Droste to Erwitte

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Coat of arms of Droste zu Erwitte

Droste zu Erwitte is the name of an extinct Westphalian noble family that initially bore the name Droste zu Schweckhausen. The Droste zu Füchten were a branch line .

It is not to be confused with the von Erwitte family or the von Landsberg family , who held the office of Drosten in Erwitte . The family was also not related to the family of Droste zu Hülshoff and Droste zu Vischering .

history

The family is originally knightly and named after the office of Drosten . The oldest known representative is Dietrich Droste, who was first documented in Soest in 1276. His son Radolf was councilor in Soest and in 1304 he was the financier of the Archbishop of Cologne. Dietrich's grandson Johann Drossete was multiple mayor of Soest between 1341 and 1352 and was enfeoffed in 1352 by Hermann Wulff von Lüdinghausen with Gut Schweckhausen in the Höxter district.

The son Johann II took the Brunswick Duke Heinrich prisoner in a feud between the bishopric of Münster and the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1402. One of the descendants, also named Johann, was, as Cologne canon, one of the main opponents of Elector Gebhard I von Waldburg in his attempt to introduce Protestantism.

In the 16th century they bought Haus Erwitte and from then on called themselves Droste zu Erwitte.

The family belonged to the north-west German pin nobility and provided numerous canons and other church dignitaries in Fulda , Münster , Paderborn and Hildesheim . Members of the family were also Landdrosten in the Duchy of Westphalia . Placidus von Droste became prince abbot of Fulda in 1678. He bought the Füchten property for his brother Kaspar Ferdinand Dietrich . He had the castle demolished around 1700 and a castle built on the mountainside. This created the Droste zu Füchten branch .

Kaspar Ferdinand Droste zu Füchten was canon in Münster and Hildesheim as well as chamber president in the bishopric of Münster. Friedrich Ferdinand Droste zu Füchten was canon in Paderborn and cathedral dean in Münster. The line became extinct at the end of the 18th century. She also owned the Upper House Amecke by inheritance (the immediately neighboring Lower House belonged to the Barons von Wrede-Amecke , who also acquired the Upper House back from the Droste in 1758).

The line to Erwitte also died out during this time. House Erwitte fell to the barons of Landsberg through an heir daughter .

coat of arms

A shield divided by a right-angled staircase cut red over gold (or gold over red), each staircase of three ascending and descending steps. On the crowned helmet with red and gold covers the shield between a red and a gold pheasant feather.

people

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Friedrich von Klocke: Old Mayor of Soest from six centuries, their families and status . S. 130 f .
  2. ^ Hermann Rothert: The oldest city accounts of Soest from the years 1338, 1357 and 1363 . In: Westphalian magazine . No. 101/102 , 1953, pp. 139-182 .
  3. ^ Johann Diederich von Steinen: Westphälische Geschichte . tape 3 . Lemgo 1757, p. 330 .
  4. ^ Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility

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