Langen (Westphalian noble families)

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Von Langen is among other things the name of two Westphalian noble families, who are probably not of the same tribe, but both were resident in the bishopric of Münster .

The first family (“with the sheep shears in the coat of arms”) was based in the Emsland (historically part of the Niederstift Münster ), the other (“with the diamonds”) in the Münsterland (in the historic Oberstift Münster ) and also in the Emsland. Both families divided into several lines over the centuries. Some possessions changed between the two families.

Other noble families of the same name are to be distinguished from the Westphalian families: The Lords of Langen (n) from Brandenburg and Silesia and the Barons of Langen from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania.

Von Langen ("with the sheep shears"), extinct

Coat of arms of those of Langen
Historical coat of arms representation

history

Until the division in 1475

The head office was in Oberlangen an der Ems, which is mentioned in a document around the year 1000 under the name Langun . In the 13th and 14th centuries, the von Langen castle men , who worked in the Emsland around 1250 at Landegge and from 1392 at Meppen as ministerials and acquired real estate there.

In 1276 the first mention of the Jakob von Langen family (* around 1240; † after 1306), Burgmann at the Niederstiftischen Burg Landegge and Drost of the Landegge office in Niederstift Münster . His fiefdom Oberlangen is only about four kilometers away from Landegge Castle.

In the year 1377, Jakobs grandson Nikolaus von Langen (* around 1306, † 1382) can be found in the Meppener document book as a castle man and master of the castle Vredevoort on the Ems (near Geeste ), with his wife Ode. The Bishop Potho von Münster had given Nikolaus permission to build this castle near the Lingen - Tecklenburger border in order to secure the crossing over the Ems .

The son Herbord III. von Langen (* around 1347; † between 1417 and 1425), Knappe , married to Gertrud von der Hege, became master of Meppen when he acquired the estate in 1392 after the ministerial family of those von Meppen had died. Meppen had belonged to the Corvey Monastery since 834 , whose feudal people became the Tall One . Vredevorth Castle was destroyed in the Tecklenburger feud before 1400 and was never rebuilt. In return, the von Langen received goods on the Hase near Haselünne , which was also part of Corvey's territory. His son Engelbert I († between 1442 and 1446) acquired the Kreyenborg from Johann von Langen, called Kreyenribbe, from the family with the diamonds (see below), which is located next to his lands near Haselünne . He was married to Gertrud von Schatte († after 1440), who brought the Schwakenburg near Andrup and the Burgmannshof in Haselünne into the marriage. The latter is one of the most important medieval secular buildings in the Emsland.

On September 20, 1481, their sons, the miners Roloff and Engelbert II. Von Langen (* 1422; † July 6, 1507) donated 5 feet to the tower of the parish church of St. Vincentius each 5 feet "grawes Benthemer steyns in de wyde unde hoge". Roloff attacked in 1469 a. a. the Papenburg . Engelbert II received the Stockum estate through his marriage to Adelheid von Düvel . In 1470 the couple built the house chapel there, which is still preserved today. In 1475 Engelbert II and his belligerent brother Roloff divided the Kreyenborg into East and West Kreyenborg. A ditch was dug in the middle of Burgplatz.

Ostkreyenborg line

The inheritance of Roloff (Rolf / Rudolf) von Langen († 1479), lord of Ost-Kreyenborg, also included the Schatte'schen possessions in Haselünne, including the Westerholt'sche Burgmannshof, which is still preserved today, with a fireplace in the knight's hall Has coat of arms of Roloff von Langen and his wife.

The grandson Adam von Langen († 1610), lord of Ost-Kreyenborg, married to Sidonia, bequeathed the property to his son Anton von Langen, lord of Ost-Kreyenborg († 1622), the last descendants of his line. The minor daughter lost her inheritance because the father fought in the Thirty Years' War on the Dutch side against his sovereign, the Prince-Bishop of Munster , and forfeited the feudal estate.

