Katte (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Katte

Katte , also Katt , is the name of an old Brandenburg noble family . The Lords of Katte belong to the ancient nobility of the Altmark. Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

Older literature suggests that the family had origins in the Lower Rhine region . Relatives of King Heinrich I are said to have come from the Netherlands and then settled early in the ore monasteries of Magdeburg and Bremen .

The family was first mentioned in a document on October 7, 1221 with Balduwinus Catus as scabinus ( lat. Schöffe ) in Pennigsdorf near Güsen . The uninterrupted family line begins with Heinrich Katt auf Wust , Zollchow and Redekin , who appears in documents from 1380 to 1392.

  • Manor house in Wust (family owned until 1945)

  • East crypt of the von Katte family at the church in Wust

The family's original settlement area was in the Elb-Havel-Winkel in Jerichower Land . The area is also called the Kattewinkel. Probably the Kattes are of the same tribe with those of Lossow , who sat in total fiefdom.

Spread and personalities

The early members of the sex only rarely used the predicate of their names. Balthasar Katte came from the Vieritz-Zollchow house. His son from his marriage to Ursula von Tresckow , Melchior Katte, became district administrator in the Jerichow district and owner of the Vieritz, Zollchow, Alten- and Neuenklitsche estates inherited from his father. He married Ursula von Thümen from the Blankensee house. His grandson Melchior Katte was canon and senior of the Hochstift zu Havelberg and heir to Altenklitsche, Bellin, Buschow and Bagow .

Hans Heinrich von Katte
(* 1681; † 1741)
Hans Hermann von Katte
(* 1704; † 1730)

Hans Katte, ducal Saxon-Coburg court marshal and master of Wust, Scharlibbe and Kamern, came from the Wust family . The son Hans Heinrich von Katte (* 1681) came from his marriage to Auguste von Tschammern . He was one of the most important representatives of the family and served three Prussian kings . Initially adjutant general of the Prussian King Friedrich I and knight of the Black Eagle Order , he later became governor of Kolberg . Under Friedrich Wilhelm I promoted to lieutenant general in 1731 and five years later to general of the cavalry , he died in 1741 as a royal Prussian field marshal . He was the father of Friedrich the Great's childhood friend , Lieutenant Hans Hermann von Katte (* 1704), who was beheaded at the age of twenty-six on November 5, 1730 in Küstrin . When Friedrich II ascended the royal throne in 1740, he appointed his father Hans Heinrich Field Marshal General and elevated him and his descendants of both sexes to the rank of Prussian count . He was married to Elisabeth von Bredow († 1736) for the second time , but the count's line died out with the death of his last son in 1748 in the male line .

Heinrich Christoph von Katte, an older brother of the Field Marshal and Knight of Honor of the Teutonic Order , became President of the Chamber of Magdeburg and, on March 11, 1746, was a real secret Council of State and War , Vice President and Minister in charge of the General Directorate. He died on November 23, 1760. The three brothers Johann Friedrich, Bernd Christian and Carl Aemilius came from his marriage to Ursula Dorothea von Möllendorff . Johann Friedrich von Katte took part with distinction in the battles near Hohenfriedberg , Soor , Kesselsdorf , near Prague , the battle near Kolin and Breslau during the Silesian Wars . He was promoted to lieutenant general on May 22, 1756 and died on March 29, 1764 in the 50th year of service. From his marriage to a Countess Truchsess-Waldburg-Capustigall came a son and a daughter. Bernd Christian von Katte († 1778), Lord of Wust and Lütchen-Mangelsdorf, became royal Prussian major general and chief of the dragoon regiment named after in the . He was married to a daughter from the noble family von Kröcher . A son from this marriage survived him. Carl Aemilius von Katte died in 1757 as a royal Prussian colonel .

Even later, members of the family distinguished themselves primarily as officers in the Prussian army . Gottfried Friedrich Bodo von Katte died in 1833 as a Prussian colonel a. D. , and Friedrich Carl von Katte (* 1770) from the house of Zollchow, a loyal companion in arms of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm von Braunschweig , died in 1836 as a Prussian lieutenant colonel a. D. on his Neuenklitsche estate near Genthin . Gottfried von Katte rose to the position of Prussian lieutenant general.

There is a family association .

Possessions

Roskow manor house

The family sat early in the Magdeburg area in Wust, Möttlitz, Gettin, Vieritz and Zollchow. In Havelland , Roskow and the Roskow manor were one of the oldest possessions of the family. The baroque manor house was built by Christoph III. Erected from 1723 to 1723 and remained in family ownership until the expropriation in the course of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone in 1945. The last owner was Albert von Katte. In 2010 it was bought by a relative of the family who was renovating it.

In the middle of the 19th century, relatives still owned thirteen estates in the former district of Jerichow II in the province of Saxony and in the district of Westhavelland in the province of Brandenburg . Owners of these goods were Albert von Katte on Roskow, Vieritz and Buckow, Bodo von Katte , royal Prussian major , on Altenklitsche with Altbellin and on Sydow , Rudolph von Katte on Wilhemsthal, Herr auf Neuenklitsche and Mahlitz and Otto von Katte, royal Prussian prime lieutenant besides Service, on cameras and scarlet libres. The royal Hanoverian Drost in Hildesheim Albrecht Ludwig von Katte was master of Steckelsdorf . Hans Emil von Katte was the master of Wust and Alexander von Katte was the master of Zollchow.

The Hohenkamern estate was bought back by the von Katte family in 1991.

Status surveys

The royal Prussian field marshal Hans Heinrich von Katte (1681–1741) received the Prussian count on August 6, 1740 in Berlin .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a jumping, silver cat with a black mouse in its mouth in blue . On the helmet with blue-silver helmet covers, the cat growing from nine fan-shaped, silver-stemmed, red roses.

The coat of arms of the von Katte family is eloquent , as the cat is also called Katte in Low German .

Count's coat of arms

The Count's coat of arms , awarded in 1740, has three helmets and is divided. Above in silver on a red cushion a golden crown and a golden scepter, below in blue on a green floor the family coat of arms. On the right helmet a red climbing hook with three cross rungs ( coat of arms of those von Bredow ) between an open black flight , the middle helmet like the trunk helmet, on the left an armored black right arm holding a marshal's baton. All helmets have blue-silver helmet covers.

family members

  • Karl von Katte (1750–1821), manor owner and Prussian district administrator
  • Friedrich von Katte (1770–1836), Prussian officer and freedom fighter
  • Gottfried von Katte (1789–1866), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Bodo von Katte (1799–1876), Prussian Colonel and member of the Prussian House of Representatives
  • Marie Wanda von Baeyer-Katte (1911–1997), psychologist and educator

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 4, pp. 33-34.
  2. ^ New Prussian nobility lexicon. Volume 3, pp. 78-82.
  3. ↑ State Archives Magdeburg and document book of the Berge monastery, Halle 1879
  4. ↑ a b Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, pp. 141-142.
  5. ↑ www.altmarkadel.de
  6. ↑ Gut Hohenkamern website