Pentz (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Pentz

Pentz is the name of a nobility from Mecklenburg , who also settled in Hamburg , Holstein , Denmark, Kurland , Pomerania , Saxony and Württemberg . Numerous members of the family, some of whose branches still exist today, were in royal Danish service and also gained property and reputation there.

history

Epitaph for Jasper v. Pentz († 1566) and his descendants in Lübeck Cathedral , set in 1631 by Count Christian v. Pentz

According to tradition, the gentlemen von Pentz originally came from the Mark Brandenburg . They are said to have been driven out of the Mark by the Wends in 926 and then settled in Mecklenburg. The Panitz (Pentz) parent company in the Wittenburg office, which is now desolate , was first documented in 1194. The progenitor is "Waltherus de Penezt", who was first documented and recorded in 1219. a. is also mentioned as the owner of the name-giving estate Panitz (Pentz) located in the middle between Banzin and Damereez. He later emigrated to Pomerania and founded the Pomeranian branch there (see also Reinfried von Pentz in Loitz Castle ), which died out in 1489. The uninterrupted Mecklenburg family line begins with Ulrich II von Pentz , who is mentioned in documents between 1341 and 1372. He sat at the Redefin Castle , a fiefdom , and was a pawn in Boizenburg .

The property has been steadily expanded over the course of time, reaching its peak before the Thirty Years War with 17 inspections in the Wittenburg office and more than 14,000 hectares. The family suffered significant cuts in both personal and material form as a direct or indirect result of the Thirty Years' War. In 1628, the troops of General Wallenstein moved across the Wittenburg office, where the majority of the goods were located. As a rule, fields, houses, farms and cattle were pillaged or robbed.

The Pentze also lost many members in the two world wars. Five Pentze were killed in World War I and seven in World War II. In 1945 the family owned 5 properties that were expropriated without compensation as part of the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone.

Lines and personalities

Marquard Ernst v. Pentz 1613–1657, House Raguth

The oldest line goes back to the aforementioned Ulrich II. (Approx. 1341–1372) and is named after the ancestral home of the family "Volzrader Line". All the other lines and houses branch off from this, including the Raguth (until 1733), Scharbow (until 1722), Redefin Warlitz (until 1720), older Melkhof (until 1572), Redefin-Krentzlin (until approx. 1650) houses and Besendorf (until 1768). In 1523 the von Pentz were among the co-signatories of the Union of Estates , the state order of Mecklenburg, which lasted until 1918. In Einschreibebuch the monastery Dobbertin are 19 entries of daughters of the family von Pentz 1718-1859 from Melkhof , Benz, Volzrade, Ponstorf, Klein Grabow and Warlitz for inclusion in the aristocratic convent in the monastery Dobbertin . Heraldic shields with attached stars and alliance coats of arms hang on the nuns gallery in the monastery church.

Volzrader line (parent company line)

The line based on the family estate Volzrade in the Wittenburg district (today part of the rural town of Lübenheen ) is considered the line of the family v. Pentz, from which all other lines and houses branched off. The documented line of the family begins with Ulrich II (approx. 1341-1372), who was next to Volzrade also lord of Redefin Castle.

Hartwig v. Pentz 1674-1724, Volzrader Line
Volzrade mansion (around 1920)

Volzrade is an old family fief that dates back to 1363 and was owned by the family without interruption until it was expropriated in 1945. As early as 1200 a tower hill castle (located in the later manor park) was built there and therefore a small settlement. The knight's castle was destroyed in the 16th century and Lewin von Pentz built a mansion in 1592, which burned down in 1618. Around 1640, Curd von Pentz built the second manor house, as well as a windmill and a sheep farm. In 1827 the house burned down and in 1838 the third mansion was rebuilt according to plans by JH Gottfried Krug in the neo-renaissance style and in 1863 another storey was added. From 1994 to 2002, Hugo Pentz-v.Schlichtegroll acquired the manor house again and turned it into his home and guesthouse.