Westkreyenborg line

After Engelbert II's death, his son Nicolaus (1457 - around 1546) received Westkreyenborg and the old family farm in Meppen. His brother Andreas inherited the Schwakenburg and founded the Schwakenburg line in 1525 (see below) , while his brother Heinrich received Stockum. Nicolaus left the sons Engelbert III., On Westkreyenburg and Meppen, Asche on Stockum, Claus on Haselünne and Drost Johann on Hausberge, later on Haselünne. Engelbert III. had the sons Engelbert IV. (around 1500–1590) on Westkreyenburg and Meppen, Nicolaus on Haselünne and Heinrich on Sögeln near Bramsche . Engelbert V. († October 5, 1652) suffered billeting and devastation during the Thirty Years War . When he died childless, the property fell to his nephew Adam von Langen († 1709) from Sögeln (see below) . His son Heinrich Engelbert Hermann Ignatz Anton von Langen (born December 29, 1684, † December 10, 1741 in Corvey ), Lord of West-Kreyenburg, Fresenburg , Arkenstede (today part of Essen near Oldenburg ), Holte , Kamphaus and Wippingen , Corveyischer Privy Councilor, was the last male offspring of the Kreyenborg line. Later inheritance disputes with the family branches Long-Schwake castle , Langen- Spieck and Long-Sögelen and indebtedness ensured that the heiress (Sophie Ludowika) of Heinrich Engelbert turned down the inheritance.

The street name "Kreyenborg" and the name of a boat landing stage at the Hase near Haselünne-Lehrte are everything that still reminds us of the moated castle, the place of which is in the field. After 1816 the property was gradually sold, the mansions were demolished until 1840 and the square leveled.

Schwakenburg-Haselünne branch

Epitaph of Rudolf von Langen († 1610) and Margarethe von Hake in the St. Vincentius Church in Haselünne

Under Andreas von Langen (* around 1468, † around 1555), Lord of Schwakenburg, this was burned down in 1538 when the Counts of Oldenburg invaded. The son and heir, Rudolf von Langen zu Schwakenburg and Haselünne († April 26, 1610) asked the Bishop of Münster for compensation for the pillage, but was rejected. The estate was already heavily in debt. Since Rudolf's marriage with Margarethe von Hake (epitaph in St. Vincentius zu Haselünne) remained childless (however, he had an illegitimate son, see below: noble family ), the latter determined his wife's niece to be the heiress. Johanna Elisabeth von Hake then brought Schwakenburg and the Langen'schen Burgmannshof in Haselünne to her husband Michael Wilhelm Kobolt von Tambach († 1667). The Burgmannshof later came to the Counts of Westerholt .

Branches Hausberge, Sögeln, Oberstadt and Spyck

The Drost Johann von Langen (around 1510 - after 1578) became chancellor of the county of Schaumburg from 1564–1578 and received goods in Hausberge and Eininghausen (near Minden ) as a schaumburg fief from 1567 . In Hausberge the Langen owned several buildings, including the (still preserved) von Langen'schen Hof from around 1700 to 1765 .

Heinrich von Langen, Drost von Fürstenau and Vörden, bought the Sögeln estate near Bramsche in a forced sale in 1590 . The Langen were in Osnabrückschen next to Sögeln around 1747 also still resident in Rothenburg. In 1750, through the marriage of the heiress Isabella Judith Sophie von Langen, Sögeln fell to her husband, the Prussian minister Julius August von der Horst .

Humpert von Langen († 1614) was electoral supervisor of the county of Henneberg and in 1606 was enfeoffed with the moated castle Oberstadt in Thuringia. He also owned the estate in Breitenbach , which was sold by his heirs in 1619. His descendant, the master forester Johann Georg von Langen , who made a name for himself in afforestation, paper production and the cultivation of potatoes and who founded the Fürstenberg porcelain factory in 1747 , was born in Oberstadt in 1699 and remained in the family's possession until 1712.

