Lyncker (noble family)
Lyncker or Lincker von Lützenwick is the name of a noble family in Hesse .
Origin and history
The letter noble family of Lyncker comes from Hessen . It occurs in a document for the first time from 1494-1535 with the citizen Jost Snyder called Lüncker (wine merchant and landgrave Hessian rentmaster ) in Marburg , with whom the line of tribe begins and where the family belonged to the sexes eligible for advice. The sex initially developed into a family of civil servants and professors, particularly active in Hesse, but also in Kurmainzian and imperial services. Later, especially in the 19th century, it also appears in the Prussian military service and provides several generals there. It split early into two lines that were ennobled independently of each other and acquired different titles of nobility.
Ranks
The first line Linker von Lützenwick was on October 29, 1658 with Johann Lincker, Kurfürstl. Mainz secretary, to the imperial nobility with the addition of 'von Lützenwickh' and hereditary to his brother Dietrich Lincker, Ldgfl. hess.kass. Hofmedicus and Prof. der Medicin und Eloquence at the University of Marburg . Another brother, Burkhard Lincker , interest master of the Teutonic Order , was raised to the rank of knighthood on June 30, 1702 with the addition "Edler von Lützenwick". On March 27, 1744, Burkhard's sons, Johann Daniel Christoph and Philipp Wilhelm Albrecht Lincker von Lützenwick became imperial barons with the predicate well-born . Finally Clemens Baron von Lincker and Lützenwick became an Austrian count on July 18, 1816.
The 2nd line was ennobled on October 7, 1688 in the imperial knighthood with 'Edler von' in the form of the Duke of Saxony-Eisenach Secret Council and envoy in Vienna Nikolaus Christoph Lyncker . The same was additionally awarded the title of imperial baron on August 7, 1700. Meanwhile, Consistorial President of Saxony-Weimar, he was also granted the title of 'Noble Lord' on October 1, 1700.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms , divided by a black diagonal bar, shows a silver lamb striding upwards on the bar above in blue, and below in gold a fallen black shell covered with a silver pearl. On the helmet with blue-silver covers on the right and black-gold covers on the left, the lamb growing between two buffalo horns divided by blue and silver, the mouths of which are tipped with a blue-silver flag on the right and a black-gold flag on the left.
Known family members
- Aemil von Lyncker (1777-1851), Prussian district administrator, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
- Alfred von Lyncker (1854–1919), Prussian infantry general
- Carl Friedrich Ernst von Lyncker , (Ansbach 1726/27 (?) - 1801), President of the Upper Consistory in Weimar
- Carl Wilhelm Heinrich Freiherr von Lyncker (1767–1843), officer and Prussian district administrator
- Emil von Lyncker (1849–1931), German rear admiral
- Ferdinand von Lyncker (1732–1811), Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Chancellor and Consistorial President
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Lyncker (1780–1844), Major General of the Grand Ducal Hesse
- Heinrich von Lyncker (1810–1883), Prussian major general
- Horst von Lyncker (1845-1892), District Administrator of the Lötzen district and member of the Prussian House of Representatives
- Julius von Lyncker (1825–1907), Prussian major general
- Kurt von Lyncker (1867–1934), Prussian major general
- Lothar von Lyncker (General, 1809) (1809–1864), Prussian major general
- Lothar von Lyncker (General, 1817) (1817–1898), Prussian major general
- Ludwig von Lyncker (General, 1780) (1780–1844), Grand-Ducal Major General of Hesse
- Ludwig von Lyncker (General, 1821) (1821–1882), Prussian Lieutenant General and General à la suite of the Grand Duke of Hesse
- Maximilian von Lyncker (1845–1923), Prussian general of the infantry
- Moriz von Lyncker (1853–1932), Prussian Colonel General and 1908/18 head of the military cabinet
- Nikolaus Christoph Lyncker (1643–1726), professor of law, Reichshofrat in Vienna
- Richard von Lyncker (1827–1901), Privy Councilor and Prussian District Administrator
literature
- BM Linker: The barons of Linker and Lutzenwick and of Lyncker in Thuringia. Family chronicle, Mindelheim 2005.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, pp. 139-142, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1859. Ninth year, p. 469 ff. , 1889 p. 517 f.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1909. Third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, p. 499 ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume VIII, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0813-2 , pp. 139-140.
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Volume VIII, p. 140.
- ↑ in the Adelslexikon, Volume VIII, p. 141 his first name Niclas Christoph is mentioned
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Volume FB IV, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1967, p. 358.