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Family coat of arms of those of Hodenberg

Hodenberg (formerly also Hodenhagen ) is the name of an old noble family from Lower Saxony . The originally free sex, some of whose branches still exist today, belong to the primeval nobility of the County of Hoya and the Principality of Lüneburg .

history

origin

Johann Friedrich Pfeffinger the Younger and Christian Ludwig Scheidt each mention in their Braunschweig Histories that the Hodenberg are said to have descended from the Lords of the Mountains . The von Berge were an old dynasty from the diocese of Minden , which died out at the end of the 14th century. This ancestry, presumed due to the identity of the coats of arms and the spatial proximity of the two sexes, has not yet been confirmed by recent historiography and genealogical research.

In the first third of the 14th century, the von Hodenberg family was still counted among the highly free or noble families. It is first mentioned in a document with Hermannus Hodo (Hermann Hode) , nobilis ( Edler ), in 1149. The certificate was issued by the Archbishop of Bremen Hartwig I. von Stade . A little later another Hermannus de Hodeberge or Hermann Hode appears, who from 1168 on is often mentioned in the entourage of Henry the Lion and appears in a document on March 21, 1189. With it begins the uninterrupted line of stem of the sex.

Epitaph for Ortgies III. von Hodenberg zu Hodenhagen († July 8, 1595) and his wife Magdalena, born von Bothmer († July 18, 1595) in the St. Thomas and Maria Church in Hodenhagen

The Lords of Hodenberg had been the umbrella bailiffs of the Bücken Abbey founded by Archbishop Rembert von Bremen since ancient times . Her name was probably derived from this hereditary office, the Low German word Hode means hat or umbrella. Their Hodenberg Castle in Altenbücken on the Weser , the oldest ancestral seat of the family, was located near this monastery .

Spread and lines

The Hodenberg estate near Bremen is said to have been owned by the family as early as the 12th century . The construction of Hoya Castle a short distance from Hodenberg, built by the up-and-coming Counts of Hoya , prompted the Lords of Hodenberg to build Hodenhagen Castle east of the Weser near Hodenhagen in the early to mid-13th century . In 1244 Hermann dei gratia nobilis de Hodenhagen , a great-grandson of the progenitor, named himself after her . His son Heinrich, nobleman of Hodenberg or Hodenhagen, entered into an alliance with the Saxon-Lauenburg Duke Albrecht in 1289 . As a punishment, Otto von Braunschweig-Lüneburg destroyed Hodenhagen Castle a few weeks later. In 1291 Heinrich sold Hodenberg Castle with all the possessions west of the Weser and with all residents to the Counts of Hoya, who shortly after came into the possession of the Bücken bailiwick .

Heinrich's sons Hermann and Heinrich from his marriage to Hedwig von Spiegelberg, a daughter of Count Moritz von Spiegelberg, also sold their property east of the Weser in 1313, so that the Counts of Hoya owned the entire Hodenberg estate. Both brothers still called themselves noblemen, but married women from the lower nobility, which meant that their descendants lost their lords .

From the 16th century two main lines were formed, the last common progenitor of which was Marquard III. von Hodenberg († 1538) was. Marquard appears in a document from 1502 and became Lüneburg councilor and captain of Hoya , Wölpe and Harzburg . His marriage to Anna von Bortfeld († 1542) resulted in seven sons and three daughters, of whom the sons Thomas and Christoph were the founders of the two lines of the family.

Older line

Thomas von Hodenberg (* 1516), the founder of the older line, died in 1555 as a royal Danish colonel . He was the senior of the family from 1538 until his death. Levin-Werner von Hodenberg (* 1699; † 1735) was one of his sixth generation descendants. He was electoral Hanoverian court judge and governor of Essel and served as a councilor in the royal British service. His younger brother Ernst-Wilhelm von Hodenberg (* 1705) died in 1775 as an electoral Hanoverian lieutenant general and commandant of Nienburg.

Also from this line came Ernst August Freiherr von Hodenberg (* 1786; † 1858), royal Hanoverian lieutenant general, and his cousin Iwan August Wilhelm Freiherr von Hodenberg (* 1855), who was landscape director of the Principality of Lüneburg and abbot of the St. Michaelis monastery in Lüneburg Died in 1861.

Younger line

The founder of the younger line Christoph von Hodenberg (* 1520, † 1588) became governor in Celle. Of his five sons from his marriage to Sophie von Mandelsloh , the eldest son Levin was able to continue the line. Levin (* 1556) died in 1627 as the ducal Brunswick-Lüneburg district administrator and Drost zu Hoya. His brother Marquard von Hodenberg (* 1563; † 1629) became imperial councilor and ducal Braunschweig-Lüneburg landdrost. His son Bodo von Hodenberg (* 1604, † 1650) was an important poet.

Siegfried Wilhelm von Hodenberg (* 1693; † 1769), a descendant of the progenitor of the line in the sixth generation, was most recently in the service of the electoral Hanover as major general . Friedrich August Heinrich Freiherr von Hodenberg (* 1774, † 1862) also served as major general in the royal Hanoverian army and became commander of Osnabrück .

