Friedrich von der Borch

Schönebeck Palace, the southeast facade renewed by Friedrich von der Borch

Sandstone plaque on the southeast facade

Friedrich von der Borch (* 1640 ; † after 1705 ) belonged to the old Westphalian noble family von der Borch , first mentioned around 1300 .

biography

Friedrich von der Borch entered the imperial service in 1656 and took part in the Turkish war as a colonel sergeant . This was followed by a military career with various stations, he was commander in Paderborn around 1670 , then in the service of Braunschweig, then Osnabrück regiment commander and in 1687 colonel and vice-commander in Hamburg . In the Swedish service, von der Borch acquired Gut Schönebeck near Bremen on April 29, 1682 , the south side of which he had fundamentally renovated in 1705.

He left the following inscription on a sandstone slab:

"I FRIEDRICH V. DER BORCH, OBRISTER Z. FUS, HAVE BUILT THIS MDCLXXXVI BY HOLTZ U. STONE, AND AFTER ROTATION OF THE WOOD, TAKEN THE CASE THROUGH THE FIRST SIDE, THE FOUNDATION BEFORE FURNISHED U.

Around 1700 Friedrich von der Borch founded the Friedrichsdorf settlement, which is now part of the Grohn district of Bremen, as the lord of Schönebeck . During this time the von der Borch were also court lords of the Börde Lesum .

Towards the end of the 18th century, the gentlemen von der Borch retired to their ancestral home in Holzhausen in Westphalia. In 1952 the family finally sold Schönebeck Palace to the State of Bremen.

The tombstones of Anna Elisabeth and Friedrich von der Borch are on the south side of the tower of the historic cemetery of the St. Martini Church in Lesum (Dehio 1977, p. 38).

Honors

* The Friedrichsdorfer Straße in Vegesack and the Friedrichsdorfer Bahnweg were named after him.

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the von der Borch family shows three black ravens with red feet in a silver-white shield and an identical raven on an open knight helmet between two black eagle wings.

This coat of arms appears on the seal of the Börde Lesum court around 1840.

literature

• Herbert Black Forest : The Great Bremen Lexicon . 2nd, updated, revised and expanded edition. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2003, ISBN 3-86108-693-X .