Drosedow (noble family)
Drosedow , formerly also Drosdow , plural: Drosdowen , is the name of an ancient Pomeranian nobility that became extinct in the middle of the 19th century.
history
The Drosedow are said to have belonged to the oldest families of the long-established nobility in Western Pomerania . Kneschke and Ledebur name the two villages of the same name, Drosedow in the former Schlawe district and Drosedow in the former Fürstenthum district, as the family headquarters. However, the Drosedow in the Fürstenthum district is also attributed to the earliest possession of the Manteuffel .
In 1426 Ulrich Drosedow left his fiefdom Strickershagen to the city council of Stolp . As early as 1481, the Glasenapp are said to have owned the former Drosedow estates of Retzag, Jatzen and Datzow . At the end of the 16th century the Drosedow were tenants of the mighty Borcke and managed their Falkenhagen estate in the Regenwalde district . In the first half of the 19th century they still owned the Kösternitz estate near Zanow , Neurese A and Stegelin in the Schlawe district .
In the 17th and 18th centuries, the family was also able to take over Herrendorf and Rosenthal in the Soldin district in Neumark . Also in the 18th century, Schützendorf in the Oels district in Lower Silesia was added to the family's property holdings.
The family repeatedly provided officers in the Prussian army . One of these officers died in the battle at Landeshut in 1757 during the Seven Years' War . Adam Heinrich von Drosedow (* 1734) was staff officer in the regiment Gens d´armes and hereditary lord of Rosenthal in 1775 . The family is said to have come to an end with Captain Johann Carl von Drosedow , who fell in the Schleswig-Holstein War during the unsuccessful siege of Fredericia Fortress under the command of General Bonin in 1849 .
coat of arms
The split coat of arms shows in silver over a silver-red chess a black eagle with a knocked out red tongue. On the helmet with black-silver-red covers the eagle.
literature
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin 1854, volume 4, p. 12 , volume 4
- Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann : Detailed description of the current state of the Königl. Prussian Duchy of Western and Western Pomerania . Stettin 1779, Part I, pp. 149-150
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1861, Volume 2, pp. 583-584
- Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy Berlin 1855, Volume 1, S. 182 ; 1858, Volume 3, p. 241
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Leipzig 1836, Volume 2, p. 444
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania - description of the conditions of this country in the second half of the 19th century. Anklam 1867, Part III: Land book of the Duchy of Kashubia and the incorporated districts of Neumark; or the administrative district of the Royal Government on Koslin western part. Volume 1: Districts of the Principality of Kammin and Belgard. P. 316 and 393
- ↑ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt and Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt (edited): J. Siebmacher's great book of arms. New sieve maker . Volume 6, Section 5, The Dead Nobility of the Province and Mark Brandenburg. Nuremberg 1880, p. 23, Tfl. 13
- ↑ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt (edited): J. Siebmacher's great book of arms. New sieve maker. Vol. 6th section. 9. Extinct Prussian nobility. Pomeranian Province. 1894, p. 22, Tfl. 14th
Web links
- Coat of arms of Drosedow in Siebmacher's Wappenbuch from 1701, Volume 3, Plate 160
