Milkau (noble family)

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Milkau (Milckau) is the name of a noble family from Meissen and Eastern Germany.

"Ev. - Meißnischer Uradel with the same ancestral home in Rochlitz, which was documented with Cesarius de Milecowe 1233. (Foundation charter of the monastery Geringswalde) appears first and in the fief book of d. Margrave Friedrich the Serious of Meissen 1348/49 documented. (ibid. B1.17 / 27) is mentioned. The name spelling changed between Milikau, Myllekaw, Mylka, Melkow, de Mi (e) lcowe, Milkaw, Milckau and Milkau. ”As well as between Milckaw, Mölckau, and very old forms such as: Milkowe, Mylkaw, de Milik.

Former possessions (fiefs and manors): Groß- and Kleinmilkau, Naundorf, Gepülzig , Alberoda , Altenschönfels Castle , Dallwitz (Priestewitz) , Hohnbach (Liberut), Kobershain , Kriebstein Castle , Merzdorf , Niedermosel, Quolsdorf , Schwede and Stedingsmühle, Skassa (Großenhain ) , Trebitz (Bad Schmiedeberg) , Wormstedt Free knight residence 1694-1819, Wildenhain and Ruppersdorf , Flößberg lower part, Zauckeroda and others.

history

Kleinmilkau manor (around 1860)

The old Meissen noble family owned Groß- and Kleinmilkau as their ancestral seat as early as 1329.

The name could come from the Polish Milckow estate, from which the Silesian Milckow Castle came from. The first documentary mention can be found in a letter from Hermann von Milckau to the Margrave Friedrich zu Meissen. The actual origin cannot be proven on the basis of documents, so the origin from Poland is only one possibility, with Valentin König u. Another source is suspected to be from Hungary.

Richard von Mansberg divided the von Milkau family into two lines in the early days. First: Upper line: Big and Small · Milkau near Rochlitz and second: Lower line: Melkau ( Mölkau ) near Leipzig. The family connection is not shown by him. The last regeste in Mansberg's work on the lower line dates from 1559: “Nickel v. M. (Lossa January 23) replied to the locker's letter with the remark that he was sending a detailed report. “The two lines are related to one another, since in the regeste of 1557 regarding Joachim von Milkau from the upper line in relation to nickel v. M. from the lower line is spoken of as agnates. It is not known when it came to the division between large and small milk. It must have happened before 1400 according to the regesta. The Großmilkau line died out with Moritz Joachim von Milckau around 1683. For economic reasons, he had renounced the Großmilkau manor, which a cousin George Wilhelm von Milckau from the Kleinnmilkau line acquired and thus the headquarters remained in the possession of the Kleinmilkau family until it was sold to Moritz Carl Christoph von Arnim in 1803. The Gepülzig line separated from the Großmilkau line in the 17th century. From which in turn the line to Altenschönfels and Dallwitz originated. While the Altenschönfels line died after 4 generations in the male line, the Dallwitzer line remained the longest existing male line. It went out with the death of Erich von Milkau in the last days of the war in 1945. From the Kleinmilkau line went u. a. still the line to Hohnbach and then later to Swede (Westphalia, diocese of Münster) and Wormstedt (Thuringia, Saxony-Weimar). The last male descendant of the Swede line, Johann Adam Friedrich Wilhelm, acquired the status of an imperial count on 07.07.1790. He died according to his will without descendants on December 16, 1794 in Dresden. The line to Wormstedt expired with the death of the minor Ludwig Ehrenfried Ernst August von Milkau on July 14th, 1819 to Camburg (Dornburg).

Earliest mentions (see also known representatives)

1222. Heinricus de Milik testifies to Bishop Engelhard von Naumburg's document about the foundation of the Karthauses near Krimmitschan.