Claus Jobst von Langen zu Haselünne and Lehrte married Gertrud von Münster , daughter of Johann von Münster zu Havighorst and Drenthe and his wife from the von Grothaus family . Their brother Karl von Grothaus installed his niece as heir to the Spyck estate near Bramsche around 1650 (which had already belonged to the Tall One "with the diamonds" in the Middle Ages). In 1838, with the death of Nicolaus Friedrich Joseph Freiherr von Langen, the Langen zu Spyck family became extinct and with it the entire family of the "Schafscheren" -Langen. He bequeathed all goods and the Spyck estate to his niece Marie Sophie. In 1824 she married the wealthy Lingen merchant Bernhard Alexander Moritz Oosthuys. In 1938 the siblings Paula and Maria Oosthuys transferred the estate to their niece Paula Suurmann.

coat of arms

Erected red sheep scissors or drapery scissors in silver . On the helmet with red and silver covers, a red and silver eagle flight .

Name bearer

Mail nobility (1902)

Wilhelm Langen (born February 11, 1839 in Werlte / Emsland; † September 6, 1912 in Görlitz ), as co-owner of the Langen & Müller cloth factory in Görlitz, was raised to the Prussian nobility as von Langen in 1902 . His family lived on a farm in Werlte and had provided the prince-bishop's hunters on the Hümmling (where the Clemenswerth hunting lodge is located) since 1694 . It came from a Christian (von) Langen († 1603), who was an illegitimate son of Rudolf von Langen on Schwakenburg and Haselünne, with whom this branch became extinct in 1610 (see above) . The coat of arms awarded by the Prussian heraldry in 1902 and the crest correspond to the "Schafscheren" coat of arms, with the addition of a red shield head with three silver clover leaves placed side by side. The family still exists.

Von Langen ("with the diamonds")

Coat of arms of those of Langen 1
Coat of arms of those of Langen 2
Coat of arms of the von Langen family in the Laumersheim Church of St. Bartholomew
Seal of Rudolf von Langen

history

The Lange or Lange are an old Westphalian aristocratic family that was found in the Münsterland on the Langen house near Westbevern at the end of the 12th century . The first mention is in a document from 1184: Herimannus de Langen, canon. May. eccles. Mon. House Langen in the Oberstift Münster remained in the family's possession until 1378, but then came to Letmathe's through an heir daughter . The outer bailey is still standing.

The Langen with the diamonds but arrive early in niederstiftischen Emsland where near Lingen on Rudolf von Langen (* around 1268) Castle Spyck (see below) and his descendant John called Langen Dobbenstein in the second half of the 14th century appear as a tenant at the Schultenhof in Langen near Lengerich. Since this place has been known to Langen since 890, it cannot be ruled out that it is the original, eponymous headquarters, which was transferred to the Langen house near Westbevern.

They appear early and in various branches as castle men of the Counts of Tecklenburg . Rudolf I von Langen, Burgmann at Tecklenburg Castle (* around 1165), documented in 1198, wore five right-angled red diamonds in the silver field as a coat of arms. Later, the five diamonds on the seal in the Everswinkler Church from 1592 were sufficient as proof. Adelheid von Langen came from the Langen von Everswinkel family, the wife of the knight and drosten of the cathedral chapter of Münster Engelbert von ceilingbrock (* before 1266, † 1298 ), whose estate also belonged to Everswinkel. The long ones there became extinct around 1614. From the manor house Langen in Everswinkel, the former Bauhaus and the graves still exist.

Conrad (Cord) von Langen, married to the widow Ollrich von Tuttlingen, related by marriage to the bourgeois families of Osnabrück (1423), knightly servant (1424), was deeply involved in Handel with the city of Osnabrück. He fled to Tecklenburg while his wife was "removed" (1430) and his estate was captured and looted. In the ensuing disputes, he himself held court and stoned a servant . The negotiations ran through a number of instances , his head was claimed and he was charged with breaking the oath in Dortmund in 1433 . The next day he was able to flee and entered the service of the Bishop of Munster , the feud was not settled. His son Engelbert von Langen was protected in 1435 by Bishop Heinrich von Moers zu Münster. Cord renewed his funds in Cologne in order to continue the feud. Carl Stüve calls Conrad Mr. Stockum here , but von Bruch mentions a Rembert von Düvel as the owner for this time. Astrid von Düvel brought Stockum as marriage property to Engelbert II. Von Langen “with the sheep shears” (1422–1507), see above .

