Elmendorff (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Elmendorff

Elmendorff is the name of an old Westphalian noble family , named after Elmendorf Castle in the Ammerland district in Lower Saxony . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

Tower hill of Elmendorf Castle

The family was first mentioned in a document in 1323 with the knight Thidericus de Elmendorpe . According to Kneschke , a Diederich von Elmendorpe appears as a witness in a document from the Rastede monastery as early as 1287 . The secured trunk series only begins with Herbord von Elmendorf (* 1492, † 1569).

According to an old legend, the family came from Norway and was originally nicknamed the Strong. She settled in Jadelehe in the Rustlinger Land on the North Sea . During the 11th century two brothers lived, one in the castle in Zwischenahn , the other in Elmendorf (today part of Bad Zwischenahn). Both are said to have owned large estates in the Ammerland in the county of Oldenburg with the jurisdictions of Zwischenahn and Edewecht . In a feud between the two brothers in 1134, one fell in a duel. The survivor fled to the county of Delmenhorst near Bremen after being banned from church . The Archbishop of Bremen lifted the ban after promising that he would support him in the battles with the Lords of Hodenberg and the Counts of Hoya . After the successful relief of Bremen, Elmendorff built a castle on the Weser and later died in a monastery.

Lines and possessions

At the beginning of the 14th century a line lived in the county of Vechta. As Burgmanns of the Bishop of Munster, the Elmendorffers lived in a Burgmannshof near Vechta Castle , the "Elmendorffsburg". The main building was roughly in the same place as today's house of the same name.

Since 1421, Gut Füchtel near Vechta has been the family seat. In 1771 the neighboring Welpe estate came to Hülshoff through the Droste family to Caspar Franz von Elmendorff . The last mistress of Füchtel and Puppy was Cäcilie Freiin von Elmendorff, who married Heinrich von Droste zu Hülshoff . Via their daughter Maria-Anna (1866–1947), who married Count Ferdinand von Merveldt , the property came to this family, who still own it today.

  • Elmendorffsburg, Vechta

  • Good Füchtel, Vechta

  • House puppy , Vechta

Members of the Elmendorff family became canons in the cathedral and monasteries of Hildesheim , Paderborn , Lübeck and Osnabrück and swore at all times to the knights of the Munster and Osnabrück . Because they owned a Burgmannshof in Quakenbrück , the family also belonged to the knightly nobility of the Osnabrück countryside in the later Kingdom of Hanover .

Herbord the Elder (* 1492, † 1569), with whom the lineage of the family begins, married Gusta von Langen in 1532 . The eldest son, Herbord the younger, married Anna von Manell from the Landegge house in 1573 and continued the tribe.

The second son, Herbords the elder, moved to Courland with Duke Ketteler in 1560 and became the founder of the Courland branch line.

The son from Johann Otto von Elmendorff's second marriage, Friedrich Caspar Adolph von Elmendorff, married Countess Maria Hedwig von Waffenberg. He died in 1744 as an imperial major general of the infantry. The grandson of Johann Otto von Elmendorff, Caspar Franz von Elmendorff († 1779), son of Franz Anton Dietrich von Elmendorff († 1744) and Maria Friederike von Dumpfstorff from the house Halstenbeck († 1753), was kurkölnischer chamberlain and privy .

Franz von Elmendorff, Herr auf Füchtel, Elmendorffsburg, Welpe and Groß Arkenstede (today part of Essen near Oldenburg , the Arkensteder Herrenhaus was later transferred to the museum village of Cloppenburg ), the Quakenbrücker Burgmannshof Elmendorffhof and Vehr (acquired in 1783, owned until 1876), grand ducal Oldenburg Chamberlain, married Luise Spiegel von Desenberg-Borlinghausen in 1835 ; As heiress of Borlinghausen Castle and Willebadessen Monastery , she brought these goods into Elmendorff family property, which were sold in 1839. Harald Freiherr von Elmendorff acquired Veynau Castle in the Euskirchen district in 1988 .

Status surveys

The Franz brothers Elmendorff on Füchtel, Grand Duke of Oldenburg shear Chamberlain and Master of the Horse , and Louis of Elmendorff on Müdlinghoven and Dahl Hoff, Grand Duke of Oldenburg shear Chamberlain and captain out of service , received on 2 March 1860 that Oldenburgische recognition of Baron state .

Ludwig Freiherr von Elmendorff, royal Prussian public prosecutor in the district of Heiligenstadt , received Prussian recognition of the title of baron on April 15, 1861 in Berlin , and his brother Ferdinand Freiherr von Elmendorff, royal Prussian appellate judge in Minden , on June 26, 1866 in Berlin.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is divided five or six times by red and gold. On the helmet with red and gold helmet covers, a young man's fuselage clad in black and covered with a silver pole between an open golden flight on the right and red on the left .

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälisches Urkundenbuch , Volume 8, No. 1687.
  2. ↑ a b New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 3, page 87 ff.
  3. ↑ Otto Gruber: The coats of arms of the South Oldenburg nobility . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1971 . Vechta 1970, p. 20

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