Gutzmerow
Gutzmerow is the name of an old, now extinct, Pomeranian noble family .
history
On August 14, 1341, the family was first documented with Knight Gotzmer . The consistent set of strains of the family began with Lorentz of Gutzmerow of 1400, Lord on Freist was.
The Gutzmerow had since their first appearance in East Pomerania and Old Gutzmerow as their on their headquarters. However, this already passed into other hands in 1552.
In 1523 Laffrens Gutzmerow tor Vresth was called. Freist and the associated Vorwerk Kempen were owned by Lorenz Adam von Gutzmerow at the time of the allodification in 1755 . Kempen stayed with the family until 1843. Labehn was acquired by a Gutzmerow in 1852 . Between 1838 and 1857, Groß Leuthen Castle became the property of Emil von Gutzmerow , who was among other things chamberlain to the Queen and Empress Augusta .
Members of the family also excelled as officers in the Prussian army . On February 18, 1807, a captain Gutzmerow at the head of a 160-strong company of the Krockow Freikorps defended the Pomeranian town of Stolp . Karl Friedrich von Gutzmerow became a knight of the order Pour le Mérite in 1812 .
coat of arms
The coat of arms of those of Gutzmerow belong to the coat of arms group Hirsch über Schach .
The family coat of arms is divided, a leaping natural stag in silver above, black and gold sheathed below. On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers on the right and black and gold covers on the left, five (red, silver, red, silver, red) ostrich feathers.
Relatives
- Emil Friedrich Wilhelm von Gutzmerow (* 1821, † 1906), registrar of Groß Leuthen Castle and member of the Prussian manor house
literature
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin, Volume V, p. 136, Tab 64.
- Siegfried von Boehn : The Pomeranian family v. Gutzmerow. In: Sedina Archive. Family history reports from the Pomeranian Association for Heritage and Heraldry. Vol. 22, 1976, pp. 17-19; 23, 1977, pp. 21-24.
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , volumes 45 and 67, Limburg (Lahn)
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobligen Häuser (A) Gotha 1916 (Stammreihe and older genealogy), until 1939, p. 159ff (continuations)
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig Volume IV., Pp. 114-115.
- Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Berlin 1855, Volume I, p. 302; 1858, Volume III, p. 269.
- Johann Siebmacher : Renewed and Increased Wappen-Buch. Nuremberg 1701, III / 157 coat of arms illustration
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Leipzig 1838, Volume II, pp. 306-307.
Individual evidence
- ^ Max von Stojentin ad H. Prebendow: Contributions to the history of the ancient noble family of Stojentin. 1895, volume 1