Halberstadt (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Halberstadt

Halberstadt (also spelled de Haleurstat, Haluerstade, Halverstad, Halverstaedt and Halberstatt) was the name of a Mecklenburg prehistoric noble family that died out in 1788.

history

The knightly family allegedly immigrated from the west during the time of Henry the Lion. The von Halberstadt were vassals of the Counts of Schwerin from the beginning. They already belonged to the nobility when they came to Mecklenburg. They appear as the successors of the von Brüsewitz family who, as locators, settled in the area and then turned to the east, to the Werle region and to Pomerania. Nothing is available about the origin of Halberstadt. They maintain their status as knights and thereby increase their fiefdoms. The favorable location between Schwerin and Wismar and around Lake Schwerin , with a knight's seat also in the city of Schwerin, may have favored their situation.

With Werherum de Halverstat (Werner von Halberstadt), who was named as a knight in 1271 and as a witness in documents of the dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg and Count Helmold von Schwerin in 1271 , the noble family was mentioned for the first time.

In a document made out in Schwerin on January 20, 1337 knight Johannes von Halberstadt is named as Burgmann zu Schwerin and as squire of Görslow and Brütz. In 1337 he made a foundation for his daughter Margareta, who was a nun there, at Eldena Monastery . From 1351 to 1372 Gertrud was the prioress of the Eldena monastery.

In 1358 Henning (Hennecke) von Halberstadt became the owner of Klein-Brütz , Grambow and Davermoor, which later became the headquarters of the noble family. 1369 deputy commissioner in the alliance of the dukes of Mecklenburg and Pomerania, he became a knight in 1383 and in 1395 led the guarantors for King Albrecht of Sweden, Duke of Mecklenburg , who appeared before Queen Margaret of Denmark . His son Henning auf Brütz and Grambow was a knight and sub-marshal in 1422 as a witness for the duke and in 1428 when the council was dismissed in Wismar and Rostock.

In 1456 the village church of Groß Brütz , donated by the Halberstadts as part of the church patronage, was consecrated, which also served as a burial place for the family. Henning Halverstadt auf Cambs signed the Union of Estates on August 1, 1523 as the second knighthood .

In the middle of the fifteenth century, the Halberstadts also became lords of Cambs and Camin ; Groß-Brütz , Rosenhagen and Rosenberg were later added as branches of their headquarters in Klein-Brütz. In the middle of the 16th century, branch lines of the family settled in God's gift and in the 17th century in Wendelstorf . At times the Schossin , Dolzien, Klein-Weltzien , Wendischhof , Vietlübbe , Leezen , Grambow and Görslow estates were owned by Halberstadt.

During the reformation and transformation of Dobbertiner nunnery in a noble convent in 1572, the monastery virgins Catarina lived from Halberstadt to Cambs and Ingeborg of Halberstadt on Görslow in Dobbertin.

With Georg Christoph von Halberstadt, born on July 7th 1707 in Schwerin on God's gift, the family of Halberstadt died after his death in Wismar in 1783.

Possessions

The noble family von Halberstadt belonged to the most respected and wealthiest families in the west of Mecklenburg for a period of about four centuries.

The places Brütz, Welzien and Grambow are likely to be settlement places of the von Brüsewitz. As Burgmann von Schwerin, the von Halberstadt only established themselves in 1337 east of the Schweriner See. For almost all churches and chapels in this area, those of Halberstadt are considered to be the founder, builder and innovator.

West of the Schweriner See

  • Klein Brütz 1337-1627
  • Gross Brütz 1337–1674
  • Rosenow 1337-1627
  • Rosenhagen 1337-1627
  • God's gift 1357–1674
  • Grambov 1357-1590
  • Wendischhof 1357-1788
  • Klein Weltzin 1357–1788
  • Vietlübbe 1600-1638
  • Schossin 1650–1754
  • Camin 1458-1615
  • Meteln 1569-1615
  • Gallentin 1483-1600
The shelves of Schwerin 1705

East of Lake Schwerin

  • Langenbrütz 1337-1744
  • Kleefeld 1410-1650
  • Zittow 1410-1650
  • Cambs 1458-1650
  • Leezen 1458-1650
  • Görslow 1337-1745

As Burgmann von Schwerin, von Halberstadt lived in Schwerin and owned houses at all times. On the map The Schwerin shelves in 1705 bear their names on the Ritterstrasse and Fischerstrasse. Joachim von Halberstadt auf Brütz, Gottesgabe, Cambs, Grambow, Gallentin, Camin, Sülte and Meteln bought the Curienhaus in the former cathedral in Schwerin in 1567 for 200 guilders. In 1574 the half-timbered building was rebuilt, experienced an eventful history, is the oldest preserved secular building in the city center and today, as the cathedral courtyard, is the seat of the State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a silver crescent moon with its horns turned to the right in red . On the helmet with the red and silver helmet covers the crescent moon with the tips turned upwards in front of a peacock plume. According to Siebmacher, one variant shows the crescent moon lying down.

Name bearer

  • Wernherum de Halverstat, 1266–1274, as a knight witness for the dukes of Saxony-Lauenburg, the Bishop of Ratzeburg and Count Helmold von Schwerin.
  • Henning von Halberstadt, 1343–1358, Burgmann zu Schwerin, on Brütz, squire and marshal of Schwerin.
  • Gertrud von Halberstadt, 1351–1372, prioress at the Eldena monastery.
  • Gertrud von Halberstadt, 1375–1382, prioress in the Eldena monastery.
  • Catharina Dorothea von Mecklenburg , b. von Halberstadt (1616–1665), court master of Duke Gustav Adolf and his wife Magdalena Sybilla
  • Balthasar Gebhard von Halberstadt (1621–1692), Duke. Mecklenburg colonel, electoral prince. Cologne major general.
  • Christoph Adam von Halberstadt (1626–1661), Prince. Mecklenburg governor of the offices of Grabow and Eldena
  • Joachim Friedrich von Halberstadt (1640–1692), Elector. Saxon governor and gentleman on Wendelstorff in Mecklenburg.

Literature and Sources

literature

  • Gustav von Lehsten : The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). Rostock 1864, p. 94
  • Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien : The von Halberstadt. 1266–1788 In: Families from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. 1, Nagold 1989, pp. 105-123
  • Claus Heinrich Bill: Mecklenburg nobility in the early modern period 1550 to 1750: Living worlds between the Reformation and the Land constitutional hereditary comparison , 1999, p. 88/89

Printed sources

Unprinted sources

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB IX. (1875)
  2. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Die von Halberstadt 1266–1788. 1989, p. 105.
  3. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Die von Halberstadt 1266–1788. 1989, p. 105.
  4. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Die von Halberstadt 1266–1788. 1989, p. 107 No. 39.
  5. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Die von Halberstadt 1266–1788. 1989, p. 109 No. 54.
  6. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : The Reformation of the Dobbertin Monastery. In: MJB 22 (1857) p. 171.
  7. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Die von Halberstadt 1266–1788. 1989, p. 121.