Pechlin (noble family)
Pechlin or Pechlin von Löwenbach is the name of an originally bourgeois Holstein family who were raised to the nobility in 1740 and baron in 1743.
history
The lineage of the sex is traced back to Marten Pechghelien or Pechelyn (proven 1499-1525), who was councilor, then mayor and city judge in Burg on Fehmarn .
Johann Nikolaus Pechlin (* 1644 (or 1646) in Leiden; † February 1706 in Stockholm) was personal physician and prince tutor at the court of Holstein-Gottorf . His son Johann (1677–1757) received as the Holstein chancellor and envoy in Stockholm with a diploma from May 24, 1740, the elevation to the imperial nobility with the predicate noble von Löwenbach . On November 4, 1743, the elevation to the imperial baron status took place . He achieved the Swedish nobility naturalization with a diploma from November 21, 1751 (under the name Pechlin ); it was introduced in 1752 to the nobility class in the Swedish knight house under the number 1915 for his son, the Swedish colonel Carl Frederik Freiherrn Pechlin von Löwenbach. The Danish nobility naturalization was achieved on July 31, 1776 by his nephew, the royal Danish major Peter August von Pechlin.
Possessions
- 1738–1763: Gut Schulenburg ( Pölitz )
coat of arms
The baronial coat of arms, awarded in 1743, shows a red-tongued golden lion within a shield border made of 16 gold and red above a wavy silver shield base in blue. Above them three helmets with blue and silver blankets on the right, red and gold on the left, on the right the lion growing inward between an open black plow, on the middle a gold-armed black double-headed eagle , on the left three ostrich feathers (silver, blue, silver) between two buffalo horns spotted across the corner from gold and red.
Name bearer
- Johann Nikolaus Pechlin (1646–1706), German-Dutch physician and prince educator
- Johann von Pechlin (1677–1757), Chancellor of Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf
- Carl Fredrik Pechlin (1720–1796), Swedish general, on the assassination attempt on King Gustav III. (Sweden) involved
- Nicolaus Otto von Pechlin (1753–1807), Danish bailiff in Norburg and Segeberg, administrator of the County of Rantzau
- Friedrich Christian Ferdinand von Pechlin (1789–1863), German diplomat and statesman in the Danish service, writer
literature
- Genealogical handbook of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1999, p. 226 ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches Genealogigesches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser , Justus Perthes , Gotha 1848, pp . 446–447 , 1863, pp. 688–689 , continued until 1911
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 7, Leipzig 1867, p. 79
- Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Volume 3, Berlin 1858, p. 321