1233. Cesarius de Milkowe : 1233 mention as a witness in the founding deed of the Geringswalde monastery next to "... but witnesses of this act are: Konrad von Landsberg, Heinrich and Friedrich, brothers von Polek, curators; Thimo and Volrad, brothers von Colditz, Johannes von Rochlitz, Heinrich von Hartha, Otto von Gerhardsdorf (Gersdorf), Heinrich von Pichne?, Dietrich von Abendorf, Friedrich von Portitz, Johannes von Altendorf, Heinrich von Böhlen. Clerics: Gottfried von Weistropp, Caesarius von Milkau, Heinrich von Zettlitz, Gerbot von Leisnig, Gunzelin, Ludolf, Sigfried, parish priest of Wildenfels ... in the 1233rd year of the Lord on January 2. This makes him the first known person in the family to be documented as it stands today.

1302. Frisco de Milcowe testifies of the monastery to book comparison with Mr. Hugo von Wolkenberg about the village of Nauenhain.

1306. Arnold v. Myllekaw testifies to the alliance that Mr. Friedrich v. Schonenburg closes with the cities of Zwickau, Altenburg and Chemnitz.

The Milkaus maintained the noble element in Grimma in the period after 1563 by sending their children to the St. Augustin monastery school there.

Other mentions

  • In the 17th century Melchior von Bodenhausen (son of Wilke) acquired Gut Leubnitz to which the von Milkau already had an entitlement. As a result, a legal dispute broke out with the heirs of Leonhard von Milkau zu Christgrün (Gottfried v. M. on Alberoda, Hiob v. M. d. Younger on Altenschönfels and Christoph Jahn v. M on Merzdorf) because of the grant of 2000 guilders in addition the accrued interest. The legal dispute began in 1616 and dragged on until a final settlement between the Milkau heirs and Franz Wilke von Bodenhausen (son of Otto von Bodenhausen) in 1645.

Collature of the church in Krossen and Milkau by the family 1497–1818

  • 1497. Bishop Johannes von Meissen confirms (23 June) the separation of the Krossen branch from the mother church in Gross Milkau at the request of Caspar v. M. auf Kleinmilkau (mentioned 1439–1498), who dedicated the new independent parish with a house, fields, meadows, wood and an annual 20 bushels of grain decem. He Jacobus Hein is appointed as the first pastor of Krossen, after his death and with every subsequent settlement Caspar and Heinrich v. M. , among her male descendants, the eldest always have the right to fill the pastoral position. Pauls Schrader (see literature) wrote on p. 118: In 1497, Caspar von Milckau founded the Crossen parish on 23 June after the foundation deed that was burned with it in 1800. The church in Crossen is said to have had a bell from 14,976 until the 1st World War I (Schrader) have seen it myself, but the inscription could not be read due to the tightness of the chair. In the case of Valentin König, the foundation charter is still cited at the beginning of the Milckau genealogy.
  • 1818, June 4th Wilhelm Friedrich Melchior died . Milkau hess. Colonel u. Heir, feudal lord and court lord on Wormstaedt. With him, the von Milkau family's collaboration for Krossen and Milkau ended and passed on to the sons of (Moritz) Carl Christoph Arnim . Job Adolph Friedrich von Milkau had previously sold the right of collage to Carl Christoph von Arnim (buyer of Großmilkau). His brother Job August Wilhelm (see also section: Known representatives) had agreed to the sale. The two brothers had waived the right of collature for themselves and their future descendants in the contract (cession contract of 1810). However, Job Adolph Friedrich did not have the authority to do so, since he was not the oldest sex and Wilhelm Friedrich Melchior had successfully challenged the right. Jobst Christoph von Römer , as the fiefdom guardian of the 3 underage sons of Carl Christoph von Arnim (Georg Heinrich Wolf, Hans Carl and Friedrich Henning) applied for the validity of the delivery of the collature from Job Adolph Friedrich v. Milkau from 1810 to Carl Christoph von Armin. In 1847 there was a sequel to this: In 1847 Job Clemens Albert Adolf v. Milkau reported from the Württemberg line and wanted to take up the collage prematurely before the death of his father Job August Wilhelm, at that time the eldest of the von Milkau family. There was an investigation, the outcome of which is not on file.

