was a witness in 1391 when Archbishop Friedrich of Cologne and the Counts of Kleve reached a settlement. He was also present for comparable files. He called himself miles (knight) and was master of Stiepel , Kemnade and Bruch , bailiff of Lüdenscheid and Bilstein . Together with other members of the family, he lent money to the Counts of Kleve and, together with his wife Greta, was pledge master of Lüdenscheid, Neustadt and Plettenberg from 1400 onwards .

Between 1405 and 1602 a branch of the Westphalian Dücker appeared in Finland .

In the 17th century the line to Heyden and Mellen died out. A line to Ober- and Nieder-Rödinghausen that still existed was deleted from the list of knighthood eligible for a foundation due to marriages not in keeping with their status .

To this line includes the electoral maitre Hermann (from) Dücker, who in 1627 next to the Obereimer house various lands and landowners' rights in Arnsberg acquired and in one of estimates and Contributionalen liberated, diet capable manor transformed. Elector Maximilian Heinrich of Bavaria forced him to sell. Dücker used the money to build the Dücker Hof as a city palace in Arnsberg . In 1687 his sons tried to renew the title of nobility. Wilhelm Lothar Bernd Dücker Electoral Cologne Privy Councilor and Counselor and Envoy of King Ludwig XIII. from France could henceforth call himself noble gentleman and the rest were called gentlemen.

Baltic states

With Ewert Duker, who on July 15, 1375 was assessor of the German Order- Vogt in Jewe , the family appears for the first time in the Baltic States. Until 1483, the Dücker provided committees and bailiffs of the order several times. Important family goods in Estonia included a .: Pastfer , Ladigfer , Kau and Engdes ; in Livonia a . a .: Kuikatz , Penniküll and Puderkull .

Status surveys were carried out in Sweden (introduced in 1634) for Karl Gustav Düker both in the baron class (July 12, 1711 as Freiherr zu Säby) and in the count class (April 17, 1719 as Count zu Jacobsberg). The branches that came to Sweden from Estonia were extinct there in 1698 and 1892 respectively.

The Dücker were enrolled in both the Estonian and the Livonian knighthood . With the Russian admiral Richard von Dücker adH Berghof (* 1847, † 1932), who had three daughters, the Estonian line in the male line expires.

Salzburg

After the bishopric of Dorpat was occupied by Moscovite troops during the Livonian War , the Haselau- based family branch first emigrated to Sweden in 1558 and came to Tyrol with Johann Dückher von Hasslau in 1592. Franz Dückher von Hasslau (1609–1671) settled in the Archbishopric of Salzburg in 1649 and founded the Salzburg line of the family. In 1651 it was given to the Salzburger Landmannschaft. In 1671 the Dückher von Hasslau were raised to the status of imperial barons. In 1923 the Salzburg line also expired in the male line. The family seat was Urstein Castle near Puch , which they owned until 1837.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms : 5 blue bars in silver. On the blue-silver puffed helmet with the same blankets, 2 arms, the right silver, the left blue, holding up a golden sun; A narrow band in alternating colors is tied around the outwardly curved arms, the bow and ends of which flare outward at the elbow.

Known family members

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Simon Pierre Ernst: Historie du Limbourg VI. Liege 1850; and Hermann Friedrich Macco : Contributions to the history and genealogy of the Rhine. Noble and patrician families. 2 volumes, Aachen 1885–1887.
  2. ^ Theodor Joseph Lacomblet : Document book for the Lower Rhine II. 85.
  3. ^ Johann Diederich von Steinen : Westphalian history with many coppers. Part 3. Lemgo, 1757 p. 1089ff.
  4. ^ Leopold von Ledebur : Dynastische Forschungen. Second issue. Berlin 1855, p. 13f.
  5. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner (arrangement): The nobility of the Russian Baltic provinces. In: Johann Siebmacher's Large Book of Arms . New episode. Battenberg-Verlag, Munich, 1979, Dücker, p. 280.
  6. ↑ Salzburg state archive , Frank index, cardboard DT
  7. ^ Franz Martin : Hundred Salzburg families. Publishing house of the Society for Regional Studies in Salzburg. Salzburg 1946, p. 54
  8. ^ Friederike Zaisberger , Walter Schlegel : Castles and palaces in Salzburg. Flachgau and Tennengau. St. Pölten / Vienna 1992, pp. 183-187.