Gagern (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Gagern

Gagern is the name of an old Rügen noble family . The headquarters in Gagern is now part of the municipality of Kluis in the Vorpommern-Rügen district .

history

The first verifiable member of the family was Henneke de Gawere in 1290 and with the miner Priebe von Gawarn , mentioned in a document since 1316 , the oldest established progenitor of the Gagern appears.

In the 15th century the sex split into two lines. A large southern German branch comes from the older line, which is well off to Vinckendahlen and Moisselbritz on Rügen, among others. It was founded in the first half of the 18th century by Claudius Mauritius von Gagern (also Moritz von Gagern ) as a result of marrying an heir to the von Steinkallenfels family , which gave him the rule of Morschheim in the Rhine Palatinate . His descendants were also able to acquire large estates in Nassau , the Rhine Province , Bavaria and Austria . The younger line, actually wealthy in Tetzitz on Rügen, has also moved to Neumark . She owned the Fideikommiss Frankenthal on Rügen and Locz near Ödenburg (today Hungarian Sopron ) in Hungary .

The southern German branch was accepted into the Upper Rhine Imperial Knighthood in 1731 and then enrolled in the baron class in Bavaria in 1835, 1879 and 1893 and recognized as baron in Austria in 1910 and in the Grand Duchy of Hesse in 1911 . The Hungarian branch of the younger line received the Austrian baron status in 1903. Several important statesmen emerged from the southern German branch, including the Nassau diplomat Hans Christoph Ernst von Gagern and his sons Heinrich von Gagern , a leading German parliamentarian in the mid-19th century, and Maximilian von Gagern , an Austrian politician.

Possessions

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a shield divided by silver and blue at an angle to the left with an upright double hook (a so-called “ wolf's angel ”) in blue and silver alternating colors. There are three ostrich feathers in a silver-blue-silver color sequence on the helmet. The helmet cover is also blue-silver.

Name bearer

Heinrich von Gagern (1799–1880), 1848 first President of the German National Assembly in the Paulskirche in Frankfurt
Vienna Central Cemetery - grave of Imperial and Royal General of the Cavalry Otto von Gagern (1830–1902)

literature

Web links

Commons : Gagern  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold Zedlitz-Neukirch: New Prussian Adels Lexicon , Volume 2, pp. 209f. ( Online at Google Book Search ).
  2. ^ History of Neuenbürg
  3. ^ History of Sorg Castle
  4. ↑ German Literature Lexicon, accessed on September 6, 2011