Entries in the Saxon nobility book

An entry in the royal Saxon nobility book was made on April 17, 1907 under the number 272 Hermann Freiherr von Hodenberg auf Sandbeck, royal Prussian secret councilor out of service, his half-brother Wilhelm Freiherr von Hodenberg, royal Saxon major , his sister-in-law Helene Freifrau von Hodenberg born of Voss and widow of the royal Saxon general of infantry Gottlob Freiherr von Hodenberg, Alfred Freiherr von Hodenberg, royal Hanoverian first lieutenant out of service, the brothers and Barons George, royal Saxon captain for grabs , and Arthur of Hodenberg, royal Saxon captain, as well as the royal Saxon Captain Hodo Freiherr von Hodenberg.

Status surveys

The brothers Marquard, on Wiedenhausen, and Wilhelm von Hodenberg, on Lindhorst, Schwachhausen and Holm, and the brothers Marquard and August Magnus von Hodenberg, on Hudemühlen III and Grethem, received permission from Emperor Ferdinand II in Vienna on September 3, 1622 to call themselves noble von Hodenberg, which the sex, however, made no use of.

King George of Hanover confirmed on April 16, 1859 (published on April 18, 1859) the baron status of the entire family .

Family association

A family association was established on October 28, 1902 .

coat of arms

Memorial stone for the former Hodenberg fortress near Hoya / Bücken
Coat of arms on a memorial stone at the location of Hodenhagen Castle

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a red eagle wing covered with a golden clover stem , the wing feathers of which are turned downwards. On the helmet is the wing with the wing feathers turned to the left. The helmet covers are red-silver.

Motto : "myne borg iss god".

Coat of arms history

The coat of arms appears on imprints of seals . The oldest known seal comes from the year 1231. An old Hodenberg shield without a crest in the cloister windows of the Lüne monastery shows a golden field, the shamrock on the bracket is golden and the hanging wing has nine feathers. Two old coats of arms painted on sheet metal show a silver field and eleven feathers on the wing of the shield. One's wing had nine feathers on the helmet and eleven on the other's. On the handle of the sword, the sword button and the shamrock are missing in the shield as on the helmet.

In Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch , plate 184 (1605), the Hodenberg appear among the Brunswick families. The wing with 12 feathers turns in the shield, as on the crowned helmet, the Saxons on the left and the leaves of the clover stem to the left below. The blazon says: the wing is red with a yellow interfold . In Supplement II to Siebmacher's Wappenbuch, Plate 30, the wings have nine feathers, on the wing in the shield only the bones and the wings can be seen. The wing on the helmet turns the Saxons to the left.

Christian Friedrich August von Meding describes in his messages of noble coats of arms. Volume I, pages 247–249 (1786) the coat of arms of the Hodenberg after a message from the family: in the silver field an eagle's wing of seven red feathers turning down or down the feathers, held together by the golden handle of a sword, which is on the right by one golden button, closed on the left by a green clover leaf. On the helmet there is just such a wing, but not hanging down, but the Saxons turning to the right, and that side of the bracket which ends with the clover leaf is down, or turned against the helmet. In von Döringen's book of arms (1530), Meding found a crowned leopard head on the right wing of the eagle and an eagle claw on the left. The helmet is crowned with three silver eagle feathers on each side as a crest ornament, three silver banners on red rods, which reproduce the coat of arms.

In the gender and coat of arms book of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig. by Hermann Grote , C. 12 and page 8 (1852) the coat of arms shows a transverse eagle wing with seven feathers red in silver, covered with golden clover stalks, ending on the right in an eagle's head. The wings upright on the crowned helmet. In addition, as a shield holder, two forward-looking, girdled with foliage, wild men who carry a club over their shoulder with their free hand. As a motto : Myne borg iss god. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke takes over the blazon in his coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Volume 2, pages 213-215 (1855).

Otto Hupp emblazoned the coat of arms in his Munich calendar (1908) as follows: In silver, a red wing covered with a golden clover stem, the wing feathers of which are turned down. On the helmet the wings with the wing feathers turned to the left. The helmet covers are red-silver.

Name bearer

Auguste von der blankets born from Hodenberg

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Friedrich Gauhe : The Holy Roman Empire Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexicon, Volume 1, Pages 858-859
  2. ^ Christian Ludwig Scheidt : Notes and Additions ... to Moser's introduction to Braunschweig-Lüneburgische Staats-Recht, 1757, Volume 1, pp. 277–278
  3. ↑ a b c d e Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, pages 247–248
  4. ↑ a b Original in the Stade archive or copy book of the Heiligenrode monastery in the Hanover State Archives
  5. ↑ a b c d Gustav Adelbert Seyler : Hodenberg. in: Otto Hupp : Munich calendar.
  6. ↑ a b c d The coats of arms of the German baronial and aristocratic families , Volume 2, pages 213–215.