Knobelsdorff (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Knobelsdorff

Knobelsdorff is the name of an ancient noble family from the medieval margraviate of Meißen , which probably originally came from Knobelsdorf near Saalfeld .

history

The family appears for the first time with Isenhard de Clowelokesdorf as a witness in a document from Dietrich II (the oppressed), Margrave of Meissen, issued on April 1, 1203 in Altzella / Nossen Monastery (not far from Ziegra-Knobelsdorf), Saxony, burial place of the Wettins in 1190 -1381. It is divided into several houses, which u. a. can also be traced back to an original coat of arms documented for the first time at the end of the 13th century.

Rank increases:

  • Herwigsdorf House - Reichs-Freiherren, Vienna, January 27, 1699
  • House Buchelsdorf - 1826 Prussian barons
  • Haus Langmeil - 1837 Dutch barons, 1856 Prussian barons
  • Grünhöfchen House - Egon von Knobelsdorff by adoption (Buchelsdorff House) since 1972 Baron von Knobelsdorff

The line of Knobelsdorff Brenkenhoff goes back to the royal Prussian lieutenant colonel and district Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff , son of Franz Balthasar von Brenkenhoff whose son Leopold Schoenberg of Brenkenhoff († 1799), the last male offspring of those of Brenkenhoff was.

Meetings of the entire family have already been documented for the years 1588, 1597 and 1600. A family association has existed since 1872.

For the 11th / 12th Century evidence of a tower hill castle ( Motte ) in (Ziegra-) Knobelsdorf , Krs. Waldheim (Saxony). The origins of the church in Knobelsdorf from the first half of the 12th century with a Romanesque entrance portal (tympanum) and baptismal font probably go back to the then lords of Knobelsdorff.

In the 13th century real estate in Belgern / Elbe (Saxony) and in Knobelsdorf near Goldberg (Silesia) is proven. The entire property of the family branches comprised more than 400 estates, with a focus on the 14th - 19th centuries in Silesia, Brandenburg, East Prussia, Pomerania, Franconia, Poland, Lithuania and Belarus.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff line

The main coat of arms shows in red a blue bar covered with three silver diagonal stripes. On the helmet with red-blue-silver covers a closed flight , as the shield is labeled .

