Ow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Ow

Ow (also Owa, Ouwe, Owe, Awa, Aw, Auw, Au and Ow and in all cases Au (e) spoken) is the name of an old Swabian noble family with its ancestral home Ouwe near Obernau ( Tübingen district ), that of the Swabian imperial knighthood listened to.

history

Origin, namesake and possessions

The family has its origin in Swabia and first appears in a document with Wolferat de Owa in 1095.

The lineage begins with Hermanus de Owe in 1245 and formed an early branch line of the Counts of Altshausen-Veringen .

Among the members of those of Ow were u. a. Clergy, artists, landowners, politicians, lawyers, as well as mercenaries and officials. Johannes von Ow († 1481) was master master of the Order of St. John. Andreas Meinrad von Ow (* 1712; † 1792) worked as a painter from Hohenzollern. Hans von Ow (* 1843; † 1921) was a landowner and worked as a member of the German Reichstag. Hans Hartmann Freiherr von Ow-Wachendorf (* 1882; † 1966) was a German lawyer. Karl Freiherr von Ow (* 1818; † 1898) was a Bavarian politician. Maximilian von Ow (* 1784; † 1845) was a German government official and parliamentarian. He also owned a manor. His relative Felix Freiherr von Ow (* before 1846, † after 1865) was a district judge and district administrator of Berchtesgaden from 1846 to 1865. Maximilian von Ow (General) (1815; † 1896) worked as a Bavarian general of the infantry and was chief steward. Sigismund Felix Freiherr von Ow-Felldorf (* 1855; † 1936) worked for the church as Bishop of Passau . Friedrich von Ow-Wachendorf (* before 2014) is one of the younger namesake and was mayor of Ammerbuch until 2014. Monuments and gravestones such as those in the baroque episcopal church, St. Stephen's Cathedral , or in the Baroque church of Hirrlingen from the 18th century.

  • Presumed ancestor: Hartmann von Aue (idealized miniature in Codex Manesse around 1300)

  • Gravestone Franz Alexander von Ow (in the church of Hirrlingen )

  • Gravestone Johann Friedrich von Ow

  • Gravestone of Philipp von Ow

  • Gravestone Volmar von Ow

  • Melchior from Ow

  • Grave of Sigismund Felix von Ow-Felldorf, Bishop of Passau (1906–1936)

  • Passau Cathedral: funerary monument with a bust of the German Catholic Bishop of Passau (from 1906 to 1936), Baron Sigismund Felix von Ow-Felldorf

  • Grave slab of Elisabeth von Ow (1458) Balingen (cemetery church)

Nobilitations and possessions

Noble line of Öschingen

Over time, the von Ow family experienced nobility elevations and nobility confirmations. The enrollment in the Kingdom of Bavaria took place in the aristocratic class on April 8, 1813 for Joseph Fidel von Ow , Count Eckart's court administrator at Bertoldsheim

Baron line

The electoral Bavarian noblemen's freedom was granted on September 21, 1677 at Schleißheim Palace for Franz Carl von Ow , later the electoral Bavarian chief caretaker in Hohenschwangau .

Imperial barons with the salutation "Well-born" on September 6, 1681 in Vienna were given to the brothers and cousins Johann Erhard von Ow , landlord on Ahldorf (now part of Horb am Neckar ) and Wachendorf , archducal Austrian and episcopal council of Augsburg , chief hunter and carer of Oberdorf (today part of Bopfingen ) and Ottilienberg , Franz Carl von Ow , electoral Bavarian Colonel Falk champion and Colonel Jägermeister and main carers to Hohenschwangau, Adam Gottfried von Ow , Lord of Neuhaus and Hirrlingen , Elector Palatine chamberlain and episcopally the Augsburg Privy Councilor and chamberlain and nurses to Eislingen , Johann Friedrich von Ow , lord of the manor at Hirrlingen and Sternegg , imperial cavalry master and episcopal councilor of Eichstätt, as well as chief stable master and caretaker at Dollenstein ( Dollnstein ), and for Ferdinand Carl von Ow , margravial court cavalier of Baden . Johann Anton Freiherr von Ow (1748–1812) was the Governing Minister of the Principality of Eichstätt.

The electoral Bavarian recognition on November 22, 1688 for the aforementioned Franz Carl Freiherr von Ow .

Regarding the family branch Felldorf , the enrollment in the Kingdom of Bavaria with the Freiherrnklasse took place on June 22, 1810 for Johann Anton Freiherr von Ow , landowner on Felldorf (from 1414/1433 in possession of the Ow-Felldorf line), Ahldorf, Neuhaus and Bierlingen , kk and Royal Bavarian Privy Councilor and President of the Court of Appeal a. D.

Regarding the family branch Wachendorf , the enrollment in the Kingdom of Bavaria with the Freiherrnklasse took place on June 22, 1810 for Menrad Friedrich Freiherr von Ow , landlord of Wachendorf, royal Bavarian treasurer, lieutenant general and commander of Munich , as well as for his siblings or on April 7th 1881 for Hartmann Freiherr von Ow , royal Bavarian prime lieutenant in the 1st Heavy Rider Regiment . With regard to the family branch Wachendorf, the royal Württemberg name was also increased as "Freiherr von Ow-Wachendorf", linked to the possession of Wachendorf, on March 4, 1907 in Stuttgart for the above mentioned. Hartmann's brother Hans-Otto Freiherr von Ow , Majorate Lord of Wachendorf and Bierlingen, royal Chamberlain and State Councilor.

The family of the lords and barons of Ow belonged to the Swabian imperial knighthood with the St. Jörgen shield. From 1488 to 1501, all three main lines of the Lords of Ow were not only continuously members of the knight society, but also regularly held high positions in it.

The Ow-Wachendorf branch is still located on Wachendorf today. The Ow-Felldorf branch owns the Neuhaus estate near Starzach and in 1869 inherited the Haiming and Piesing estates in Upper Bavaria from Count Berchem , which are also owned by the family to this day.

coat of arms

Blazon : The family coat of arms is divided into gold and blue and shows a two-tailed red lion above ; On the helmet with red and gold blankets, a square, gold, comfortable red cushion, on it the five-spoke upper half of a silver wheel , the spokes on the outside with five black cock feathers each.

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Ow (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stuttgart State Archives, Gabelkofer Collection , Volume IV, page 1612b.
  2. ^ Faix, Gerhard, "Ow, von" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 19 (1999), p. 730 f. [1]
  3. ↑ Heinrich Dhom: Eichstätts Humanistische Lehranstalten . Eichstätt, 1914, p. 27, footnote 64.
  4. ↑ Nine researchers are investigating the history of the country. The contributions appear in the current edition of the quarterly journal “Hohenzollerische Heimat” published by the history association. In: Schwäbische Zeitung of July 7, 2011