Enckevort (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Enckevort (1530)

Enckevort (formerly also van Enckenvoirt (Dutch) and von Enkevort ) is the name of an old baronial and countless noble family originally from the county of Brabant in the Netherlands , which subsequently spread to Austria , Brandenburg and Pomerania ; the baronial brandenburg-pomeranian line continues to this day.

history

Cardinal Willem van Enckevoirt (1464–1534)

The noble family is first mentioned in a document at the beginning of the 13th century in the county of Brabant in the Netherlands. The Cardinal Wilhelm III. von Enckenvoirt was a confidante of Pope Hadrian VI. With his death in 1534, the male line died out, but the name passed on to the descendants of his sister, Abbess Elisabeth Michiels von Enckenvoirt.

The new main line of the family was henceforth founded by their son Gottfried (I), who with his son Gottfried (II) branched out into an Austrian and Brandenburg line at the end of the 17th century. The line in the Netherlands continued until the end of the 17th century.

Adrian von Enkevort was a military leader in the Catholic League during the Thirty Years' War in both imperial and Bavarian services. He was married to a daughter of the imperial court chancellor Johann Baptist Verda von Verdenberg . In 1651 he was raised to imperial count. Verdenberg's Namiest Castle in Bohemia came to the Counts Enckevort in 1688, as did the Lower Austrian lordships of Bierbaum, Gedersdorf, Grafenegg Castle , Mollands, Neuaigen, Seebarn Castle , Grafenwörth , Schönberg , Thürnthal Castle and Walkersdorf Castle . With the death of the privy councilor Adrian Graf von Enckevort on August 20, 1738, this family branch of the count died out in the male line. Anthonie Graf Breuner (1698–1757) accepted the name Breuner von Enkevoirt as heir .

Vogelsang Castle in the 19th century

General Provisioner Daniel Enckevort received on February 16, 1663 Emperor Leopold I admission to the imperial nobility; this was confirmed by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg on January 18, 1665. Representatives of his family subsequently acquired the villages of Vogelsang, Warsin , Bellin, Albrechtsdorf , Mönkenberg and Christianenberg; the Enckevort family owned this property until the end of the war in 1945. The descendants of the district president Gustav Heinrich von Enckevort were lords of Gartz and Rosenfelde in the Pyritz district . On their Gut Vogelsang (-Warsin) Bernd Friedrich von Enckefort had a two-storey manor house built on the foundation walls of a former castle in 1711; this was replaced by Eduard Friedrich von Enckevort in the early 19th century with the representative Vogelsang Castle . Eduard Friedrich also had a family burial site built on this family estate in 1828.

Ranks

Description of coat of arms

Coat of arms according to the imperial diploma of February 16, 1663

In the imperial diploma of February 16, 1663, the coat of arms is determined as follows:

“A shield with a broad red beam in the middle, three iron cannonballs divided into it one after the other, so that the lower part is white or silver-colored, at which bottom on a green mountain a crouching lion, irritated to rage, on both sides holding a green palm tree in his paws; the upper part is gold; In it are two black eagles, facing inwards, with open bills, red tongues, and arms spreading apart; on the shield a freely open aristocratic tournament helmet, adorned with a gold-colored ancient pagan crown, on which a red spread, simple and crowned eagle, as in the shield, is. "

Important representatives of the sex

General Freyherr von Enckenfort (Adrian von Enkevort)

Trivia

  • Mrs. von Enckevort from Albrechtsdorf (now in Polish: Karszno ) took on the patronage of St. Mary's Church in Neuwarp until 1945 .
  • Wenzel Adrian von Enkevoirt founded the village of Enkenfurt in 1737 .

literature

  • Rudolf von Enckevort: Historical news about the family v. Enckevort. CA strong. Görlitz 1908. Digitized

Web links

Commons : Enckevort  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 3, Leipzig 1861, pp. 105-106
  2. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: Enkevort (Enckevort), the lords of . In: New Prussian Adelslexicon . Vol. 2, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1836, p. 134
  3. ↑ 0030 family archive of Enckevort-Vogelsang (Rep. 38d, Archiwum rodu Enckevort-Vogelsang). uni-oldenburg.de
  4. ↑ Bernd Warlich: The Thirty Years War in personal testimonies, chronicles and reports - Enckevort (Enckfurth, Enckefurt, Enquenfort, Enkevörn), Adrian von. 30jaehrigerkrieg.de
  5. ↑ Enckevortweg. In: Street name lexicon of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein (near  Kaupert )