Moellendorff (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Moellendorff family ("Leuchterwappen"). On some old representations - e.g. B. the Dargelützer epitaph (picture below) - with a shield color other than red

Moellendorff (also Möllendorff ) is the name of an old noble family from the Altmark . The sex is of the same tribe as those of Krusemark .

Another von Möllendorff family with the same ancestral home near Osterburg, but with a different coat of arms, the "top coat of arms" (tribal and coat of arms related to those of Königsmarck , von Beust and von Rohr ) has died out.

history

Wooden epitaph (around 1630) Arndt von Möllendorff on Dargelütz with his wife Elisabeth von Wardenberg in the Dargelütz village church (now in the Klockenhagen open-air museum )
Wichard von Möllendorff (1724-1816)
Hugo von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1840–1905)
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931)

origin

Möllendorf, now part of the community of Goldbeck near Osterburg , is the family's ancestral home . The family is first mentioned in a document in 1341 with Goske, Gerhard and Otto von Mollendorf. The oldest family line begins in 1476 with Kurt von Moellendorff on Gadow .

Expansion and possessions

The oldest proven possessions of the family are not in the Altmark, but in the Prignitz : Krampfer (today district of Plattenburg ) 1413, Wentdorf 1421, Garz and Brünkendorf (near Pritzwalk) 1433. Numerous other properties were acquired later. One branch came to Pomerania and acquired property in Elbershagen near Regenwalde , another to Dargelütz (now part of Parchim ) in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are three entries by daughters of the von Möllendorff families from Dargelütz and Brünkendorf from the years 1734–1771 for inclusion in the aristocratic women's monastery .

Because of the identity of the name with the extinct sex of Möllendorff (top coat of arms), it is difficult to reliably assign the older bearers of the name, unless a personal coat of arms has survived. It is very likely that Henning von Moellendorff, who was appointed captain of the bodyguard by Elector Johann Georg from Brandenburg in 1572 at Cölln on the Spree , belongs to the family with the candlestick coat of arms. Curt von Moellendorff can also be assigned to this family. In 1620 he was appointed Rittmeister over the Prignitz and Ruppin knight services .

Wichard Ernst Friedrich von Moellendorff (1796–1880) was the owner of Fideikommiss Krampfer (today part of Plattenburg ), to which Klein-Gottschow and Simonshagen (today both parts of Groß Pankow (Prignitz) ) belonged until the middle of the 19th century . His descendants also owned the Horst and Blumenthal estates (today districts of Heiligengrabe ).

Hartwich Friedrich von Moellendorff from the House of Lindenberg was the commander of a Prussian grenadier battalion. He died in the Seven Years' War in 1757 in the Battle of Kolin . His younger brother Wichard Joachim Heinrich von Moellendorff , born in 1724 on his father's Lindenberg estate, died in 1816 as a Prussian field marshal . From his possessions he donated a family majorat with the rule Cumlosen and the castle Gadow (Westprignitz), to which the rule Elbershagen in Pomerania also came. Since the General Field Marshal was unmarried, he had adopted a nephew, Lieutenant Wichard von Bonin , who served in his regiment, long before his death , and declared it to be the heir of his property. This already carried the name Bonin von Moellendorff with royal permission, but he fell in 1813 as captain of the Kurmärkische Landwehr in the battle of Hagelberg .

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

In 1813 Wichard von Möllendorff adopted the three sons Hugo, Ottocar and Arnold von Wilamowitz of his great-niece Ernestine von Bonin, a sister of the fallen captain von Bonin, who was married to the royal Prussian major, Theodor von Wilamowitz, who was out of service . They established the lines of the barons and counts von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff . On May 4, 1815, they received royal permission to call themselves Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and to use a coat of arms combined from their ancestral and Moellendorff's.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a three-armed golden candlestick in red (sometimes blue or split blue / silver) . On the helmet with red and gold ceiling two growing in armor arms , the pile as Asked shaft of a silver Wassermühlrades at the top holding.

Known family members

Möllendorff, Moellendorff

Wilamowitz-Moellendorff

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . Main part 1, Vol. 1, p. 142. [1]
  2. ↑ Lieselott Enders : Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg. Vol. 1: Prignitz. Weimar 1997.