Liettwitz
Lüttwitz is the name of an old Silesian noble family. The Lords of Lüttwitz originally came from the Upper Lusatian nobility . Branches of the family still exist today.
history
origin
The family appears with their progenitor Lutholdus de Luptycz (Luptitz) for the first time in 1321 and 1338 in the entourage of Duke Henry I of Silesia . Luthold, who originally belonged to the Upper Lusatian nobility, came from Herwigsdorf in the Duchy of Glogau , which was created in 1251 when the Duchy of Silesia was divided. . On February 16, 1396, the family appeared with Heinrich Loptitz , substitute for the Glogau vicars, and with Hans Luptitz in a document from Duke Conrad II of Oels in Silesia. The family was divided into three tribes around 1400, of which the Alt-Raudten and Reuthau tribes still exist today.
The name changed over the centuries from Luptitz to Löptitz, Lypticz, Luptwitz, Lüptwitz to Lüttwitz; the last form became solid in the course of the 17th century.
Spread and personalities
In the course of time, numerous members of the family achieved influential state, court and military offices, but also achieved high spiritual dignity.
- Hans von Lüttwitz on Lentschen near Sagan was Marshal of Duke Johann in 1498 .
- Nicol Lüttwitz zu Bischwitz died in 1539 as abbot of the monastery of Our Dear Women in Breslau
- Barbara von Lüttwitz died in 1546 as the abbess of the Trebnitz monastery .
- In 1558 Christoph von Lüttwitz was the general tax collector of the Silesian princes and estates
- Melchior of Lüttwitz on Laeswitz, Litt wit and means Dammer was 1684 Wohlauscher country elder and regal Hofrichter .
- Georg Wilhelm von Lüttwitz , Major General of the Kurbrandenburg region , became official governor of Prussian Holland in 1696 .
In the first half of the 18th century it was
- Valentin Leonard von Lüttwitz from the House of Reuthau and Heinersdorf state elder of the Sprottauschen district,
- Balthasar Friedrich von Lüttwitz State Elder of the Freystadtischer Kreis and
- Balthasar Siegmund von Lüttwitz auf Mitteldammer from the military line became State Deputy of the Principality of Wohlau .
- Hans Ernst Freiherr von Lüttwitz († 1837) was the district president of Reichenbach in Silesia , Lord of Gorkau and Naselwitz.
- Ferdinand Sigismund Freiherr von Lüttwitz († 1821) became Royal Prussian Rittmeister .
- His descendant Rudolph Freiherr von Lüttwitz (* 1793) was a member of the Académie Nationale in Paris .
- His younger brother Theodor Freiherr von Lüttwitz (* 1798), Lord of Mittelsteine in the County of Glatz , married Countess Isabella zu Lynar in 1826 . They left behind three daughters, three sons, two of whom became officers in the Prussian army .
Possessions
The family owned the houses, among other things
In the middle of the 19th century there were relatives in Silesia
- to Dockern (Oels district), Lossen and Krumpach near Trebnitz ,
- to Bartsch near Steinau,
- to Gorkau Castle near Zobten and
- to Hartlieb near Breslau,
as well as with the gentlemen
- Simmenau near Constadt and
- Owning Mittelsteine in County Glatz .
Owned or partially owned by the family
- in Galicia the Lords Lodygowitz and Wilkowitz near Bila
- in West Prussia the Lordship of Skłudzewo and the noble sheep farm Gniasdowo in the former district of Thorn
- Varow in the former Kolmar i. Poses
Lines and status surveys
Tribe Alt-Raudten
This trunk appears in documents on Alt-Raudten as early as 1409 . Heinrich Sigmund von Lüttwitz (1696–1746), on creep, imperial major general, used the title of baron from around 1730 . His grandchildren, the brothers Rudolf Freiherr von Lüttwitz, on Simmenau, and Theodor Freiherr von Lüttwitz, on Mittelsteine in Silesia, received written recognition of the hereditary Prussian baron from the King of Prussia on December 14, 1845 in Charlottenburg .
