Neuenkirchen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Neuenkirchen
Grave slab of Rüdiger von Neuenkirchen and his wife Ilsabe von Eickstedt in the village church of Mellenthin on Usedom
Coat of arms in the Pomeranian Wappenbuch
Mellenthin moated castle

The von Neuenkirchen family , also called Nienkerken in Low German , were a noble Pomeranian family . The family residing on Usedom and near Anklam and Wolgast died out in the 17th century.

history

The exact origin of the family, who lived in Pomerania since the middle of the 13th century, is not documented. It is therefore unclear whether the family got their name from their headquarters in Neuenkirchen or whether the name was transferred to the place. A von Nienkerken family also lived in the right bank of the Rhine in the county of Kleve . The first representative named in Pomerania is the knight Rudolf, also Rodolfus, Ludolf etc., from (de) Nienkerken, who can be proven in the documents from 1251 to 1295.

Mellenthin and Gothen on the island of Usedom as well as Neuenkirchen and Müggenburg south of the Peene near Anklam belonged to the ancestral seats of the family since the first half of the 14th century .

In 1322 the city of Anklam received Bugewitz Castle , half of which was owned by Bernhard von Neuenkirchen, from Duke Otto I of Pomerania . Rolof von Neuenkirchen accompanied Duke Wartislaw VIII of Pomerania-Wolgast on his pilgrimage to Jerusalem in 1392/93 . Allegedly, he is said to have helped the duke out of a financial emergency, for which he was enfeoffed in 1426 with the Vorwerk estate , today 's Wrangelsburg , which remained in their possession until the family died out in 1641.

Since 1418, Hohendorf near the Peenestrom near Wolgast was owned by the family. In a conflict with Anklam in 1434 the Müggenburg was largely destroyed. Four years later, the last time with "Reimar Nigenkerken de oldere, wanhafftig the Müggenborch tho 'a national of that sex in the context of Müggenburg called when he in fact on November 29, 1438 with the city of Anklam against the dukes Johann and Heinrich von Mecklenburg allied . In 1473, Rolef and Joachim von Neuenkirchen sold the village of Hohendorf to the Krummin monastery for 400 Mark Sundisch with the permission of Duke Erich II .

Several family members were councilors and officials of the Pomeranian dukes from the 13th to the 17th centuries. Reimar von Neuenkirchen in 1394 and Johann (Hans) von Neuenkirchen in 1421 and 1425 were bailiffs of Wolgast. In 1436 Hans von Neuenkirchen was named as Vogt of Usedom .

Johann von Neukirchen, who came from Pomerania , was enfeoffed with 10.5 hooks to Goldbeck by the Landmaster of the Teutonic Order in Livonia , Wolter von Plettenberg , around 1524 . As early as 1549, Landmeister Johann von der Recke Goldbeck confirmed this fief to Jürgen Goldbeck, son-in-law of the above Johann von Neukirchen . With Hans von Niekirchen, the grandson of Hans, who came to Estonia at the beginning, who was the master of Kohhat and case in Wierland as well as quartermaster and Estonian district administrator in 1615, also owned the mill and 7.5 hooks in the village of Mönest from 1602 to 1610 and finally on Was buried January 4, 1616 in Reval , the family probably died out again in the Baltic States; he left three married daughters.

Rüdiger von Neuenkirchen, who had the Mellenthin moated castle built in the second half of the 16th century , was the advice of Duke Ernst Ludwig . The grave slabs of him and his wife Ilsabe von Eickstedt are in the Mellenthin church. His son Hans von Neuenkirchen came through the indebted Duke Philipp Julius in the pledge possession of the office Lindenberg south of Demmin . His other son Christoph von Neuenkirchen had a four-wing renaissance castle built in Vorwerk around 1600 . He was the last ducal official governor on Usedom and temporarily captain at Wolgast Castle . With him, the male line died out in 1641. The family estates came into Swedish possession after the Thirty Years War . A sister of Christoph and his younger brother Hans, Barbara von Neuenkirchen, was married to Joachim von Owstin on Quilow . From this marriage u. a. the two sons Rüdiger Christoph von Owstin and Jochen Cuno von Owstin .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows three blue rafters in silver. On the helmet with blue-silver covers, a natural peacock bump.

Name bearer

literature

See also

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pomeranian Document Book , Vol. I and Vol. II
  2. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch, Vol. VI, No. 3595, p. 107
  3. ↑ Joachim Zdrenka: The pilgrimages of the Pomeranian dukes to the Holy Land in the years 1392/93 and 1406/07. In: Baltic Studies NF 81 (1995), p. 13
  4. ^ Neidhardt Krauss, Egon Fischer: On the way to castles, palaces and parks in Western Pomerania . Hinstorff Verlag Rostock 1991, ISBN 3-356-00391-7 , p. 21
  5. ^ Carl Friedrich Stavenhagen : Description of the purchase and trading town Anklam. Anklam 1773, pp. 405/06
  6. ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 1, Leon Saunier, Stettin 1924, p. 448
  7. ↑ Maximilian Gritzner (arrangement): The nobility of the Russian Baltic provinces. In: Johann Siebmacher's Large Book of Arms . New episode. Battenberg-Verlag, Munich, 1979