Freyburg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Freyburg

Freyburg , actually Schlottmann von Freyburg , is the name of a noble family that originated in 1703 through the ennoblement of the brothers Niclas and Christian Schlottmann, flourished in Mecklenburg and Prussia and died out in the first half of the 20th century.

history

The line of tribe is traced back to Niklas Schlottmann († around 1572), who allegedly came from the Black Forest and who came to Mecklenburg as a refugee and who found accommodation and work as a guardian at Gut Passow . His son of the same name (* before 1550; † around 1636) ran away at a young age, came to Holland, and became prosperous as an innkeeper and wine merchant. He later moved to Lübeck . His children became citizens of Lübeck.

The eldest son Cord Schlottmann (* 1620) became a citizen of the city of Lübeck in 1665 and acquired the house at An der Trave 100 in 1666. He traded very successfully in wine and in lending money and in 1677 was still able to own the house at Fischergrube MMQ. 419 to acquire. In Mecklenburg he initially acquired extensive pledges . In 1686 he received the ducal permission to purchase real estate and acquired Passow, the estate on which his grandfather was still a serf , with accessories and shares in Welzin from the heirs of Daniel von Koppelow . In 1690 he led a lawsuit against von Weltzien auf Weisin for the surrender of their goods, but only received the lien for six years to Weisin, Grambow, Lenschow and Welzin. In 1691 he sold his property in Lübeck and seems to have moved entirely to Mecklenburg.

His sons Niclas (* 1666 in Lübeck; † 1742 in Passow) and the lawyer Christian (* 1672 in Lübeck; † 1763 in Brüel ) then actively pursued the nobility, which they carried out by decree of Emperor Leopold II of December 31, 1703 with the Name Schlottman von Freyburg also received. With a decree of October 10, 1705, the ducal Mecklenburg recognition of their imperial nobility took place . Both are considered partisans of Duke Karl Leopold and his absolutist plans. Karl Leopold's attempt to make Christian von Freyburg a district administrator in 1716 failed because of the bitter resistance of the estates. The family did not succeed in gaining indigenous status, in spite of the fact that they were eligible for the Landtag, i.e. to be accepted into the native and received Mecklenburg nobility. Therefore none of her daughters could be enrolled in one of the Mecklenburg state monasteries. However, in 1695 Niclas married a Dobbertiner conventual , Christine Hedwig von Barner (1663-1704). Christian first married Anna Elisabeth Gutzmer, a daughter of Johann Georg Gutzmer , and after her death Agneta Sophie Willebrand, a daughter of the Rostock professor Albert Willebrand (the younger) . Both of them were remembered by an epitaph that was burned in 1942 and that he had set for them in the Jakobikirche in Rostock . Since the 18th century, the sex has used the short form of Freyburg without objection .

In the next generations the property was lost, the male members of the family entered the service as foresters, lawyers and officers in Mecklenburg, Danish and Prussian services. Around 1830 no von Freyburg lived in Mecklenburg any more. The last birth in the male line was Karl (Carl Ferdinand) von Freyburg in 1889 , who died in 1914 and achieved a certain posthumous notoriety as a friend and inspirer of Marsden Hartley's . The last of his family was the Prussian Lieutenant Colonel Georg von Freyburg (* 1871) who died in Bückeburg after 1940 .

Possessions

coat of arms

The coat of arms, confirmed in 1703, is divided. Above it shows a silver castle with three pointed towers in red, held by two golden lions, below in gold on a green lawn three green linden trees, with a black leopard / panther walking behind (also: in front of) the middle one. On the helmet with black and gold blankets on the right, red and silver blankets on the left, a growing moor with a silver, red and green plumed apron, shouldering a piston with his right hand and putting his left hand on his hip.

Representative

Literature and Sources

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, Adelslexikon CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), p. 373.
  • Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Families from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, genealogies of extinct and living generations. Volume 1 1989, pp. 95-104.

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • Genealogical collection Kuno Fridrich Hans Freiherr von Rodde, until 1913.
    • Genealogical collections from Hoinkhusen, von Pentz, until 1775.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 1686 matriculated at the University of Rostock , see entry in Rostock matriculation portal
  2. ↑ 1694 matriculated at the University of Rostock , see entry in Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ↑ See also Ernst Adolf Theodor Laspeyres : The rights of the native Mecklenburg nobility. Halle 1844, p. 87.
  4. ↑ All information from Weltzien (Lit.)