List of noble families named Gruben

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Gruben is the name of several noble families of the German-speaking area who are not related to one another .

Pits (Kehdingen)

Coat of arms of those von Gruben (Kehdingen) = from the ceiling

The Kehdingian pits are a Bremen family and appear for the first time in a document with Werner Grube in 1334 in the Altes Land . The secured trunk line begins around 1500 with Otto von Gruben , heir to Wächterndorf.

Earlier authors see the family as descendants of Heinrich I. Grubo, who appears in 1208 as Ministeriale of the Guelph Count Palatine Heinrich , and was the progenitor of Mr. Grubo von Grubenhagen , who died at the beginning of the 15th century . According to this, the secured line of trunks should already start with Woldemar (urkdl. 1305) ux. Armgard Ketteler begin, which also explains a coats-of-arms relationship.

A regular relationship with the gentlemen from the ceiling was also postulated, although there is an undisputed relationship between the coat of arms.

The family had spread early to Mecklenburg, where they appeared as tenants as early as 1335. In the Duchy of Bremen itself, the family owned the estates of Bützfleth , Drochtersen , Eggerkamp , Gerdenhoff, Götzdorf , Graverort, Hohelucht , Klindt , Kuhla , Lake, Marne , Nienstede and Ritsch .

The family provided some well-known officers, including the Brandenburg captain Stephan von Gruben , who died in 1659 off Stettin . Also belonging to this family was the royal Hanoverian Major General Philipp Moritz von Gruben (* 1766, † 1828).

Branches of the family persist to the present day, the family series was last published in the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility .

The family coat of arms shows three red roses in gold. On the helmet with red and gold covers , a red rose between two black feathers. A black kettle hook (Ketteler) has been used in silver since the 14th century . On the helmet with black and silver covers three red roses. A natural oak trunk with two tall green leaves ( from the ceiling ) has been used as a crest since the 18th century .

The coat of arms of the von Gruben family (Kehdingen) with the kettle hook is identical to the coat of arms of the von derdecke family . In Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book 1605 there on p. 181 with the irritating spelling v. the tecke.

Pits (pomerania)

Coat of arms of those of Gruben (Pomerania)

The Pomeranian Grubbe , later also Gruben , or after their estates with the surnames Krempiechowski and Niezuchowski are of Kashubian origin and appear first in Lauenburg in Hinterpommern with Matzke , Caspar Woytke and Misseke in 1493, when Duke Bogislaw bought their fiefdoms Krampkewitz and Klein Wunneschin received.

The family still owned Bergensin , Bochow , Ober and Unter Comsow, Jezow and Nesnachow , Gliesnitz in the Stolp district and finally share A in Wyczlin in the later Neustadt district in Pommerellen in the Lauenburg region, partly until the early 19th century . In the 19th century the family was no longer in Pomerania.

The royal Prussian lieutenant colonel Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Gruben acquired the Pour le Mérite in front of Kolberg in 1807 and the Iron Cross 2nd class near Großgörschen .

Branches of the family have persisted to the present day, the family series has appeared in both Gotha and the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility .

The family coat of arms ( Lew ) shows in blue a two-tailed golden lion with a knocked out red tongue. On the helmet with blue and gold covers, the lion is growing.

Occasionally the family gets mixed up with the Danish pit . These were wealthy in Jutland and Zealand as early as the 15th century, and around 1700 a branch settled in Prökuls and Heydekrug near Memel in Prussia . This sex had a vertical division of silver and red in the shield.

Pits (Westphalia)

Coat of arms of those of Gruben (Westphalia)

The Westphalian mines appear first in Paderborn with Lüdeke Gruben (* 1526), ​​with which this continuous line of trunks begins. His grandson Florinus Gruben received the lit. jur. From the emperor on September 17, 1644 . utr. and awarded the personal palatinate . His descendants carried the title of nobility from around the middle of the 18th century .

On October 29, 1822, the post director Friedrich von Gruben was accepted into the Dutch nobility . On May 17, 1824, he was ennobled to baron . The Belgian diplomat Hervé de Gruben (1894–1967) belongs to this branch .

The royal Prussian district court assessor Ignaz Wilhelm Marcellin von Gruben received the Prussian nobility recognition on May 23, 1829 and was enrolled in the nobility register of the Prussian Rhine Province in the class of nobles (No. 135). On November 15, 1873, Vienna received a diploma as an Austrian baron for the latter son Franz Josef von Gruben (* 1829; † 1888), head of the Princely Thurn and Taxis ' general administration, as a knight of the Iron Crown Order 2nd class . His son, Freiherr Joseph von Gruben (* 1859, † 1925), royal Bavarian district court director in Munich , enrolled in the Kingdom of Bavaria on January 22, 1905 with the baron class of the Bavarian nobility.