Until 1519 the family was also wealthy at Rheine in the Münsterland . In the 16th and 17th centuries they acquired goods on the Lower Rhine , where they owned property in 1676 at Eyll and Vinckenhorst near Geldern , Mölenbeck and Wylich near Rheinberg and in 1700 at Neuenheim. The family was with Albert III. related to von Wulfheim, an ancestor of Droste zu Vischering ; the marriage speech for the marriage of Hermann von Langen's son with the daughter of Albert III. took place in 1285. The family provided scholars and canons who go back to Hermann von Langen.

There are still some secondary lines:

Langen-Kreyenribbe line

As the castle men of Tecklenburg, the von Langen also provided service to Lingen Castle in Mecklenburg. From here a branch founded the Kreyenribbe estate. It was created in a corridor of the same name near Lengerich (Emsland) .

In a document a Johann von Langen named Kreyenribbe is mentioned as a witness in 1337. In 1403 his son Johann von Langen-Kreyenribbe built the Kreyenborg on the Hase in Emsland , which his son sold to Engelbert I. von der above-mentioned Langen with sheep shears as early as 1427. His son and heir Otto von Langen can be found in documents in 1470 and 1479. His descendant Kord von Langen also acquired parts of the Greve count's inheritance in the middle of the 16th century. When the von Langen-Kreyenribbe inherited the Beesten estate in 1512 , they moved their headquarters there. In 1550 Gerhard (Gert) von Langen-Kreyenribbe was the heir to Beesten, his wife was Margarethe von Dincklage zu Hopen. Since the son Herbord died in 1590, his sisters (Geeste and Lucretia) inherited. Lucretia von Langen-Kreyenribbe (1575–1611) was abbess of Börstel . She argued with her relative Adam von Langen over mill rights to build a new grinding mill next to the existing fulling mill . After the Kreyenribbe sisters sold it to their cousin Dietrich von Voss (adH Enniger) in 1594 , it was renamed Vosseborg .

Langen line near Lengerich

With the Schultenhof in Langen, a Johann von Langen called Dobbenstein was enfeoffed as a Lingen castle fief in the second half of the 14th century . This branch was already extinct around 1500.

Spyck line near Lingen-Bramsche

The first known owner of Spyck Castle was Rudolf von Langen (* around 1268). He was involved in a feud between the Tecklenburgers against Osnabrück around 1334, and citizens of Osnabrück then pursued him plundering through the Lingener Land and besieging his castle in Bramsche. The castle was no longer owned by the family by 1400. Rudolf's descendants lived as Lingen castle men on the Langen estate near Lengerich. Spyck Castle came to the von Langen “with the sheep shears” around 1650 through marriage.

coat of arms

Five lozenges ( lozenges ) placed diagonally on the shield in two different tingings : blue lozenges on a gold background and silver lozenges on a red background.

Name bearer

literature

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  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 5: Kalb - Loewenthal, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1864, p. 381 ff.
  • Adalbert Parmet: Life and collected poems of the first Münster humanist. A contribution to the history of humanism in Germany. Friedrich Regensberg, Münster 1869.
  • Erhard: Memories of Rudolf von Langen and his contemporaries . In: Journal of Patriotic History and Antiquity II . 1836, p. 26 ff.
  • Reinhard Bojer: Emsland local history in National Socialism Volume 3 (= local history from Emsland daily newspapers 1933-1945). Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2005, ISBN 3-8334-2458-3 .
  • Carl Stüve: History of the Osnabrück Monastery up to 1508 . Kisslingsche Buchdruckerei, Osnabrück 1853.

