Hohnhorst (noble family)
Hohnhorst is the name of an old noble family from Lower Saxony . The Lords of Hohnhorst belong to the ancient nobility of Lüneburg . Branches of the family still exist today.
After Kneschke there were two other families of the same name, but they were not related. The Hohnhorst called Düvel (also Honhorst) were originally an aristocratic family from Bremen , which died out in the male line in the 17th century with the death of Philipp Sigismund von Hohnhorst . It had a different coat of arms than the ancient Lüneburg noble family: in silver, a rafters roughened with blue and silver . Another family, Hohnhorst zu Hohnhorst , also died out early on.
history
origin
The family was first mentioned in a document in 1279 with the squire Johannes Honhorst . The secured trunk series begins with Heinrich von Hohnhorst , who is mentioned in documents from 1510. He was probably the grandson of Heinrich von Honhorst auf Hohnhorst, who appeared in a document from 1428 to 1438 .
Hohnhorst, the family seat of the same name, is now part of the municipality of Eldingen on the southern edge of the Lüneburg Heath in the Celle district in Lower Saxony. The parent company had been in the family since 1252.
Spread and personalities
- Agnese Maria von Hohnhorst (Agnesa Maria von Hohnhorst; Agnes Maria von Hohnhorst; (1672–1755), abbess of the Wienhausen monastery
- Johann Friedrich Gauhe names Anna von Hohnhorst as abbess of the Wienhausen Monastery from 1644 to 1670, as part of the family. Likewise Jacob Ernst von Hohnhorst, Herr auf Hohnhorst and son of Dietrich von Hohnhorst, who lived at the end of the 17th century. He became a royal English district administrator , court judge at Celle and Drost at Meinersen
- Johann Friedrich and Werner Christian von Hohnhorst entered British military service. Agnes Maria von Hohnhorst was abbess from 1723 to 1755 and Sophia Charlotte von Hohnhorst from 1767 to 1788 at the Wienhausen monastery. At the beginning of the 18th century, Bruno Anton von Hohnhorst became governor and commissioner. During the 18th and 19th centuries, members of the family were given state, court and military positions in the Duchy of Braunschweig and in the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg .
- In the later Kingdom of Hanover , they belonged to the knightly nobility of the Lüneburg landscapes and owned two other estates in addition to the Hohenhorst headquarters.
- Adolf von Hohnhorst (1811–1870), Major General General of Brunswick and Adjutant General of Duke Wilhelm
- Bruno von Hohnhorst (1822–1886), Prussian district administrator
- Burghard von Hohnhorst (1769–1833), Brunswick High Court Marshal and Lord Chamberlain
- Carl von Hohnhorst (1809–1858), German administrative lawyer
- Ernst von Hohnhorst (1865–1940), German lieutenant general
- Günther von Hohnhorst (1863–1936), German administrative officer and manor owner
- Ludolf von Hohnhorst (1899–1978), German rear admiral
- Ludwig von Hohenhorst (* 1866), royal Saxon major at disposal, was entered in the royal Saxon nobility book on April 29, 1911 under the number 358.
coat of arms
The coat of arms is divided by gold over black with a slanting silver branch with three red roses . On the helmet with black and gold helmet covers a red rose with a green stem between two buffalo horns divided by gold and black over a corner .
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 4, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1863, p. 443. ( digitized version )
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. 1904. Fifth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1903, p. 358 ff.
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. 1901. First year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1900, p. 412.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6, p. 443.
- ^ Hermann Hoogeweg: Document book of the Hochstift Hildesheim. Volume III, No. 519.
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, p. 314.
- ↑ Dietrich Schmidtsdorff: The old bells and their history / Wienhausen monastery (2) , in Michael Misgeiski-Wegner (ed.): The bells of the parish Wienhausen and the new bell tower of St. Alexander in Eicklingen (= series of publications by the Heimatverein “Altes Amt Eicklingen " , issue 3/2008), ed. in cooperation with the Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde Wienhausen, 2008, p. 6ff .; as a PDF document on heimatverein-eicklingen.de
- ↑ Joachim Bühring (arrangement): Coat of arms of the abbess Agnese Maria v. Hohnhorst , as well as bells , in this: The art monuments of Lower Saxony , Volume 34: The art monuments of the district of Celle in the administrative district of Lüneburg . Text volume, ed. by Oskar Karpa , Hanover: Lower Saxony State Administration Office; Munich: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1970, pp. 149, 150f.