Kerberg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of Ernst von Kirchberg, author of the Mecklenburg rhyming chronicle from 1378, member of the black line of the Kerberg family, who sat on Krümmel in Mecklenburg for centuries

The von Kerberg , also called Kirchberg, Kerkberg, Karberg and similar, belong to the clan with the Querspitz coat of arms.

history

The Kerberg come from Thuringia and had noble descent. They turned north across the Harz , created a base west of and in the Altmark . From there they went to the Prignitz from 1120 and settled there.

Mecklenburg House

Although the von Kerbergs belong to the nobility and appear very early in Mecklenburg , they do not belong to the Mecklenburg nobility. They only lived there and joined the local nobility. You have not signed the Union of Estates either.

In 1370 the brothers of the Stargard knight family, Otto and Harnit von Romer and Otto von Retzow, sell their shares from Leussow to Beteke von Kerberg. In 1374 Retzow and Rechlin were added. In 1376 Beteke von Kerberg sold his shares in Rechlin for a pension in Schönbeck. Through his father-in-law Zabel von Romer, Beteke settled in Mecklenburg. Since he was not in the Mecklenburg service, it is assumed that his alleged uncle Ernst von Kirchberg helped him. Because of the border wars, Kerberg's reputation was not exactly good. In 1430 his sons Beteke and Marten also belong to the band of robbers who are commanded by Hans von Rohr from Freyenstein and who caused great damage. Martens daughters Elisabeth and Anna became nuns in the Wanzka monastery . In 1450 the Mecklenburg authorities complained about the robbery from the Mark and named Kerberg among those involved. It would have been very difficult to settle down in Mecklenburg at this time. Headquarters later became Krümmel in the old Wredenhagen office .

From 1490 to 1523 Joachim von Kerberg from the White House sat on Krümmel and on Retzow. His daughter Margarete was a nun in the Dobbertin Monastery from 1537 to 1572 . During the Reformation she was elected as one of the stubborn virgins on October 19, 1569, and remained there until the nunnery was forcibly dissolved in 1572. In the first visit of March 24th, 1557, one can read about her: she had kept quiet and let it be seen that she wanted to accept and hear God's word. But in the second visitation on September 3, 1557, none had been so impetuous with screaming, cursing, insulting and hitting as she. During the visitations of 1562 she defiantly refused everything. Later she gave in to something by becoming sub-priority in 1569. In 1560, her brother Viventus gave 50 guilders to the Dobbertin Monastery for his sister. From brother Hans, who sat on Retzow from 1532 to 1577, daughter Lucia also went to the monastery in Dobbertin in 1572. Now as a conventual in the noble women's monastery . She must still have lived in 1602 because her brother Viviens paid 200 guilders to the monastery for his sister.

In 1680, three sisters jointly donated a chandelier with a coat of arms for Güstrow Cathedral . In the beginning of the 16th century the Krümmeler line was divided into the Black House on Krümmel and the White House on Retzow and Klopzow. Since more daughters than sons were born in the von Kerberg families, the last five daughters Anna Emerentia, Marie, Elisabeth Catharina and Margarete von Kerberg lived and managed together on Klopzow around 1730. In 1712 they donated the stained glass in the Roggentin Church . Marie von Kerberg died on April 17, 1742 at the age of 92 in Klopzow. The entire family in Mecklenburg died out.

Possessions in Mecklenburg

The description of the ownership structure, the ownership period of the von Kerberg property complex is very complicated.

  • Leussow 400 ha
  • Retzow 1,500 ha
  • Klopzow 575 ha
  • Leppin 1,891 ha
  • Roggentin 500 ha
  • Ludorf 3,853 ha
  • Krümmel 1,860 ha
  • Göhren 570 ha

coat of arms

The coat of arms has horizontal points in the shield, three or four, standing on the left and right. The tips are in silver on red or black on red. The crest has three peacock feathers, silver, red, silver or black, red, black. The Rostock Wappenbuch also lists a peacock's tail as a helmet ornament.

Name bearer

  • Wernher de Kerberc, 1257, 1259, alleged founder and builder of Kerbeg castle and village.
  • Hampo de Kerberc on Kerberg, 1313, knight in the retinue of Margrave Ludwig von Brandenburg, 1326 document for Heiligengrabe Abbey .
  • Beteke von Kerberghe, 1370–1420, founder of the houses in Mecklenburg.
  • Joachim von Kerberg, 1490–1523, on Krümmel and Retzow, from the White House.
  • Hans von Kerberg, 1532–1577, on Retow and Rechlin, took part in the procession against the Turks with 8 horses in 1532, and in 1562 councilor of Güstrow with his own seal.

literature

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • Genealogical collections by Behr, von Hoinkhusen, von Pentz, von Rodde.
    • LHAS 1.12-1 Kirchberg Chronicle .
    • LHAS 2.12-3 / 2 Monasteries and orders of knights. Dobbertin. No. 248 List of the gender names found in documents as well as the prioresses and nuns of Dobbertin. (1491-1560).
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.

Web links

  • Literature about von Kerberg in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: von Kerberg 1257 to 1742. 1991, p. 137.
  2. ↑ MUB XVI. (1893) No. 10054, 10092.
  3. ↑ Wolf Lüdecke von Weltzien: von Kerberg 1257 to 1742. 1991, p. 145.
  4. ^ Horst Alsleben : Compilation of all personalities of the Dobbertin monastery. Schwerin 2010-2013.
  5. ↑ LHAS 2.12-3 / 2 Monasteries and orders of knights. Dobbertin. No. 248.
  6. ↑ Johann Peter Wurm: The dull Nonnenkrich. The Reformation of the Dobbertin Benedictine Convent 1557–1578. 2014, p. 35.
  7. ^ Friedrich Lisch: The Reformation of the Dobbertin Monastery. MJB 22 (1857) p. 126.
  8. ↑ Friedrich von Meyeen: An account book of the monastery Dobbertin. MJB 59 (1894) pp. 189.
  9. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The estate and church village Krümmel. 1902, p. 569.
  10. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: von Kerberg 1257 to 1742. 1991, p. 141.
  11. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: von Kerberg 1257 to 1742. 1991, p. 145.