Ketelhodt

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Family coat of arms of those of Ketelhodt

Ketelhodt is an old German nobility from the Westphalian region ( Rheda-Wiedenbrück ), later based in Mecklenburg and Thuringia . The name Ketelhodt was spelled differently again and again, according to the usage of Low German : Ketelhut, Ketelhot, Kettelhut, Kaetelhod, Kesselhot etc.

history

The family originally came from Westphalia and migrated to Mecklenburg in the course of the eastern colonization . There it was mentioned for the first time in a document in 1230 in the Ratzeburg tithe register with the miles Vredebernus (Ketelhot). From this Vredebernus the line of the family can be traced seamlessly into the 21st century.

When Monastery Dobbertin submitted ancestors detection of Agnete von Ketelhodt from 1802

In Mecklenburg family members were repeatedly mentioned in documents as witnesses, buyers or donations. So gave z. B. on May 30, 1279 the brothers Matthias, Nicolaus and Gerhard of the parish in Wattmannshagen three Hufen and eight Kathen . Initially, relatives settled in the Ratzeburg and Grevesmühlen area and from 1292 they settled on the Kambs manor near Röbel an der Müritz . In the 30-year war seven died of eight brothers, so the captain Lütke of Ketelhodt, in the Battle of Wittstock has fallen on 4 October 1636th Gerd IV was the only brother who survived. His grandson Christian-Ulrich was accepted into the civil service of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt as a lawyer in 1726 . He made a career there and was ultimately Chancellor and Consistorial President there. He was later followed by a son and two grandchildren in these high offices. Rudolstadt in Thuringia had been the family's center of life since 1726 and remained so until 1945.

Carl-Gerd von Ketelhodt, a son of Christian-Ulrich, who was also Chancellor and Consistorial President, founded a well-known library that still exists today, which today bears the name "Rudolstadt Historical Library". In the meantime, it has been supplemented by existing holdings from the old Behringen estate library. The former private library in Rudolstadt was also popular with Friedrich von Schiller . Since the Congress of Vienna , the Final Act of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt delegates, the Chancellor Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt, June 8, 1815 " Baron signed", the family officially takes the title Baron. It was then confirmed again for various reasons in Mecklenburg on July 20, 1843 and in Rudolstadt on December 15, 1854 and August 29, 1913.

After the founding of the Empire in 1871 , the members of the family gradually migrated to other parts of the German Empire , including East Prussia and West Prussia .

In 1945, war, displacement and expropriation caused the family's goods, libraries and almost all art and valuables to be lost. Descendants now live in other European countries, in South Africa , the USA and Canada . The family association was founded in 1904.

Possessions

Mecklenburg

  • In the parish of Hohenkirchen: ownership of the villages Bekerwitz and Wischendorf, Friedrichshagen (south of Grevesmühlen) and Ketelhotsdorp (today Kägsdorf on the Baltic Sea) around 1230.
  • Wattmannshagen and Radum (Mecklenburg) around 1277 to 1500.
  • Kambs at Röbel an der Müritz 1292 to 1790 (sale). The manor house, which dates from the 18th century, is now in ruins.

Thuringia

  • Lichstedt 1745–1855 (sale)
  • Schlösschen Kitzerstein in Saalfeld 1771–1777 (sale)
  • Behringen 1800–1945 (expropriation)
  • Herrmannsgrün 1839–1912 (sales)
  • Barranowen (Sensburg district in East Prussia) 1900–1945 (expulsion)
  • New damage (Sensburg district in East Prussia) 1940–1945 (expulsion)
  • Sossnow with Grünthal, Polko and Mörkendorf (Zempelburg district / West Prussia) 1922-1945 (expulsion)
  • In the city of Rudolstadt / Thuringia, various family members owned over 20 houses over the years; today only one house belongs to a member of the family.

coat of arms

The oldest coat of arms of the knight Dietrich Ketelhodt (he is mentioned in documents between 1292 and 1314) comes from the year 1302. The family has a talking coat of arms and refers to the identification name "Kesselhut". Low German: Ketel = kettle and hot = knight's helmet or hat; depending on how you turn the coat of arms, it is a kettle or a hat (helmet).

