Langermann and Erlencamp (noble family)

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Langermann and Erlencamp is the name of an aristocratic family from Mecklenburg , which arose in 1776 from the union of names between the noble families Langermann and Erlencamp (also Erlenkamp ).

history

The Langermann family has been recorded for the first time on Bollewick since 1660 with Joachim Langermann, Mecklenburg and Swedish Colonel Sergeant . The Brandenburg lieutenant colonel Caspar Christoph von Langermann, received with an imperial diploma from November 8, 1693, a nobility recognition as imperial nobility with improved coat of arms.

Johann Erlenkamp, Hamburg citizens was by Emperor Leopold with diploma of 21 March 1674 the Reich baron were collected. He died on March 10, 1681; the daughter of his son Hans Heinrich, Elisabeth Catharine, married Caspar Christoph von Langermann. Her brother Hans von Erlencamp set up a family fideikommiss in 1761, but had no descendants of his own.

His two great-nephews, sons of the Prussian major general Adolf Friedrich von Langermann (1694–1757), the lieutenant Adolf Friedrich von Langermann and Ludwig Christoph von Langermann (1743–1797), were the contenders for the Erlencamp inheritance and were taken over by King Friedrich II. of Prussia with a diploma dated June 3, 1776, with the predicate of Erlencamp and awarded the somewhat changed Erlencamp coat of arms, raised to the baron status.

Since 1770, Ludwig Christoph von Langermann repeatedly unsuccessfully demanded indigenous rights from the Mecklenburg knighthood , especially the right to admit their daughters to the Mecklenburg state monasteries. After he was denied this at the Malchin state parliament in 1778, there was a lengthy legal dispute with the select committee of the Mecklenburg knighthood, which went up to the Reichshofrat . In 1794 there was a settlement and the reception with all rights.

From 1806 are Einschreibebuch the monastery Dobbertin the families of Long Man Erlenkamp from Dambeck and Bollewick 1696-1918 three entries of daughters entered the full from there uplift received.

Possessions

Dambeck
  • Bollewick since 1682
  • Carlshof since 1721
  • Dahlen ( Brunn (Mecklenburg) ) 1771–1864
  • Dambeck ( Bütow ) since 1792
  • Karchow and Erlenkamp (Bütow) since 1792 (with church patronage over the Karchow village church)
  • Groß Luckow (as a deposit) 1790–1802
  • Nätebow (district of Bollewick) since 1682 (with church patronage over the village church of Nätebow )
  • Spitzkuhn (hamlet of Bollewick) since 1682
  • Sülten ( Briggow ) (as a deposit) 1694–1778
  • Zaschendorf ( Kuhlen-Wendorf ) since 1850 by Baroness von Langermann, b. Lübbe until 1945.

The Gut and Kirchdorf Karchow had been owned by Baron Ludwig Christoph von Langermann-Erlenkamp since 1792. The patronage church had small works of art, including a silver-gilt chalice with the inscription: Caspar Christoff von Langermann, Lieutenant Colonel 1694, Elisabeth Katharina von Langenkamp drilled Frey-Frewlein von Erlenkamp and a silver-gilt communion jug with decorations on the chalice. The inscription reads: Wilhelm Baron von Langermann-Erlenkamp, ​​Bertha Baroness von Langermann-Erlenkamp, ​​born. Lübbe March 25, 1866. In addition two brass chandeliers donated in 1866. In the patronage church Nätebow there is a memorial plaque about the restoration from 1682 with the inscription: “In 1682 Mr. Leuttenand Bernhard Christian Schmidt and Mr. Rittmeister Caspar Christoph Langermann started to repair this dilapidated Nähtboer church. “Among the small works of art there was an elongated, round silver wafer box. On the lid the Langermann coat of arms with the inscription: Caspar Christof Langermann Ritmeister donates this as patron of the Nachtboer churches to honor God in 1687.

In 1903 Friedrich von Langermann and Erlencamp set up a family fideikommiss for the allodial estates Dambeck with Carlshof and Karchow with Erlenkamp as well as the feudal estates Bollewick, Nätebow and Spitzkuhn . In 1920 the land owned a total of 3,067 hectares .

coat of arms

Langermann coat of arms in the Nätebow village church

The original Langermann coat of arms, as can be seen in the village church of Nätebow , showed a golden right- angled bar in silver, which was covered with three red roses, and above one, including two golden six-pointed stars.

The coat of arms, improved in 1693, was squared with a blue central shield. A red right-angled bar can be seen in it, covered with three silver stars and accompanied by one at the top and two silver stars at the bottom. In the first and fourth golden fields there is a red cross, in the second and third blue fields there is a golden lion with a bare saber. On the crowned helmet the lion with the saber. The helmet covers are silver and red.

The coat of arms of von Langermann, Freiherren von Erlenkamp is squared with the middle shield of the coat of arms just described. In the first and fourth golden field two silver crossbars and above a blue lion with a double tail; in the second and third silver field a red rafter, accompanied on each side and below by a green-leafed alder. Two crowned helmets, on the right an open golden flight with two silver bars, on it the blue lion, on the left a flight divided by silver and red across a corner, in between on a hill a green alder. The helmet covers are gold and blue on the right, silver and red on the left.

Known family members

literature

  • Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). J. G. Tiedemann, Rostock 1864, p. 143f (Langermann); P. 64f (Alder Camp).
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser 1866 p.521ff Description, [Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser, 1877, S. 473ff] Description and family table

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The case has been widely documented and discussed, cf. for example Ernst Boll : History of Meklenburg with special consideration of the cultural history. Volume 2. Neubrandenburg 1856, p. 324 ; Ernst Adolf Theodor Laspeyres : The rights of the native Mecklenburg nobility. Halle 1844, p. 104ff ; Michael Busch: The unexpected glimmer of state sovereignty: the indigenous dispute in Mecklenburg and the unification of the old and new nobility (1795). In: Adel in Mecklenburg: scientific conference of the Mecklenburg Foundation in cooperation with the Historical Commission for Mecklenburg on November 26th and 27th, 2010 in Schwerin. Rostock: Hinstorff 2012, pp. 107-133
  2. ^ Friedrich Schlie: Art and History Monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 1902, pp. 534, 536.
  3. ^ Friedrich Schlie: Art and History Monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 1902, pp. 521-522.
  4. ^ Friedrich Schlie: Art and History Monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. 1899, p. 428.
  5. ^ Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1903, p. 233