While the baron line seems to have found its way back to the second generation, other branches of the family have continued to the present day, the line of lines was expanded several times in the 20th century.

The family coat of arms shows in a golden shield, divided lengthways by two red columns (stakes), a red rose in each of the three compartments, so that a row results. The coat of arms of the Guelph ministerial mine of Grubenhagen from Grubenhagen Castle also showed two stakes .

The coat of arms from 1873 is divided, above two red posts in gold between three bars of silver-leaved, gold-fringed red roses, below in red two outward-turned silver wings. Two helmets, on the right with red and gold blankets a gold-edged red rose between two black heron feathers, on the left with red and silver blankets a growing golden lion between an open silver flight. - The motto is: Ex fide fidelitas

Pits (1776)

Karl Klemens von Gruben (1764–1827), auxiliary bishop in Osnabrück

The original Rhineland pits , which have been settled in the Cologne area since 1530, begin with the electoral Cologne privy councilor Constantin Gruben , who was promoted to the status of imperial knight in Vienna on June 15, 1776. His sons Ignaz Friedrich von Gruben , Imperial Chamber Court Assessor in Wetzlar , Karl Klemens von Gruben (* 1764; † 1827), auxiliary bishop and vicar general of the Diocese of Osnabrück and Peter Joseph von Gruben (* 1773; † 1851), Minister in the Grand Duchy of Hesse , were appointed on March 8, 1805 in Vienna to the status of imperial baron.

This family owned the goods Altenweg, Gelsdorf in the Wittlich district, Iplendorf in the Rheinbach district and Schlinghoven in the Mülheim district in the Ahrweiler area. [4]

The eldest of the three brothers, Ignaz Friedrich von Gruben , enrolled in the baron class of the Bavarian knighthood in the Kingdom of Bavaria on September 4, 1815, as chamberlain and privy councilor. Previously he was a real state councilor and envoy in Aschaffenburg in the grand ducal Frankfurt .

He had bought the Irsing estate and owned it until his death.

Branches of the family persist to the present day, the family series was last published in the Genealogical Manual of the Nobility.

The coat of arms from 1805 is divided, split twice and covered with a black bordered silver heart shield, inside a two-tailed black lion with a four-petalled red rose in its paws, 1 in gold an oval blue hand mirror, 2 in blue a golden oblique left stream, covered in the right Upper corner of a gold star, 3 and 5 in gold a four-petalled red rose, 4 in blue 3 (2, 1) silver-petalled green roses, 6 in blue 3 golden rocks rising from right to left, occupied by a gold in the upper right corner Star; three helmets, on the right with red and gold covers a four-petalled red rose between two golden buffalo horns , on the middle one with black and silver covers the lion growing, on the left with blue and gold covers a golden star between a closed flight ; Shield holder : two black lions.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hannoversches Magazin , 1822, p. 116
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Adelslexikon 1978, Volume IV, pp. 286–287
  3. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser , Part A, 1942, p. 201
  4. ↑ a b c Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . 1855, Vol. 1, pp. 306-307 ; 1858, Volume 3, p. 267
  5. ^ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, p. 86
  6. ^ New nekrolog der Deutschen. 1830, Vol. 6, pp. 739-745
  7. ^ Noble houses A 18, Volume 87 of the complete series, 1985, pp. 112-115.
  8. ↑ a b c Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin 1855, Volume 5, pp. 15-16; Tfl. VIII.
  9. ^ A b Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adels Lexicon . Leipzig 1836, Volume 2, p. 291
  10. ↑ Adelige Häuser B, 1932, pp. 190–217 (stem series and older genealogy), continuations 1936 and 1940
  11. ↑ Adelige Häuser B 18, 1989, Volume 95 of the complete series, pp. 218–221
  12. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of Baronial Houses , B 2, 1957, Volume 16 of the complete series, pp. 136-137
  13. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser , 1876 (E), continuations 1878–1939
  14. ↑ Etat Present de la Noblesse du Royaume de Belgique, 1963 (older genealogy), continuations 1975
  15. ^ Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book . Volume II. Verlag Battenberg, Munich 1975, p. 124.
  16. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, 1864, continuations 1865–1919
  17. ^ Noble houses A 3, 1957, Volume 15 of the complete series, pp. 226–228