Krockow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Krockow family

Krockow is the name of an old West Prussian noble family . The Lords of Krockow belong to the Pomeranian nobility. Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

Krockow Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

As the first member of the family, the knight Gneommer Crockau appears in a document on July 13, 1292 in Danzig . According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the family series begins with Lorenz Krockow , who is mentioned in documents between 1478 and 1493. The family's ancestral home, the village of Krockow is now a village in the powiat Pucki of the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland .

Although the Krockows are named Kashubians in a list of the nobility in Prussia in 1855 , according to a family legend, the family comes from Franconia and was initially called Vieserod, Vicherod or Vicerid, later also Wickerod or Wickerode. Kneschke begins the family line with Albert von Viesrod (also Wickerod), who lived in Franconia around 1196. His son is said to have come to Prussia with the Teutonic Order in 1238 . His descendants bought Krockow and other estates from Duke Mestwin II of Pomerania.

Spread and personalities

Reinhold von Krockow (1536–1599) was a mercenary leader in the service of Ottheinrich of the Palatinate , the Huguenots , the kings of France and Poland, the emperor and the city of Danzig . Georg von Krockow became a ducal Pomeranian district administrator and his son Joachim Ernst von Krockow (1601–1645) was imperial general sergeant in the Thirty Years' War . Matthias von Krockow (1600–1675) was an important Brandenburg statesman and diplomat. In 1650 he became a privy councilor of Brandenburg , president of the court court in Western Pomerania and envoy to the imperial court. Lorenz Georg von Krockow , Herr auf Peest , resident of the castle in Polzin and provost of the cathedral in Cammin , died in 1702 as Chancellor and Privy Councilor from the Pomerania. Ernst von Krokow was already the authorized minister of Kurbrandenburg at the peace congress in Nijmegen in 1679 . In 1690 he became a privy councilor, war councilor and court president in Western Pomerania.

Numerous members of the family entered the Brandenburg and Prussian military services and became officers in the Prussian army . Hans Kaspar von Krockow from the House of Peest (* 1700) died in 1759 as a Prussian lieutenant general and regiment owner of a wound he received during the Battle of Hochkirch in the Seven Years' War . His younger relative Döring Wilhelm (* 1719) received the order Pour le Mérite in 1760 as a lieutenant colonel after the battle of Torgau . Promoted to lieutenant general in 1781, he was made a knight of the Order of the Black Eagle a year later and, together with his brothers and cousins, was raised to the rank of Count in 1786 . He died in 1803 as a general of the infantry .

The count's tribe could be continued in the houses of Peest and Polzin. The Prussian major Wilhelm Joachim Reinhold Graf von Krockow († 1821) came from the Peest family . His son from his marriage to Jacobine von Below , Karl Gustav Adolph Graf von Krockow (1800–1867), lord of the Krockow rule and the Warsow estate, became a member of the Prussian manor house . On February 3, 1848 in Berlin, a Prussian approval for the use of the nickname Wickerode was granted by herald's office rescript . A Prussian change from the name Graf von Krockow-Wickerode to the name von der Wickerau, Graf von Krockow and a change of coat of arms for the entire family took place on January 31, 1874 in Berlin. The aristocratic tribe were wealthy in Pomerania, including Rumbske , Rowen and Zedlin in the former Stolp district .

Status surveys

On October 3, 1654, Döring Jacob von Krockow , electoral Brandenburg Landvogt zu Stolp and Schlawe , was awarded the Brandenburg inheritance office as seniorate .

Döring Wilhelm von Krockow , Prussian Lieutenant General, received (with extension to his brothers and cousins, Otto Carl, to Klein-Katz, Royal Polish Major General , Heinrich Joachim Reinhold, to Krockow, Peest and Dubbenitz, Prussian Colonel , Ernst Christoph, to Massow and Ganske, royal Polish lieutenant colonel , Ernst Matthias, on Ossecken, Prussian major and August Julius Gneomar von Krockow, Prussian ensign ) on September 19, 1786 in Berlin the Prussian count.

Letter nobility line

A relationship is to that of Otto Jochmus (* 1812) reasoned letter noble line that on 14 March 1829 in Berlin in the Prussian nobility as von Krockow was charged. He was the natural son of Ernst Graf von Krockow († 1816) on Wendisch-Carstnitz and Ossecken and Elisabeth Jochmus. His descendant Otto Christoph von Krockow, Fideikommissherr auf Rumbske and retired royal Prussian trainee lawyer. D., and his mother, Elisabeth von Krockow (in their personal capacity), nee von Puttkamer were carried Most High cabinet order on 13 August 1910 Schloss Wilhelmshöhe in the Prussian count conditions as of Wickerau Count and Countess von Krockow applicable ( diploma issued on January 30, 1911 in Berlin).

coat of arms

The newer family coat of arms (carried out from 1466 and identical to that of the Wickrau) shows a black hunting horn ( Hifthorn ) with black straps in gold , the mouth and mouthpiece of which are each set with a silver lily and which rests on two black eagle claws. Two armored arms on the helmet with black and gold helmet covers .

An older coat of arms from 1407 shows a buffalo head.

Known family members

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Pomeranian document book. P. 435, No. 486.
  2. ^ Friedrich Adolf Meckelburg : Draft of a register of the nobility in the province of Prussia . In: Neue Preußische Provinzial-Blätter , Other Series, Volume 7, Königsberg 1855, pp. 292-300, especially p. 294, no. 988.
  3. a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 5, pp. 291–293.
  4. ^ Editor:  Krockow, von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 13, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-428-00194-X , p. 55 f. ( Digitized version ).
  5. Berlin Review. Social-political weekly . Volume 5, Berlin 1856, p. 52, no. 38.
  6. ^ List of the members of the Balley Brandenburg of the Knightly Order of St. Johannis from the Hospital in Jerusalem . Berlin 1859, p. 101. No. 30.
  7. Wochenblatt der Johanniter-Ordens-Balley Brandenburg , No. 28, Berlin, July 10, 1867, p. 163 (obituary).
  8. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, page 25
  9. ^ Krockow, Lorenz Georg von in the German biography