Lancken (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those von der Lancken

Von der Lancken is the name of an old Rügisch - Pomeranian noble family .

history

In the Middle Ages there were three lines of the von der Lancken family on Rügen , which some genealogists viewed as independent families because they had different coats of arms. One was located in the area between Granitz and Mönchgut and was first mentioned on October 1, 1285 with Pridborus de Lancka (Pridbor I.) and in 1429 for the last time with Pridbor IV. Von der Lancken.

Another line was first mentioned in 1316 with the squire Mathias von der Lanke auf Wittow . His descendants acquired further property on Wittow, on Jasmund and in Poseritz , which they sold in 1575 before they left Pomerania. This line came from the Lübeck cathedral provost and Holsteinisch-Gottorfscher official Aegidius von der Lancken .

Also in 1316 several members of the third line were mentioned for the first time. They were based on Wittow and in the parish of Zirkow . In a feudal letter from Duke Bogislaw X. from 1505, Rickwan, Vicke and Steffen von der Lancken were referred to as the sons of three brothers. Of the three lines of the family founded by them, that of Steffen died in 1608 and that of Vicke with Philipp Ernst von der Lancken in 1718. All later descendants descend from Rickwan.

The seal of a Grimeslaw von Lanken (de Lanka) has been preserved, but it cannot be assigned to any of the lines. His seal corresponds to the later coat of arms of those von der Lancken.

Woldenitz had belonged to the family on Rügen since the 13th century . When the last lord von der Lancken-Woldenitz died childless, the feudal and knightly estate was sold to the neighbor Wilhelm von Platen auf Parchow in 1893 . The Lipsitz estate near Bergen was also an early family seat from around 1307 to 1382 . The family also owned Gut Boldevitz from 1780 to 1945 with an early Baroque manor house from around 1650, one of the most important Baroque houses in Rügen, and from around 1608 to 1878 Gut Lancken near Dranske , whose early Baroque manor house was remodeled from 1608 around 1720 (and itself today is in decline, as is the Dranske-Lancken Park, which was laid out between 1720 and 1730 ). From 1795, Julius von der Lancken laid out the Juliusruh Landscape Park on Lanckensburg .

In 1816, Klevenow Castle , Western Pomerania, came into the possession of Carl Friedrich von der Lancken from the Boldevitz family, who was in the Swedish service and who added the name Wakenitz to his name.

In addition to the goods on Rügen and the Pomeranian mainland, branches of the family also settled in Mecklenburg, where the family was one of the signatories of the Union of Mecklenburg Land estates in 1523 . The Mecklenburg possessions were in the vicinity of Stavenhagen and Galenbeck .

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are nine entries by daughters of the von der Lancken family from 1762 to 1896 from Galenbeck and Gädebehn for inclusion in the aristocratic women's monastery there . From 1877 to 1891 Amalie von der Lancken was prioress in the Dobbertin monastery .

Carl Friedrich Bernhard von der Lancken married Emilie Christine von Wakenitz from the Klevenow family in 1816 . In agreement with his father-in-law, Franz (IV.) Carl Ludwig von Wakenitz, who had no male descendants, he took the name from Lancken-Wakenitz and took over Klevenow Castle in Western Pomerania.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a rising red lion in a split shield in silver , including three (2: 1) six-pointed silver (also gold) stars in blue. On the crowned helmet with blue-silver and red-silver covers a silver (also gold) star.

The family resident near Lancken-Granitz led a split eagle over a slaughtered field. The Jasmund family led a split eagle over three flooded beams , in a different version a split eagle next to three flooded beams.

  • Shield seal of Grimeslaw von Lanken

  • "Coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein, Danish and other noble families"

  • Baron coat of arms of those von der Lancken-Wakenitz

Well-known namesake

literature

Web links

Commons : Lancken (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch II, p. 571
  2. ↑ a b Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 5, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1864, pp. 367-368. ( Digitized version )
  3. ↑ a b Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 5, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1864, p. 368. ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Theodor Pyl , Pomeranian History Monuments - The Development of the Pomeranian Coat of Arms, Greifswald, 1894