Meerheimb

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Baron coat of arms from 1661

Meerheimb , also Meerheim , is the name of a Mecklenburg noble family as well as a Saxon noble family, probably originally related and named but not with the same coat of arms.

history

Gravestone for Anna Sabina von Meerheim in Dobbertin with the family coat of arms

Heinrich Merhem, Elector of Saxony's gunsmith in Torgau , is said to have fled Cologne as a Protestant in the 16th century. Through him, the sex is traced back to a Rhenish noble family that has been documented since 1216. The sure story begins with Ernst Meerem from Halle an der Saale , who served in the Electoral Saxon army. His eldest son, the imperial colonel Hans Wilhelm von Meerheim (born December 3, 1620 Altenburg , † 1688), came towards the end of the Second Northern War with which he commands Guard Marshal Montecuccoli 1660 to Mecklenburg. He married his first wife Anna Sabina, geb. von Hefer (Heber) (* 1622 in Rauden, Upper Silesia), 1644 in Glatz , County Glatz (since 1945 Kłodzko ). She died on January 6, 1660 and was buried in Dobbertin Monastery. Her grave slab is preserved in the western cloister. Only a few months after the death of his first wife, he married Eleonore Dorothea von Oertzen (born September 25, 1639; † 1705) in Rostock on May 29, 1660 , the youngest daughter of Jaspar (III.) Von Oertzen auf Roggow ( today part of Rerik ) and niece of Oelgard von Passow , and took formal leave the following year, but de facto retired from imperial service. On July 17, 1661, he bought the Gnemern estate (today the district of Jürgenshagen ) and on August 10, 1661, Emperor Leopold I raised him to the Bohemian baron under the name of Meerheimb . In 1675 he went back to military service in the Northern War (1674–1679) ; as a royal Danish major general he commanded the siege of Wismar . In Skåne , he was involved in the battles for Lund and Karlskrona in 1676 and was temporarily governor of Kristianstad . Governor of Lolland and Falster until 1681 , when he returned to his Mecklenburg estates. He died on December 25, 1688 on the Gnemern estate and was buried in the inherited funeral he had acquired in the Marienkirche in Rostock .

The two surviving sons (of originally five) of this baron Hans Wilhelm von Meerheimb, Helmuth Joachim auf Wokrent and Jaspar Wilhelm (1665–1731) auf Gnemern, were accepted into the Mecklenburg knighthood in the state parliament in Malchin in 1727 .

Helmuth Joachim's youngest son Jasper Friedrich (1715–1797) united the family estates in his hand. He was the founder of three entails: Gnemern, Wokrent and Gr. Belitz, Gr. Gischow and Reinsdorf. But since two of his sons died early, Ferdinand Volrath Friedrich Freiherr von Meerheimb (1760-1836) became the sole beneficiary of the entire property. In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are 18 entries by daughters of the von Meerheimb families from Gnemern, Wokrent, Gr. Gischow and Reinsdorf from 1727–1901 for inclusion in the local aristocratic women's monastery .

In 1945 the Mecklenburg property was expropriated from the family. Hans-Wilhelm von Meerheimb fled to the west. In 1948 he married Ina Blohm, the daughter of Walther Blohm . They managed the Groß-Rolübbe estate (officially Großrolübbe , district of Kletkamp ), which Blohm had acquired in 1933. It was here that Hans-Wilhelm von Meerheimb built up the Gutshof-Ei company from 1970 .

In Saxony there was a noble family with the same spelling, which arose from the royal Saxon nobility recognition of the royal Saxon colonel Franz Ludwig August Meerheim (b) on December 27, 1844. He was the son of Wittenberg professor Gottfried August Meerheim . Both sexes lead their line of ancestors to the Cologne area and from there back to Halle. The question of their kinship is answered differently in the literature.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in blue a silver ostrich turned to the right with a horseshoe in its beak. The baronial coat of arms from 1661 is squared and shows a left-facing black crowned eagle in the first and fourth golden fields, and a right-facing silver ostrich with a horseshoe in its beak in the second and third blue fields. Two crowned helmets: on the first the left-facing eagle, on the second the right-facing ostrich. The helmet covers are gold and black on the right, silver and blue on the left.

Saxon family

In blue, a golden bar that has been cut off on the right and runs downwards in three golden stakes; on the helmet with blue and gold covers an open flight, blue on the right, golden on the left.

Monuments

Sepulcher chapel in the Marienkirche in Rostock

Possessions

The von Meerheimb family owned the following goods:

Personalities

Mecklenburg family
Saxon family
  • Gottfried August Meerheim (1753–1802), German ethnologist and literary scholar, professor in Wittenberg
    • Franz Ludwig August von Meerheim (b) (1785–1858), Saxon officer, most recently colonel

literature

Web links

Commons : Meerheimb (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See New Prussian Adelslexicon (Lit)., P. 385, and especially Jaspar Freiherr von Meerheimb: Der Freiherrn von Meerheimb Origin. In: Archives for regional studies in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg. 15 (1865), pp. 293–297 ( digitized as a counter-representation to Lehsten (lit.)
  2. ↑ See Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : Documented history of the family von Oertzen. Part 3: From the year 1600 to the year 1725. Schwerin 1866 ( digitized version ), pp. 103, 167
  3. ↑ Kneschke (Lit.), p. 209
  4. ↑ Gutshof-Ei (website)
  5. ^ Negative: Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6: Loewenthal-Osorowski, Leipzig 1865, p. 208; positive: Jaspar Freiherr von Meerheimb: The Freiherr von Meerheimb origin. In: Archives for regional studies in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg 15 (1865), pp. 293–297 ( digitized
  6. ↑ Gnemern near Neukloster . In: gutshaeuser.de
  7. ↑ Wokrent near Rostock . In: gutshaeuser.de
  8. ^ Archives for regional studies in the Grossherzogthümen Mecklenburg 18 (1868), p. 321