Kügelgen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Kügelgen

Kügelgen is a family originally from Bremen . The family name originated in the Rhineland around 1650. It developed from the original forms Coghelke and Kogelke.

history

The goldsmith Johannes Kogelke acquired the citizenship of Bremen in 1370. His son Arndt, also a goldsmith, was accused by the Bremen council in 1429 of forging a seal from King Sigismund. The accused was expropriated and expelled from the city. When his innocence was found out, the ostracized was rehabilitated and was able to return to Bremen. Arndt Kogelke's descendants lived as respected citizens in Bremen for two more generations.

The Kogelke family can be found in Wildeshausen around 1500 . There was a Bernhardus Kogelke canon in the Alexander monastery . His nephew, Friedrich Kögelke († 1583), held the secular church office of the episcopal Munsteran geographer and judge in Wildeshausen. With this the actually secured stem line of the sex begins . After the end of the Thirty Years' War, the Catholic family moved to the Rhineland, where in 1667 Johann Bernhard Kügelgen was enfeoffed with the Krumbach zu Altenwied court by the Elector of Cologne, who was also Bishop of Münster . The family was in the service of the Elector of Cologne for three generations.

Ernst Heinrich Kneschke writes that the family belonged to the nobility in the Rhineland as early as the 15th century, but that as a result of the “accidents in the 30 Years War, they had given up the nobility, which the electoral court chamber councilor v. Kügelgen resumed ”.

The painting twin brothers Franz Gerhard and Johann Karl Ferdinand Kügelgen moved to Riga after a three-year study and work stay in Rome . Franz Gerhard, who worked as a drawing teacher there, fell in love with Helene Zoege von Manteuffel on an estate owned by Count Zoege von Manteuffel in Estonia . His brother Johann Karl Ferdinand fell in love with Helene's younger sister Emilie. But the father of the young noblewoman only agreed to a marriage if the twin brothers convert to the Protestant faith and obtain a title of nobility. Both demands have been met: on March 16, 1802, the brothers in Vienna were ennobled to the imperial nobility . According to this, Franz Gerhard and Johann Karl Ferdinand von Kügelgen are the ancestors of the noble family that is widespread in Germany today. In 1910 Constantin von Kügelgen was entered in the royal Saxon nobility book and in 1933 Ernst von Kügelgen was enrolled in the Estonian knighthood .

As a result of the Russian October Revolution in 1917, the von Kügelgen had to flee the Baltic States .

The Dresden Romantic Museum is housed in the house of the painter Franz Gerhard von Kügelgen in Dresden.

coat of arms

Inside a silver shield border in blue covered with eight blue balls is a right-facing, bearded, cut-off silver man's head. On the helmet with the blue-silver covers the man's head between open blue flights .

Name bearer

literature

  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, pp. 63-64, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1864, Volume 5, pp. 315-316
  • Constantin von Kügelgen: Memories from my life. St. Petersburg 1881
  • Leo von Kügelgen: Gerhard von Kügelgen - a painter's life around 1800 - and the other seven artists in the family. Stuttgart 1924
  • Wilhelm von Kügelgen: childhood memories of an old man. Munich 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kneschke 1864, p. 315
  2. ↑ Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knights, Part 2, 1.2: Estland, Görlitz, 1930, p. 627
  3. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels 1989, p. 63.

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