Meyenn
The of Meyenn are a letter noble family from Mecklenburg , the progenitor of the very wealthy Bleichert Peter Meyenn is. From 1726 to 1750 he was general leaseholder of the offices of Stolpe , Clempenow , Verchen , Treptow , Lindenberg and Loitz in Western Pomerania and in 1747 acquired the manors Mellenthin , Dargen , Dewichow , Balm , Neuhof , Neukrug, Gothen and Ahlbeck on the island of Usedom .
His son, War Councilor Peter Ernst Meyenn , received the Prussian nobility on February 17, 1768 for himself and his four sons and three daughters from three illegitimate relationships. The recognition of this nobility in Mecklenburg-Schwerin took place on January 20, 1769. In 1794 (November 19) his natural daughter Friederike von Meyenn (* 1774) was raised to the imperial nobility in Vienna.
coat of arms
1768: Split, on the right in gold on green ground a natural maize shrub with seven flowers, on the left in blue a black-feathered golden eagle's claw with four upward arrows. On the helmet with blue and gold covers a gold armored black eagle head crowned with a golden royal crown.
1794: split; on the right in blue on green ground a green perennial with 7 five-leaf flowers, on the left in black, emerging from clouds on the left edge of the shield, a bare arm with three silver arrows; Nobility crown
family members
- Karl von Meyenn (* 1937), German physicist and physics historian
literature
- Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon . Volume 5, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1839, p. 329
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN 0435-2408