Escherte (noble family)

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Seal of Hugo de Esscerde

Escherte is the name of a noble family in the Braunschweig and Hanoverian areas of northern Germany that has been known since the Middle Ages .

When the canons of the cathedral of Hildesheim was for the year 1249 a Basilus of Escherde , one for the year 1393 Hatto of Escherte called.

The later "Rittergut I" of the von Graevemeyer family in the Hanoverian district of Bemerode emerged from the possession of the von Escherte

A fief of the von Escherte family in the Feldmark von Bemerode had already been occupied in 1280 . According to a letter from 1292, the knights Johann , Ludolff and Dietrich von Escherde sold their manor Bomerode , previously also called Bevingerode , for "150 Bremer Mark " to the Marienrode monastery . The later manor I of the von Graevemeyer family emerged from the Bemerode fief .

In 1314, on the occasion of a prescription, the knights Hugo and "Johannes die Escherte" on the Escher- Kamp or Escherkamp between the stone gate and the mill on the stack , at that time still outside the fortifications of the city of Hanover on the leash .

In the 18th century the noble family von Escherte may have died out.

Street names

They remember the von Escherte family

  • Escherstrasse in Hanover's Mitte district between Brühlstrasse and Lange Laube . According to the Hanover history sheets of 1914, the street was still called Neuer Weg in 1822 and was given its current name in 1845 at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover after the family "[...] who owned there in the Middle Ages";
  • Von-Escherte-Straße , which was laid out in 1966 in what is now the Hanoverian district of Bemerode, east of Anecampstraße and reminds of the family's fiefdom in the Feldmark there.

Literature (selection)

  • Johann Friedrich Gauhe : Escherte , in ders .: The Holy Roman Empire Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexikon. In it the oldest and most handsome nobles, barons and counts families flourishing today according to their antiquity and origin, distributions in different houses and the lives of the most famous people who have emerged from them, in particular state ministers with proven certificates, together with a necessary preface, appendices and register , Vol. 2, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch & Son, Leipzig 1747, p. Preview of Google books
  • Sources and presentations on the history of Lower Saxony , published by the Historischer Verein für Niedersachsen, Vol. 22, Verlag August Lax, 1905, passim ; Preview over google books

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Helmut Zimmermann : Von-Escherte-Straße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 255
  2. a b c d e f Johann Friedrich Gauhe: Escherte , in ders .: The Holy Roman Empire Genealogical-Historical Adels-Lexikon. In it the oldest and most handsome nobles, barons and counts families flourishing today according to their antiquity and origin, distributions in different houses and the lives of the most famous people who have emerged from them, in particular state ministers with proven certificates, together with a necessary preface, appendices and register , Vol. 2, Johann Friedrich Gleditsch & Son, Leipzig 1747, p. Preview of Google books
  3. ^ Paul Theile : Geschichtliches aus Bemerode , copy from the series Kronsberger Geschichtsblätter on the site bemerode.de , last accessed on March 24, 2017
  4. a b Helmut Zimmermann: Escherstraße , in ders .: The street names ... , p. 74
  5. ^ Waldemar R. Röhrbein : Stack. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 599.