Lühe (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von der Lühe

Lühe is the name of an old north-east German noble family . The gentlemen from the Lühe belong to the Mecklenburg nobility. Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

The ancestors of the family most likely came from today's joint community Lühe along the Lühe of the same name , a tributary of the Lower Elbe in the Altes Land. They were presumably the same tribe as the von Zesterfleth , who owned a keep on the Lühe, as the Vogt and Knight Otto von der Lühe, whose donation to the Doberan Monastery on Dec. 6, 1305, Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg certified, still had the same coat of arms like that led by Zesterfleth. Coat of arms of the knight Otto von der Lühe from 1305

According to the unsecured family tradition, they came to Mecklenburg in the wake of Heinrich the Lion . They had the order to settle farmers from Lower Saxony and Westphalia .

The family was first mentioned in a document on June 28, 1240 with the knights of the order Reinhardus , Olricus , Johannes , Heidenricus , Hermannus and Heinricus de Lu . The uninterrupted trunk line begins with Heinrich von der Lühe , who appears in documents from 1366.

Kölzow village church

The oldest ancestral seat of the Lühes was Kölzow, today part of the community Dettmannsdorf near Ribnitz-Damgarten in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen . They built a fortified tower with a ring trench on an island. The Kölzow field stone church built next to the manor is one of the oldest church buildings in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The choir, consecrated in 1233, is of Romanesque origin. During renovation work in 1987, impressive frescoes from this period were rediscovered and uncovered. They show the choice of a princess and are the earliest family pictures of those von der Lühe.

Spread and personalities

According to Kneschke , Heinricus and Otto de Lü, who appeared in 1301, were also family members. In 1523 the gentlemen von der Lühe were among the signatories of the Union of Estates . In the 16th century, members of the family also settled in Braunschweig . In 1530 Georg von der Lühe accompanied the Duke of Braunschweig to the Reichstag in Augsburg . Heinrich von der Lühe, ducal councilor of Brunswick, was sent to Elector August von Sachsen by the Brunswick court in 1570 because of the concord formula .

Joachim von der Lühe was first ducal colonel of Mecklenburg and later court marshal and privy councilor . He died unmarried in 1588. Heinrich († 1591) became the governor of Halberstadt and Paschen von der Lühe, president of the district court of Sternberg and head of the monastery in Dobbertin . He died in 1653 without offspring. Dietrich von der Lühe († 1673) was first ducal güstrowsch prince courtmaster and later privy councilor and president of all colleges. He left four sons from two marriages. Son Jacob Friedrich von der Lühe became royal Danish lieutenant general and from 1730 commander of the queen's body regiment. One of his brothers was a royal Danish Oberlanddrost . Curt Heinrich von der Lühe, Kurdish Brunswick Higher Appeal Judge, became a princely East Frisian privy councilor in 1738 .

Numerous members of the royal Danish service during the 18th century received Danish nobility naturalizations . So on February 15, 1776 the royal Danish chamberlain , secret conference councilor and chief president of Copenhagen Volrad Augustin von der Lühe. Likewise, Andreas Augustin von der Lühe , Royal Danish Major General of the Infantry, on March 7, 1776, and his brother Julius Didrik von der Lühe, Royal Danish Prime Lieutenant on May 22, 1776. The Royal Danish Chamberlain Friedrich Carl Aemilius von der Lühe received on March 25 , 1776 June 1777 the Danish aristocratic naturalization and in the same year Augustin von der Lühe and his brother Hans Otto , who later became the royal Württemberg Minister of Justice.

As officers in Brandenburg and royal Prussian services were among others Friedrich Matthias von der Lühe († 1792) as Rittmeister and Eckars von der Lühe died in 1843 as a captain . His son of the same name was a lieutenant in the 21st Infantry Regiment .

A sex association was established in 1886.

