Krakewitz (noble family)
Krakewitz , formerly also Krackewitz, Krakevitz, Krakewitze , is the name of an old, originally Rügen noble family that spread to Pomerania , Mecklenburg-Schwerin , Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark .
history
The family belongs to the ancient Rügen nobility with the parent house of the same name on the southern tip of the Wittow peninsula , today's Fährhof. Under the current name, Johann Krakevitze first appeared in 1302 on a document as a witness, according to which Prince Wizlaw III. the village Schwarthe gave the monastery Hiddensee (Hyddensee), and in 1316 the miners Johannes and Henning (Henneke) Krakevitz on an alliance letter between the Rügen knighthood and the city of Stralsund. From the 15th century on, members of the von Krakewitz family were often in service at the court of the Pomeranian dukes.
Later the family came to Mecklenburg, where they participated in the transfer of the monasteries with the Lords of Krakewitz on Gevezin (Lordship of Strelitz) as early as 1572. In the former Stavenhagen office she acquired the Briggow estate around 1670 , which she owned until 1791.
In the Middle Ages, the family split into the Divitz, Presentzke and Polstelitz lines with Starkow.
With Curd Krakevitz, Landvogt (1490–1496) who is also considered the builder, but more precisely as the purchaser of Divitz Castle , which remained in the family's possession until 1625, and Hans von Krakvitz, Landvogt (1604–1611), the family was twice the important Occupied position of the bailiff of Rügen .
Chamberlain Hans Friedrich Christian von Krakewitz, Herr auf Briggow, was provisional from 1769 and head of the monastery until 1790. He died at the age of 55 on November 11, 1790 of dropsy in Dobbertin. Being in Zopfstil designed sandstone obelisk is on the monastery cemetery Dobbertin received. Sophia Elisabeth von Krackewitz from Briggow, who was registered in Dobbertin under no.124, was a conventual there for 30 years and died on January 5, 1800.
The gender was also widespread in Prussia, but here it had a different coat of arms and it was easy to confuse it with the Mecklenburg and Pomeranian coats of arms. 1797 received Karl Eduard Leverentz, natural son of the royal Prussian lieutenant colonel a. D. Karl Friedrich von Krakewitz, a Prussian nobility legitimation while retaining the paternal name and coat of arms .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a silver panther in red , with the panther growing on the red-silver puffed helmet with the same blankets .
The von Zuhm , who were also reproachful , initially had the same coat of arms.
people
- Barthold von Krakevitz (1582–1642), Lutheran theologian , university professor and general superintendent in Pomerania
- Hans Friedrich Christian von Krackewitz (1737–1790), captain and chamberlain, was provisional from 1769–1784 and head of the monastery in Dobbertin from 1784–1790
- Albrecht Joachim von Krakevitz (1674–1732), Lutheran theologian and general superintendent of Swedish Pomerania in Greifswald
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, Volume 91 of the complete series, 1987, p. 462; Volume XVII, Volume 144 of the complete series, 2008, p. 384, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn)
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, B 19, 1990, pp. 254-257
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen Häuser , AB 19, 1918 (ÄG), p. 502f, (additions: 1922; 1930, p. 472f), Gotha, Justus Perthes
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Leipzig 1864, Volume 5, pp. 257-258 .
- Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). 1864, pp. 136-137
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin 1843, Volume 1, pp. 109-113
Web links
- The von Krakewitz family in the Wildenfels Castle Archives
- Coat of arms of the Krakewitz (Krackewitzen) in Johann Siebmacher's Wappenbuch from 1701, Volume 3, Plates 155–11