Platen (Brandenburg noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Platen (Mark)

Platen is the name of an old Brandenburg aristocratic family that comes from the Prignitzer nobility . The family is of a tribe with the von Bevernest (Biebernest), which died out in 1665.

There is no relationship with the family of the Lords and Counts of Platen from Rügen , who belong to the Pomeranian nobility and have a different coat of arms.

history

The family is said to have come to the Mark Brandenburg in 926 after the Wends were expelled by Heinrich the Vogler , who is said to have elevated them to the nobility . Later the family spread from the Altmark to Braunschweig and Bremen, as well as Mecklenburg , Pomerania , the province of Saxony and East Prussia . The name is derived from the Old High German Plate for armor - "I got the name because of proven bravery." The name changed between Plate, Platen, Plote (n) and Platow.

The family first appeared in documents in 1351 with Conrad plots . In 1386 the Platen acquired the Quitzow estate near Perleberg in the Prignitz of Wedego von Quitzow . The secure line of trunks begins in 1433 with Hans von Platen on Quitzow. The family was wealthy in the Prignitz and sat at Tornow (1508), Quitzow (1511), Demerthin and Gantikow (1650) and Kuhwinkel (1660).

In the 14th and 15th centuries, the von Platen, together with the Alvensleben , Bartensleben , Bismarck , Jagow , von dem Knesebeck , Schenck (von Flechtingen and Dönstedt ) and von der Schulenburg belonged to the eight castle-seated families of the Altmark who were directly under the governor and were given the title noble by the emperor and the margrave as belonging to the army .

coat of arms

The original coat of arms showed a tree trunk with three roots and several serrated leaves.

Since the 16th century, a branch with five green holly leaves , placed horizontally and later diagonally, has been used in silver . On the helmet with red and silver covers an open black flight, connected at the top with a gold chain on which a gold ring hangs.

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  Coat of arms in the village church of Pessin

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  "Coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein, Danish and other noble families"

people

• In 1563 Georg von Platen accompanied Elector Joachim II on the Imperial Election Day in Frankfurt am Main .
  • His grandson Klaus Ernst (also Ernsten) von Platen auf Demerthin, Gantikow, Mechow / Falkenberg (1612–1669) Kurbrandenburg secret budget and war council, general war commissioner and governor zu Lehnin was envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg (1663) . On April 15, 1649, he married Anna Ehrentraut von Klitzing (* 1628), who in 1685 became the royal Danish chief stewardess , her father was Caspar von Klitzing (1581–1638), lord of Demerthin, Walsleben, Radensleben and Rosenwinkel. They had four sons.
    • Heinrich von Platen (1654–1734), royal Prussian privy councilor, cathedral dean of Magdeburg , lord of Demerthin and Friedeburg ⚭ Margarete Sophie von der Schulenburg, widowed von Bismark (1659–1725)
      • Hartwig Caspar Ernst von Platen, royal Prussian chamber judge, Canon of Brandenburg
      • Nikolaus (Klaus) Ernst von Platen (1693–1733), royal Prussian Privy Councilor and Canon of Magdeburg, father of Sophia Louise Ernestine von Platen (1733–1799), later wife of Johann Ernst von Alvensleben
  • further descendants were:
    • Wilhelm Friedrich von Platen, royal Danish privy councilor, court marshal and bailiff of Sønderborg from 1716 to 1732 († 1732/1733)

other people:

• Catharina von Platen (* in Mecklenburg; † 1632 probably in Uetersen ), prioress of the Uetersen monastery
• Heinrich Wolf von Platen auf Bernstein, Giesenbrück, around 1704 - Prussian district administrator and deputy of the Soldin circle and later state director in Neumark (belonging to the Neumark line)
• Heinrich von Platen (1654–1734), Prussian privy councilor, senior chamber director, supreme war commissioner in the Duchy of Magdeburg and cathedral dean and provost of the founders St. Nicolai and Sebastian . He married Margarethe Sophie von der Schulenburg (1659–1725)
• Benno von Platen (1846–1926), Prussian major general
• Axel von Platen (1876–1928), German major general, knight of the order Pour le Mérite
• Hartwig von Platen (1878–1938), German major general
• Claus von Platen (1891–1964), politician (NSDAP), member of the Reichstag
• Flockina von Platen (1903–1984), German actress
• Detlev von Platen (1911–1984), major general in the Federal Border Guard
• Sigelind von Platen (1914–1945), German author

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, pp. 402-403, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN  0435-2408
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. 1903. Fourth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1902, p. 673 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Platen, a family. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 28, Leipzig 1741, columns 687-691.
2. ^ ^{A b} Johann Christian von Hellbach : Adels-Lexicon. Volume 2, p. 238, Verlag Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau 1826.
3. ^ ^{A b c d e f} Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Seventh volume, p. 171, Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1867.
4. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . I, 1, 486.
5. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon. Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999.
6. ^ Coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein, Danish and other noble families (2) . dibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de. Retrieved April 6, 2020.
7. ↑ Martin Rheinheimer : The village regulations in the Duchy of Schleswig: Village and authorities in the early modern period. Volume 2, p. 801, Lucius & Lucius, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-8282-0088-5 .
8. ^ Hansen: Palaces and castles on the island of Alsen in the Middle Ages. In: Andreas Ludwig Jakob Michelsen: Archive for State and Church History of the Duchies of Schleswig, Holstein, Lauenburg and the neighboring countries and cities. Vol. 4, Altona bei Johann Friedrich Kammerich 1840, p. 289, ( online ).