Hammerstein (noble family)

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The coat of arms of the barons of Hammerstein : Association of the church flag coat of arms of the barons of Hammerstein with the hammer coat of arms of the Rhenish burgraves.
Window picture of the coat of arms
Aerial view of the ruins of Hammerstein Castle (am Rhein)
Georg Christoph von Hammerstein

The barons of Hammerstein are a German noble family . From the beginning of the 17th century from Hammerstein to Equord , the family split in the 17th and 18th. Century in the lines Hammerstein-Equord , Hammerstein-Gesmold and Hammerstein-Loxten .

A verifiable ancestor of the family is Hans Adam von Hammerstein (1579/71? –1653).

history

The originally Bergisch barons of Hammerstein, who had lived in Lower Saxony since the second half of the 17th century, claim to be descended from the Konradin Otto von Hammerstein (around 975 to 1036), who named himself after his castle Hammerstein (on the Rhine) . According to Gerhart Werner, Otto von Hammerstein is said to have sought protection from the Counts of Berg when he was on the run because of the conflict over his marriage ( Hammersteiner Marriage Quarrel ) ; In addition, he is said to have acquired an interest yard from Werden Abbey east of Wülfrath , which was given the name Hammerstein. In any case, this Zinshof was later the headquarters of the Barons von Hammerstein. A family relationship between Otto von Hammerstein and the later barons of Hammerstein cannot be genealogically proven, nor to the burgraves of Hammerstein, who were later found at Hammerstein Castle and who died around 1400 .

For the barons of Hammerstein, however , the estate near Wülfrath was only a transit point. Later they built a permanent aristocratic residence in Sonnborn an der Wupper , house or manor Hammerstein as their parent company. The family line begins with Johann von Hammerstein, who was born around 1370 and was officially mentioned in Hammerstein in 1419, who was a bailiff in Solingen in 1416. In 1412 it was already sealed with the church flag. They were given high offices by the Duke von Berg . In the Hückeswagen office , members of the family acquired the Wolfsoege farm , which has since been known as "Hammersteinsoege" , and built another manor there, also on the Wupper.

Hans Adam von Hammerstein-Gesmold (1571 / 79–1653) married Elisabeth von Saldern zu Equord (east of Hanover) and took over their family property. Georg Christoph von Hammerstein (1624–1687), court marshal of Osnabrück prince-bishop Ernst August I , bought Scheventorf Castle in 1662 in the area of ​​what is now Bad Iburg and also acquired the neighboring Schleppenburg . In 1664 he exchanged both of them with Ernst August I, who wanted to expand his land to include his residence Schloss Iburg , for Gut and Schloss Gesmold east of Osnabrück. A residential tower was extended there from 1544 to 1559 to become today's renaissance castle. Georg Christoph von Hammerstein later became a secret councilor in the Brunswick-Lüneburg services, Grand Vogt of Celle and Drost of the offices of Grönenberg, Wittlage and Hunteburg. In 1658 he had already negotiated the marriage of Ernst August I. with Sophie von der Pfalz . In 1673 the Swedish major general Friedrich Christoph von Hammerstein-Gesmold acquired the manor and castle Apelern (west of Hanover). In 1682 Christian Günther von Hammerstein bought the manor Loxten in the north of Osnabrück and built a mansion in the Dutch Baroque style. It was not until 1811 that the Gesmolder line sold the Hammerstein manor in Sonnborn an der Wupper.

The Reichsburg Hammerstein am Rhein , built in the 10th century, was once the seat of the burgraves of Hammerstein , descendants - or at least heirs - of the Konradin Otto von Hammerstein , who died in 1036 ; the two lines of the burgraves had expired in 1398 and 1410 respectively. In 1893 the family association of the barons von Hammerstein acquired this ruin and the associated Burgmannshof located in Oberhammerstein with regard to the presumed ancestry ; both belong to the family association to this day.

A branch of the Gesmolder line came to Retzow near Rechlin in Mecklenburg in 1787. The large, classicist mansion that is still preserved was built there around 1800. As early as 1917, a considerable part of the property was expropriated for the construction of a military airfield, and the rest of the yard with the manor house was sold in 1926. In Einschreibebuch of Dobbertin Abbey there are 27 entries of daughters of the family of Hammerstein 1793-1907 from Retzow, Gesmold and Hülseburg for inclusion in the noble Damenstift in Kloster Dobbertin .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2/1) red church flags in silver . By royal Hanoverian cabinet order of March 5, 1816, the family was allowed to add the coat of arms of the burgraves of Hammerstein to the family coat of arms, which had previously been used only. The older line of the burgraves of Hammerstein, which died out in 1398, had three red hammers in a gold shield, the younger line, which died out in 1410, had three white hammers in a red shield.

