Hoym (noble family)

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Hoym is the name of an old, originally Anhalt noble family . The family later acquired property and prestige mainly in Saxony , but also in Braunschweig , Pomerania , Silesia and Prussia . Kinship is a letter noble line under the name Hoym-Söllingen late 18th century ennobled was.

history

Adolph Magnus von Hoym
(* 1668; † 1723)
Carl Heinrich von Hoym
(* 1694; † 1736)
Gotthelf Adolph von Hoym
(* 1731; † 1783)
Karl Georg von Hoym
(* 1739; † 1807)

origin

In older literature, the third bishop of Halberstadt Haymo , who was in office from 840 to 853, is named as a family member. A relative of his is said to have built Hoym Castle later and was the ancestor of the family.

The family was first mentioned in a document on November 10, 1195 with Cuno de Hoym . Hoym , the ancestral home of the family, is now part of the town of Seeland in the Salzlandkreis in Saxony-Anhalt . The village appeared in a document for the first time on July 5, 961 and received city ​​rights in 1540/1541 .

Spread and personalities

The office of treasurer in the Prince Diocese of Halberstadt was transferred to the family early on . Members of the sex were well off in the county of Anhalt and in Halberstadt Abbey. Friedrich II. Von Hoym († 1382) was bishop of Merseburg from 1357 and from 1382 archbishop of Magdeburg for a few months . Johannes (Johann) von Hoym became Bishop of Halberstadt in 1419, an office he held until his death in 1436. Gebhard von Hoym was also elected Bishop of Halberstadt in 1458. He resigned in 1479 and died in 1484.

In 1454 the family was enfeoffed with Esbeck Castle near Schöningen . Heinrich von Hoym and Ermsleben was governor of the Halberstadt diocese around 1550 . His son Christoph von Hoym and Ermsleben (1534–1604) became president of the Principality of Anhalt in 1590. Christoph was the founder of the new Saxon line of the family. In 1578 he acquired the rule Droyßig near Zeitz . In 1598 he received the entitlement to castle divisions , but only his sons Siegfried, August and Christian Julius von Hoym were enfeoffed with castle divisions in 1629. His grandson Ludwig Gebhard Freiherr von Hoym (* 1631) died on June 2, 1711 as a privy councilor of the Electoral Saxony , chamber president and chief captain in Thuringia . His four sons Adolph Magnus, Carl Siegfried, Ludwig Gerhard and Karl Heinrich were given the status of imperial count in 1711 (see status surveys). Adolph Magnus von Hoym (* 1668) married Constantia von Brockdorff (* 1680; † 1765 ) in 1703 , who later became Countess Cosel, mistress of the Saxon Elector and Polish King August the Strong . The marriage was divorced as early as 1705, Adolph Magnus died in 1723 without descendants. His brother Carl Siegfried († 1738), Lord of Guteborn , was a royal Polish and electoral privy councilor. He donated the line to Guteborn in Upper Lusatia , but it ended with the death of his grandson Adolph Magnus Gotthelf Graf von Hoym (* 1748), son of the Electorate Chamberlain Carl Gotthelf Graf von Hoym and his wife Charlotte Sophie Grafin von Beichlingen on July 12th Extinct in 1775. Julius Gebhard Graf von Hoym, a nephew of Adolph Magnus, acquired Oppurg Castle in Thuringia in 1745 and had it remodeled, as did the Hoym Palais in Dresden in 1752 .

Ludwig Gebhard Graf von Hoym (* 1678; † 1738), royal Polish and electoral Saxon privy councilor and captain of Thuringia, lord of Droyssig, Nebra and Gleina , was the founder of the line to Droyssig. From his marriage to Rahel Luise Countess von Werthern († 1764) two sons, Count Gotthelf Adolph and Julius Gebhard, emerged. Gotthelf Adolph Graf von Hoym (* 1731), Lord of Gleina and Thallwitz , became a privy councilor of the Electoral Saxony and authorized minister at the imperial court. He inherited Droyanzig and Guteborn, but died on April 22nd, 1783 as the last of the male line of the Droyßiger and the entire Saxon line.