Web links

Commons : Langen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Oberlangen . In: Municipality of Oberlangen . Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Rudolf vom Bruch: Die Rittersitze des Emslandes , Münster, Aschendorff-Verlag 1988, 5th edition, ISBN 3-402-05131-1
  3. ^ Max Planck Institute for History (ed.), Wilhelm Kohl: Germania Sacra (= The Church of the Old Empire and its Institutions . New Series 37.1). Diocese of Münster, 7. The diocese, 1 . De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1999, ISBN 3-11-016470-1 , p. 564.
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 17, 2016 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.geschichtswerkstatt-geeste.de
  5. ↑ Aloys Hake, Die Kreyenborg, Herren und Hörige an Hase und Ems, Paperback 148 pages, Meppen 2001, p. 34
  6. ^ The parish church of St. Vincentius
  7. ↑ a b Dr. della Valle, Meppen: The parish church in Haselünne.
  8. ↑ Aloys Hake, Die Kreyenborg, Herren und Hörige an Hase und Ems, Paperback 148 pages, Meppen 2001, p. 39
  9. ↑ The Westerholtsche Burgmannshof . In: City of Haselünne . Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  10. ↑ On Engelbert II. Von Langen and his descendants
  11. ↑ Hans Scharpenborg's pedigree
  12. ↑ The v. Langensche Hof . In: Karl Adolf Freiherr von der Horst: The knight seats of the Grafschaft Ravensberg and the Principality of Minden . P. 180.
  13. ↑ On the history of Sögeln
  14. ^ Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility, Max von Spiessen
  15. ↑ Otto Gruber: The coats of arms of the South Oldenburg nobility . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1971 . Vechta 1970, p. 24 .
  16. ↑ Order of St. John Journal, official monthly journal of the Balley Brandenburg, the fourth year no. 1-51, Berlin 1863, p 101
  17. ↑ Heimatverein Werlte
  18. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B, Volume XIII, 1980, p. 213 ff.
  19. ↑ Dr. Heinrich August Erhard: Regesta Historiae Westfaliae accedit codex diplomaticus, Association for History and Archeology of Westphalia, F. Regensburg, Münster 1851, second volume (from the years 1123–1200), p. 170 CCCCXLI
  20. ^ Haus Langen with watermill: Sculptures - Haus Langen with watermill , access date: July 20, 2016
  21. ↑ Dr. Heinrich August Erhard: Regesta Historiae Westfaliae accedit codex diplomaticus, Association for History and Classical Antiquity of Westphalia, F. Regensburg, Münster 1851, second volume (from the years 1123–1200), p. 92 No. 2417
  22. ^ Original in the parish archives, paper with signatures, oblate seal with five diamonds and DvL
  23. ↑ Langen House in Everswinkel
  24. ^ Carl Stüve: History of the Hochstift Osnabrück up to the year 1508, Kißlingsche Buchdruckerei Osnabrück 1853, p. 324
  25. ↑ Family table according to Dr. Adalbert Parmet
  26. ↑ Eds. Heike Düselder, Olga Weckenbrock and Siegrid Westphal: Adel and Environment, Horizons of noble existence in the early modern times, Böhlau 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20131-9 , pp. 139/140
  27. ^ Carl Stüve: History of the Hochstift Osnabrück up to the year 1508, Kißlingsche Buchdruckerei Osnabrück 1853, p. 188
  28. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: Germania Sacra , New Series 17/2, Diocese of Münster 4, The Cathedral of St. Paul in Münster, De Gruyter Berlin, New York 1982, ISBN 3-11-008508-9 , pp. 119ff
  29. ^ Wilhelm Kohl: Germania Sacra , New Series 17/2, Diocese of Münster 4, The Cathedral of St. Paul in Münster, De Gruyter Berlin, New York 1982, ISBN 3-11-008508-9 , p. 569ff