Last mentions

The last known male bearer of the name is Erich von Milkau (born December 10, 1882 Tharandt, Tharandt registry office) on the Quolsdorf manor (Niesky district, near Hänichen, Ober-Lausitz) responsible pastor and). Female members of the family still lived in Tharandt near Dresden in the former GDR. Gertrud, Erich's unmarried sister, died in Tharandt on October 24, 1974 (Tharandt registry office) and was the last name bearer.

coat of arms

Coat of arms Reichsgraf von Milkau - Prussian recognition.
  • The ancestral coat of arms of the barons is a double-curved, crowned black lion on gold, which holds a downward-facing, red staff at an angle to the right in both front paws.
  • The coat of arms of the count deviates from this and there are two versions: On the one hand, according to the nobility of the duke from Bavaria as imperial vicar Johann Adam Friedrich Wilhelm v. Milkau zu Schwede 1790 and on the other hand that of the subsequent Prussian recognition. Description Coat of arms of the count (1790) acc. Elevation of rank by the imperial vicar: Get., 2 times sp. u. beli. with fl. Heart shield, therein StW., 1 u. 6 in G. a winged on both sides, held together at the bottom by a loop, lowered u. spread r. Compasses, 2 u. 5 in B. a kgl.-kr. black Double-headed eagle, each with a g. Ring in the beak, 3 u. 4 in p. Diagonally right a half open r. Sheep shears; 5 H., 1. u. 5. with schw.-b. Cover the double-headed eagle, 2. with r.-g. Cover the compasses, 3rd sth., 4th with r.-s. Cover a r. Wing; Schildh .: 2 wreathed wild men with clubs. It should be noted that the color illustration from the Westphalian heraldic book also deviates in detail from the illustration in Siebmacher's heraldic book from 1866 in the volume Prussia and under counts.