In silver three (2: 1) black kettle hats ( iron hats ) with red ribbons. On the helmet with black and silver blankets, an armless man in armor in a black kettle hat.

For this purpose, Friedrich Crull quoted: " Lat. gives as a crest a hat with three ostrich feathers , v. H. a pointed cap - because the kettle hats were remodeled to go with it -, G. a torso with a pointed cap. According to this, the original helmet ornament, if not, as it seems, just made of a kettle hat, for example with cock feathers, then at least consisted of a (armored) hull covered with a kettle hat, as the family took it in again. "

According to Friedrich Ludwig Anton Hörschelmann , the Rhenish line had only one kettle hat in its shield. A column with a fish on it served as a crest. The Upper Saxon line had three kettle hats in the shield and three ostrich feathers or peacock feathers on the crowned helmet .

In 1337 Arnold Ketelhodt was mentioned in a document from Kirchwehren . The Ketelhodt are said to have financed a new church in Kirchwehren around 1500. A small coat of arms stone, with a kettle hat in a Gothic triangular shield , was walled into the sacristy of the old church, which was demolished in 1753; today it can be seen outside above the walled-up east portal of the church .

Max von Spiessen represents the old coat of arms of the Ketelhodt, "Burgmanns Familie zu Stromberg , now in bloom in Thuringia", a single iron hat in the shield, which is repeated on the helmet as the headgear of a bearded man's torso. Later, three “Turkish hats” appear on the shield.

The coat of arms also appears as a Turkish or Tartar hat when enrolling in the Frankfurt patrician society Haus Alten Limpurg , in which the Ketelhodt were admitted by marriage in 1798, but in 1887 the legitimate line expired.

  • Oldest family coat of arms, seal of the knight Dietrich Ketelhot from 1302 "S (igillum) Tiederuci K (etelhot) MILITIS"

  • same seal from 1302, different tracing

  • 1318: Seal of Bishop Nikolaus von Ketelhodt in Verden

  • Coat of arms around 1770 as "Turkish hat"

  • "Coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein, Danish and other noble families"

  • Family coat of arms in the register of arms of the Westphalian nobility

  • Coat of arms in the register of arms of the Westphalian nobility

Personalities

  • Nikolaus von Kesselhut , from 1312 to 1331 Prince-Bishop of Verden
  • Christian Ketelhot (1492–1546) Reformer of Stralsund (membership of the noble family is not documented, however)
  • Gustav-Joachim von Ketelhodt (1654–1732) Lord of Kambs, court stable master in Güstrow
  • Christian Ulrich von Ketelhodt (1701–1777) Chancellor and Consistorial President in the Principality of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, patron of the sciences and the arts
  • Carl Gerd von Ketelhodt (1738–1814) Chancellor and Consistorial President in Rudolstadt, founder of the library
  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Freiherr von Ketelhodt, diplomat, chancellor and consistorial president in Rudolstadt.
  • Johann-Friedrich Freiherr von Ketelhodt (1744–1809) court marshal in Rudolstadt
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Ketelhodt (1766–1836), Chancellor in Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
  • Ludwig (Louis) Freiherr von Ketelhodt (1798–1849), Chancellor in Rudolstadt
  • Friedrich August Freiherr von Ketelhodt (1786–1854) diplomat and court marshal in Rudolstadt
  • Maximilian Freiherr von Ketelhodt (1804–1865) Prussian civil servant, later went to the British colony of Jamaica as a farmer, where he became custodian (community leader, representative of the crown) of Saint Thomas Parish . He was murdered in the Morant Bay Uprising on October 11, 1865.
  • Robert Oskar von Ketelhodt (1836–1908), politician and district administrator.
  • Max von Ketelhodt (1843–1907), German administrative lawyer and governor
  • Hans von Ketelhodt (1871-1948), naval lieutenant (shot the lawyer Zenker in a duel in 1896 )
  • Gerd Freiherr von Ketelhodt (1915–1976), German general staff officer, bearer of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  • Christian Dürckheim-Ketelhodt (* 1944), entrepreneur and art collector
  • Ines von Ketelhodt (* 1961), designer and photographer