Possessions

Kölzow mansion
Manor house Pütnitz

The Kölzow headquarters were owned by the family until 1768 and then passed to the von Prollius family in Stubbendorf. It was acquired by Prince Friedrich Sigismund of Prussia in 1925 , who kept it until 1945. In 1997 it was taken over again by Detlef and Ute von der Lühe and has been in their possession since 2000. After a thorough renovation, the family received the memorial plaque of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in September 2009 in recognition of their services to the preservation of cultural heritage. Holiday rooms and party rooms are rented out in the castle.

In 2011, Nikolaus and Diana von der Lühe acquired the Pütnitz manor house not far from Damgarten, which also runs holiday apartments and ballrooms.

Other early possessions in Mecklenburg were Panzow from 1433 , Marlow and Sülten from 1450 ; Gut Kneese-Hof bei Marlow was owned by the family from 1516 to 1824. The former Lühe estates are located near Panzow in what is now the Neubukow-Salzhaff office : Rakow, Teßmannsdorf and Klein Strömkendorf (districts of Am Salzhaff ) as well as Spriehusen, Drüschow, Steinbrink and Buschmühlen (all in the community of Neubukow ).

In the 16th century goods could be acquired in Braunschweig, later also in Pomerania . There were relatives of Stöwen, Marsow, Hechthausen, Sellnow, Sorge, Zarnefanz , Birkholz, Griineberg and Kanzig.

During the 19th century there was a major from Lühe zu Redderstorf and a gentleman from Lühe auf Schabow . In Pomerania, members of the family owned the Naffin and Zarnefanz estates in the former Belgard and Grochnow districts in the Sternberg district in the mid-19th century . Friedrich Carl Johann von der Lühe was the master of Stöwen in the Dramburg district .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those von der Lühe on a grave slab in the village church of Woosten

Family coat of arms

The coat of arms shows an ascending, five times tinned blue tip in silver. On the helmet with blue and silver covers a growing gold clad and gold crowned maiden with open golden hair, holding a golden ring with a stone in front of her in both hands.

Heraldic saga

Two de Lu brothers , both knights in the service of Henry the Lion , freed a Wendish princess from a burning castle, probably Ilow Castle near Wismar, one of the main castles of the Wenden Prince Niklot , which he gave up on fire before he stood in front of the troops Henry the Lion withdrew to his last fortress, Werle Castle . Both brothers were enchanted by the princess's beauty and desired her to be a wife. The princess, who was fond of both, made the choice. Finally she gave a brother a bouquet and the other a golden ring. This was the chosen husband. Since then, a crowned princess has adorned the von der Lühe family coat of arms. The coats of arms of the descendants of both brothers are identical - with one exception: in the case of the descendants of the brother who married the princess, she holds a ring in her hands, in the case of the descendants of the other a bouquet of flowers. Both branches of the family existed until the 18th century. The family with the bouquet then died out. The bearers of the name living today have the ring in their coat of arms.

Known family members

Pictorial coat of arms on the prayer box on the nun gallery in the Dobbertin monastery church

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b www.schloss-koelzow.de ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.schloss-koelzow.de
  2. ^ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch, Vol. 1 No. 511
  3. ↑ a b c Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, pp. 100-101.
  4. ↑ a b New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6, pp. 40-41.
  5. ^ Walter Haak: Neubukow, For the history of a small Mecklenburg town. HrsG Stadt Neubukow 2000 pages 69 to 75
  6. ↑ Louis Bobe: vd Lühe, Adolph Andreas . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 10 : Laale – Løvenørn . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1896, p. 500 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  7. ↑ HW Harbou: vd Lühe, Andreas Augustin . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 10 : Laale – Løvenørn . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1896, p. 500-501 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  8. ↑ J. Bloch: vd Lühe, Frederik Carl Emil . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 10 : Laale – Løvenørn . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1896, p. 501 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  9. ↑ Louis Bobe: vd Lühe, Hartnack Otto . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 10 : Laale – Løvenørn . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1896, p. 502 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  10. ↑ Louis Bobe: vd Lühe, Joachim Christoph . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 10 : Laale – Løvenørn . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1896, p. 502 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  11. ↑ Louis Bobe: vd Lühe, Volrad August . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 10 : Laale – Løvenørn . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1896, p. 502-503 (Danish, runeberg.org ).