Passow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Passow

Passow is the name of an old Mecklenburg noble family that was one of the signatories of the Union of Estates in 1523.

history

The lineage of the von Passow originates as an indigenous Mecklenburg nobility from the place of the same name, already occurring in 1284, and lake Passow in the office of Lübz and is related to the von Weisin family. Those von Passow probably emerged from them. They have exactly the same coat of arms, only the second color is blue, but the collar and ring are colored gold. Weisin is located on the Elde and borders on Passow. The family and place are older than Passow's. The von Weisin family died out in 1715 under tragic circumstances.

The first documentary mention was Gheradus de Passow , who appeared in 1285 as a witness for Duke Nikolaus von Werle . The spelling Parsow (e) , Passowe and Passau was also used until the 16th century .

The von Parsenow family , also a Mecklenburg family, but with a completely different coat of arms, have been confused with the von Passow family. They had their headquarters since 1320 in Pasenow in the Land of Stargard , they went out in Mecklenburg in 1491 and with their Pomeranian branch in 1830. In Pomerania , in the Cammin monastery , there should also have been von Passows, but there are no proofs.

Another family from Passow is assigned to the Danish nobility. It had a shield divided by silver and black in the coat of arms and has been considered extinct since 1524.

The most important members of the Mecklenburg family were the two brothers Hartwig († 1644) and Günther von Passow († 1657), who both served the Mecklenburg dukes as secret advisers. Günther's son Hartwig von Passow became an officer and rose to major general in the Danish army. He died shortly after the New Year of 1706 as a result of an injury during the occupation of Eutin Castle .

In Einschreibebuch the monastery Dobbertin are six entries of daughters of the families of Passow from Grambow (part of Goldberg), Radepohl at WESSIN and large ladle from the years 1711-1871 for inclusion in the local aristocratic convent . Nos. 77 and 366 lived as conventuals in Dobbertin, their coats of arms hang on the nun gallery in the monastery church .

In 1889 the Mecklenburg branch died out with (Friedrich) Wilhelm (Christoph) von Passow (1804–1889) on Grambow. The grave is in the cemetery at the village church in Brüz. His sister Marie Friederike von Passow (1831–1904) married Gabriel Ludwig Johann von Amsberg and became the great-grandmother of Claus von Amsberg .

Possessions

The von Passow were already in 1364 in Lütten in the Sternberg , zu Radepohl and Wessin (1681–1738) in the Crivitz, in Zidderich (1480–1672) Vietgest (1361–1644), Bellin (1367–1662) and Zehna (1364– 1662) in the office of Güstrow , Daschow (1720-1735) and were still wealthy in 1895 in Grambow in the office of Lübz (today part of Goldberg).

On June 19, 1896, the last heir, Elisabeth von Passow (1873–1959) married the Royal Prussian Major General Baron Otto von Brandenstein (1865–1945), who ran the Grambow estate from 1896 to 1945. He was shot dead by Red Army soldiers on May 8, 1945 together with his secretary .

coat of arms

In silver, an erect (jumping) black greyhound with a gold collar and ring. The wind chimes growing on the helmet over a black and silver bead . The helmet covers are black and gold on the right and black and silver on the left.

Name bearer

Günther von Passow's tomb in the Güstrow Cathedral
  • Christian Albrecht von Passow, Danish budget adviser (* 1732; † 1777) ∞ Anna Catharina von Passow , b. von der Lühe , stage name Jomfru Materna (* 1731; † 1757), Danish actress and poet

Works of art

Middle-class, later aristocratic Passow family

The bourgeois Mecklenburg family Passow, whose progenitor Joachim Konrad Passow (1640–1726), pastor in Zahrensdorf-Tempzin, is to be distinguished from the indigenous Mecklenburg family. It produced several generations of pastors and academics, including the classical philologist Wolfgang Passow . From this family, General Hans (Karl Wilhelm) Passow (1827-1896) was raised to the hereditary Prussian nobility on June 16, 1871 because of his services in the Franco-German War of 1870/71.

coat of arms

Split under a silver shield head covered with the Iron Cross : in front in silver a black ladder of five rungs placed diagonally to the right and behind in blue half a golden wheel at the gap. On the crowned helmet with black and silver covers on the right and blue and gold on the left, half a gold wheel in front of five blue ostrich feathers.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Lüdecke von Weltzien: Die von Passow 1235-1929 1989, p. 187.
  2. ↑ MUB III. (1865) No. 1743.
  3. ↑ Danmarks nobility Aarbog (DAA), 1908, S. 347th
  4. ↑ Entry on Anna Catharina von Passow in Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon

literature

  • Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons. 1864, pp. 192-193
  • Marcelli Janecki : Handbook of the Prussian Nobility. Volume 2, Berlin: Mittler 1893, p. 469 (on Hans [von] Passow and family)
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Wolf Lüdecke von Weltzien: Families from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania Genealogies of extinct and living families. Volume I. Nagold 1989, pp. 187-222.
  • CEA Schøller: Fremmede Adelsslægter i Danmark. XI. v. Passow. In: Personalhistorisk tidsskrift 5 (1902), 61–69. ( Digitized version , on the Danish line)

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin. No. 282 Pedigree.

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