Hakeborn (noble family)

Old control room in Hakeborn

The von Hakeborn family (often Lords of Hakeborn or noblemen of Hakeborn , later mostly Hackeborn ) was a noble family with ancestral seat Hakeborn near Aschersleben in what is now Saxony-Anhalt .

history

Oldest mentions

Hakeborn Castle belonged to the so-called Schwabengau in the 12th century .

The first representative known today was the knight Swicher / Swidger, who was first mentioned around 1110. The reliable line of tribe begins with Friedrich I. von Hakeborn, who was mentioned as a witness in a document of Albrecht the Bear in 1155 and in documents of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa in 1179 and 1188.

Other possessions

Since 1175 the family owned the Wippra Castle near Sangerhausen (abandoned in 1328). In the 13th century the Helfta castle , from which the famous nuns Gertrud and Mechthild von Hakeborn came from. In 1253 the family founded the monastery of St. Maria and Gertrud in Hedersleben .

In the 14th century they were owned by the Triebel and Priebus lordships in eastern Lower Lusatia (until the beginning of the 15th century). In 1364 they received Konradswaldau in Silesia from Duke Bolko II of Schweidnitz .

Nuns in Quedlinburg

Elisabeth von Hackeborn was abbess in Quedlinburg Abbey from 1361 to around 1375. Other members of the family held offices there in the following decades.

coat of arms

The coat of arms indicates a possible relationship with the houses of Querfurt and Wernigerode .

Personalities

• Swicher / Suitger / Swidger by Hakeborn ( miles Swicherus ), mentioned around 1110–1118
• Bruno von Hakeborn, his son, mentioned 1114–1145
• Friedrich von Hakeborn, mentioned 1155–1188

• Gertrud von Hackeborn , abbess of the Helfta monastery , founding abbess of the Hedersleben monastery
• Mechthild von Hackeborn , nun in Helfta, mystic
• Elisabeth von Hakeborn (d. 1375/77), Abbess of the Quedlinburg Monastery

• Ludwig von Hakeborn married Elisabeth in 1268, daughter of Duke Boleslaw von Liegnitz

literature

• Arnold Berg: The Lords of Hackeborn In: Journal for family research and coat of arms. Book 5. Genealogy and Heraldry. Born February 2, 1950

• Hermann Großler : Sexology of the noble lords of Hakeborn . In: Mansfelder Blätter . Announcements from the Society for History and Antiquities of the County of Mansfeld zu Eisleben. tape 4.1890 , ZDB -ID 500009-9 , p. 31–84 (with family tree, partly out of date).

• About the noblemen of Hackeborn . In: Archives for German aristocratic history, genealogy, heraldry and… Volume 2. 1865. S. 25ff.

• Heinrich Leo: Lectures on the history of the German people and empire . Volume 5. p. 944 (list of trunk groups)
• Wilhelm Kohl: Diocese of Münster. The diocese. Volume 3. 1992 p. 224

Web links

• The family of Hackeborn and Konradswaldau (based on Arnold Berg, 1950, pdf)
• Hackeborn

Remarks

1. ↑ Latest research results from Christian Gildhoff: Konradsburg, Falkenstein and the Kaltenborn forgeries . In: Harz-Zeitschrift 2008. p. 41ff., Here p. 70f.
2. ↑ In 1413 they gave Priebus to Johann I. von Sagan . see. Göttingen scholarly advertisements, under the supervision of the Royal ... Volume 3. Göttingen 1795. S. 1983
3. ^ Johann Heinrich Fritsch: History of the Reichsstift and the city of Quedlinburg . 1828. pp. 181ff.