Horcker (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Horcker

Horcker , historically also Horker or listener , is the name of the Mark , now extinct noble family .

history

The Horcker dynasty belonged to the ancient Neumark nobility and has been mentioned in documents since the 13th century. Sun joined Hans Horker on April 5, 1392 in Soldin documented in appearance. The family estates - Glasow and Adamsdorf - were also located in the Soldin district . With the latter were Horcker of the Elector of Brandenburg on 14 May 1486 and again on March 9, 1499 invested . Also on March 9, 1499, Elector Joachim I and Margrave Albrecht received the tribute from the knights , including the Horcker , in Soldin . Glazov was also with the family no later than the 16th century. Jakob von Horcker auf Glasow had to provide two feudal horses in 1565 and in 1557 was one of five representatives of the knighthood in the Neumärkisches Landtag. Tyde von Horker auf Chursdorf held an influential position with the elector during the Thirty Years War . Many members later served in the electoral or Prussian army . So was Lieutenant Colonel Alexander von Horcker 1692 as a captain and leader of the 3rd Company officer in Derfflinger , Karl Reinhold von Horcker (1664-1727) was kurbrandenburgischer major general of cavalry , another of Horcker was 1713 ensign in the regiment "Kameke" walk , a another was second lieutenant in the Salzwedel garrison in 1716 . Christian Georg Achatz von Horcker from Glasow († after 1788), was a Freemason in the Order of Gold and Rosicrucian and a lieutenant in Infantry Regiment No. 24 . Some of the daughters of the family are known, for example the mothers of the Prussian general Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow and the Prussian diplomat and clerk Christian Sigismund von Wreech (1630–1661) were both members of the von Horker family . Major General Adam Wilhelm von Sydow was also married to one of Horcker . Around the middle of the 19th century, members of the army or in marriage with other families were named, then the news dried up. The last Horcker to be born died unmarried at the age of almost 36 on January 16, 1904 in Stavenhagen. The family is no longer mentioned in the current nobility dictionary .

Other Country Estate had of Horcker in Neumark to Friedrichswerder (1804) and Wilkau (1804) in the district Schwiebus to Grahlow in circle Landsberg to Hanseberg (1643-1697) and Voigt village in the district of Kaliningrad and Mietzelfelde (1643) and inches (1790 -1803) in the district of Soldin . In Pomerania, Buslar (1784–1791) in the Pyritz district and Schurow (1808) in the Stolp district were family-owned.

Coat of arms of those von Horcker

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three horizontally one above the other, left-facing golden arrows , placed under a vertical golden scepter . The three arrows behind the scepter on the helmet with the red and gold covers .

Known family members

literature

References and comments

  1. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . Part 18, Volume 1, Berlin 1859, p. 87.
  2. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel: Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , part 24, volume 1, Berlin 1863, p. 204.
  3. ^ A b Karl Kletke : Regestae Historiae Neomarchicae. The documents on the history of Neumark and the state of Sternberg , Part II. In: Märkische Forschungen, Volume 12, Berlin 1868, p. 357 .
  4. ^ Carl von Eickstedt: Contributions to a newer land book of the Brandenburg brands: prelates, knights, cities, fiefdoms, or Roßdienst and fiefdom. Creutz, Magdeburg 1840, p. 64 .
  5. ↑ Klaus Neitmann : Landlord, Nobility and Cities in Medieval and Early Modern Neumark , Berlin 2015, p. 356 .
  6. ↑ Chursdorf (Soldin) on GenWiki
  7. ^ Anton Balthasar König : Authentic news of the life and deeds of George Freiherrn von Derfflinger. 1786, p. 103 .
  8. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 1, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632764 , p. 87, no. 150.
  9. ↑ Ranking list of the Royal Prussian Army .
  10. ^ Karlheinz Gerlach: The Freemasons in Old Prussia 1738-1806, The lodges between the middle Oder and the Lower Rhine. Part 1, StudienVerlag Innsbruck-Wien-Bozen 2007, pp. 133, 152 , 169, 815.
  11. ↑ Peter Bahl : The court of the great elector. Studies on the higher office holdings of Brandenburg-Prussia (= publications from the archives of Prussian cultural property, supplement 8). Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2001, ISBN 3-412-08300-3 , also: Dissertation , Freie Universität Berlin , 1999, p. 622.
  12. ↑ Major von Horcker , in 1861 received his farewell from the 14th Infantry Regiment , where he last served as captain and company commander, and was appointed leader of the 2nd contingent of the 2nd battalion in the 2nd Pomeranian Landwehr Regiment (No. 9). See military weekly paper . Berlin 1861, p. 117.
  13. ↑ Lieutenant a. D. Achaz von Horcker married Karoline von Ehrenkrook (* 1822) in 1852. Cf.: Marcelli Janecki (ed.): Handbuch des Prussischen Nels. Volume 2, Berlin 1893, [Marcelli Janecki p. 14.]
  14. ↑ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : Collection of marriage foundations and personal memorabilia of the knightly families of the provinces of Saxony, Brandenburg, Pomerania and Prussia , Magdeburg 1863, p. 320 .