Lüneburg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the morganatic family of Lüneburg

Lüneburg is the name of a morganatic noble family that has existed since 1625 , which descends in the paternal line from the Guelphs , namely from the ducal house of Braunschweig and Lüneburg , but belongs to the lower nobility .

History of the noble family Lüneburg of Welf descent

August the Elder , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg , Bishop of Ratzeburg (* 1568, † 1636), had several illegitimate children together with Ilsa Schmedecken (also called Ilse Schmidichen ): Catharina Elisabeth , Dorothea Sophia , Anna Maria , Clara Agnes , Ilsa Lucia , Ernst , Margaretha Sybilla , Georg and Friedrich Lüneburg . These were legitimized in Vienna on July 9, 1625 by the emperor and on the same day, together with their mother, were raised to the imperial nobility under the name of Lüneburg .

A descendant of one of the sons, Hans von Lüneburg , (* 1800; † 1861), born on Gut Wathlingen (family property since 1634), landowner von Uetze (family property since 1624), was a royal Hanoverian Rittmeister a. D. and married Marianne von Mandelsloh (* 1812, † 1870) since 1837 . The two sons Hans and Georg emerged from the marriage.

The firstborn, Hans (* 1848, † 1926), on Uetze was Knighthood - deputy and royal Saxon first lieutenant a. D. He had been married to Auguste von derdecke since 1880 , with whom he had their daughter Ilse (* 1882; † 1968), who from 1901 to 1911 with the manor Albrecht Freiherr von Hammerstein-Equord (* 1863; † 1911) was married. From widowhood she married again in 1920: Frithjof , also a baron von Hammerstein-Equord (* 1870, † 1944), the major general ret. D. was.

The younger son, Georg (* 1853; † 1897), owner of Gut Masendorf (family property since 1792), was a retired royal Saxon lieutenant . D. and married to Adelheid von der Betten (* 1854, † 1939) since 1877 . The two sons Hans and Ernst came from the marriage.

Essenrode Castle

The younger of the two sons, Ernst (* 1881; † 1961), at Gut Essenrode in Essenrode (owned by the family since 1831), was councilor of the former principality of Lüneburg and a lieutenant colonel . D. He was the last male representative of the male tribe since 1948, was never married and had no children of his own, but in 1950 he adopted the son of his niece Osterhold under his name as a child, so that the surname continued through a daughter line to the present day becomes.

The first-born son of Georg von Lüneburg and Adelheid von der Betten, Hans (* 1878, † 1948), from Masendorf, Wathlingen and Uetze, was a royal Prussian senior forester a. D. and presiding landscape councilor of the former principality of Lüneburg . His wife was Anna von Klencke (* 1884, † 1961), with whom he had been married since 1908. The two daughters Ilse and Osterhold emerged from the marriage. Ilse (* 1910; † 1965), heiress of Gut Wathlingen (today Gut von Reden , also known as Gut Lüneburg ), had been the wife of Heinz-Henning von Reden , former member of the government since 1934 . D., her younger sister Osterhold (* 1914), heiress of Gut Masendorf, had been married to Hilmar Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen since 1940 , the Assessor a. D. and was a certified farmer . The couple lived on Wathlingen. The connection resulted in the son Ernst Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (* 1940), who on December 15, 1950 contracted in Celle von Ernst von Lüneburg († 1961), his grandfather's brother (or his mother's uncle) under the name was adopted by Lüneburg . The contract at Gifhorn was confirmed by an official court on August 15, 1951 . Ernst von Lüneburg (formerly Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen ) was an engineer for agriculture and the heir of Gut Essenrode, where he also lives with his family. In 1981 he had three daughters: Sophie , Sitta and Anna , all of whom were born in the 1970s.

coat of arms

The coat of arms according to the nobility letter of 1625: shield divided; above in front of a silver background a growing two-tailed red-armored blue lion, accompanied by five (in front three, behind two) red hearts (similar to the Principality of Lüneburg ), below a red field, without a picture; On the helmet with blue and silver blankets on the right and red and silver on the left , a golden column crowned with a natural-colored peacock bump between two buffalo horns divided across corners by red and silver.

literature

  • Julius Graf von Oeynhausen, The family of Lüneburg. In: Vierteljahrsschrift des Herold 1 (1873), pp. 218–229
  • Heinrich Pröve, Wathlingen , Celle 1925
  • Gothaisches aristocratic paperback B 1933, 1936 (older genealogy)
  • Heinz-Henning von Reden, family tree of the von Lüneburg family , Celle 1942
  • Hans Schlotter, The Origin of Ilse Schmidichen. In: Zeitschrift für Niederdeutsche Familienkunde 58 (1983), pp. 117–122
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, p. 102, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997 ISSN  0435-2408
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, noble houses B Volume I and XIV, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1954 and 1981, p. 396 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn), p. 102.
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility , noble houses B Volume XIV, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1981, p. 396 f.