Platen (Pomeranian noble family)

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Family arms of the Lords and Counts of Platen

The Lords and Counts of Platen are an old Pomeranian noble family from Rügen , who first appeared in a document in 1252 with dominus Otto, advocatus , Vogt of Prince Jaromar II of Rügen, who was also mentioned in 1255 as Otto cum plata . The tribe series begins around 1396 with Hennig von Platen.

Various lines (counts and untitled) still exist today. The older line is based in Sweden; there is also a Danish branch.

The younger line, the Counts of Platen-Hallermund, was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1689 , acquired the County of Hallermund in 1704 and therefore belonged to the high nobility since 1709 . It bears the name Platen, but is actually a bastard line of the Welfenhaus .

The von Platen family (Rügen-Pomerania) should not be confused with the von Platen family (Brandenburg noble family) other coats of arms, which is not related to them .

history

Granza von Platen built a tower hill castle in Granskevitz near Schaprode on Rügen around 1170 as the family's ancestral castle. Until 1945 the estate was owned by descendants, most recently by marriage to the von Schultz family . In 1991, Nordsaat Saatzucht GmbH, founded by Karl von Schultz in 1910, bought back the estate. The memorial stone from 1368 at the entrance to Schaprode, called " Mordwange ", is supposed to commemorate the miners Reimar or Reinwart von Platen who were slain here for unknown reasons together with his sons. In 1418 the Rheinsberg estate in Brandenburg came into the possession of the von Platen family and was inherited by the von Bredow family in 1464 .

Jürgen von Platen , Herr auf Granskevitz, bought the manor Venz (near Trent on Rügen) by swap in 1583 . Georg von Platen had a manor house built here at the end of the 16th century, which was given its current appearance a century later. It remained in the family until 1924. The nearby Zubzow estate was also returned in 1536 from secularized monastery property to the von Platen family, who had already owned it in the Middle Ages, and remained in their possession until the end of the 19th century. From 1561 to 1909 the family sat on the Parchow estate on Rügen. The Lipsitz estate near Bergen on Rügen was owned by the family from 1730 to 1829. Also Krimvitz on Ruegen was temporarily owned by the Platen. On Rügen, the family built the Poggenhof in Schaprode in the second half of the 19th century and the Silenz manor in Kluis around 1800 . The Reischvitz manor house in Parchtitz was owned by the family from 1783 until it was expropriated in 1945. In 1992, Bogislav and Margarethe von Platen bought it back.

  • Manor House Venz on Rügen

  • Zubzow mansion on Rügen

  • Manor Parchow on Rügen, in decline

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows two black animal heads facing each other, each with a hanging black wing. In the heraldic literature, the heads are mostly monkeys or, less often, cats, sometimes not assigned to a specific animal group. On the helmet with its black and silver covers stand three (silver, black and silver) ostrich feathers emerging from a wreath of black and silver roses.