Otto von Hoym came from the second main line in Brunswick and settled in Pomerania in 1619. He was the founder of the Pomeranian, later also the Silesian branch. To this branch belonged Karl Georg Heinrich von Hoym (* 1739) from the house Poblotz in Hinterpommern († 1807), lord of the Dyhernfurth rule in Lower Silesia. He was the royal Prussian conducting minister in Silesia and received the Prussian count in 1786. Karl Georg Heinrich had a burial place for himself and his family built on his estate in Dyhernfurth / Lower Silesia ( Mausoleum of the von Hoym family ). Since he only left daughters, the male line of this count's line could not be continued. Hartwig Ludwig Anton Graf von Hoym (* 1750; † 1811), who was raised to the Prussian count status in 1809 , also belonged to the Brunswick line . He became royal Prussian secret finance councilor and married Caroline Sophie von Tauentzien († 1842). The couple had two sons, Counts Wilhelm and Ludwig. Karl Wilhelm Boguslaus Otto Graf von Hoym (* 1790; † 1849), royal Prussian colonel and first adjutant of Prince Carl of Prussia , married Henriette Friederike Philippine von Tauentzien (* 1800; † 1878) from the House of Balckow in Neumark in 1828 . In addition to three daughters, they had two sons. Wilhelm's brother Anton Ludwig Heinrich Otto Graf von Hoym (* 1794; † 1865) became a royal Prussian lieutenant colonel . He married Auguste von Münchow (* 1797; † 1854) in 1833 and left four daughters and three sons.

Status surveys

Ludwig Gebhard von Hoym auf Droy says, hereditary treasurer of the Principality of Halberstadt, received the imperial baron status in Vienna on March 6, 1676, with the salutation well-born and an improved coat of arms . An electoral Saxon recognition of the baron status for him as electoral Saxon real secret council and chamber director took place on October 18, 1684.

His sons Adolph Magnus, royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Privy Cabinet Ministers, Privy Councilor, Generalakziseinspektor and upper control director, Carl Siegfried Royal Polish and Electoral Saxon Chamberlain and Hofappelationsgerichtsrat, Ludwig Gerhard, Electoral Saxon Chamberlain and District Chief of Thuringia, and Karl Heinrich von Hoym were at 18 July 1711 in Dresden by Elector Friedrich August II. Of Saxony as imperial vicar to the rank of imperial count. All four received the Silesian Inkolat on March 16, 1715 in Vienna .

Carl Georg Heinrich von Hoym, from the Poblotz line and royal Prussian state minister , was raised to the rank of Count in Wroclaw on October 15, 1786 .

Ludwig von Hoym, who came from the Esbeck line, was royal Prussian Privy Finance Councilor and President of the South Prussian War and Domain Chamber, received the Prussian count status at Königsberg in Prussia on April 28, 1809 .

Hoym-Söllingen

Ludwig August Hoym auf Söllingen , the natural son of Eduard August Anton von Hoym (1713–1776), ducal Brunswick privy councilor and chief hunter master, and Marie Luise Christine Wegener, received the imperial nobility status as von Hoym-Söllingen on June 22, 1792 .
The coat of arms awarded is divided. Divided five times at the top by silver and blue, at the bottom an open black flight in silver. The flight on the helmet with blue-silver helmet covers.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms is divided three times (also four times) by black and silver. On the helmet with black and silver helmet covers an open eagle flight , as marked as the shield .

Baron coat of arms

The emperor's coat of arms, awarded in 1676, is quartered and covered with a central shield (the family coat of arms). 1 in silver an upright black horse , 2 split, on the right in red a left-looking silver ostrich neck , on the left in silver an armored arm wielding an iron pusikan ( battle ax ). 3 sheathed in blue and silver, 4 in black a crowned golden lion . The coat of arms has three helmets with blue-silver helmet covers, on the right the horse growing, in the middle the trunk helmet, on the left a golden scepter between two turned away silver ostrich necks.

Count's coat of arms

Imperial coat of arms

The Imperial Count's coat of arms, awarded in 1711, is divided twice and split twice. 1 in black two silver bars (family coat of arms), 2 in black a gold crown , 3 in silver and red nested, 4 in black a gold inful , 5 in silver a black double-headed eagle , 6 in black a gold lion, 7 in black a growing one Green palm tree with a brown trunk, 8 in black an armored arm turned to the left, holding a golden mace obliquely to the left, 9 in red two golden eagle heads facing towards it . The coat of arms has three helmets with black and silver helmet covers, on the right an open black flight, on the middle the eagle, on the left a growing black horse.

Prussian count coat of arms

The Prussian Count's coat of arms, awarded in 1809, shows six silver bars within a golden shield border in blue . On the helmet with blue-silver helmet covers an open, silver on the right, blue eagle flight on the left. Two opposing crowned Prussian eagles as shield holders, topped with the golden initials FWR and the royal crown.

Well-known namesake

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 4, Pages 499–501
  2. ↑ Main State Archives Dresden
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, pages 385–386
  4. ↑ vgem-seeland.de