Lehndorff
Lehndorff is the name of an old East Prussian noble family .
history
The genus appears for the first time in 1236 as a branch of the stango appearing in Pomerania . It was initially called "Maul", then after the homonymous estate near Rhaden Legendorf or Logendorf (Mgkowo in Polish), which is why it was also called Mgkowski and Legendorf-Mgkowski. Paul von Legendorf , Bishop of Warmia, is said to come from this time . In the 15th or 16th century the family was enfeoffed with the Steinort wilderness. Later the name changed to Lehendorf and then to Lehndorff. The family was elevated to the rank of imperial count in 1687 .
The first Lehndorff gentlemen on Steinort included a governor from Preussisch Eylau and an governor from Oletzko . The oak avenues in Steinorter Park, which are now almost 400 years old, are said to go back to Meinhard von Lehndorff (1590–1639), Lieutenant Colonel and District Administrator von Rastenburg , and the builder of the Baroque palace , Eleonore von Dönhoff . An oak tree should have been planted every time a child was born in the family.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows in silver an uprooted, black-winged red tree trunk, stubbed three times on the right and twice on the left. (originally "Ostrzew") The shield image on the helmet with red and silver covers .
Known family members
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Meinhard von Lehndorff (1590–1639), lieutenant colonel and district administrator of Rastenburg
- Margarethe von Lehndorff ⚭ Johann von Klingsporn († 1685), colonel from Kurbrandenburg and regiment commander of the infantry regiment on foot (No. 1)
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Gerhard Ahasverus von Lehndorff (1637–1688), aristocratic travel writer, husband of the builder Eleonore of the Baroque Steinort Castle
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Ernst Ahasverus Count von Lehndorff (1688–1727)
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Ernst Ahasverus Heinrich von Lehndorff (1727–1811), Prussian chamberlain
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Karl von Lehndorff (Lieutenant General) (1770–1854), Prussian Lieutenant General
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Karl von Lehndorff (diplomat) (1826–1883), Legation Councilor, member of the Reichstag and the Prussian manor house, on Steinort
- Carl Meinhard ("Caroll") Count von Lehndorff († 1936), on Steinort
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Heinrich von Lehndorff (1829–1905), adjutant general of Kaiser Wilhelm I, cavalry general, founder of the Preyl line
- Heinrich (killed in World War I)
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Manfred Graf von Lehndorff (1883–1962), most recently stud manager and trainer at the Röttgen stud near Cologne
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Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort (1909–1944), hanged on Steinort as a resistance fighter by the National Socialists. 4 daughters, including:
- Veruschka Countess von Lehndorff (* 1939), photo model, painter, photographer
- Ahasuerus (killed in World War II)
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Heinrich Graf von Lehndorff-Steinort (1909–1944), hanged on Steinort as a resistance fighter by the National Socialists. 4 daughters, including:
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Georg Graf von Lehndorff (1833–1914), the most important hippologist of his time, Oberlandstallmeister
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Siegfried Graf Lehndorff (1869–1956) recognized stud manager of the Graditz main stud and the Trakehnen main stud
- Hans Graf von Lehndorff (1910–1987), surgeon and writer, author of the East Prussian Diary (1945–1947)
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Siegfried Graf Lehndorff (1869–1956) recognized stud manager of the Graditz main stud and the Trakehnen main stud
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Karl von Lehndorff (diplomat) (1826–1883), Legation Councilor, member of the Reichstag and the Prussian manor house, on Steinort
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Karl von Lehndorff (Lieutenant General) (1770–1854), Prussian Lieutenant General
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Ernst Ahasverus Heinrich von Lehndorff (1727–1811), Prussian chamberlain
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Ernst Ahasverus Count von Lehndorff (1688–1727)
Honors
- Graf-Lehndorff-Strasse in Munich-Riem
- Lehndorffstrasse in Berlin-Karlshorst
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VII, Volume 97 of the complete series, pp. 240-242, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1989, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gender and coat of arms descriptions for the Tyroffischen New Adelichen coat of arms. Volume 1, Nuremberg 1805, pp. 210–211 ( e-copy )
- George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : origin and age of the Countess v. Lehndorff sex. A historical and genealogical treatise. In. New Prussian Provincial Papers. Another sequence, Volume 9, Königsberg 1856, pp. 1–30 and pp. 89–110.
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 5, Leipzig 1864, pp. 440–441 ( e-copy )
- Detlev Schwennicke : European family tables , new series. Volume XX Brandenburg and Prussia 1 , Verlag Vittorio Klostermann , Frankfurt / Main 2002, Tfln. 148-153.
- General genealogical and state manual. 1811, p. 642ff.