Gotthard Wilhelm v. Pentz (1720 to 1798) continues the parent company line as the Gremmeliner line (see below) through his son Gotthard Friedrich Christopher (1771–1843), who comes from his second marriage, while his son Gotthard Wilhelm (1754–1831) from 1 Before the Volzrader line continues until today as v.Schlichtegroll-Pentz. The Volzrader Familienarchiv (today in the Mecklenburg State Archives) and the works of “the Volzraders”, which are characterized by a strong sense of family, have contributed significantly to the processing and documentation of the family history.

House Redefin-Warlitz (also count line and in Danish service)

Knight Markwart v. Pentz 1573-1627. Wall painting in the town hall of Glückstadt , Schleswig-Holstein

In the 16th century, the family spread to Holstein when Jasper von Pentz acquired Nütschau. In Denmark, Claus von Pentz is first mentioned in Rangun and Schartow, who was a royal Danish colonel in 1550 . Markwart von Pentz (* 1570), colonel and commander of the royal Danish cavalry , bailiff zu Segeberg, knight of the elephant order , was seriously injured in the Battle of Lutter in 1626 and died a few months later in February 1627 in Wolfenbüttel. Markwart's son, Christian von Pentz (* 1600), royal Danish colonel and governor of Glückstadt , married Sophia Elisabeth (1619–1657), the eldest daughter of the Danish King Christian IV and Kirsten Munk (morganatic marriage) in 1633 . He became Count and Governor of Holstein in 1636 and gained fame and reputation as governor of Glückstadt Fortress, among other things through the expansion of the port against the will of Hamburg merchants and through the successful defense of Glückstadt Fortress in the Thirty Years' War. Like his father, Count Christian was a member of the Danish Elephant Order. But he fell with King Christian IV. Successor Friedrich III. out of favor and died in dungeon in 1651.

Imperial Count Christian v. Pentz 1600–1651, House Redefin-Warlitz

Adam Heinrich von Pentz auf Warlitz, imperial colonel and royal Danish court marshal , received the Danish aristocratic naturalization on September 27, 1649 . The Redefin-Warlitz house died out in 1720.

Brahlstorf Line

This line is named after the property in Brahlstorf , a fiefdom of around 500 hectares in the Wittenburg office, which was in the family from 1438 to 1705. The founder of this sideline is Günther v. Pentz (1558–1626), who in turn descends from the older Mecklenburg parent company line from Volzrade. Other estates in this branch were Damereez, Dersenow and Benz, as well as from 1780 that within the family by the head stable master David v. Pentz acquired the stately Gut Melkhof. His son Carl v. Pentz finally sold this property, which had been in the family since 1471, in 1819 to the Hanoverian family vd ceiling. Also worth mentioning is Otto Markwart v. Pentz (1730 to 1763), who was honored as a young captain and leader of the "Legion Britannique" and adjudant general of Duke Friedrich von Braunschweig in the Seven Years' War.

Pentz (1932): Otto Markwart's presumed son, Ernst Otto Pentz (1752–1795) was an electoral Braunschweig-Lüneburg "sergeant" in the Grubenhagen regional regiment in Nörten . He and his descendants used Pentz's name without objection. A recording in the noble paperback. Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the aristocratic houses B. was made on December 6, 1932 in Berlin by decision of the department for nobility law issues of the German nobility association . The coat of arms is identical to the ancestral coat of arms of the Mecklenburg prehistoric noble family von Pentz. Descendants of this branch who emigrated to the USA in 1885 are still alive today (Robert Alexander II v. Pentz)

Older Mecklenburg Line (House Volzrade-Gremmelin)

