Keffenbrinck (noble family)

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Keffenbrinck , also Keffenbrink , Kewenbrinck or Keffenbrinck von Rhene , is the name of an original Rhenish - Westphalian noble family , which died out in 1920.

A line emigrated to Sweden around 1570 and a branch of this line was added to the Swedish nobility in 1639 with the war chamberlain Gerdt Anton Kewenbringk (1610–1658) under the name Rehnskiöld (the name means Ren -shild, but the Keffenbrinck did not have any reindeer , but a stag in the coat of arms). The Rehnskiöld line came into possession in Sweden and in Swedish Pomerania .

history

The family named themselves Keffenbrinck and Rhene after their family estates in Münsterland . At the beginning of the Eighty Years' War and the upheavals that went with it, Gerhard Keffenbrinck († after 1580) left his homeland and initially went into Swedish service. He acquired the Bratthälla estate in the province of Västergötland . Under his sons Axel Keffenbrinck (1581–1632) and Anton Keffenbrinck († 1657) the sex was divided into the lines Keffenbrinck and Rehnskiöld.

Carol. Gust. Comes de Reinschild (1651-1722)

Gerdt Anton Rehnskiöld (1610–1658), originally Kewenbringk, was chamberlain of the Swedish armies that fought in Germany in the Thirty Years War, and later President of the Chamber of Finance for Swedish Pomerania and (from 1653) curator of the University of Greifswald . In 1639 he was raised to the Swedish nobility with the name Rehnskiöld , whereby the older German nobility, meanwhile lost, was recognized. In 1648 he was in gratitude for his services in the war of the Swedish Queen Christina with the goods Griebenow , Willers Husen and Hohenwarth in Pomerania and Stensätra in Sodermanland invested . In 1702, his son, Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld (1651–1722), joined the family of Griebenow. After he died without a physical heir, Griebenow came to the Keffenbrinck line.

The Prussian government president Julius Friedrich von Keffenbrink (1714-1775) and his brother Martin Heinrich von Keffenbrink on Plestlin were recognized in 1744 their old nobility and granted permission to use the family coat of arms of their sex. The Plestlin house was also able to spread to Mecklenburg, where the Lüsewitz estate near Rostock belonged to the family.

Ehrenfried von Keffenbrink (* 1786) was raised to the Prussian count status in 1847 with the name Keffenbrink-Griebenow . The title of count was linked to the property of Fideikommiss Griebenow, which also included the goods Willershusen and Kreutzmannshagen and Richte. He had in 1817 with Baroness Jeanette Schoultz of Ascheraden adH Nehringen married († 1855). As a result of this marriage, the goods Nehringen, Bauersdorf, Dorow , Camper and Rodde came to the family. The Prussian Rittmeister Wilhelm von Keffenbrink (1823-1896), married to Countess Auguste von Kielmannsegge (1835-1889), the founder of the Hansen House in Jerusalem , was given the name Keffenbrink-Ascheraden in 1860 by the Prince Regent Wilhelm I via cabinet order Baron status raised. The title of baron was tied to the possession of the Ascheraden inheritance mentioned above. In Bauersdorf a new mansion was built as a residence and the place was renamed Keffenbrink.

With the death of Count Siegfried von Keffenbrink-Griebenow († 1920) the sex found its beginning. The barons of Langen -Keffenbrinck came as heirs into the succession of Fideikommiss Griebenow. After the childless death of Baron Wilhelm von Keffenbrink, the Fideikommiss Nehringen-Keffenbrink passed to the von Pachelbel-Gehag family, descendants of Heinrich Christian Friedrich von Pachelbel-Gehag ; the family bought back the Nehringen estate after 1990.

Relatives

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a jumping red deer in silver on a green ground . Red deer antlers on the helmet with a silver-red helmet bulge and silver-red blankets .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, pp. 120-121
  2. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 480 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).