Holwede (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Holwede

Holwede , also Holwedel or Hollwede , is the name of a Lower Saxon - Westphalian noble family . The family, some of whose branches still exist today, originally came from the Minden monastery .

history

origin

In older literature it is mentioned that a knight with the name Holwede is said to have appeared under King Heinrich I and in 1324 a Ludwig von Holwede appears in a document from the city of Stendal .

The genealogical handbook of the nobility begins the secured line of the family with Johann von Hohlewede (Hollwehde), who is mentioned in documents between 1590 and 1619. He was the bishop's minister in Rahden . His descendants are counted among the nobility without a diploma . The family derives its name from the village of Hollwede near Levern .

Expansion and possessions

Hilbert von Holwede was governor in the Duchy of Kleve in 1648 . Heinrich Christian von Holwede (* 1681) from the Grasleben family died in 1739 as the Prussian head chef and court marshal . His son Christian Friedrich Christian Karl von Holwede was a Prussian major general and head of the regiment . After 50 years of service, he died in Bromberg on February 1, 1797 . From his brothers, Victor became hereditary lord on Danzke and Ferdinand Gottlieb Prussian major general in Dragoon Regiment No. 9 . His only daughter Luise (1729–1783) was first married to Count Wilhelm von Mellin (* April 23, 1719 - October 1, 1760) and after his death with the Prussian lieutenant colonel and adjutant and later lieutenant general Friedrich Wilhelm von Götzen ( 1734–1794) married. She is the mother and grandmother of the later Counts of Götzen .

Friedrich von Holwede served in the "von Brückner" dragoon regiment, later "Graf Herzberg". He retired as a major and settled on his Kalkhof estate near Riesenburg. King Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia legitimized the natural son of captain Ludwig von Holwede in the regiment "von Kalckstein" in April 1791 . He died in 1827 as a Prussian lieutenant colonel a. D.

In the middle of the 17th century, members of the family in Westphalia zu Petershagen and Hiddensen were wealthy. One branch came to the Mark Brandenburg early on and was owned by Lancke , Glambeck and Falkenberg, among others, in the second half of the 18th century . In the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg the family was wealthy in 1689 with Grasleben (until 1739) and in the Diocese of Hildesheim in 1727 with Lochtum . In the Archbishopric of Magdeburg was Dreileben in Wolmirstedt owned or part-owned by the family in 1828 and Kalkhof at Giants Castle in East Prussia , and low Duke Waldau near Lubin in Silesia .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a cut willow trunk in silver on a green shield base (ravine), with a stumped branch on each side. On the helmet with black and silver (red and silver) covers the willow trunk.

Historical coats of arms

  • Coats of arms variant of Holwede in the coat of arms of the Westphalian nobility

  • Coats of arms variant of the Holwede

Known family members

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 4, p. 468.
  2. ↑ a b c New Prussian nobility lexicon. Supplement - Volume 1, pp. 241-242.
  3. ↑ a b Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, p. 337.