Münchow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Münchow

Münchow is the name of an old Pomeranian noble family . The family, some of which still exist today, belongs to the ancient nobility in Western Pomerania . A line was due to adoption late 19th century ennobled .

history

origin

The family was first mentioned in a document on May 25, 1249 with Dominus Lippoldus Monachus in Cammin . The unbroken line of the family begins with him . The spelling of the name changed from Moncho, Monachus, Monechow, Monnichowe to Mönchow. Münchow was not used until the middle of the 18th century.

After Kneschke , Henrich Müncks also belonged to the family, who appeared in a letter of donation from the Church of St. Jacob in Stettin , issued by Duke Barnim I , as early as 1238 . Accordingly, the original ancestral seat of the Mönchow family, today a district of the city of Usedom . In a document, issued on January 28, 1368, the family is mentioned as a castle seat on Buckow.

Spread and personalities

Vincentius Münchow became court master of Duke Georg III. from Pomerania. Claus Münchow was custodian of Cammin of Duke Kasimir and Thomas Münchow was custodian of Duke Franz, also of Cammin. Georg Bernhard and Thomas Münchow lived around 1622, the former as the ducal of Brunswick-Lüneburg and the latter as the ducal minister of Mecklenburg . Christian Ernst von Münchow was initially a Prussian secret judge, court and chamber judge as well as bailiff zu Stolp . In 1714 he was appointed Chamber President zu Königsberg in Prussia and in 1727 he was appointed Prussian War, Domain and Chamber President in Neumark . Ludwig Wilhelm Graf von Münchow (1712–1753) became a real secret councilor of state and war and inheritance of the Kurmark Brandenburg in 1742 . In 1747, after the death of Count von Thurn, he received the feudal feuds of Kleinkauen and Gottschwitz near Glogau in Silesia , which had fallen back to the Prussian crown .

Richard Daniel von Münchow (1703–1757), married to a daughter from the von Rössing family, was promoted to colonel in 1756 , but died a year later from the wounds he received in the battle of Kolin on June 18, 1757 . Lorenz Ernst von Münchow (1700–1757) died as a Prussian major general and head of the “von Hautcharmoi” regiment in the battle of Leuthen on December 5, 1757. His marriage to Charlotte von Stechow had a son and a daughter. Gustav Bogislav von Münchow (1686–1766) had been a Prussian lieutenant general since 1745 . In 1746 he received the Drosteien zu Cranenburg and Duiffeld and from 1747 was governor of Spandau . In 1752 Gustav Bogislaw became dean of the cathedral in Magdeburg and provost in the local monasteries of Saint Sebastian and Saint Nicholas . He was married twice. First marriage to Antoniette Philippine von Börstel and second marriage to Sophie Elenore von Schwerin . From the first marriage came a son and two daughters.

The male line died out on September 26, 1860 with the death of Carl Wilhelm Graf von Münchow (* 1784), Prussian major out of service and master of Mickrow in the former Stolp district . He married Auguste von Weiher (* 1797) in 1816 . The two daughters Maria (* 1817) and Johanna (* 1820) Countess von Münchow come from the marriage.

On December 7, 1912, a gender association ( registered association ) was founded.

Status surveys

The brothers Ludwig Wilhelm, Prussian Finance, War and Domain Councilor, Philipp, Prussian major and wing adjutant , and Carl Gustav von Münchow, Prussian lieutenant , were elevated to the Prussian count status in Breslau on November 6, 1741 ( diploma issued on December 17 1741).

Postage line

The progenitor of the postage line is Johann Christian Daniel Ebert, who died in Havelberg in 1807 . His grandchildren, the siblings Clara and Georg Ebert, stepchildren or adopted children of Friedrich von Münchow, a Prussian lieutenant colonel at the disposal , received the Prussian nobility on September 13, 1873 in Berlin. The coat of arms awarded is identical to that of the Pomeranian nobility.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2, 1) right- facing Moorish heads with golden browbands with fluttering ends in silver . On the helmet with blue-silver helmet covers , five (two to the right, three to the left) green palm branches.

Count's coat of arms

The count's coat of arms, awarded in 1741, shows three (2, 1) right-facing Moorish heads with red-edged gold forehead bands in silver. The coat of arms has two helmets with blue-silver helmet covers, on the right an open black flight , each covered with a golden clover stem , on the left the trunk helmet. Two opposing black Prussian eagles serve as a shield holder .

Known family members

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pomeranian document book . 1, p. 383.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume IX, Volume 116 of the Complete Series, pp. 273-274.
  3. ↑ a b c d New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6, pp. 410-411.
  4. ↑ City Archives of Szczecin
  5. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 669 ( limited preview in Google Book search).