Gremmelin manor
Gotthard Christopher v. Pentz 1771–1843, Gremmeliner line

This line goes back to the aforementioned Ulrich von Pentz (approx. 1341–1372) and continues through Gotthard Friedrich Christopher v. Pentz (1771–1843) continued the Volzrad line (see above). In 1802 he also acquired the 847 hectare Gremmelin estate near Güstrow. The earlier Mecklenburg line Friedrich was from Pentz (1841-1921), Prussian Major General decommissioned . Gotthard Friedrich Christopher's son, the domain councilor Gotthard von Pentz (1798–1878), on Gremmelin was married to Marie von Hafften. The first-born son from this marriage, Friedrich von Pentz (1843-1902), founded the later baronial line in the Kingdom of Saxony (see below). Gotthard and Marie had a total of 11 children, 10 of whom survived. The second son, Alexander (1845–1905) inherited Gremmelin and was married to Frieda, daughter of his neighbor, Domain Councilor Carl Paetow on Lalendorf . The fourth son, Dr. jur. Franz von Pentz (1850–1908), gained importance as the mayor of Teterow.

Alexander's third son, Colonel Christian von Pentz (1882–1952), married Annemarie in 1912, daughter of the future General Field Marshal and Reich President Paul von Hindenburg .

Klaus von Pentz (* 1912), a grandson of Alexander von Pentz and Frieda Paetow, became a pastor and in 1941 married Gisela, daughter of the royal Prussian district administrator Wilhelm von Bismarck , Fideikommissherrn on Briest , and Countess Edith von der Schulenburg .

The last owner of Gremmelin before the expropriation in 1945 was Friedrich Carl von Pentz (1877–1953). His son Alexander (1927-2016) and grandson Markwart (1963-) have acquired and cultivated larger parts of the agricultural land again since 1992. There are descendants from the entire line to this day.

Saxon (Freiherrliche) line (House Brandis-Zwethau)

Brandis Castle

In the 19th century, the older Mecklenburg line also came into possession in Saxony. Friedrich von Pentz († 1856), royal Saxon major of the cavalry, became the master of Brandis through his marriage to Ernestine Schirmer. His sole heir was Friedrich von Pentz (1843–1902), eldest son of Gotthard von Pentz auf Gremmelin (1798–1878). The future Freiherr Friedrich married Marie (1847–1924), daughter of Pastor Friedrich Steinmetz, in Thelkow in 1875 . The couple had five children, Gotthard, Walter, Erna, Mathilde and Helene.

The daughter Helene Freiin von Pentz (1889-1965) married in 1916 in Brandis Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886-1944), most recently General of the Infantry, who was executed in 1944 as a resistance fighter of July 20, 1944 .

Walter Freiherr von Pentz (1882–1968) was the owner of the Zwethau, Friedrichshöhe and Berg estates, all of which were expropriated from him in 1945. His marriage to Erika Freiin von Rochow (1886–1974) in Dresden in 1909 resulted in five children, three daughters and two sons. The youngest son Hans-Detlef Freiherr von Pentz (1927-2010) became Dr. rer. nat. doctorate and also Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John . After long stays abroad, Hans-Detlef Freiherr von Pentz found his final resting place in Berchtesgaden . There are descendants of the baronial line to this day.

Württemberg line

State stable master Dr. hc. Christian v.Pentz

From the older Mecklenburg line also came Christian (1855–1935), Dr. hc , Württemberg state stable master and lieutenant colonel ret. D., who founded the Württemberg line that still exists today. He was a brother of Friedrich (1843-1902) on Brandis, the founder of the baronial Saxon line. Christian has significantly influenced the breeding direction of the Württemberger warmblood breeding in the almost 20 years as head stableman of the Marbach / Württemberg state stud. Son Ernst-August (1890–1950) was Rittmeister and with Karinmaria, daughter of the Prussian Colonel a. D. Egmont von Websky , married. Son Krischan (* 1919) died on April 16, 1942 at Lake Ilmen in Russia as a lieutenant in Reconnaissance Division 5, the 5th Jäger Division. The younger son Gotthard (* 1922) was advertising manager in Stuttgart and lived with his family in Bad Cannstatt . Gotthard did a great job of coming to terms with family history and published volume 3 of family history, among other things. Today he is the senior of the family.

