Klinggräff

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Klinggräff , also Klinggräf , is the name of a Mecklenburg and Prussian noble family originally from Thuringia. Several generations worked as diplomats and councilors for the Kingdom of Hanover and the Kingdom of Prussia.

history

The lineage of the family is traced back to Joachim Klinggräff, who was councilor in Kindelbrück in the Weissensee district around 1575 . His son Jerome of Klinggraeff (* 1575, † 1637) was from 1610 to 1616 bailiff to Destedt in Braunschweig , then Vienenburg and Westerburg in pen Halberstadt . He was married to Johanne von Dannenberg . Son Joachim von Klinggräff (* 1609, † 1680) was bailiff at Kletzke near Plattenburg in Prignitz . In 1653 he bought the Kletzke estate and the neighboring Schrepkow, Werzin and Lindenberg estates . His sons Dietrich, Elias, Joachim and Werner Friedrich von Klinggräff received the imperial nobility renewal in 1715 and the imperial nobility confirmation from Emperor Karl VI in 1721 . while retaining the hereditary coat of arms. Elias von Klinggräff († 1717), royal British and electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg ambassador to the Hague , as well as Dietrich and Werner Friedrich von Klinggräff, had acquired goods in Mecklenburg. In 1751, the Prussian nobility was recognized for the sons of Dietrich, the Prussian secret war council and director of accusations in Berlin, Johann Samuel von Klinggräff († 1785), and the archivist in Königsberg, Elias Dietrich von Klinggräff. In 1804, the Danish budget adviser and Mecklenburg district administrator, Christian Ludwig Karl von Klinggräff († 1808), were transferred to Chemnitz and Pinnow, and his nephews and later heirs, Major Bernhard Heinrich von Klinggräff, to Bialochowo in West Prussia, and Carl Wilhelm von Klinggräff, to Schollendorf in Lower Silesia, accepted into the Mecklenburg knighthood . The family stayed in Mecklenburg until 1945.

Status surveys

Meyer von Klinggräff

The Prussian major Bernhard Heinrich von Klinggräff (1751-1820) had married a wife von Sitthof , widowed Meyer , in his first marriage ; he adopted their children Carl Heinrich, Caroline Christine, (married von Gordon), Carl Ludwig and Elisabeth Sophie Henriette, who were then raised to the Prussian nobility with a diploma on April 23, 1803 under the name Meyer von Klinggraeff and with the Klinggräff coat of arms.

Possessions

Chemnitz Manor House 2010

coat of arms

Coat of arms on the manor house in Chemnitz

Divided by a red bar; above in blue a gold star, below in gold three (2,1) blue balls. On the helmet with red and gold covers on the right, blue and gold on the left, a gold star between two buffalo horns, the right one divided by gold and blue, the left one by red and gold. The Latin motto of gender is SEQUERE ASTRA , Follow the Stars .

Well-known representatives

literature

  • Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Tiedemann, Rostock 1864, p. 127
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New General German Adelslexikon. Volume 5, Vogt, Leipzig 1864, p. 138
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, pp. 285-286, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1987, ISSN  0435-2408

Web links

Commons : Klinggräff (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Castle inventory: Castles and palaces in the Prignitz district - detail page with Kletzke manor )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.burgeninventar.de
  2. ↑ a b c Martin Arends: The Klinggraeff family
  3. ↑ Reinhold Koser:  Klinggräffen, Joachim Wilhelm von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 194 f.
  4. ↑ Ernst Wunschmann:  Klinggräff, Karl Julius Meyer von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1882, p. 193 f.