Fisenne (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Fisenne

Fisenne is the name of a noble Catholic family named after the place Fisenne in what is now the Belgian municipality of Érezée in the province of Luxembourg . Their origins go back to the 12th century, when they were mentioned as lords of Fisenne and Oppagne in the documents and later their three main branches were raised to the Prussian , Dutch and Belgian nobility.

history

The oldest main line of the Fisenne family is only incomplete. In their possession were the dominions of Fisenne, Oppagne and other smaller neighboring territories. From this line comes a certain Wibald, who is said to be identical with the abbot Wibald von Stablo . Another Wibald von Fisenne appeared as an envoy from Emperor Konrad and died in 1138. With Johann von Fisenne, who was missing since the Bohemian uprising in 1618 , this old main line died out in the 17th century.

In the 15th century a branch line had formed, whose name was initially "Fisen alias de Gouvy" and begins with Paul Fisen alias de Gouvy (born around 1480). It was later divided into three independent branches and can be traced back to the present day. Five generations after Paul Fisen, his successor Georg Anton de Fisenne (1645–1719), Lord of Soiron and Rianive, inherited the rule of Fisenne from the extinct main line and was raised to the imperial nobility in 1701 by Emperor Leopold I. His son Paul Ludwig von Fisenne (1727–1774), lord of Fisenne, Oppange and Viannen as well as lord of the castle and bailiff of the County of Longé, married Susanne von Thenen, daughter of the builder Winand von Thenen from Aachen . His youngest son, Ludwig Matthias von Fisenne, remained master of the Walloon estates, while the older son Erhard Philipp Freiherr von Fisenne, captain in English service and Hanoverian colonel, chose Aachen as his main residence and became the founder of the Prussian branch of the family there.

Erhard Philipp von Fisenne had three sons, with the descendants of his eldest son Wolter Joseph von Fisenne (1767–1828) forming two new influential branches: one of Wolter's sons was the later Cologne appellate judge Ludwig von Fisenne (1799–1862) and founder of the Cologne branch. Another son was the tax collector August Joseph von Fisenne (* 1803), who became the progenitor of a branch in Geilenkirchen and who later became the architect Lambert von Fisenne .

Another son of Erhard Philipp, who later became canon Ludwig Peter Anton von Fisenne (1768–1865), acquired the Kaisersruh estate in Aachen. His younger brother, Peter Georg von Fisenne (1771-1849), a spinning mill owner in Aachen, was raised to the Prussian nobility in 1827. He in turn was the father of Franz Peter von Fisenne (1808–1838), who moved to Rijswijk near The Hague for work and who became the progenitor of the Dutch branch. His son Pieter von Fisenne (1837-1914) was raised to the Dutch nobility in 1866 and his family was henceforth allowed to bear the hereditary title Jonkheer . Through his wife, the Den Burch estate in Rijswijk came into the possession of the family, who sold it to the Order of the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1951 . In 1994 this Dutch branch died out in the male line.

The brothers Eugène de Fisenne (* 1953) and Philippe de Fisenne (* 1955), sons of Louis Jean Marie Célestin des Fisenne (1911-2004), received a nobility renewal for the Belgian line in 2001 from the old Walloon line and Belgian line from 1830 Nobility. The Chateau de Fisenne in Fisenne is still the seat of this old baron family.

  • Gut Fisenne in Fisenne

  • Gut Kaisersruh in Aachen in the 19th century.

  • Huis Den Burch in Rijswijk

Known family members

Prussian / German branch

  • Ludwig von Fisenne (1768–1865), son of Erhard Philipp von Fisenne, was canon at the Adalbertstift in Aachen in 1787 , ordained a priest in 1792 and in 1798 canon in the Aachen Cathedral Church . There he was also a member of the imperial coronation foundation and then after the elevation of the cathedral to the bishopric in 1801 made an honorary member. He acquired the Kaisersruh estate and had a new manor house and a park built in the English style on the property by the courtyard . On the occasion of Aachen Monarch Congress he introduced the estate as a guesthouse for Czar Alexander I. available.
  • Peter Georg von Fisenne (1771–1855), brother of Ludwig von Fisenne, was a spinning mill owner and in 1827 was raised to the Prussian nobility. As a member of the municipal council and first adjunct , he signed the address of devotion to Napoleon Bonaparte in February 1813 and to his second wife Marie-Louise of Austria in November 1813 . In 1815 he belonged to the city of Aachen's homage deputation for the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. on. During the Monarchs Congress in 1815, Peter Georg housed the Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, later King Friedrich Wilhelm IV, in his city villa . His son Ludwig Eugen (1810-1892) inherited the Kaisersruh estate and later transferred it to his nephew Pieter Maria George von Fisenne, who had moved to Rijswijk .
  • Ludwig von Fisenne (1799–1862), son of Wolter Joseph and grandson of Erhard Philipp von Fisenne, was initially a regional court assessor in Aachen and from 1835 a state procurator . In December 1842, the father of four sons and three daughters was transferred to Cologne as an appellate judge and instructing judge and became the progenitor of the new Cologne branch.
Joseph of Fisenne
  • Lambert von Fisenne (1852–1903), son of the tax collector and ancestor of the Geilenkirchen branch, August Joseph von Fisenne (* 1803), became a respected architect . He mainly designed the plans for over 50 churches, monasteries and chapels and restored and expanded Romanesque and Gothic churches and some castles in the Rhine-Maas area.
  • Josef von Fisenne (1902–1987), genealogically from the Aachen branch, but not clearly identifiable, became a self-employed pharmacist in Hamburg and served as a politician for the CDU in the Hamburg parliament for three terms . In addition, he was, among other things, the founder of Govi-Verlag , whose name he chose for reasons of tradition after the old family name in the first generations.

Dutch branch

Pieter of Fisenne
Mayor Louis von Fisenne (right)

literature

  • Oscar Coomans de Brachène: Etat présent de la noblesse belge. Brussels 2002, pp. 134–135.
  • Hermann Friedrich Macco : Aachen coat of arms and genealogies , Volume 1, Aachen 1907, p. 135 ( digitized version ).
  • Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adelslexikon , Volume 5, Reichenbach 1839 ( digitized ).
  • Nederland's Adelsboek. Volume 11. WP Van Stockum en zoon, 's-Gravenhage 1912, pp. 336-339 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Commons : Fisenne (Family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait of Huize den Burch
  2. ↑ Louis de Fisenne's obituary notice
  3. ↑ yrs. PMG (Pieter) von Fisenne , portrait on Parlement & Politiek (ndl.)
  4. ^ Ivo Sicking: Hemel en hel, Frans von Fisenne , published on "Historien" from May 1, 2009 (ndl.)