Berckefeldt (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Berkefeld

Berckefeldt (also: Barkefeld, Barkevelde, Berkefeld, Birkefeld or Birkinevelde) is the name of a Grubenhagener nobility family .

history

The family's name is derived from Birkenfeld Castle near Rübeland , which was destroyed in the High Middle Ages .

The family appears for the first time in 1189 with Conradus de Barckinevelde , the family line begins with Barthold , who was mentioned in a document in 1305. They lost the parent company Pipinsburg near Osterode am Harz due to the destruction in a feud between Albrecht I and Friedrich III.

For several centuries they were in the service of the Guelphs, including in 1359 at Otto's side . In 1398 they were involved in the enforcement of Guelph claims to Lutterberg Castle against the clergymen Mainz , Quedlinburg , Gandersheim and Hildesheim . In the 16th century, positions as a secret council on the side of Philip I and as Marshal Philip II are notarized.

Otto von Berckefeldt (1572–1684) from Hörden am Harz was 112 years old. In the 17th and 18th centuries they were still in the service of the Kurbrandenburg and Prussian armies.

Origin of name

The name is also similar to the former Grubenhagen village of Barkefelde , which was located about three kilometers southeast of Hattorf in the Oderaue . The village was named desolate in a document in 1577. Another village with a similar name existed in the Middle Ages in the lower area between Rollshausen and Germershausen. It is not known from which of these places the name could be derived.

Etymologically, the base word Bberke-, Barke- stands for the birch or as Birkicht, Eichicht for bushes. the basic word field occurs as a basic landscape word mainly in Thuringia and southern Lower Saxony.

Family members

Coats of arms variant of those of Berkefeld

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in red a striding, red-tongued silver bracke ) with a gold collar over seven (1,3,3) balls (golden Besanten = Byzantine coins ) or striding over seven roses. On the helmet with the red and silver helmet covers the hound.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon : Aa - Boyve . Voigt, 1859, p. 324 ( Volume 1 ).
  2. ↑ Johann Wolf, Political History of Eichsfeld, Vol. 1, Document Book, p. 13 No. 12
  3. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon : Aa - Boyve . Voigt, 1859, p. 325 ( volume 1 ).
  4. ↑ Friedrich von Sydow : Thuringia and the Harz: with their peculiarities, folk tales and legends. First volume, 1839, pp. 104-105.
  5. ↑ GA of Mühlverstedt: Siebmacher's large and general crests. Third volume, 12th section, 2nd volume Prussian nobility. Nobles. Nuremberg 1905, p. 16
  6. ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, p. 65
  7. ↑ Jürgen Udolph et al .: The place names of the district of Osterode. Volume 40, In: Lower Saxony Place Name Book (NOB). Part V. Ed. Jürgen Udolph, Bielefeld 2000, p. 17 ff
  8. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. First volume, 1855, p. 32.

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