Mützschefahl

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Mützschefahl , also: Metzfall , Mispalt , Mützfall , Mützschefall , Mutzschefal , Mützeval or Mitzschefal , is the name of an extinct Lower Saxon nobility that was able to spread to Thuringia early on, especially as a soldier, to Silesia and Mecklenburg .

history

The Mützschefahl are said to have originally named themselves Seulingen after their parent company Seulingen in the Gieboldehausen office in the Principality of Grubenhagen . According to legend, Caspar von Seulingen is said to have acquired the manor Mitschefall (Mützschefahl) around 1130, which is how the later family name came about.

It is documented that the family first appeared with Heinrich von Mützschefahl in 1251 and 1276. In 1525 there was a Bernhard abbot in the Ilfeld monastery . Quite a few sons of the family decided to become soldiers. The brothers Caspar Wilhelm († 1632) and Jost Heinrich von Mützschefahl served as colonels in the Swedish army until 1631. The Prussian colonel and chief of the garrison regiment "of Thümen" , later to become major general and hereditary lord on Tschistey, sand and small Willewalde Beltsch in Wohlau , Friedrich Julius von Mützschefall (1693-1761), received the on October 4, 1752 Silesian Inkolat .

Karoline Wilhelmine von Mützschefall from the House of Barsikow-Ruppin († before 1787) was the first wife of the Prussian Major General Peter Ewald von Malschitzky (1731–1800). With Karl Friedrich Christian von Mützschefahl (1733-1803), who was born in Eisenach , the family was last named as a member of the government and Lord of Pluskau . One daughter was the writer Henriette von Mützschefahl (1773-1853), divorced Countess von Schlabrendorf , wife of the President of Saxony-Meiningen, Friedrich Christian August Schwendler (1772-1844; ennobled 1825) since 1802 . She was the mother of State Minister Carl von Schwendler (1812-1880) and a friend, for a time the lover of the poet Jean Paul (1763-1825). Her younger sister Antonie von Mützschefahl was the friend of the writer Johann Ernst Wagner (1769–1812) and looked after him to the end. Friedrich von Mützschefahl (1843–1907), Prussian captain and most recently company commander in the 2nd Rhenish Infantry Regiment No. 28 , had resigned on January 12, 1884. In September his right to military uniforms and the title of officer was revoked, but he was able to keep the Iron Cross 2nd class and his pension entitlements. The son of the Silesian district judge Heinrich von Mützschefahl (1799-1883) came to China with other Germans at the beginning of 1885 to work as a teacher at the Chinese military school in Tianjin . However, towards the end of the year he returned to Germany with other instructors.

possession

According to their origins in the county of Hohnstein , the Mützschefahl had their early possessions mainly in the Thuringian office of Klettenberg . In the Nordhausen district they still owned the goods Branderode , Liebenrode , Stöckey as well as large and small bills of exchange . In Brandenburg Kreis Ruppin belonged Barsikow the property of the family. In Silesia, in addition to the estates in the Wohlau district, they also owned Ostrawe and Pluskau in the Guhrau district .

coat of arms

Representations and accordingly the blazonings of the coat of arms varied over time. The family coat of arms , as it is described in the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , and as it is also shown in the Siebmacher of 1605, Saxon Department, shows three silver pointed columns crowned with balls in blue; on the helmet with blue-silver covers one of the pillars.

Lehsten emblazoned in 1864: “In the blue field side by side three silver columns, of which the middle one is slightly higher. On the crowned helmet a silver column between four blue ostrich feathers. Helmet covers silver and blue. ”But he also mentions that the Siebmacher three“ cones ”and one such cone“ without springs ” on the helmet over a bulge , and that according to Grote's book of gender and coat of arms of the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Braunschweig (1852) the column on the helmet is "decorated with a peacock feather between two silver flags". Ledebur, on the other hand, gives two pointed columns crowned with balls.

Historical coats of arms

  • Coat of arms of the Mutzschefal as in the Siebmacher from 1605, knighthood and nobility department in Saxony

  • Coat of arms of the von Mützschefahl in the Kingdom of Hanover (after Grote , around 1850)

Known family members

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Warlich: The Thirty Years' War in personal reports, chronicles and reports. Metzfall (Mütschefall, Müttschefahl, Mutschefahl), Caspar Wilhelm von; Obrist, initially serving as a major in Danish , Metzfall (Mitschefall, Mitschefal, Mitzschefal, Mützfall, Mispalt), Wilhelm Kaspar von; Weimar-Swedish colonel (executed on October 18, 1632 in Neuburg ad Donau) , Metzfall (Mutschefall), Hans von; Braunschweig-Lüneburg Colonel (- 1640)
  2. ^ A b Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the land constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). Rostock 1864, p. 180.
  3. ^ Document book of the Walkenried monastery.
  4. ↑ Johann Friedrich Gauhen: Des salvation. Rom. Reich's genealogical-historical nobility lexicon. Leipzig 1740, p. 1387.
  5. ^ Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldatisches Führertum . Volume 3, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1937], DNB 367632780 , pp. 46-47, no. 964.
  6. ↑ a b Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Berlin 1856, Volume 2, p. 134.
  7. ↑ [1]
  8. ↑ Konrad Kratzsch: Klatschnest Weimar: Serious and cheerful, human-all-too-human from the everyday life of the classics. Würzburg 2002, p. 132.
  9. ^ AL Corin (Ed.): Hundred letters from Johann Ernst Wagner to Jean Paul Fr. Richter and August von Studnitz. Liège 1942. (digitized version)
  10. ^ Military weekly paper . No. 6 of January 19, 1884, p. 120.
  11. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 284.
  12. ^ Johann Wolf: Eichsfeldisches Urkundenbuch together with the treatise of the Eichsfeldischen nobility. Göttingen 1819 ( Treatise on the Eichsfeld nobility, as a contribution to their history. ) Page 16
  13. ↑ Royal Prussian Ranking List Miscarriage 1700 to 1770.
  14. ↑ The Knights of the Order Pour le Mérite 1740-1807. Virtual register of the winners of the Prussian bravery award