Holstein (north German-Danish noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Holstein

Holstein is the name of an aristocratic family from Mecklenburg, later also from Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark. Two Danish branches were given the status of count in the 18th century.

The family is not to be confused with the ruling Counts of Schauenburg and Holstein or with the Moravian noble family Holštejn .

history

The progenitor of the family is Heinrich Holstein ( Hinricus Holtsatus ), who probably came from Holstein and in the entourage of Prince Borwin I of Mecklenburg on June 24, 1218 when he granted the city of Rostock and on June 7, 1222 at the foundation of the Tempzin monastery occurs. The family is related to the coat of arms and tribe of the Kruse at the nearby Varchow Castle ( Möllenhagen ).

Ankershagen mansion

The family had probably owned Ankershagen Castle near Penzlin since around 1200 . West of this castle a mansion (the so-called "Old House") was built before 1551, which was probably rebuilt between 1550 and 1570 in the Renaissance style or supplemented by a new building, the "New House" (today's Ankershagen manor ). The family had to pledge their ancestral property in the 17th century and later give it up.

In 1523 the Lords of Holstein were among the signatories of the Union of Estates . The family later owned extensive property in Mecklenburg and (Vor) Pomerania. The lines to Fürstenberg , Möllenhagen and Klink were created .

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are 19 entries from daughters of the von Holstein families from 1696 to 1854 from Möllenhagen, Ankershagen, Groß and Klein Luckow, Wismar and Schwerin for inclusion in the noble women's monastery there . Coats of arms with stars of the order hang from two conventual women on the nun gallery in the monastery church . Available is still the grave plate of Konventualin Maria Eleonora of Holstein, who lived 45 years in the monastery Dobbertin.

The decline of the family's fortune in the 17th century in the wake of the Thirty Years' War , like other Mecklenburg families, prompted several representatives of the sex to enter Danish service. Adam Christoph von Holstein (1631–1690) from the Fürstenberg line became a colonel in the Danish service. In 1663 he married Catharina Christina von Reventlow , a sister of Friedrich von Reventlow . Of the couple's 16 children, six sons reached adulthood and established most of the Schleswig-Holstein / Danish lines of gender.

The family came to large estates and esteem in Denmark . It provided several chancellors and in the 19th century, Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg and Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, two prime ministers of Denmark. In Holstein it was owned by Gut Waterneverstorf in the 18th and 19th centuries , and in Denmark it still owns Holsteinborg Castle and Ledreborg Castle to this day .

Status surveys

Holstein-Holsteinborg

Holsteinborg Castle
Holsteinborg

Ulrich Adolph von Holstein (1664–1737), a son of Adam Christoph von Holstein (1631–1690) on Netzeband and Buchholtz, was first given a royal Danish diploma from September 4, 1700 with the barony of Führenthal (Fyrendal) ( Fyrendal Sogn ) Zealand enfeoffed. In 1707 he bought the Trolholm estate from the Trolle family , which was originally called Braade and had belonged to the Trolles since 1562; he renamed it Holsteinborg ( Holsteinborg Sogn ). With a royal Danish diploma from January 1, 1708, he was raised to the Danish liege count with the predicate to Holsteinburg (Holstenborg) . Holsteinborg Castle is still owned by the Count Holstein-Holsteinborg.

Waterneverstorf
Waterneverstorf manor house , Ostholstein

In 1776, by inheritance from the Blome family, the Waterneverstorf estate in Ostholstein fell to the Holstein line. During their time, Neverstorf developed into a cultural center in Holstein and guests such as Matthias Claudius and Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock or Hans Christian Andersen were received on the estate . In 1897 the Neverstorf line of the Counts Holstein-Holsteinborg died out and the estate was passed on to the Counts of Waldersee through an inheritance contract , to whom it still belongs to this day.

Holstein-Ledreborg

Ledreborg Castle

Johan Ludvig von Holstein from the Möllenhagener Linie acquired the Danish estate Ledreborg on the main island of Zealand in 1739 and then built the baroque Ledreborg Castle there . With a diploma dated March 31, 1750, he was raised to the Danish liege count with the title Lethraburg (Ledreborg) . Ledreborg Castle has remained in the possession of the Counts Holstein-Ledreborg to this day. The line switched to the Catholic denomination. Knud Graf von Holstein-Ledreborg (1919–2001) married Princess Marie Gabrielle of Luxembourg (* 1925), sister of the former Grand Duke Jean , in 1951 . The fourth of her seven daughters, Silvia Knudsdatter Komtesse Holstein-Ledreborg, inherited the property; she has been married to John Munro of Foulis since 1979 .

coat of arms

  • On top of the old seals, the Holstein had a shield split lengthways, with a wing in the right half and a whole rose and a half in the left half. Certainly as an ancient sign of grace of the Mecklenburg princes, the helmet bears a bull's head, between whose horns the wing from the shield stands. In more recent times the position has been reversed, with the roses in the right half and the wing in the left half.
  • The split family coat of arms shows a red rose with gold insets on the right at the top, at the bottom a half red rose at the gap, on the left at the gap in red a silver eagle's wing. On the helmet with red and silver blankets a crowned black buffalo head turned forward, with black horns covered with gold bars, with the silver wing in between.

Historical coats of arms

  • Seal of Heine Holstein (1320)

  • Coat of arms in Danmarks nobility Aarbog 1885

Representative

literature

Web links

Commons : Holstein (North German-Danish noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See Lisch (Lit.)
  2. ↑ See Friedrich Schlie : The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 5: The district court districts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel. Schwerin 1902, p. 292
  3. ↑ after Lisch, see (Lit.)
  4. ^ According to Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume V, pp. 328-330, Limburg (Lahn) 1984
  5. ↑ there: Johan Georg Holstein
  6. ↑ there: Carl von Holstein
  7. ↑ there: Frederik Vilhelm von Holstein
  8. ↑ there: Georg Frederik von Holstein
  9. ↑ there: Christian Ditlev von Holstein
  10. ↑ there: Ulrik Adolf Holstein (1731-1789)