Courland Line

Gotthard von Pentz (1773-1820), who moved to Courland as head stable master, also came from the Volzrad line. His son Alfons von Pentz (1814–1881) was born in Vircava ( Würzau ) in Kurland and was secretary of the Kurland Fire Insurance Association. In Riga in 1856 he married Elisabeth Pychlau, with whom he had two sons Gotthard (1857-1927) and Alfred (1868-1939). Alfons died in Cologne , while his son Gotthard, who was born in Mitau and had been married since 1900 to Maria (1862–1943), daughter of Friedrich von Brackel (1826–1896), director of the farmers' pension bank in Riga, died as a landlord in Riga. Alfred, who was also born in Mitau, was a farmer and master on Geguschina near Kowno , which he sold in 1912. He then moved to Hamburg with his wife, Marie von Heimowsky, and five children. Son Heinrich von Pentz (* 1913) was a police officer in nearby Winsen an der Luhe in 1960 . There are descendants of this line to this day.

Younger Mecklenburg Line (Younger House Toddin-Pätow)

In a document dated August 27, 1471, the squire Ullrich Pentz from the Volzrader Stammhaus line is mentioned for the first time. He is the owner of Hufen and Höfen in Melkhof.

Hans Henning v. Pentz 1890-1982, Toddiner line

The "Toddiner line" from the 1st branch, which still exists today, comes from this "Lüttke Ulrich", documented from 1471 to 1511. To her belongs u. a. Karl von Pentz (1817–1897), colonel of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg and adjutant from this line. His marriage to Anna von Oertzen resulted in two sons and two daughters. Son Friedrich (* 1855), legal knight of the Order of St. John, fell off Ypres in 1914 as a Prussian lieutenant colonel in Landwehr Regiment No. 78 . His sons were Hans Henning (* 1890), a Prussian captain a. D., member of the supervisory board of Siemens- Planiawerke. Friedrich's († 1914) other son was Dr. jur. Ulrich von Pentz (* 1893), retired Prussian captain D., Lord of Gut Naudin, which was expropriated from him in 1945, landlord and formerly director of the Bremen Chamber of Agriculture . His uncle was Kuno von Pentz (1857–1936), Prussian Privy Councilor and Privy Building Officer a. D., who was married to Anna, daughter of the Prussian major Adolf von Żychlinski .

From the 2nd branch of this line, which Chrisitan Gottfried v. Pentz (1672-1726) descendants were settled in Denmark. Gottfried von Pentz was a royal Danish general of the infantry , who received the Danish nobility naturalization as major general on February 29, 1776 . At the beginning of the 19th century, Detlev von Panitz (Pentz) was a royal Danish chamberlain , canon of Aalborg and bailiff of Aalborghuus. This second branch became extinct with Detlev in 1821 in the male line.

Curiosities

The poet Julie de Roquette (* 1763), who was born in Wolgast (Pomerania) and was indeed a born Penz , is very likely not a descendant of this noble family of the same name , which is repeatedly associated with the von Pentz family. In contemporary sources one gets the impression that the poet herself initially endured the confusion of names, later, with growing fame, even forced it. The genealogy could not prove their noble descent to this day.

Family association of the lords and barons of Pentz

A family association has existed since 1892 and holds family days as required. The association was re-established in 1968 and registered as an eV at the Bremen District Court.

Status surveys

Christian von Pentz s from the Redefin-Warlitz line. a. Christian Graf v. Pentz auf Neudorf, royal Danish bailiff and governor of Glückstadt, was raised to the rank of imperial count on June 2, 1636 in Linz . On September 27, 1638, at Brandeis, he received confirmation of the imperial count status with an improvement in the coat of arms . Already with his death in 1651 the imperial count line expired.

From the line Volzrade-Gremmelin came Friedrich von Pentz (1843-1902), Fideikommissherr on Brandis with Posthausen, Berg before Eilenburg and Friedrichshöhe, who received the royal Saxon baron status in Dresden on October 23, 1901 .

