Dossow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Dossow family

Dossow , also Dossau or Dossen , is the name of an old noble family from the Mark Brandenburg . The family, some of which still exist today, belongs to the Prignitz primeval nobility and later gained possession and prestige , especially in Pomerania .

history

origin

The family is first mentioned in a document on February 14, 1277 with Tyde de Dosse . In this document, the Brandenburg margraves Johann , Otto and Konrad confirm the town of Pyritz .

The family's ancestral house that gave its name was the village of Dossow , six kilometers south of the town of Wittstock / Dosse in Brandenburg , today it is a district of Wittstock. The name Dossow comes from Slavic and means something like water. The village derives its name from the Dosse river on which it lies. Dossow appears in documents from 1273 and was an important document place of the Brandenburg margraves, who also ruled there from time to time.

Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow (1669–1758)

Spread and personalities

According to Kneschke , the von Dossow appear for the first time in a document with Heinrich von der Dossen. He is said to be with the Margrave Ludwig von Brandenburg , the dukes Otto I. and Barnim III. von Pomerania as well as the canons of Cammin and their helpers, the Counts of Naugarden , and the city of Massow have concluded an armistice . The brothers Heyne and Thideke of Dossow appear in 1363 in documents and Hennig Dossow 1431. Hennig was 1437 Vice Dominus to Pomerania. Roloff Dossow was mayor of Stettin from 1432 to 1456 and another Roloff held this office in 1494.

Numerous family members served in the Brandenburg and royal Prussian army . One of the most important representatives of the family was Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow (* 1669). He became the Prussian lieutenant general and in 1742 governor of Wesel . In the same year he received the Order of the Black Eagle . Friedrich Wilhelm died childless on May 28, 1758 as a Prussian field marshal .

One von Dossow fell during the Wars of Liberation in 1813 as a captain of a Mecklenburg-Schwerin hunter detachment. Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow (1769-1828) died as commander of the 3rd Dragoon Regiment in Landsberg on the Warta . One of his sons served as a prime lieutenant in the 3rd Dragoons Regiment and his younger brother was a lieutenant in the 3rd Uhlan Regiment zu Beeskow.

Possessions

The family's property was mainly in the Szczecin region. Zabel Dossow was enfeoffed in 1608 by Duke Philip of Pomerania with his father's fiefs in Barnimscunow, Strevelow and Striesen. In addition, Landenhagen, Schwochow, Bunsikow, Wustrow and Bakow were fiefdoms owned by the family, but the family also had other goods temporarily in pledge possession. One of the main holdings was Kunow in the former district of Greifenhagen , which the von Dossow had owned since 1464. Adam Heinrich von Dossow sold the old property in 1735 to the privy councilor and court marshal Alexander von Cunow. The estate later fell to the von Lüderitz family .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in blue a silver diagonal bar covered with three red roses . On the helmet with red and silver helmet covers, three red roses under a double natural peacock frond between two buffalo horns , the right of which is twisted in red, blue and silver and the left in silver, red and blue.

Coat of arms history

The coat of arms appears on imprints of seals . According to Julius Theodor Bagmihl , Pommersches Wappenbuch II. Pp. 80–82 (1846–1855), in newer seals instead of the peacock feather three ostrich feathers appear, on another seal instead of the three roses two and on a third one instead of the roses a crown.

In Johannes Micraelius Six Books from Old Pomerania. Volume 6, p. 480 (1640) are the Dossen Stettinisch and led three red roses in a white line in the blue field and six peacock feathers in two rows between two piebald buffalo horns. In Johann Siebmacher's Book of Arms III. Plate 167 the bar is diagonally left and the buffalo horns are alternately red, blue and silver. The peacock feathers stand in two rows in front of the horns. The helmet covers are gold, blue and red. Christian Friedrich August von Meding describes the coat of arms in his messages from noble coats of arms Volume III, page 138 (1791) after Micraelius and Siebmacher and the New Prussian Adelslexicon by Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , Volume 1, Pp. 438-439 (1836), only after Siebmacher.

After Ernst Heinrich Kneschke The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Volume 1, pp. 123–124 (1855) reads the blazon : “In the blue shield there is an oblique, silver bar, which is covered with three red, five-petalled roses. On the shield stands a helmet with two buffalo horns, of which the right is twisted in red, blue and silver diagonally to the left, the left one in silver, red and blue diagonally to the right. The horns are covered at the bottom with three roses standing next to each other, and above them a double peacock frond with five feathers each is erected. The helmet covers are red and silver. "

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis. Volume XXIV, No. 8, pp. 5-6.
  2. ↑ a b Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume III, Volume 61 of the complete series, p. 7.
  3. ↑ www.ruppin.de ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ruppin.de
  4. ↑ a b c New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 2, p. 559.
  5. ↑ a b c The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Volume 1, pp. 123-124.