Mecklenburg (noble families)

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Coat of arms of those of Mecklenburg (1742)
Coat of arms of those of Mecklenburg (1871)

Mecklenburg is the name of several originally Mecklenburg , later also Swedish and Prussian noble families .

Genders

of Mecklenburg (1742)

The Mecklenburg Duke Friedrich Wilhelm I recognized two sons from his numerous affairs and gave them the family name Mecklenburg : Friedrich Wilhelm , the son of the daughter of Chancellor Wedemann, and Carl Ludwig , the son of Sophie Magdalene von Plüskow († 1703). Both were raised to the imperial nobility as "Lords of Mecklenburg". The line he founded died out with Friedrich Wilhelm's sons. Carl Ludwig von Mecklenburg, lieutenant colonel and heir to Zibühl , Lübzin and Karcheez , was accepted into the Mecklenburg knighthood in 1742. In 1770 Friedrich Wilhelm, Carl Ludwig and Carl Friedrich, the von Mecklenburg brothers , got the reception at Gülzow and Boldebuck. They stated to be the descendants of Carl Ludwig von Mecklenburg, although it is then unclear why they had to be taken in again.

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are 20 entries by daughters of the von Mecklenburg family from 1742–1905 from Zibühl, Gülzow, Lübzin, Boldebuck, Pantlitz and Wieschendorf for inclusion in the noble ladies' monastery there .

Elevation of rank

In 1863 the brothers Claes and Axel von Mecklenburg received from the Swedish line of the family founded by General Philipp von Mecklenburg (* 1778, † 1841) with Hedwig Countess von Rosen the permission of the Swedish king to use the title of baron . The descendants of Philip's brother Heinrich von Mecklenburg (* 1771; † 1862) with Adelaide, b. von Platen, auf Pantlitz (today the district of Ahrenshagen-Daskow ) were raised to the Prussian baron status on August 20, 1865, under the law of the firstborn, which was tied to the property of the family entourage.

From Mecklenburg (1871)

Another noble family of Mecklenburg goes back to Ludwig Mecklenburg (first documented mention 1821; † 1849). He was the grand ducal forester in Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Zickhusen . His son Friedrich Mecklenburg received as a royal Prussian major in the cuirassier regiment 3 on June 16, 1871 in Berlin the hereditary Prussian nobility as "von Mecklenburg". Whether there is (illegitimate) descent from the ducal house is suggested by the family name, geographical and social origin of the progenitor and elements of the coat of arms awarded in 1871, but not proven.

Possessions

process

Grave of Karl Friedrich von Mecklenburg in the Paris Père Lachaise cemetery

About the extensive fortune of Karl Friedrich von Mecklenburg (born December 23, 1784 in Lübzin), who died in Paris in 1854, in a larger and then famous legal dispute.

coat of arms

  • The coat of arms from 1742 corresponds to the ducal family coat of arms . It shows a forward-facing black buffalo head in gold with drooping neck fur, silver horns and a red crown. On the crowned helmet with black and gold blankets, an umbrella board with peacock feathers on top, made up of five (blue, gold, red, silver, black) rods on which a buffalo head lies. In connection with the elevation to the Prussian baron status, the coat of arms was increased in 1865 by two black buffalo as shield holders .
  • The coat of arms from 1871 shows in a shield divided by red and gold a forward-facing, crowned, red-tongued, silver-armored, black buffalo head . On the crowned helmet with black and gold blankets on the right, red and gold on the left, the iron cross in front of two upwardly sloping lancers with flags divided by blue and gold between two buffalo horns divided by red and gold. The coat of arms is “talking” in two respects : on the one hand, it refers to the name, as it shows the Mecklenburg bull's head like the Mecklenburg dukes , on the other hand it refers to the home of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin , because it is not just the Mecklenburg Bull's head, but also shows the elements of the coat of arms of the Schwerin Counts .

Name bearer

LH v. Mecklenburg, senior member of the Mecklenburg Landsmannschaft in Göttingen (1779)

literature

  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B, Volume III, Complete Series Volume 17, 1958, pages 312-316
  • Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755). Rostock 1864, p. 165f.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Claus Heinrich Bill: History of the family v. Mecklenburg and their progenitor Duke Friedrich Wilhelm v. Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1675 to 2000. (Series of publications by the Institute for German Aristocracy Research, Volume 19). Sonderburg 2000.

Web links

Commons : Mecklenburg family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wieschendorf on gutshaeuser.de, accessed on June 25, 2011
  2. ↑ According to Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrliche Häuser 30 (1880), p. 502
  3. ^ Joseph Euler: Handbuch des Notariats in Preußen: in addition to the voluntary jurisdiction of the courts and with consideration for the rest of Germany, France and other countries. Volume 1, Düsseldorf: Schaub (Schöpping) 1858, p. 264