Hollen (noble family)
Von Hollen is the name of a bourgeois north German family and a Prussian noble family that emerged from it, which was created in 1866 through the ennoblement of Julius von Hollen .
history
The bourgeois family wore a with of educated origin name , that no, in this case of nobility was: Hollen or van Hollen , suggesting an origin from Hollen, in this case Hollen (Beverstedt) suggesting. In the past it was also assumed that it came from the Netherlands. The progenitor is the farmer Heinrich von Hollen , who owned land in Nesse (Loxstedt) near Bremen and died here on November 14, 1687. At the end of the 18th century a branch of the family came to Hamburg . The lawyer Levin Heinrich von Hollen (1767–1848), born in Nesse, became very wealthy as a merchant and Hamburg factor in the Hanoverian mountain trade and in 1813 was able to acquire the Holstein estate of Schönweide, which is now part of Grebin . He was thought of Bl after death. Salomon Heine for the richest man in Hamburg ; his fortune was well over 10 million M. Bco. estimated.
His son Julius von Hollen acquired the Tüschenbek estate in the Duchy of Lauenburg in 1839 . On March 21, 1866, he received a diploma from the Prussian King Wilhelm I and was recognized as a nobility and raised to the Prussian baron class for himself and his descendants.
His son Albrecht (1840–1896) acquired the Hohenwalde and Bilshöfen estates in the Heiligenbeil district in East Prussia in 1866 and founded with his wife Marie (1842–1930), nee. von Restorff took over the Hohenwalde house. The couple had seven daughters but no sons.
Possessions
- Schönweide, 1813–1986 (mansion destroyed by fire in 2000)
- Görtz ( Heringsdorf (Ostholstein) ), 1842–1867
- Tüschenbek, 1849–1998 (?)
- Hohenwalde and Bilshöfen (today part of the municipality of Żelazna Góra ), 1866– (leased from 1896)
coat of arms
The coat of arms awarded in 1866 shows in blue a golden rafter that does not touch the upper edge of the shield , which is accompanied at the bottom by a five-petalled red rose without seeds. An open, black eagle's flight grows out of the baron's crowned helmet . The helmet covers are blue and gold. Two outward-looking golden armed black eagles serve as shield holders , which stand on a blue ribbon with the motto in golden lapidary writing Deus mihi adjutor ( God is my helper ).
Monuments
- Mausoleum on Tüschenbek
- Family grave in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof Berlin
Name bearer
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Julius von Hollen (1804–1879), lawyer, landowner and member of parliament
- Karl von Hollen (1839–1895), administrative officer and manor owner
- Georg von Hollen (1845–1900), naval officer and vice admiral
- Gustav von Hollen (1851–1917), general of the cavalry
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN 0435-2408 , p. 320
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. 21 (1871) ( digitized version ), p. 293
- ↑ Bayerische Landbötin 1848, p. 55
- ↑ Marie v. Restorff
- ↑ Lost Monuments
- ↑ Tomb in the old St.-Matthäus-Kirchhof in Berlin-Schöneberg , accessed July 12, 2015