family members

Knobelsdorff

  • Alexander Friedrich von Knobelsdorff (1723–1799), Prussian Field Marshal General , Commander of the Order of St. John in Wietersheim
  • Alexander von Knobelsdorff (1788–1848), Prussian lieutenant general
  • August Rudolf von Knobelsdorff (1727–1794), Prussian major general
  • Bastian (Sebastian) von Knobelsdorff, 1496–1559 (?), 1510 Kurbrandenburg 'scher chamberlain, supports Margrave Albrecht in the secularization of East Prussia, 1529 support of Vienna against the Turks with 500 "Bohemian servants", Imperial Council, promoter of the Reformation, acquisition of Provincial administration Schwiebus / Silesia
  • Karl Ludwig von Knobelsdorff (1724–1786), Prussian major general
  • Carl Christoph von Knobelsdorff (1767–1845), district administrator in the Neumark district of Königsberg (1795–1798), royal Prussian chief stable master (1823–1841), succeeded August von der Goltz as the (vacant) large court batch (or supreme batch) ) a senior marshal (1835–1841). He increased the number of state studs by three new establishments: Warendorf (1826), Zirke (1828) and Wickrath (1839).
  • Carl Siegmund von Knobelsdorff, (1827–1892), Colonel (colonel) of the Northern States in the American Civil War, notary in Chicago.
  • Conradus von Knobelsdorff, Magister and Canon of Merseburg , called 1235–1263, still in 1570 on the (presumed) day of his death on September 23, a mass is celebrated in Zeitz in his memory.
  • Christoph von Knobelsdorff (* 1967), a former State Secretary in the Berlin Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research. D.
  • Curt von Knobelsdorff (1839–1904), Prussian lieutenant colonel and pioneer of the Blue Cross
  • Egon Freiherr von Knobelsdorff (* 1948), General Secretary of the Order of St. John in Germany a. D.
  • Elisabeth von Knobelsdorff (1877–1959), first German female engineer, architect, TU Berlin
  • Eustachius von Knobelsdorff (also: Eustathius; 1519–1571), German neo-Latin poet and epic poet, Canon of Frauenburg and Breslau, administrator of the Diocese of Warmia, official of Silesia, Papal Comes Palatinus (Count Palatine)
  • Friedrich von Knobelsdorff (around 1500–1553), Imperial District Judge of Nuremberg, governor / regent of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach, the Silesian Duchy of Jägerndorf / Oderberg / Beuthen and the Duchies of Opole and Ratibor, administrator of the Duchy of Crossen / Oder / Lower Silesia
  • Georg Wenzeslaus von Knobelsdorff (1699–1753), painter and architect, surintendant of the Royal Prussian Palaces and Gardens under Friedrich II. King of Prussia, also once his friend, director of all buildings, Geh. Finance war and domain council, honorary member of the Academy of Sciences in Berlin, founding member of the Masonic lodge to the three world globes 1739 in Berlin
  • Hanco von Knobelsdorff († 1384), from 1362 "Supreme Captain of the Roman Emperor and King of Bohemia (Charles IV) in Bavaria", Burgrave of Parkstein / Sulzbach
  • Hans von Knobelsdorff (Marshal) (1397–1478), Marshal of Duke Heinrich von Glogau, Imperial (Habsburg) burgrave of Burg and County of Plankenstain / Cilli, today Celje / Slovenia
  • Hans von Knobelsdorff (Major General) (1866–1947), Prussian Major General
  • Hans-Friedrich von Knobelsdorff (1693–1760), Prussian chief forester of the Marken and Priegnitz
  • Heinrich von Knobelsdorff (1775–1826), Prussian major general, inspector of the Guard Cavalry
  • Hermann von Knobelsdorff (1807–1888), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Ida von Lüttichau (1798–1856), daughter of the head stable master Karl Christoph Gottlob von Knobelsdorff, an important figure in cultural life in Dresden
  • Johann Christoph Gottfried von Knobelsdorff (1740–1803), Prussian major general, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
  • Johann Tobias Freiherr von Knobelsdorff, 1648–1715, imperial baron with an imperial charter from January 27, 1699, governor of the Württemberg princes, male lawyer, state elder, extensive property in the districts of Freistadt, Sprottau, Glogau and Grünberg, Silesia, 1715 portrait
  • Kaspar Friedrich von Knobelsdorff (1694–1748), Prussian colonel, knight of the order De la Générosité and the Pour le Mérite
  • Kurt-Christoph von Knobelsdorff (1904–1945), German show jumping rider (1924–1930)
  • Kurd Gottlob von Knobelsdorff (1735–1807), Prussian major general
  • Leo von Knobelsdorff (1932–2013), influential jazz (boogie-woogie) pianist in Germany, sound engineer
  • Martin Maximilian von Knobelsdorff (1596–1659), Oberamts-Chancellor of Silesia, Imperial Count Palatine and Knight of the Golden Spur
  • Maximilian von Knobelsdorff (1539–1609), governor of Schwiebus / Silesia, Imperial Council and Chamber Council of Silesia, promoter of the Reformation
  • Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886–1966), German general of the tank force
  • Tobias von Knobelsdorff (* around 1640), under the Polish King Johann III. Sobieski Colonel (General?) Of the Polish cavalry ( Hussaria ), which led the decisive attack against the Turks in the Battle of Vienna on the Kahlenberg on September 12, 1683
  • Theodor von Knobelsdorff (1817–1879), Prussian major general
  • Viktor von Knobelsdorff (1885–1959), Prussian major a. D., air officer in World War I , writer, businessman, a. a. in Manila “Zuellig & von Knobelsdorff” with the brothers Stephen and Gilbert Zuellig; due to Participation on July 20, 1944, Neuengamme and Kiel-Drachense concentration camps
  • Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff (General, 1752) (1752–1820), Prussian lieutenant general and diplomat
  • Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff (General, 1802) (1802–1880), German general
  • Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff (General, 1825) (1825–1908), German major general and researcher on coat of arms
  • Wilhelm Theodor von Knobelsdorff (1799–1875), German stable master

Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff

See also

literature

  • Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff: To the history of the family von Knobelsdorff. Volume 1-6. Berlin 1855–1861. Volume I , Volume II , Volume III , Volume IV , Volume VI
  • Wilhelm von Knobelsdorff: History of the von Knobelsdorff family. Volume 1-6. The von Knobelsdorff family in family tables. Berlin 1876 ff.
  • Genealogical paperback of knights and noble families. Brno 1879 (with family tree and older genealogy). P. 245ff
  • Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch - Freiherren 1857 p. 379ff , 1870 p.430ff (with older genealogy) and 1871 p. 342ff (addition to the older genealogy) .
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VI. Volume 91 of the complete series. CA Starke Publishing House. Limburg (Lahn) 1987. ISSN  0435-2408
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility. Noble Houses Volume XXXII. CA Starke Publishing House. Limburg (Lahn). 2010.
  • Ralph Gundram: The castle of those von Knobelsdorff. in Der Mittelächsische Heimatbote. 13th year, 2008, issue 43, p. 12.
  • The self-defending freemason. Frankfurt and Leipzig. 1744.
  • René Nellaf: Le Lac du Dragon. Louvain (Belgium), no year (around 1946)
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. Perthes, Gotha 1855, p. 356ff.
  • Genealogical paperback of the primeval nobility. 2nd volume. 1893, p. 282ff.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1902. Third volume, p. 455ff.
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses. 1874, p. 437.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Original of the document in the Dresden State Archives, No. 129.
  2. ↑ Klaus Neitmann (Ed.): The archive of the State Historical Association for the Mark Brandenburg , p. 56f. ( Online at Google Book Search )
  3. ^ Knobelsdorff-Brenkenhoff, Leopold Karl Wilhelm von . In: East German Biography (Kulturportal West-Ost)