Grone (noble family)
Grone is the name of an old noble family from Lower Saxony , which has its origin and name from the former palatinate town of Grone not far from the city of Göttingen . After the destruction of the Palatinate at the beginning of the 13th century in the fighting between Henry the Lion and the imperial power, the Palatinate was rebuilt as a castle by the von Grone ministerial family .
history
Goettingen
The family is first mentioned in 1134 with Bevo de Grune, regni misterialis . A Güntzel von Grone appears in a document in 1263. The uninterrupted line of trunks begins in 1270 with Hermann von Grone ("Hermannus advocatus in Grona"), who resided in Grone Castle, which was destroyed in 1292 by the Göttingen family. In the 14th century Otto von Grone was bishop in Ratzeburg . As early as 1322 he was mentioned as a canon.
Kirchbrak
In 1463, the Lords of Grone took over the fiefdom in Kirchbrak , which was passed to the Dukes of Braunschweig in 1409, after the territorial lords had expired. Heinrich von Grone took part in 7 campaigns in Hungary as an Imperial Rittmeister in the 16th century and was buried in the church in Kirchbrak at the age of 106, as his life-size picture, carved in stone in the church, says. After his death, the estate was divided among his three sons. The Vorwerk in Westerbrak became a manor in 1630 against the protest of the Ducal Office in Wickensen . The mansion built on top of it was demolished at the beginning of the 19th century because a fire had made it uninhabitable. Today's manor house was formerly the estate's brewery.
The family is still represented in Kirchbrak today with two lines: one in Heinrichshagen, after the farm in Kirchbrak was sold in 1963, and the other in Westerbrak . Since the end of the 15th century the Lords of Grone have exercised the right of patronage in the parish.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows in silver a wecke (diamond), roughened from red and gold to 16 places . On the helmet with the red and gold covers the diamond.
In later depictions, two angels with outspread wings hold the crown on the helmet to the left and right of the shield .
Well-known namesake
- Otto von Grone (1841–1907), Prussian lieutenant general, provost of the Steterburg monastery
- Udo von Grone (1857–1922), provost of Steterburg monastery
- Dietrich von Grone (1864–1936), Prussian major general
- Hans-Udo von Grone (1886–1968), Duke of Brunswick State Minister, Land Marshal of the Brunswick Knighthood
- Jürgen Alexander von Grone (1887–1978), German officer, knight of the order Pour le Mérite as well as writer and editor
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, p. 271, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1978, ISSN 0435-2408
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 5, Leipzig 1839.
- Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adelslexikon , first volume, Ilmenau 1825, p. 464.
- Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht : Göttingen, from the beginnings to the end of the Thirty Years War , Volume 1,
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Year book of the German nobility , Volume 2, 1898, published by WT Bruer, p. 46 - digitized
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1863, pp. 51–52 (digitized version )
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German barons and noble families, Volume 3, Leipzig 1856, pp. 172-175.
- Johann Friedrich Gauhe : The Holy Roman Empire Genealogisch-Historisches Adelslexikon , Leipzig 1740, pp. 698-700.
- Genealogical paperback of the primeval nobility , 1891, p.228f
Web links
- Coat of arms of those of Grone
- The story of Kirchbrak ,
- Westerbrak Manor Park; Garden monument care contributions to preservation, care and development
- Castle Lexicon
