Dassel (patrician family)

Coat of arms of the von Dassel

Dassel (until the 20th century also Dassel- Wellersen ) is the name of an aristocratic family from Lower Saxony named after the town of Dassel , the ancestral seat of the extinct Counts of Dassel . The gender can be traced back to the 13th century and has branched out several times since then. The most important branch was a patrician family based in Lüneburg .

history

The family first appears in a document around 1230 with Hermannus de Dasle in the suite of the Counts of Dassel. On July 29, 1348, Mechthildis , the daughter of the knight Hermann von Dasle, is mentioned in a document. The von Dassel acquired extensive fiefdom and allodial property in the area around Einbeck in the 14th and 15th centuries . The uninterrupted line of trunks begins with the citizen of Einbeck, Hermannus de Dasle , who is named as a buyer in Hoppensen in 1359 .

The family built a large town house in Einbeck in 1600 , the previous building of which , built in 1317, burned down in 1540. Family members lived in this stone house for several generations. It was sold in 1803 by forester Friedrich Thedel von Dassel († 1837), Maire in Rotenkirchen , to a merchant named Krome . From 1866, the merchant's sons ran a weaving mill in the back yard of the house. After a technical defect, the weaving mill and the house burned down in 1906.

The Lüneburg line achieved financial success through activities at the Lüneburg saltworks and thus also gained political influence. She owned a large patrician house and died out in the 19th century.

In addition, a branch of the Dassel family was temporarily based in Riga, where the Blackheads' silver treasure has preserved their coat of arms on a showpiece from 1676.

Extract from the master list with place of residence:

Hermann von Dassel ∞ Mya Junge, ancestor of Derer von Dassel, Einbeck

1. Dietrich von Dassel († 1444) ∞ Mette von Uslar , Einbeck
   1. Drudeke von Dassel, Höckelheim Monastery , nun
   2. Dietrich II von Dassel († 1490) ∞ Mette von Junge, ancestor of the Lüneburg branch, councilor in Lüneburg
      1. Albrecht von Dassel († 1506) ∞ Sophie von Stöteroggen, Lüneburg
         1. Dietrich III. von Dassel ∞ Gesche von Uslar, Einbeck
         2. Lutke von Dassel († 1537), Lüneburg, mayor
            1. Christoph von Dassel († 1569), Lüneburg
               1. Lutke III. von Dassel († 1609), Lüneburg, mayor
            2. Johannes von Dassel († 1575), Lüneburg
               1. Georg II von Dassel († 1635), Lüneburg, mayor
            3. Lutke II von Dassel († 1591), Lüneburg
               1. Hartwig von Dassel († 1608), Lüneburg, council
            4. Franz I von Dassel († 1565), Lüneburg, mayor
               1. Johannes von Dassel († 1577), Einbeck, murder victim
            5. Georg I von Dassel († 1569), Lüneburg
               1. Franz II von Dassel († 1626), Einbeck, canon in Bardowick
               2. George III von Dassel († 1626), ∞ Dorothea Raven († 1588), ∞ Ilse von Vahlberg, founder of Hoppensen
                  1. Georg Jeremias von Dassel († 1667) ∞ Eva Heistermann von Ziehlberg († 1667)
                     1. Johann Gottfried Christoph († 1696), Wellersen
                     2. Heinrich Jeremias († 1709), Einbeck, Hoppensen

A documentary mention in 1334 of a Dieterich von Dassel , canon in the Merseburg Cathedral , could not be included in this root list. The same applies to a Johann von Dassel notarized in Rostock in 1298 .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a red bar in silver in front of three green linden leaves placed in a cross . On the helmet with red and silver covers a growing three-leaved linden branch between two silver buffalo horns each covered with a red bar.

Known family members

• Lutke von Dassel (1474–1537), German politician
• Hartwig von Dassel (1557–1608), councilor and author of several legal writings
• Albrecht von Dassel († 1657), councilor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
• Georg von Dassel (1629–1687), German politician
• Margareta I von Dassel († 1667), abbess in the Medingen monastery
• Margareta II von Dassel († 1680), abbess in the Medingen monastery
• August von Dassel (1784–1868), Prussian major general
• Gustav Adolph von Dassel (1816–1894), Landstallmeister at the Trakehnen main stud
• Ernst von Dassel (1848–1918), Prussian major general
• Hanno von Dassel (1850–1918), Prussian lieutenant general
• Johannes von Dassel (1863–1928), German infantry general
• Stephan von Dassel (* 1967), German politician (B90 / The Greens)

See also

• County Dassel among the namesake from these families

literature

• Communications to the members of the von Dassel family. Family newspaper, Chemnitz, No. 1.1889 (1892) -3.1891. Digitized
• Report on the sex of Dassel. Family newspaper, Chemnitz, No. 4.1892 (1893) -9.1899. Digitized
• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels , Volume 3, 1899, published by WT Bruer, p. 100. Digitized and p. 112. Digitized
• Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobligen houses . Part A, 33 vol., Gotha 1934, p. 161.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon. Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, p. 423, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974.
• Ernst Voss: The Lüneburg inventory of the von Dassel family. Einbecker Jahrbuch, Volume 39, 1988, pp. 111-128.
• Ernst Voss: The Stone House. Einbecker Jahrbuch 46, 1999, pp. 5-42.

Web links

Commons : Dassel family (I)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ernst Fromme: History of the Dassel Family . (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch 1, No. 383
2. ↑ Original document in the State Archives in Münster
3. ^ Freise: Excerpts from documents from the city of Einbeck . Einbeck 1959, no.298.
4. ↑ Gable Coronation, 1709 ( Memento from March 28, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Otto von Dassel: The Dassel patrician family in Riga . In: The German Herald . Volume 24 (1893), pp. 134-135.
6. ^ Leopold von Ledebur: New general archive for the history of the Prussian state . Volume 3, 1836, p. 88.
7. ^ Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology: Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch . Volume 4, 1867, p. 49.
8. ↑ Johann Ludolph Lyssmann: Historical news of the origin, growth and fate of the Closter Meding in the Lüneburg Duchy, its provosts, prioresses and abbatesses 1772, p. 165.
9. ↑ Johann Ludolph Lyssmann: Historical news of the origins, growth and fate of the Closter Meding in the Lüneburg Duchy, its provosts, prioresses and abbaths . 1772, p. 167.