Karstedt (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Karstedt

Karstedt is the name of an old Altmark noble family that the Brandenburg nobility belongs.

history

The family was first mentioned in a document in 1271 with Reinoldus de Karstede , and its uninterrupted line of lineages began around 1550 with Valentin von Karstedt on Kaltenhof (Westprignitz) . As early as the 11th century, "knights from this house appear."

From 1902 to 1907 four daughters of the families of Karstedt on were Rossow and Fretzdorf for inclusion in the noble convent in Kloster Dobbertin enrolled .

coat of arms

Siebmacher's Wappenbuch (1605), sheet 176

The coat of arms shows 3 (1: 2 but also 2: 1) silver-topped red tartar hats in silver. On the helmet with red and silver blankets a growing man in a red and silver quartered skirt with sleeves of different colors, on his head a cap as on the shield.
The New Prussian Adels-Lexicon says about the coat of arms: "The family wears three red pointed hats in their silver shields, and on the uncrowned helmet there is a shortened man with black overcoat and white undergarment, his head covered with a red pointed cap. The helmet covers are silver and red. Siebmacher gives this coat of arms, I. Th. S. 176. "

The coat of arms resembles the coats of arms of those von Klitzing , von Konow, von Wittstruck, von Bune, von Ketelhodt , von Meltzing, von Holle, von Birkholtz, von Bornstedt , von Spiegel, von Trost and von Eisenberg.

Name bearer

• Reimar von Karstedt († 1618), dean of the cathedral in Havelberg
• Carl von Karstedt (1811–1888), German landowner and politician, MdR
• Carl von Karstedt (* 1981), German author and film director, great-great-grandson of the politician Carl von Karstedt

literature

• Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Year Book of the German Adels , Volume 2, 1898, published by WT Bruer, pp. 228-231

Web links

• Homepage of the von Karstedt family
• The nobility of the Altmark and their coats of arms

Individual evidence

1. ^ The nobility of the Altmark and their coat of arms , read on June 7, 2015
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN  0435-2408
3. ↑ von Ledebur , Märkische Forschungen Vol. III.
4. ^ ^{A b} New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon , Third Volume, p. 52, by Freiherr Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch , 1837 at the Reichenbach brothers in Leipzig.
5. ↑ GHdA A Volume XV, 1979.
6. ↑ The family v. Karstedt on Kaltenhof from 1540 to the beginning of the 19th century (PDF; 122 kB)