Gützkow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Gützkow (Western Pomerania)

The knights of Gützkow were a noble family from Wieck (Gützkow) . They were ministerials of the Counts of Gützkow and administrators of the Bauwieck von Gützkow . Later descendants were also ministerials to Mecklenburg gentlemen, pastors in rural towns and citizens and councilors in towns in the area.

history

The family was first mentioned in various positions in the Gützkow county . Nothing is known about a connection to the castellans active in Gützkow in the 12th century (Jarygnew, Priba, Prentza, etc.). As the first verifiable members of the family to appear in the first half of the 13th century, two castle men as witnesses, namely 1228 Trebemarus de Gozcow and 1233 Ztango de Chozcow . It was later followed by Johannes von Gützkow, Pleban in Lassan, as well as the monk mentioned below, Nikolaus in Eldena. It was not until 1267 that the later common title (rank) " milites " was used for the sex. Duke Barnim I called him: “... Adam de Chozcowe, milites nostri. ... “= Adam von Gützkow, knight with our people. Accordingly, this servant was also at the ducal court for a time. After that he was probably back in Gützkow in Wieck Castle, which was not mentioned in a document, but has been archaeologically proven. This also applies to the family members named below, who often document together with the counts. Another family member, the knight Johann von Gützkow - not to be confused with a count of the same name, went to Arnold von Schönfeld in neighboring Mecklenburg near Stavenhagen as a servant (Ministerialer) and was named there in a document from 1292 to 1304.

From 1275 further family members became citizens, later also as councilors in Greifswald , Anklam and Friedland and in 1341 Nikolaus von Gützkow as a monk in Eldena . After 1344 the track is lost due to missing documents or chronical evidence.

In the Greifswald council records, the members of the von Gützkow family and, in some cases, their family relationships and the connection to Anklam are named. Examples: Dietrich (1303), Johann (1304–1324) and Rudolf (1334) as citizens, Heinrich - brother of Rudolf - councilor from 1337 to 1354, followed by Nikolaus I von Gützkow (1359-1387) and his son Nikolaus II . von Gützkow (1395-1397). Two of the latter's brothers - Johann and Gottfried - go to Anklam, where the coat of arms with the jumping greyhound was mentioned. From 1503 to 1505 a descendant Johann von Gützkow was named in Greifswald.

According to Carl Friedrich Stavenhagen , the von Gützkow family provided the Anklam councilors Hermann (1276 and 1285), Hanns (1483), Johann (1525), Nicolaus (1536), Lucas (1552) and Joachim Gützkow (1583 to 1608). In 1285 Hermann Gützkow and Johann Schweder's son were enfeoffed by Duke Bogislaw IV with the island of Anklamer ferry . With Joachim Gützkow (Gutzkovius) the Anklam patrician family died out in 1608. An epitaph dated by Stavenhagen to this year , which called this the last of his family, was still in the 18th century in the Anklam Marienkirche . In the description of the church furnishings published by Hugo Lemcke in 1899 , no plaque with the name Gützkow is mentioned.

The family dealt with above is not related to the Mecklenburg family, who was raised to imperial nobility on August 23, 1780 in Vienna by von Gützkow . The ennobled royal Danish captain Christoph Dietrich von Gütschow called Gützkow owned the Levetzow estate near Grevesmühlen until 1788 . His family made heraldic reference to the coat of arms of the Counts of Gützkow, only the tinging and the gem varied slightly. The spatial proximity to the Swedish city ​​of Wismar and the chronological proximity to the year 1780 suggest that Carl von Gützkow (1757–1838), who was honored with the Order of the Sword II. Class for his service in the Finnish War in 1810 , later as Prussian major general and Bearer of the Red Eagle Order III. Class in 1816 took his leave, belonged to this family. According to Ledebur, on the other hand, he is said to come from a branch of the above family who emigrated to Sweden. On the other hand, there is not only the gender outcome postulated for 1608, at least for the Anklamer Line, especially since later mentions of relatives are not known, but also the vague place of birth West Pomerania near Priesdorff .

coat of arms

Blazon according to Carl Friedrich Stavenhagen: In blue a jumping greyhound with a gold collar. On the crowned helmet a jumping greyhound with a gold collar.

literature

  • Walter Ewert : Gützkow, the count town on the Peene. Gützkow 1935.
  • Wolf-Dietrich Paulsen, Karl-Eberhard Wisselinck: Gützkow - 875 years . MV-Verlag, Greifswald 2002
  • Wolf-Dietrich Paulsen: "Chronicle of the City of Gützkow" - printed form from 1997, 350 p. In the museum - update from 1996 - 600 p. - digitized in the museum PC
  • Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon . Volume 2, Leipzig 1836, p. 302

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 250, 251
  2. ^ Klaus Conrad (arrangement): Pommersches Urkundenbuch . Volume 1. 2nd edition (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Series 2, Vol. 1). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Vienna 1970, No. 290, 291
  3. ↑ PUB 1826 of 1298
  4. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 2, Section 1, Prümers 1881, year 1267, No. 836.
  5. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 4, Section 1, Winter 1903, Year 1301, No. 1994.
  6. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 6, Section 2, Heinemann 1907, Year 1334, No. 5133.
  7. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 4, Section 1, Winter 1903, Year 1305, No. 2266.
  8. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 6, Section 2, Heinemann 1907, Year 1344, No. 6232.
  9. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch Vol. 6, Section 2, Heinemann 1907, Year 1341, No. 5954.
  10. ^ Theodor Pyl, Genealogy of the Greifswald Council Members, Vol. 4 and 5, 1895, List No. 122, 165, 213 and 344
  11. ^ A b Carl Friedrich Stavenhagen : Topographical and chronological description of the Pomeranian shopping and trading town of Anklam. Röse, Greifswald 1773, pp. 135-138 ( digitized version ).
  12. ↑ Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Stettin. Book 2: The district of Anklam. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1899, pp. 117-130.
  13. ^ Karl Friedrich von Frank: Elevations of rank and acts of grace for the German Empire and the Austrian hereditary lands up to 1806. Senftenegg Castle 1973, Volume II, p. 140
  14. ^ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, p. 87 .
  15. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume I, Rauh, Berlin 1855, p. 302 ( digitized version ).
  16. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 4, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632799 , p. 134, no. 1265.