Well-known representatives

  • Ernst Siegmund : The regular series begins with Ernst Siegmund von Milckau auf Milckau (15th century) [Note: Kneschke has taken this from the work of Valentin König see p. Bibliography, an Ernst Siegmund cannot be verified on the basis of original documents from this early period. An Ernst Siegmund can be documented for the first time from his birth on March 8, 1679 in Nischwitz. ]
  • Christoph v. Milkau was the master of Alberoda until his death around 1550. He was married to Ursula von Plaussig (+ July 28, 1567 according to the church register Lößnitz-Affalter, page 211, no. 30). His sons were Rudolph and Gottfried both +1565 in Hungary, Christoph + between 1556 and 1560 as a student in Leipzig, Leonhard (founder of the Altenschönfels line) (+ Dresden January 25th, 1604 according to the funeral sermon), Job I. (+11.05.1614 , according to funeral sermon) (founder of the Dallwitzer line) u. Friedrich Wilhelm auf Alberoda (+27.10.1623, according to the church register Lößnitz-Affalter 1623, no.44).
  • Job II on Altenschönfels u Tannhoff (* September 24, 1587 Altenschönfels according to the funeral sermon; † September 29, 1618 Altenschönfels according to the death register Schönfels, p. 10 1618 No. 16), son d. Leonhard on Altenschönfels. He left behind two underage children Job IV and Sophia Hedwig and a wife Emerentia geb. v. Metzsch , daughter of Sebastian v. Metzsch auf Plohn, captain of the offices of Zwickau and Werdau a. Anna von der Planitz from Göltzsch. Emerentia leased her underage son Job Altenschönfels from Katharina 1618 - Katharina 1624. Her lease was leased from the guardian of her underage son Job, George Christoph v. Milkau on Kleinmilkau because, contrary to the contract of 1618, she remarried to Heinrich von Ende in 1621 and paid no rent, nor paid off her son's debts.
  • Melchior Friedrich von Milkau Kurf. Saxon. Hauptman bought the manor Wormstedt from Moritz von An (c) kelamnn in Wormstedt and Podelwitz in 1694. He was married to Eleonora Dorothea Menius from Auerstedt and had only one son, Christian Friedrich. He was the founder of the Wormstedter line, which until the beginning of the 19th century. existed.
  • Johann Georg von Milkau received the baron diploma.
  • Moritz Friedrich v. M. (1670 - 1740) Kurf. Saxon. General of the Cavalry Lord on Lebusa and Sorgenfeld, bought the manor Kriebstein from his brother-in-law Caspar Dietrich von Schönberg in 1719, which he owned until his death. He was with Ursula Elisabeth born in 1703. v. Schönberg from the Pfaffroda family married (they were born in 1683 and † 1757.) They had 2 sons and 7 daughters in their marriage.
  • Moritz Friedrich v. M. (1723 - 1787) heir Lehn and court lord of Kriebstein and Lebusa and Herzogl-Württemberg. Chamberlain, son of the father of the same name (see above), died unmarried on June 12, 1787 in Heilbronn. After his death without his own heirs, an inheritance dispute arose over the estate of the Kriebstein manor between his universal and allodial heir, the secret war councilor Carl August Moritz Innozenz von Pflugk and the female. Relatives (descendants of the daughters of the father Moritz Friedrich) from the houses of Zehmen and von Schachten.
  • Johann Adam Friedrich Willhelm vom Mikau (born August 23, 1766 Swede (KB Cappeln) † December 16, 1794 Dresden (KB Dreifaltigkeitskirche Dresden)) received the count's diploma. Imperial Count Munich July 17, 1790 (from Elector Karl Theodor v.Pfalzbayern as Imperial Vicar for Johann Adam Friedrich Wilhelm [Frhrn] v. Milckau, in Swede and Stedingsmühlen, Burgmann zu Vechta, Royal Prussian Khm and Domhrn zu Kolberg); prussia. Recognition ... August 16, 1790 for the same. (The coats of arms differ in the shield decoration.) He left a wife ( Henriette Luise Tugendreich née von Mitzlaff ), but no children. He was also the only one from Milkau who carried the title of (imperial) count.