Coat of arms of the barons of Hammerstein zu Equord

The coat of arms is divided lengthways: on the right in silver three (2 and 1) red, hanging church flags with gold edging and three rings, but without poles; on the left in red three (2 and 1) slanting left, silver hammers with golden handles. On the shield lies a seven-pearl crown on which two helmets rise. The right helmet wears a red electoral hat, turned up with ermine, with a gold button, behind which three forward-facing church flags hang down from long, red poles decorated with a small cross at the top, the outer ones at an angle, and the left helmet a black one , silver-turned count's hat, which is decorated with an open, black eagle flight. The covers of both helmets are red and silver.

Coat of arms of the barons of Hammerstein zu Gesmold and Loxten

In the silver shield the three red church flags. On the shield is a seven-pearl crown on which a helmet rises, which bears the red, ermine-turned cap of the right helmet of the line to Equord with the three church flags. The helmet covers are, as indicated, red and silver. The lines to Gesmold and Loxten only contain the family's old coat of arms.

Motto of the barons of Hammerstein

The motto of the Barons von Hammerstein " Spectemur Agendo " is Latin and means something like " We should be judged by our deeds".

Family trees of the von Hammerstein families

Conradines

  1. Otto von Hammerstein (Otto von Zutphen) (* 1002 attested; † probably June 5, 1036), 1016 Count in the Wetterau , 1019 Count in Engersgau , ⚭ Irmingard von Verdun († 1042), daughter of Gottfried the Prisoner , Count of Verdun ( Wigeriche , Hammerstein marriage )
    1. Udo († 1034)
    2. Mathilde ⚭ Ludolf , Vogt von Brauweiler († April 11, 1031) ( Ezzonen )
  2. Gebhard († November 8, 1016), Count
  3. Irmtrud (* 972; † after 985), heiress of GleibergFriedrich von Luxemburg (* 965; † October 6, 1019), Count in Moselgau ( Wigeriche )
  4. Gerberga († after 1036) ⚭ Heinrich von Schweinfurt (* 980 attested; † September 18, 1017), Count in Nordgau , buried in Schweinfurt

Lines of the lords and barons of Hammerstein from Wülfrath

Hammerstein to Equord

Hammerstein Equord

Hildesheim, Johannisfriedhof , memorial stone Carl von Hammerstein-Equord
  • Hans Werner (1696–1787), master hunter; Cologne and Hanover privy councilors
  • Euphemia Louise von Schlippenbach (1698–1763)
  • Gertrud von Hake (born von Hammerstein-Gesmold)
    • Hans Georg (1771–1841), Westphalian general
        • Friedrich (1775-1851), Hanoverian chief forester, forestry chief in the Claustal mining authority
        • Carl (1782–1867), Hanoverian chief forester
        • William Friedrich (1785–1861), Westphalian, from 1813 Austrian general of the cavalry
            • Arnold von Hammerstein-Equord (1867–1933), German general, military attaché
            • Günther (1877–1965), German lieutenant general
            • Hans (1881–1947), Austrian politician and writer
            • Kurt (1878–1943), German Colonel General
              • Marie Luise (1908–1999), German lawyer
              • Kunrat (1918–2007), German writer, lieutenant colonel
              • Franz (1921–2011), German Protestant theologian
                • Adrian (* 1953), German manager
                • Stephan von Hammerstein, German lawyer
                • Kaspar von Hammerstein, German manager
              • Ludwig (1919–1996), German journalist and broadcasting director

Further:

Hammerstein-Gesmold

The Gesmold branch was donated by Ludwig von Hammerstein in 1725 when he owned the 418 hectare Fideikommisses Gesmold. His son Friedrich Werner Ludwig von Hammerstein-Gesmold auf Retzow was accepted into the Mecklenburg knighthood as a ducal Saxon-Meiningischer government council in 1790 and in turn donated the second branch. His son Ludwig Friedrich Ernst von Hammerstein-Gesmold owned the Retzow, Rechlin, Klopzow, Bolter Mühle and Leppin estates . Retzow and Schwartow were not sold until 1938.

    • Ludwig (1702–1786), gentleman on Hornoldendorf, Gesmold and Apelern, plus. Chamberlain and Castle Captain
⚭ I. 1730 Anna Elisabeth von Heimburg (1697–1738) from the Landringhausen house (childless)
⚭ II. 1740 Dorothea Sophie Ernestine von Münchhausen (1717–1795) from the house of Rinteln and Bodenwerder, widowed von Cornberg auf Auburg , sister of the "Baron of Lies" Hieronymus Carl Friedrich von Münchhausen

Hammerstein-Loxten

Own

The Lower Saxon manors Gesmold , Loxten , Apelern , Bockel and Steinhorst are still owned by the family, and since 1893 the ruins of Hammerstein Castle (on the Rhine) with the associated Burgmannshof in Oberhammerstein . Since 1983 also the Upper Bavarian Aufhausen Castle .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hammerstein family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website Schloss Retzow
  2. Gutshaeuser.de , Mansion Retzow
  3. According to Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in a precise, complete and generally understandable description. Third volume. Leipzig: Weigel 1852, pp. 194–196.
  4. ^ After Donald C. Jackman : Cousins ​​of the German Carolingians. In: Keats-Rohan , Settipani (ed.): Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval. Oxford 2000