Grabow (Pomeranian-Mecklenburg noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Grabow

Grabow is the name of an old Mecklenburg noble family that originated in Pomerania and can be distinguished from several Grabow families of the same name but with different tribe and coat of arms . The latter include the Holstein - Lüneburg Grabow , the baronial Grabow from the Prignitz and the Magdeburg Grabow .

history

According to Ernst Heinrich Kneschke, the family first appeared in 1206 with Dietrich Grabow as a documentary witness. In 1309 Arnoldus and Luderus des Grabowe appeared as documentary witnesses for Duke Bogislaw IV of Pomerania and another Dietrich Grabow is said to have been chef de cuisine for Duke Otto I of Pomerania in 1327 . Hennicke Grabow was Vogt of Parchim from 1365 to 1366 .

At the beginning of the 17th century, the news about the Grabow in Western Pomerania stopped. However, the family had spread to Mecklenburg early on. Achim and Claus Grabow, as well as another Achim Grabow, signed the Union of Estates in 1523 . Also Woosten had been no stranger to Grabow. As early as 1374, knight Johann von Grabow appeared as secretary to Prince Johann von Werle as a witness to the sale of shares in Woosten and Medow . In 1419 Konrad von Grabow was enfeoffed with Woosten by Abbot Konrad of the Neuenkamp Cistercian convent . From 1431 Luder von Grabow auf Suckwitz and Hans von Grabow auf Woosten of the brotherhood Gregorii and Augustini, a Parchimer Kaland , prescribed pensions several times for their farmers in Severin . Achim von Grabow continued this way of raising capital in 1487 on Woosten. In 1488 Mathias von Grabow prescribed an annuity of 6 florins annually for 100 gold guilders for this Parchimer brotherhood.

Since the middle of the 16th century the von Grabow had already owned Woosten and held the church patronage. After Elar von Grabow (1532-1607) whose grave slab in the Woosten church in the center his coat of arms and that of Stralendorff , as well as the Stralendorffer's top left, top right again that of his own family, bottom left that of von der Lühe as well At the bottom right, which shows the von Oldenburg , died, Johann von Grabow had to give up his goods in Woosten, Finkenwerder and Klein Poserin in 1649 . When the Grabow family property was pledged at the end of the Thirty Years' War , the church patronage also went to the commandant Major Christoph Trappmann and Anna Sophia, the widow of Jürgen von Linstow, in 1649 . In 1707, the Goldberg governor Christoph Hans von Grabow brought Woosten back into family ownership through purchase and in 1726 Friedrich Wilhelm von Grabow was heir to Woosten and patron of the church. In 1721 Woosten went to von Plessen . In 1618 the Sternberger Vogtei was pledged to the von Grabow and in the 17th century the von Grabow also owned Severin . In 1755, Friderich von Grabow auf Suckwitz was one of the signatories of the Land Constitutional Constitutional Comparison .

As early as 1429, Abele von Grabow was the prioress of the Dobbertin Monastery until 1437 . In 1562 Dorothea Grabowen was mentioned as a nun and was still in Dobbertin Monastery in 1572. Anna Grabowen auf Suckwitz was also a nun in the Dobbertin monastery and did not want to accept the Reformation. She was one of the stubborn nuns and presumably the one who caused the Catholic nuns to move to Suckwitz in 1562.

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are four daughters of the family from the houses of Woosten and Suckwitz from 1696 to 1820 for inclusion in the noble women's monastery there . Eveline von Grabow, daughter of the Royal Prussian Captain von Grabow from Wusterhausen, who was registered on September 1, 1820 under No. 979, was deleted from the list due to a lack of evidence of her ancestors.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a red crossbar in silver with three golden hexagonal stars . On the helmet with silver, red and gold covers over the silver, red and gold helmet bulge, a red, pole-like umbrella board covered with three gold stars, one above the other.

Well-known namesake

  • Elar von Grabow (1532–1607), owner of Woosten, Finkenwerder and Klein Poserin.
  • Joachim von Grabow (1560–1636), owner of Woosten and patron of the church.
  • Rudolph Günther von Grabow (1663–1716), Danish general in the 1st Jyske National Regiment
  • Jørgen Rudolphsen von Grabow (1672–1728), Danish politician
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Grabow († 1746), court judge in Güstrow and husband of the poet Friderike Elisabeth von der Kettenburg (1705–1779)
  • Katharina Elisabeth von Grabow († 1774), wife of the Prussian hussar general Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling (1719–1779)
  • Franz von Grabow, Danish major general in 1761

Literature and Sources

literature

Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 Dobbertin Monastery. Certificates, registers.
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin. No. 233, 289, 390, 391.

Web links

Commons : Category: Grabow family  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB XVIII. (1911) No. 10596.
  2. ↑ MUB XV. (1890) No. 8934.
  3. ↑ Ralf Berg: Between Stegebach and Serrahn A chronicle of the Wendisch Waren community with Woosten and Finkenwerder. 2014 pp. 10–15.
  4. ↑ LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 Dobbertin Monastery Regesten No. 20100, 20130.
  5. ^ Horst Alsleben : Compilation of all personalities of the Dobbertin monastery . Schwerin 2010-2013
  6. ^ Friedrich Lisch: The Reformation of the Dobbertin Monastery. MJB 22 (1857) p. 124.
  7. ^ Friedrich Lisch: The Reformation of the Dobbertin Monastery. MJB 22 (1857) pp. 124, 155.
  8. ^ Claus Heinrich Bill: Mecklenburg nobility in the early modern period 1500–1750 ( home.foni.net ).
  9. ^ Continued new genealogical-historical news. Part 13, Leipzig 1763, p. 256 ( books.google.de ).