Nettelhorst

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Family coat of arms of those of Nettelhorst

Nettelhorst the name is an originally from Westphalia originating noble family , which deals with the Order of the Baltic States and from there to Prussia and Pomerania has spread.

possession

In Courland , the family owned the goods Ihlen (1530-1710) and Schlagunen (from the 16th century to 1919), in Pomerania Warbelow was acquired by the Massow in 1619 , and in East Prussia the Nettelhorst were also able to purchase numerous goods in the 17th century and finally in the Duchy of Württemberg the Bittenfeld Castle was acquired by the Münchingen in 1700 .

Ranks

Ernst Christoph von Nettelhorst received an Erbländisch-Österreichisches Grafendiplom on April 13, 1804 .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in the split shield on the right in silver an upright red dog, on the left in red three white roses. Sitting on a helmet with a silver-red blanket between a red eagle wing with three white roses and a white eagle wing with three red reds, the dog is sitting. (Instead of silver there is also gold, except for the roses, and as a crest the dog growing between a red flight on the right and a golden flight on the left.)

monument

The Königsberg sculptor Walter Rosenberg created four statues for the facade of the town hall in Labiau ( East Prussia ). One of them shows a governor from Nettelhorst . The town hall was inaugurated in 1930.

Relatives

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Feldmann, Heinz von zur Mühlen (ed.): Baltic historical local dictionary, part 2: Latvia (southern Livland and Courland). Böhlau, Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-412-06889-6 , p. 227.
  2. ^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Königsberg sculptures and their masters 1255-1945. Würzburg 1970, p. 141.

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