  • Job Adolph von Milkau (born April 10, 1746 in Brunn near Reichenbach (KB Neumark / BrunnnTaufbuch 1746 No. 14) † December 16, 1798 in Wildenhain (death register Ramsdorf 1798, no. 22)): - 1774, Leipzig, October 11 .: Lease contract for manor Löbnitz castle part between Johan Adolph v. Milkau and Johann Hilmar Adolph v. Schönfeld. Since the father still lived on Wildenhain, he looked for his own place to stay for the family. Löbnitz-Schloßteil with the Vorwerk Scholitz u. Sehlhausen, as well as the farms (Avizische Gut, Schlossschenke and brick barn). The lease was to run to Walpurgis from 1775 to 1784 (9 years). The rent for the first 3 years was 3700 and then 4000 thalers. He had the rights of use and the "complaints". The contract listed exactly which other exceptions and services the lessee had to provide to the lessor. This does not include the exercise of the courts and the use of wood. The castle itself is also not included, as the contract stipulated that a new house to be built was designated for the apartment. Until then, some of the rooms in the castle had been ceded. He was also promised a seat in the upstairs church. He had to assure that he was not allowed to give his wife any economic assurance regarding the leased property or its deposit. (The contract is 48 pages long and regulates very precisely all points of takeover, return, termination rights, obligations of the lessee, regulation for the case of extraordinary damage, e.g. flood of the Mulde u., Rights and income such as labor, complaints, taxes etc. - LHASA, MD, D9, DXVIb 10, No. 18). 1789–1790 he helped his father (Johann August) in procuring the collage for the churches in Großmilkau and Crossen, as well as feudal rule of the horse farms in Zschauitz (StaA Leipzig inventory 20403 Patrimonial Court Grossmilkau file no. 91).
  • Emil Freiherr von Milkau (born October 22, 1847 - † May 29, 1916), sponsor of the spa in the city of Tharandt, a. a. Sanitarium Sanitas by Dr. Haupt (today: Town Hall) and Milkau-Villa (Nobbe building of the TU Dresden, currently Saxon State Foundation for Nature and Environment); Family crypt in the Tharandt cemetery. Kgl. Saxon baron class (with confirmation of the same) Dresden December 27, 1915 (for Emil Frhrn. v. Milkau, Royal Saxon Rittmeister a. D.); Entry in the Kgl. Saxon nobility book June 25, 1918 under no. 535 (for the same).
  • The Württemberg line was founded by Johann August Willhelm von Milkau , son of Johann August von Milkau, who died in 1798 . He was born in Wildenhain on April 11, 1782, baptismal name: Job August Wilhelm von Milkau (baptismal register Ramsdorf 1782, No. 3) and died on February 1, 1849 in Comburg near Hall as a colonel of the cavalry a. D. and commandant of the Invaliden-Corps zu Comburg (1832–1849) (church book of the military community Hall-Comburg).
  • Georg Emil Freiherr von Milkau (born October 10, 1849 Oberhohndorf near Zwickau † November 6, 1889 Gut Trieb near Nassanger) was the only representative of the von Milkau family in Bavaria. He died unmarried without leaving any children; his heirs were his siblings who were still alive. His siblings and parents Emil Frh. V. Milkau oo Amalie von Milkau b. Porges et al. Siblings: Emil Frhr. v. Milkau, Maria Amalie von Milkau, Amalie Elisabeth von Steindel geb. von Milkau, Amalie Margarethe von Jäckel b. mentioned by Milkau .