Possessions

The vast majority of the family's goods were in Mecklenburg. In Landeshauptarchiv Schwerin of Pentze are recorded over the centuries more than 170 possessions, some remained for centuries, others only for a few decades owned by the family. However, some of the companies can also be found in Saxony and Denmark. Below is an extract of the most important properties:

  • Volzrade (1363 to 1945)
  • Bandekow (1363-1599)
  • Banzin (1652-1664)
  • Benz (1363-1735)
  • Besendorf (1361–1772)
  • Brahlstorf (1438–1707)
  • Camin (1615-1664)
  • Damerrez (1230-1677)
  • Dersenow (1420-1732)
  • Düssin (1442–1496)
  • Fjællebro, DK, (1739-1770)
  • Goldenitz (1753–1784)
  • Gösslow (1363–1764)
  • Redefin (1363-1670)
  • Jessenitz (1363–1794)
  • Meilgaard, DK, (ca.1750)
  • Mühlenbeck (1607–1648)
  • Penzlin near Kuppentin (1777-)
  • Raguth (1496-1736)
  • Scharbow (1435-1647)
  • Toddin (1432-1672)
  • Warlitz (1422-1638)
  • Neudorf (district of Hohwacht) (1570–1640) "
  • Wandsbeck (approx. 1640–1650)
  • Melk (h) of , 1471–1819, Gut Melkof, an old family fief, belonged to the family from 1471 to 1819 and switched between the Raguther, Besendorfer, Toddiner and Brahlsdorf lines during this time.
  • Nütschau , 1530–1573
  • Landskron Castle , 1651–1683
  • Klein Grabow ( Krakow am See ), 1802–1823
  • Bellin Castle (1880–1900)
  • Manor Geguschina in Kovno, sold in 1912
  • Manor Neu-Patricken near Allenstein , until 1923
  • Brandis Castle and Manor with Posthausen , 1849–1934
  • Buschhof near Mirow , 1912–1941
  • Rittergüter Friedrichshöhe and Berg near Eilenburg , expropriated in 1945
  • Gremmelin , 1802–1945 (expropriated), since 1992 farming again
  • Naudin , 1923–1945 (expropriated)
  • Zwethau , 1908 to 1945 (expropriated)
  • Plattehof Eimbeckhausen / Lower Saxony (since 1952)

  • Bandekow, mansion

  • Bellin, castle

  • Brahlstorf, mansion

  • Brandis Castle, Saxony

  • Düssin, mansion around 1920

  • Plattehof Eimbeckhausen around 1910

  • Fjællebro, DK

  • Goldenitz, mansion

  • Gremmelin, old manor house

  • Gremmelin, New Manor

  • Jessenitz, mansion

  • Meilgaard, DK

  • Melk (h) of, old manor house

  • Melk (h) of, New Manor house approx. 1870

  • Neudorf bei Hohwacht, SH, Altes Herrenhaus

  • Nütschau, SH, approx. 1560

  • Penzlin near Kuppertin, mansion

  • Redefin stud management

  • Volzrade, view of the avenue

  • Wandsbeck, old palace complex after 1650

  • Warlitz mansion

  • Zwethau mansion, Saxony

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in silver a standing, red-tongued, looking red lion , which is covered with fourteen golden balls. On the crowned helmet with red and silver covers, four red rods, each set with a natural peacock mirror, crossed at right angles.

  • Family coat of arms of those of Pentz

  • "Pentzen" coat of arms from Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605

  • Coat of arms variant of the Pentz

  • Coat of arms of the von Pentz family

Coat of arms history

Some imprints of seals do not show the lion standing or striding, but rather erect to the right, as in Siebmacher's coat of arms from 1605, in which the family is called "Pentzen" and appears in the Rhineland. The blazon says: “A white shield, inside a red lion with a yellow crown, the balls in the lion white. A yellow crown on the helmet, the peacock feathers of their color, the helmet covers red and white. ” In the edition of 1701 they are listed under Holstein. There in the shield a crowned lion raised to the right, which also grows out of the crowned helmet. In Spener Opus heraldicum (1680–1690) the family is called Penzen, the lion is ready to fight, turned to the right and covered with silver pennies. JA Rudolphi writes in his Heraldica Curiosa (1698): "a crowned, left-progressing red lion with a knocked out red tongue and a split tail / sprinkled with silver plates / in a silver shield / pentzen on the Rhine."

