Gadow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Gadow

Gadow is the name of an old märk een noble family from the Ruppin country with the parent Gadow in Wittstock .

History and goods

The family, whose various branches still exist today, first appeared in a document in 1333 with Henning von Gadow. The trunk series begins around 1525 with Christoph von Gadow. The Gadows were feudal men of the Counts of Lindow-Ruppin , but also of the Margraves of Brandenburg .

Up to 1701 the family was wealthy in the Ruppin and Prignitz districts ( Protzen , Stöffin , Wildberg , Lüchfeld , Dessow , Tornow , Baumgarten , Glienicke and Leppin ). As a late consequence of the Thirty Years War , these goods had to be sold. This time of the family is described in Theodor Fontane's walks through the Mark Brandenburg in the volume Die Grafschaft Ruppin .

With the marriage of Hans-Jürgen von Gadow (* 1674) to Anna-Margarethe von Behr , daughter of Hermann Volrath von Behr and his wife Ilsabe Dorothea von Owstien adH Quilow in Neukalen in 1701 , the von Gadow family acquired considerable property in the Franzburg district in what was then Swedish -Vorpommern . These are the goods Hugoldsdorf with Neuhof, Rönkendorf , Drechow , Derschendorf and Eixen . In 1805 Friedrich acquired from Gadow (* 1774), the Gut United Potrems with the Vorwerk Wendorf at Laage in Mecklenburg. With the exception of Derschendorf, Eixen and Wendorf, these goods remained in the family's possession until the family was expelled and expropriated in 1945/1946. In 1878 Adolph von Gadow (* 1808) acquired the Teschow estate near Laage and at the end of the 19th century Fritz von Gadow (* 1847) acquired the Klein Ridsenow estate . Both goods were later sold again.

In 1778 she was accepted into the Mecklenburg knighthood with recognition of her primeval aristocratic origin with its seat in the Mecklenburg state parliament.

For a long time, the von Gadow family provided curators of the Barth Monastery, which belonged to the Swedish-Western Pomeranian knighthood .

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are five entries by daughters of the von Gadow family from 1778–1913 from Hugoldsdorf, Rönkendorf and Klein Ridsenow for inclusion in the noble women's monastery there .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows three silver (golden) fish ( pike ) on top of each other in blue . On the helmet with blue-silver (blue-gold) covers three fallen fish (or three red garden lilies).

  • Old coat of arms of those of Gadow

  • Coat of arms with garden lilies

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Copy book of the Vogtei Landsberg, Fol. 23, No. 2, Leipzig

literature

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