Harmen (noble family)
Harmen is the name of an old County Mark servant family . Around 1500 the family seat was the Wasserburg Haus Haaren in Haaren an der Lippe. Gottfried von Harmen, called Goddert, became known because of his quarrel with Lambert von Oer. Goddert hired himself out to Franz von Sickingen as a knight between 1515 and 1519 and , after his death, from Heinrich von Braunschweig the Younger as a chamberlain.
Haus Haaren, originally Haus Horne, was on the north bank of the Lippe, at the ford to the parish Dolberg in a peninsular position and was largely an allodial property of the von Horne family. The smaller part of the property was given to fiefdom by the Lords of the Mark with the stipulation that the border to the Münster monastery and the ford to the parish of Dolberg should be secured. Until 1339, the owner of the allodium was Sander von Horne, who sold the property to Dietrich von Harmen. The names Gottschalk Tork, Gerd Knippinck, Heinrich Wulf and, since 1427, the von der Recke zu Uentrop family can be found as vassals of the fief. This family remained in fiefdom for centuries, with interruptions in the name. In 1621 Konrad von der Recke married the widow of Johann von Harmen, which means that the entire property of the Haaren family was in the von der Recke family . Johann Matthias von der Recke was Droste in Lünen and Hörde . He apparently had a friendly relationship with Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hohenzollern, the so-called soldier king, who was a guest several times. In 1716, the soldier king granted Johann Matthias patrimonial jurisdiction over the parish of Uentrop and various farmers belonging to Hamm. (The Grafschaft von der Mark fell to Brandenburg in 1609.) The von der Recke zu Haaren family died out around 1770. The castle fell into disrepair and can only be found today as a castle stable .
The von Harmen family died out in 1621 due to the marriage of Gerberga von Wylich , the widow of Johann Wilhelm Harmen to Konrad von der Recke zu Haaren and Uentrop.
Grave slabs of the Harmen family, namely the married couple Dietrich Harmen († 1589) and Margarethe geb. Droste-Vischering († 1585) and daughter Katharina Harmen († 1580) are located in St. Agneskirche .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows three (2: 1) obliquely jumping silver weasels ( ermine ) in black . On the helmet with black and silver covers an open black flight, each marked with the coat of arms.
literature
- Helmut Richtering : Aristocratic residences and manors in the area of the city of Hamm , in: 750 Jahre Stadt Hamm, Hamm 1976, p. 132f.
Individual evidence
- ^ Castles, palaces and mansions in Westphalia . www.westfalen-adelssitze.de. Archived from the original on November 19, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 24, 2009.
- ↑ Richtering 1976, p. 132.
- ^ Architectural and art monuments of Westphalia 43. City of Hamm, Münster 1936, reprint Warburg 1994, p. 124 and 126; see. Peter 1922, p. 219.
- ^ Blazon according to Max von Spießen: Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility, Volume 2, Görlitz 1901-1903
