Höveln (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Hövell family

Höveln , also Hoevelen , Hövell , is the name of an aristocratic family originally from Westphalia who rose in the Lübeck patriciate and provided councilors and mayors in this city for five generations. Today the family is called von Hövell , but is not to be confused with the name-like, but not tribe-related von Hövel, also from Westphalia .

history

The family was already a patriciate in Dortmund . Early possessions are documented in 1400 at Aldenhövel and 1460 at Emschermühlen near Dortmund. In 1509 they were found in Lohof and in 1636 in Husten near Arnsberg . In the Duchy of Kleve, the family held the office of wood judge in Söldermark for a long time ; a feudal letter about it was issued in 1691.

1508 came with Gotthard III. von Hoeveln (the first name Gotthard was always passed on in this branch of the family) the first representative of this family to Lübeck. In 1527 he became a councilor and in 1531 mayor. For five generations a member of the family was represented in the Lübeck council. However, under Gotthard VII von Höveln , who was elected to the council in 1640 and mayor in 1654, there was disagreement with the city about the civic reforms that led to the cash process and the citizen recession. In 1667 he put his Moisling estate under Danish protection, resigned from the council and became Vice Chancellor of Holstein in Glückstadt . Georg Anton von Höveln was not accepted into the exclusive circle society until 1758. Soon afterwards the lineage died out in Lübeck. Other branches later acquired goods in Pomerania , Brandenburg and East Prussia and were mainly active as Prussian officers.

Status surveys

Recognition as a baron towards the end of the 18th century.

coat of arms

In the Lübeck coat of arms in a golden field there are three green hills on a red cross or diagonal band. The stag's head on the helmet is usually colored red. According to Kneschke, the blazon reads : In the silver shield there is a slanting, red bar, which is covered with three green beiges standing next to one another. On the shield stands a crowned helmet from which the head and neck of a right-handed, red stag with ten-pointed golden antlers grow. The helmet covers are red and silver.

Possessions

Important representatives

Lübeck Council Line

  • Gotthard von Hoeveln (1468–1555)

  • Gotthard von Hoeveln (1543–1609)

  • Gotthard von Hoeveln (1603–1677)

Canons of Lübeck

  • Franciscus Ludwig von Hoevell (Hoeveln), Canon since 1765, Prussian Chamberlain

poet

Physicus

Officers and landowners

  • Gotthard (VIII.) Von Höveln († 1696), on Stockelsdorf and Mori, Danish budget adviser
  • Gotthard (IX.) Von Höveln († 1750), on Niendorf and Goldensee, captain
  • Friedrich Gottlob Freiherr von Höveln († 1828), Prussian colonel
  • Wilhelm Freiherr von Höveln (* 1796), Prussian captain

Further

see list of members of the circle society

Foundations

Entrance portal to the Hoevelngang in Wahmstrasse

Two Lübeck corridors and courtyards in Hundestrasse and Wahmstrasse in the old town are named after the family and were managed by family members as heads of existing foundations and endowed with endowments.

literature

  • Andreas Ludwig Jakob Michelsen :  Höveln, from . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, pp. 213-215.
  • Anton Fahne (Note: Fahnes work cannot be taken over without criticism of the source, as he is said to have falsified source material; please read his personal biography first!):
    • The lords and barons v. Hövel along with genealogy of the families from which they took their wives , (history of a hundred Rhenish, Westphalian, Dutch and other outstanding families), Volume 1.1, History of the different families of Hövel, Cöln 1860.
    • The lords and barons v. Hövel along with the genealogy of the families from which they took their wives (history of one hundred Rhenish, Westphalian, Dutch and other outstanding families), Volume 1.2, History and genealogy of those families from which the Lords of Hövel took their wives, Cologne 1860 . ( Digitized version of the Göttingen Digitization Center)
    • The lords and barons v. Hövel along with genealogy of the families from which they took their wives , (history of one hundred Rhenish, Westphalian, Dutch and other outstanding families), Volume 2, Urkundenbuch, Cöln 1856.
    • The lords and barons v. Hövel together with the genealogy of the families from which they took their wives , (history of a hundred Rhenish, Westphalian, Dutch and other outstanding families), Volume 3, Gotthard V. von Hövel, chronicle and belittling of a shameful poem, together with the abdication of his cousin Gotthard VIII . von Hövel, Cöln 1856.
  • Georg Wilhelm Dittmer : Genealogical and biographical news about Lübeck families from earlier times , Dittmer, 1859, p. 43 ff. ( Digitized version )
  • Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line . Lübeck 1925.

Web links

Commons : Höveln (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adelslexikon des Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume V / 1984, p. 266
  2. ^ So Carl Friedrich Wehrmann : Seal of the Middle Ages from the archives of the city of Lübeck. Issue 10: Lübeck Citizens Seal. Grautoff, Lübeck 1879, p. 57, Fig. Plate 8,61
  3. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description. Volume 2, Leipzig 1855, p. 215
  4. ↑ family v. Höveln at Genwiki