Reuthau tribe
Balthasar Friedrich von Lüttwitz, on Schönborn , etc., received the hereditary Prussian baron status in Breslau on November 6, 1741. His nephew Hans Wolff of Lüttwitz on Wallwitz etc., representative of the Lower Silesian landscape in Wroclaw, and Hartlieb of Lüttwitz, royal Prussian Privy Councilor and Councilor received, on 20 February 1788 at Berlin the royal permission for conducting the hereditary Prussian baron title.
Frankenberg-Lüttwitz
By royal Prussian confirmation of September 29, 1816, Heinrich Ernst Boguslaw von Lüttwitz, Prussian major of the Gardes du Corps , as heir and majorate on Bielwiese near Steinau, received permission to combine the von Frankenberg coat of arms with his own, the name of Frankenberg- To accept Lüttwitz .
Lüttwitz-Kerstan
The progenitor of this line, which comes from a Lüttwitz daughter, is Eduard Kerstan, on Upper, Middle and Lower Töschwitz near Alt-Raudten in Silesia. Before 1827 he had married Auguste von Lüttwitz (1790–1855), of the Schönau family near Glogau. Their son Arthur Kerstan, on Krischütz in the Wohlau district , a Prussian captain a. D. , was since April 1, 1868 the adopted son of Auguste von Johnston, born von Lüttwitz (1794-1875), on Talbendorf . He received the hereditary Prussian nobility from the king as von Lüttwitz-Kerstan on January 26, 1870 in Berlin.
coat of arms
Family coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows three black eagle wings in silver with the Saxons turned inwards , the top one placed crosswise, the other two upright against each other. On the helmet with black and silver covers, two silver comb wheels placed side by side in front of three (black, silver and black) ostrich feathers.
Baron coat of arms
The baronial coat of arms after the diplomas of 1741 and 1788 shows the family coat of arms shield, above it two helmets, both with the same crest as the family coat of arms helmet ; Shield holders are two royal crowned , gold-reinforced black eagles.
Coat of arms Lüttwitz-Kerstan
The Lüttwitz-Kerstan coat of arms from 1870 is the same as the Lüttwitz family coat of arms, except that the crest of the crest is golden.
Known family members
- Heinrich Sigismund von Lüttwitz (1696–1746), Imperial General Field Sergeant
- Henriette von Schuckmann (1769–1799), née Freiin von Lüttwitz, received a marriage proposal from Goethe at the age of 21
- Otto Kaspar Friedrich Heinrich von Frankenberg-Lüttwitz (1829–1905), Imperial General of the Cavalry
- Arthur Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1865–1928), Prussian lieutenant general in the First World War
- Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1861–1946), German major general
- Georg Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1851–1922), German lieutenant general
- Hinko Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1855–1928), Prussian general of the infantry
- Walther Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1859–1942), German infantry general , leader of the Kapp Putsch
- Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1895–1975), German tank general and lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr
- Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1896–1969), German general of the tank force
- Kaspar Sigismund von Lüttwitz (1732–1796), Prussian major general
- Lidy von Lüttwitz (1902–1996), German sculptor
See also
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses . Justus Perthes, Gotha, 1860, p.510ff , 1861 p. 455 f.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 6. Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1865, pages 49–52, books.google.de
- Georg Meyer: Lüttwitz, barons of (Silesian noble family). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 15, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-428-00196-6 , pp. 486-488 ( digitized version ).
- Paul-Ulrich Flashar: History of the Silesian lineage of Lüttwitz . Braunschweig 2001
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Volume 3. Reichenbach Brothers, Leipzig 1837, pp. 318-319, books.google.de
- Genealogical paperback of the knights and Aristocratic families, 1878. Third year, p.449ff von Lüttwitz (and Frankenberg-Lüttwitz)
Web links
- Coat of arms of the von Lüttwitz (here as v. Lütwitz ) in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605
Individual evidence
- ↑ Codex Lus. 247 u. 273
- ^ Alfred Freiherr von Krane: Coat of arms and handbook of the nobility in Silesia (including Upper Lusatia) . Görlitz, S. 71 (1901/04).
- ↑ a b c d e f g Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, pp. 111-113.
- ↑ a b c New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 6, pp. 49-52.
- ↑ Figure Reuthau
- ↑ Figure Krumpach
- ↑ former Jesuit property.
- ↑ Genealogical index of places
- ↑ Genealogy in short form . Website family von Frankenberg