Kardorff (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Kardorff

Kardorff is the name of an old north German noble family . The Lords von Kardorff belong to the Mecklenburg nobility . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

The family was first mentioned in documents in 1201 with Radolfus de Kercthorp . With the certificate, Hartwig II. Von Utlede, as Archbishop of Bremen , confirms the sale of the village of Kührstorf to the St. Johannis Monastery in Lübeck . Radolfus is named therein as a layman . The family line begins with the knight Fredericus de Kerkdorp , who appears in documents from 1275 to 1306. The family probably belonged to the long-established nobility. In the Church of the Holy Cross in Rostock there is a grave slab by Trude Kerkdorp . It already shows the family coat of arms , the three comb wheels. The Latin inscription in Gothic capitals reads: "In the year of the Lord 1350, on the day of Laurentius (August 10th), the nun Trude Kerkdorp died" .

The spelling of the name varies in older documents from Kercthorp, Kerkdorp, Kerichdorpe, Kergdorpe and Kerchdorp, in 1448 also Karkthorp. Kardorff only became common at the end of the 16th century.

Lines and possessions

The property could be increased considerably over time, but was partly lost again as a result of the Thirty Years' War .

The sex was initially divided into the two main lines to Grantzow (today Granzow , district of Altkalen ) and Wöpkendorf (today district of Dettmannsdorf ). The Grantzow line expired in 1736 with the death of Moritz Heinrich von Kardorff, Herr auf Grantzow and Remlin (now part of Schwasdorf ). He had already given his goods to the relative Kardorff from the House of Wöpkendorf.

After acquiring the property, the wöpkendorfer line split into the branches Grantzow and Pannekow. The branch Grantzow founded the branches to Grantzow and Remlin and the branch Pannekow the branches to Steinhorst and Böhlendorf. Christoph Friedrich von Kardorff auf Wöpkendorf, son of the royal Danish lieutenant colonel Hermann von Kardorff († 1677) from his second marriage to Margaretha von Koss, was an imperial captain . He was married to Maria Elisabeth von der Lühe and died in 1730. Later, members of the family often served in Mecklenburg, but also in Danish military and state services.

In addition to Remelin, the Grantzow and Böhlendorf estates also belonged to the family's property in Mecklenburg. The master of Böhlendorf was Friedrich Ernst von Kardorff , eldest son of the royal Danish lieutenant general August Nicolaus Carl von Kardorff. He became a royal Danish major and chamberlain . From the Steinhorster branch came Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Chamberlain and Councilor Frederick Carl Ludwig von Kardorff .

In Einschreibebuch of Dobbertin Abbey there are nine entries of daughters of the families of Kardorff from Grantzow, Remlin and Böhlendorf from the years 1719-1915 for inclusion in the local aristocratic convent .

An important representative from more recent times was Wilhelm von Kardorff (* 1828, † 1907). As a conservative supporter of Bismarck's politics, he was one of the founders of the Free Conservative Party . In 1876 he founded the Central Association of German Industrialists , one of the most influential employers' associations of the time. His son Siegfried von Kardorff (* 1873, † 1945) became District Administrator and Vice President in the Presidium of the German Reichstag .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows three (2: 1) red comb wheels or straightening wheels in silver . On the helmet with red-silver helmet covers a half red comb wheel (straightening wheel) with half a hub and three spokes, which is set with seven natural peacock feathers.

Name bearer (chronological)

literature

Web links

Commons : Kardorff family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch 1, page 168.
  2. ^ New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 5, page 24.
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Eric Wagner : The grave slabs of the monastery "Zum Heiligen Kreuz" in Rostock . Redieck & Schade, Rostock 2007; ISBN 978-3-934116-61-0 . Pages 118-119; Friedrich Schlie : Art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Volume 1: The district court districts of Rostock, Ribnitz, Sülze-Marlow, Ticino, Laage, Gnoien, Dargun, Neukalen. Schwerin 1896, p. 216 (ill.)