In the news of aristocratic coats of arms Volume III (1791) by Christian Friedrich August von Meding a seal from 1332 is mentioned, which shows an eagle or griffin claw reaching to the right , the coat of arms of the branch that emigrated to Pomerania and was last mentioned in 1489. However, a seal from Ulrici de Penz in Mecklenburg from 1357 shows a crowned, walking, or leoparded lion. It goes on to say: “This very lion, not yet walking, now makes up the coat of arms of this old generation, so that in the silver field a red lion can be seen in its usual, upright position. It is crowned in gold and covered with fourteen gold pennies on its body, or, as others wish, stains. ” He further states that on a lacquer impression on the crowned helmet there are four round, torch-like shafts, two of which stand upright The other two would be stuck straight through the first, each set with a peacock feather at the top, the top lying across on the right, the bottom on the left.

After Kneschke's The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. (1856) the coat of arms in silver shows a crowned red lion striding to the right with a red tongue out and a tail thrown into the air, which is covered with 14 golden balls or pennies. On the shield there is a crowned helmet, which has two silver lance shafts erected next to each other, with a peacock feather at the tip, through which two further lance shafts are inserted across so that the tip of the lower one through the right, the upper one through the left is covered. The helmet covers are red-silver.

Known family members

literature

Volume 1: Digital copy of the copy from the Harvard University Library , formerly duplicate (?) With previous owner's stamp of the Secret and State Archives Schwerin
Volume 2: Digitized copy of the Harvard University Library, formerly duplicate (?) With previous owner's stamp of the Secret and State Archives Schwerin
  • Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon . Supplement - Volume 1, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1839, pp. 360–361. (Digitized version)
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser A Volume IV, Volume 22 of the complete series, pp. 510-518. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1960.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser A Volume X, Volume 65 of the complete series, pp. 274–277. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1977.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, pp. 249-250. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN  0435-2408 .
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses 1906. Seventh year, S.557ff
  • Ruth Möller, Christian von Pentz The enigmatic life of the Glückstadt governor Christian Reichsgraf von Pentz (1610? -1651), Books on Demand 2017

Web links

Commons : Pentz  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c New general German nobility lexicon. in association with several historians. In: Volume 7 on Google Books. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke, 1867, p. 91 , accessed on October 13, 2013 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, pp. 249–250.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelige Häuser A Volume IV, Volume 22 of the complete series, pp. 510-518.
  4. ^ A b Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Freiherrliche Häuser A Volume XVII, Volume 107 of the complete series, p. 300ff.
  5. ↑ Congregational Letter Evangelical Lutheran Church Community Berchtesgaden, No. 130, July - October 2010, funeral notices (Dr. Hans-Detlef von Pentz, 82 years old, Berchtesgaden, on March 5, 2010) ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.8 MB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.berchtesgaden-evangelisch.de
  6. ^ F. von Meyenn: Documented history of the von Pentz family. Volume I, certificate dated August 27, 1471, No. 179, Bärensprungsche Hofbuchdruckerei, Schwerin 1891.
  7. ↑ The GHdA writes " leoparded lion " instead of " looking ahead ", but this term is used differently in the blazon : one speaks of a leoparded lion when a lion is walking, looking straight ahead; The Pentz lion, however, is standing and looking, so looks to the beholder.
  8. ↑ a b c The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , Volume 3, pp. 354–356.
  9. ^ Friedrich von Meyenn: An account book of the Dobbertin monastery. In: MJB 59 (1894) p. 205.