literature

  • Genealogical Adels-Historie…, Volume 1, Leipzig 1727, Valentin König (Hrsg.), Family and ancestral tables of Milckau. P. 647ff.
    [Note: The representations are partly wrong, especially before 1650, which is e.g. B: the church registers from Alberoda or also loan letters to capital u. Show Kleinmilkau and Gepülzig from the Dresden State Archives.]
  • HA Lindner: Genealogical collections and genealogical tables of old noble houses. (contains around 800 family tables from north German aristocrats up to 1787) Bavarian State Archives, COD according to 8012 Milckau table no. 129b.
    [Note: Lindner appeared after Valentin König's work. He added further life data on the family members, completed with the female persons (wives, their parents and daughters with husbands) and the like. leads the family tree in the 18th century. away. Some depictions of König are corrected.]
  • Paul Schrader: The Milckau family. (Article), Ed. Familiengeschichtliche Blätter No. 37, Leipzig 1939, Sp. 113-136.
    [Note: Paul Schrader continues the family tree of the von Milkau family into the 20th century. Since he lived in Milkau, he had access to the church registers there and the surrounding area, as well as documents from the manor archives Groß- und Kleinmilkau and Pflülzig that still existed. He corrected some errors in the previous genealogies, but did not remain flawless and did not show the continuation of the Milkau line on Dallwitz and later on Kobershain.]
  • Chapter Milkau. In: Richard Freiherr von Mansberg: Erbmanschaft wettinischer_Lande. , Ed. Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1903, 1st volume, Das Osterland. and 5th Vol. Family Tables.
    [Note: Von Mansberg evaluated original documents, but only until the middle of the 16th century. In volume 1 he only lists regesta, in volume 2 there is a table with the family trees of the male family members of the upper and lower lines of Milkau. He is largely flawless in the regesta, since he only adheres to primary documents. In the family tree of the children of the same name of Job v. Milkau Amtmann zu Rochlitz and Heinrich v. Milkau zu Kleinmilkau is to question this representation of identity. After 1550 the family tree is incomplete.]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Linda Wenke Bönisch: Universities and Princely Schools Between War and Peace: A matriculation study on the Central German educational landscape in the denominational age (1563-1650). Page 279.
  2. ↑ a b c d Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Lexikon Bd 9 Met-Oe, S. 69f.
  3. ↑ a b c d Richard Freiherr von Mansberg: Erbmanschaft Wettinischer Lande. , Ed. Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1903, Volume 1, Das Osterland, p. 311.
  4. ^ Paul Schrader: The Milckau family. (Article), Ed. Familiengeschichtliche Blätter Leipzig 1939
  5. ↑ a b c d e f Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon. 1865, p. 292.
  6. ^ Richard Freiherr von Mansberg: Erbmanschaft Wettinischer Lande. , Ed. Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1903, Volume 1, Das Osterland, p. 328
  7. ^ Richard Freiherr von Mansberg: Erbmanschaft Wettinischer Lande. , Ed. Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1903, 1st volume, Das Osterland, p. 323
  8. ↑ STAA Leipzig Memorandum monastery Geringswalde, 1233rd
  9. ↑ Earth description of the electoral and ducal Saxon lands, Volume 2, Office Rochlitz, pp. 857f., Ed. M. Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardt, Leipzig 1803
  10. ↑ Linda Wenke Bönisch: Universities and Princely Schools Between War and Peace: A matriculation study on the Central German educational landscape in the denominational age (1563-1650). Page 323.
  11. ↑ STAA DD 10084, Dresden Court of Appeal, no. 666
  12. ^ Richard Freiherr von Mansberg: Erbmanschaft Wettinischer Lande. , Ed. Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1903, 1st volume, Das Osterland, p. 314.
  13. ↑ Death register ("TodtenProtocoll") 1815–1821 of the Weimar City Church, p. 144, No. 89.
  14. ^ Paul Schrader: The Milckau family. (Article), Ed. Familiengeschichtliche Blätter No. 37, Leipzig 1939, p. 136 Note on No. 230.
  15. ↑ Acta Großmilkauer Collatoren u judges u Gepülzig sheet 17, parish archive Milkau.
  16. ↑ StaA CHE inventory 30771, Planitz no. 457 news about d. Collatur- u. Patronage rights d. Churches and Schools Großmilkau u. Crosses.
  17. ↑ STAA DD stock 10080 Lehnhof Dresden, United Milkau Nr_O 02497, leaves 263-265.
  18. ↑ Memorial Book of the German Nobility, 1967, p. 218
  19. ↑ BayHStA Heroldamt Volumes Gf 21/14. Original document and application for the increase of the nobility with a color coat of arms for Johann Adam Friedrich Wilhelm v. Milkau zu Schwede (Bavarian Main State Archives, Munich.)
  20. ↑ Permission for Chamberlain Frhr v Milkau to use Grafentitel 1790–1792 GStA PK. I. HA Privy Council Rep 7 Prussia No. 13-1 Fasz M26
  21. ^ Paul Schrader: The Milckau family. (Essay), published by Familiengeschichtliche Blätter No. 37, Leipzig 1939, serial No. 92.
  22. ↑ Valentin König Genealogical Adels-Historie Volume 1 1727, Stamm- u. Ahnentaflen Milckau Num. 96
  23. ↑ Dresden State Archives, Genealogica 12881, No. 3109 Milkau-Altenschönfels
  24. ^ State Archives Thuringia-Weimar (Lehngut Wormstedt, A 5326) Lehnsacta on the Ritterguth Wormstedt (1698-1726)
  25. ^ Paul Schrader: The Milckau family. (Essay), Ed. Familiengeschichtliche Blätter No. 37, Leipzig 1939, serial No. 80 and Notes on No. 80 in the Appendix.
  26. ↑ Saxon State Archives Leipzig, 20449 Manor Kriebstein Nr. 12,.
  27. ↑ Saxon State Archive in Leipzig, 20449 manor Kriebstein No. 24,.
  28. ↑ History of the former Niederstift Münster and the adjacent counties, p. 368ff., Volume 2, Vechta 1841.
  29. ↑ StaA DD inventory 10047 Dresden office No. 2595 Testament etc. from Friedrich Wilhelm von Milkau
  30. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon. 1865, p. 293.
  31. ^ KB Zwickau: Baptism register of the ev.-luth. Matthäuskirche Bockwa 1849, page 162 NI. 59
  32. ↑ Bayerisches Staatsarchiv Bamberg, FA 0277-08, K123 NL No. 581.