Hymns
Hymmen is the name of a Rhenish family that first appeared in a document in 1550 with Peter Hymmen from the Hohenholz farm in Königshoven , district of Kaster an der Erft , and his brother, customs officer in Blatzheim . The reliable family line begins with Heinrich Hymmen (around 1532–1612), ducal lawyer from Jülich-Berg , later landowner in Winkhausen near Lüdenscheid .
Nobility uprisings
The Prussian Secret Councilor and Chancellor in Kleve, Dr. jur. Reinhard Hymmen (1661–1722), has been using the title of nobility since about 1715 and is counted with his descendants to the Prussian nobility.
The seven children of the Prussian Privy Councilor Heinrich Johann Hymmen († 1757) were accepted into the imperial knighthood in Vienna on February 11, 1770 with the name “Edler von Hymmen” .
Together with their cousins Johann Wilhelm Bernhard Hymmen (1725–1787) and Georg Hymmen , Prussian Privy Councilor in Kleve, they were raised to the Prussian nobility on October 2, 1786 in Berlin .
possession
Johann Wilhelm Bernhard's grandson, District Administrator Eberhard von Hymmen (1784-1854), bought the castle atendenich near Bonn in 1830 , which remained in the family until 1962. His eldest son Heinrich (* 1823) bought the Unterbach house near Düsseldorf in 1847 , which is still inhabited by descendants of the female line, the Zech von Hymmen family.
coat of arms
- The family coat of arms shows two black rafters turned against each other over an openwork black diamond . On the helmet with black and silver covers, a black rafter between two silver buffalo horns.
- Increased coat of arms from 1770 and 1786: Under a golden shield head, inside a black eagle, square, 1 and 4 in black two opposing golden rafters, 2 and 3 in silver an openwork black diamond. Two helmets, on the right with a red and gold blanket the growing eagle, on the left with a black and gold blanket a gold star between two black buffalo horns covered with gold rafters.
Known family members
- Eberhard von Hymmen (1784–1854), Prussian District Administrator of the Rhine Province
- Friedrich Wilhelm Hymmen (1913–1995), German writer
- Johann Wilhelm Bernhard von Hymmen (1725–1787), Prussian lawyer, author and poet
- Johannes Hymmen (1878–1951), Protestant clergyman, Vice-President of the Evangelical Upper Church Council of the Church of the Old Prussian Union
- Karl von Hymmen (1824–1897), Prussian lieutenant general
- Reinhard von Hymmen (1831–1909), German administrative lawyer and district administrator
- Reinhard von Hymmen (1914–1942), naval officer and commander of U 408
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume V, p. 437, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1984, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1909. Third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, pp. 391–394.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume V, p. 437, Volume 84 of the complete series.