  • Nikolaus, Prince-Bishop of Verden 1312–1331

  • Christian Ketelhodt reformer of Stralsund, 1492–1546

  • Christian-Ulrich v. Ketelhodt 1701–1777 Chancellor in Rudolstadt

  • Carl-Gerd v. Ketelhodt 1738–1814 Chancellor in Rudolstadt, founder of a library

  • Friedrich-Wilhelm Freiherr von Ketelhodt 1766–1838 Chancellor in Rudolstadt, diplomat

  • Johann-Friedrich Freiherr von Ketelhodt 1744–1809 court marshal, head stable master in Rudolstadt

  • Friedrich August von Ketelhodt (1786–1854), court marshal in Rudolstadt

literature

  • Friedrich Crull : The coats of arms of the genders of the team, which occurred up to 1360 in the present borders of Meklenburg in: Association for Mecklenburg history and antiquity : Yearbooks of the association for Mecklenburg history and antiquity. - Vol. 52 (1887), pp. 34-182 (p. 66)
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, pp. 197-198, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Christian August Hanckel: Attempt to explain some of the old dignities occurring in the family tree of the noble family von Ketelhodt: Sr. Excelenz ... Mr. Carl Gerth von Ketelhodt ... at the start of the Directorii about the local princes. Dedicated to the government and consistorial collegia. Frankenhausen: Cöler 1770 ( digital copy of the copy from the Bavarian State Library )
  • Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexikon: or manual about the historical, genealogical and diplomatic, partly also heraldic news from the high and low nobility, especially in the German federal states, as well as from the Austrian, Bohemian, Moravian, Prussian, Silesian and Lausitzian nobility, A to K, Volume 1, Voigt, 1825, p. 649
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . , Volume 5, Leipzig 1864, pp. 79-81
  • Eduard von Ketelhodt: Documents and historical news of the Ketelhodtscher family. Stiller, Schwerin 1855.
  • Eduard von Ketelhodt: Monuments of the baron von Ketelhodtischen family. Stiller, Schwerin 1855. ( digitized version )
  • Gerd von Ketelhodt: History of the family of the barons von Ketelhodt from 1654–1926 , M. Ketelhodt, 2010, new (2nd) edition / revised and provided with pictures and overviews, with 4 additional attachments by Matthias von Ketelhodt
  • Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, pp. 121-122

Web links

Commons : Familie von Ketelhodt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch (MUB), Volume 1, No. 375, Page 372f
  2. ↑ MUB Vol. 3, No. 1490
  3. ↑ a b Friedrich Crull , The coats of arms of the genders of the team , which occurred up to 1360 in the present borders of Meklenburg , in: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology, Volume 52 (1887), pp. 34–182, here in particular pp. 66 f .
  4. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser , Part A, 92nd year 1942, p. 218
  5. ↑ a b c Friedrich Crull , The coats of arms of the genders of the team that occurred up to 1360 in the present-day borders of Meklenburg , in: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology , Volume 52 (1887), p. 44 ( explanation of abbreviations. )
  6. ↑ Friedrich Ludwig Anton Hörschelmann, Genealogical-historical news of the ancient pen-like aristocratic family of Ketelhodt flourishing in Upper and Lower Saxony , Erfurt 1771, pp. 23-24 ( § 21 treatise on the coat of arms )
  7. ↑ The coat of arms of the districts of Seelz (accessed on December 21, 2014)
  8. ↑ Max von Spiessen , Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility , Görlitz 1901–1903, p. 29 and plate 73 (coat of arms graphics by Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt )
  9. ^ The Frankfurt patriciate: Ketelhodt (accessed December 21, 2014)
  10. ↑ Coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein, Danish and other noble families . Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
  11. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch, Volume 3, 1916, page 181