Helldorff

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Coat of arms of those von Helldorff

The von Helldorff family , also von Helldorf , is a Meissnian nobility . Your headquarters are likely to be Hellendorf .

history

An Ulrich (noble kingdom) von Helldorf is mentioned for the first time in 1147, but it is only from 1410 that the line of the Helldorfs can be fully documented. In the 15th century she was part of the knighthood of Naumburg Abbey .

Later the family was one of the largest landowners in Thuringia and in the province of Saxony and temporarily owned 30 manors. Georg Friedrich von Helldorf was known in the Fruit-Bringing Society under the name "The Applicant". In 1730, the Vice High Court Judge in Leipzig and Chamberlain Wolf Heinrich von Helldorf acquired the Gröst manor from the von Breitenbauch family . His successor, Johann Heinrich von Helldorf, canon of the Merseburg monastery , chamberlain from the Electoral Saxony, bought the manor and moated castle of St. Ulrich from Friedrich Wilhelm von Witzleben in April 1770 , as well as Stöbnitz and Müelte (Geiseltal) , which the family up to expropriation by the Land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945.

His son Ferdinand Heinrich von Helldorf, electoral governor of Saxony, acquired the estate and Bedra Castle in Braunsbedra from the Brühl heirs in 1793 . In 1803 he also bought the Wohlmirstedt estate . His eldest son Wolf (1794–1864) followed Wohlmirstedt and Runstedt and was raised to the Prussian count in 1840 under the law of the firstborn, his brother Carl (1804–1860) took over St. Ulrich, Stöbnitz, Oechlitz and Gröst acquired it in 1859 Manor Zingst near Vitzenburg , the other brother Heinrich (1799–1873) inherited Bedra and in 1828 acquired the manor Baumersroda . His sons Karl (1828–1895), on Baumersroda, Otto (1833–1908), on Bedra, and Ferdinand (1835–1893), on Buchwäldchen, became, like their father, Prussian district administrators. Otto von Helldorff was also a member of the Reichstag from 1871 , where he led the faction of the German Conservative Party for about ten years , of which he was founding chairman since 1876.

Bedra, Wohlmirstedt, Zingst and Baumersroda also remained in the family until 1945.

When Heinrich von Helldorff married Margarete von Posern in 1917, Rammenau Castle in Upper Lusatia came into the family; Margarete von Helldorff was also expropriated in 1945.

Own

family members

I. line ( Nödlitz )

2nd line, 1st branch

Other representatives:

Mirrored coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in silver the front part of a jumping brown or red mule (donkey). The mule growing on the helmet with the red and silver covers .

Elevation of rank

On October 15, 1840, the Prussian Chamberlain and Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John, Wolf Heinrich Hans von Helldorff on Wohlmirstedt and Runstedt, was raised to the Prussian count status under the law of primogeniture by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV to pass on the manor of Wohlmirstedt to the eldest son from a noble marriage.

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