Liebenau (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Liebenau

Liebenau , historically also Liebenow , is the name of an originally Saxon noble family , which later also gained a certain reputation in Prussia .

There is no kinship to the same older Silesian sex, nor to the family Hermann von Liebenau , nor to a place after Liebenow at Arnswalde to call end neumärkischem sex or to Bohemian family Liebentantz v. Liebenau .

history

Meissen and Saxony

The von Liebenau can be assigned to the native Meissen nobility and probably borrow their name from Burgliebenau near Merseburg . With Bartholomaeus de Lybennowe in 1231 and the brothers Heinrich , Richard and Bartholomaeus de Lybenowe , monks in the Neuzelle monastery , in 1279 as documentary witnesses, the family was first mentioned in a document.

From 1490 to 1694 Krummenhennersdorf was the oldest known fiefdom , in the middle of the 17th century Langenhennersdorf was added. There were other estates at Langenwolmsdorf (1780), Leissenau (1752), Ober-Allersdorf (1639), Schmiedeberg (1801) and Zehista (1671), as well as the Liebenau vineyard in Zitzschewig in 1699 .

The family's sons have distinguished themselves several times as officers in the Saxon army . At least until 1848 these are named in the master lists.

Brandenburg and Prussia

Reinhold Liebenau was in the realm of nobility on January 9, 1659 ennobled what Elector Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg formally recognized on 29 July 1659th

The secured trunk line of the Prussian line begins with the royal Prussian forest and game master Kurt Friedrich von Liebenau († 1718), who was married to Regina von Haugwitz . Ludwig Wilhelm von Liebenau (1700–1775), economist of the royal orphanage in Königsberg and son of the former, received together with his sons Karl Friedrich von Liebenau (* 1727), royal Prussian lieutenant in the cuirassier regiment of Kleist , Georg Ludwig von Liebenau ( 1732–1795), royal Prussian cavalry master and head of the tobacco plantations in Templin , Heinrich Wilhelm von Liebenau (1738–1764), royal Prussian lieutenant in the infantry regiment von Itzenplitz and Albrecht Friedrich von Liebenau in Berlin on July 23, 1764 the Prussian nobility confirmation.

In Prussia the family was unable to acquire any property, but they also provided excellent and high-ranking officers in the Prussian army .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows two downward-set golden hunting horns (or horns ) within a golden shield border in black, and a golden six-pointed star . On the crowned helmet with black and gold covers a black wing .

Relatives

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johann Sinapius : Der Schlesische Adel , Volume 2, Leipzig 1728, p. 780 ; with reference ( Siebmacher , Volume V., p. 124) to a Swabian family with the same name and coat of arms .
  2. ^ Gerold Meyer von Knonau :  Liebenau, Hermann von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1883, p. 562 f.
  3. ↑ Kneschke , Adelslexikon (lit.), but p. 521
  4. ↑ Ledebur , Adelslexikon (lit.)
  5. ↑ A tour of Stolpen . In: What the Heimat tells. Legends, historical images and memorable events from Saxony . Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1904, pp. 109–111 ( Wikisource )
  6. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 6. Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt, Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1938], DNB 367632810 , p. 410, no. 2030.