people

  • Erasmus von Platen , (1590–1663), field colonel under Gustav Adolf, from Ferdinand III. Raised the baron status, marries Margaretha Katharina von Alvensleben (* 1610, † 1670), eldest daughter of Gebhard Johann I von Alvensleben , Herr auf Erxleben , in her third marriage .
    • Count Franz Ernst von Platen (around 1695)
      Linden Castle , Hanover (1912; destroyed 1945)
      Count Franz Ernst von Platen (1631–1709) With him came the Rügen family, who lived on Granskevitz, to Lower Saxony and to the service of the House of Braunschweig-Lüneburg . He became chief steward and prince educator and in 1673 married Clara Elisabeth von Meysenbug (1648–1700), the mistress of his employer, Elector Ernst August of Hanover . The two children born soon afterwards, Ernst August (1674–1726) and Sophie Charlotte (1675–1725) were actually children of the Elector, but were officially considered as legitimate children of Franz Ernst von Platen, who also recognized them. At the same time, Clara Elisabeth's younger sister Catharina was the mistress of Prince Elector Georg Ludwig until his marriage in 1682. Clara Elisabeth von Platen is considered to be the mastermind in the "Königsmarck Affair", which led to the murder of Count Philipp Christoph von Königsmarck in 1694 . Franz Ernst von Platen, who also served as postmaster general, leased the       Linden manor near Hanover from the von Alten family in 1688 and built a new baroque palace there in 1692, the Linden Palace ; In 1689, at the suggestion of the Elector, he was elevated to the rank of Imperial Count and at the same time, as Privy Councilor , Prime Minister of Elector Ernst August. In 1704 his son, Elector Georg Ludwig , enfeoffed him with the County of Hallermund , a small territory near Hildesheim that has been imperial since the Middle Ages . In Primogenitur , however, the title of count was restricted to the oldest son (and the oldest daughter). Because of the county, Franz Ernst was accepted into the Niederrheinisch-Westfälische Reichsgrafenkollegium in 1709 , however (as was recorded in the court calendar of 1917) as a personalist , since this tiny territory with its castle ruins was not considered sufficient for an imperial estate . After the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the line of the Counts of Platen-Hallermund was still counted among the noble families in the German Confederation and therefore had the title of illustrious since 1829 .
      • Count Ernst August von Platen-Hallermund (1674–1726), the official son of Franz Ernst (and illegitimate son of Elector Ernst August and thus half-brother of George I ), married Sophia Caroline Eva Antoinette von Offen (1669–1726), daughter of the lieutenant general Jobst Moritz von Offen . Ernst August was hereditary lord on Linden, heir-general postmaster, upper chamberlain, real secret council, head captain and Drost zu Grohnde and Ohsen , and in 1709 he followed his father as the "ruling" imperial count of Hallermund. His son:
        • Gut Weißenhaus , Holstein (sold in 2005)
          Count Georg Ludwig von Platen-Hallermund (1704–1772) studied in Halle / Saale, became a colonel in a regiment on horseback in the electoral Hanoverian service, at the same time hereditary postmaster general and chamberlain and took his leave as lieutenant general. In 1736 he sold the postmaster's office to the Hanoverian Elector and British King George II , his cousin. For the proceeds he bought the Holstein estates Weißenhaus , Futterkamp , Putlos and Barden in 1739 and 1740 . In addition, he still owned the Lordship of Stöcken and Linden near Hanover. He married 1. Friederike Baronesse de Lorraine called Beauvernois and 2. Sabine Hedwig von Steuben (1715–1796; daughter of Christoph Liborius von Steuben, gentleman on Schnaditz ) and Sabina von Geusau . With his second wife he had four daughters and eight sons, u. a .:
          • Count Ernst Franz von Platen-Hallermund (1739-1818), electoral Palatinate privy councilor and Brunswick-Lüneburg general hereditary postmaster to Linden. He did astronomical studies. After the death of his older brother, he became the master of Weissenhaus Castle and the sole heir of the Platen property. In 1816 he sold Linden back to the Altens. Ernst Franz married Friederike Luise (Philippine) Freiin von Münster (1757–1841). Her son:
            • Koenigsbrück Castle near Melle
              Count Georg Wilhelm Friedrich von Platen Hallermund (* 1785 in Linden ; † 1873 in Weißenhaus) married Countess Julie Marianne Charlotte von Hardenberg (1788-1833) in Linden in 1809 . After Julie's death, he had a neo-Gothic, cast-iron monument erected for her at Gut Weißenhaus von Laves . In 1862 he acquired Königsbrück Castle near Melle in the Osnabrück region. His son:
              • Count Karl Ernst Felix von Platen Hallermund (1810–1887) married: 1. Mathilde Countess Pace (1815–1850); 2. Louise Freiin von Hollen (1833–1895). Count Karl had a total of 23 legitimate offspring, of which all but two daughters reached adulthood. Nine of his eleven sons started their own families. a .:
              • Count Adolf von Platen-Hallermund (1814–1889) lived in Holstein and had been Georg V von Hanover's Foreign Minister since July 1855 . In May 1866 he spoke out in favor of Hanoverian neutrality, but then turned to Austria and on June 15 rejected the Prussian ultimatum. He accompanied Georg V to Hietzing and since then has been the focus of anti-Prussian agitation from there. Mainly in the matter of the Welf Legion , Platen had compromised himself so much that the Prussian government tried him for high treason and his conviction was in contumaciam (in absentia).
              • Count Julius von Platen-Hallermund (1816–1889) was his younger brother, lieutenant colonel and in royal Hanoverian times royal thigh and general manager of the court theater and court orchestra. In 1867 he became director of the court theater and the royal chapel in Dresden.
          • Count August von Platen-Hallermünde (1796–1835), poet
            Count Philipp August von Platen-Hallermund (1748–1831) was a lieutenant in the Hanoverian service, then Ansbach chief forester
  • Hans Friedrich von Platen (1668–1743) was a royal Prussian cavalry general and came from Sagard on Rügen
    • Dubislaw von Platen (1714–1787), son of Hans Friedrich, royal Prussian general of the cavalry, governor of Königsberg and knight of the Order of St. John and bearer of the Order of the Black Eagle
    • Leopold Johann von Platen (1726–1780) was his younger brother and chief of the Jung-Platen dragoon regiment.
  • Bernhard Ludwig von Platen (around 1733–1774), officer and then as a colonist the first Volga German poet.
  • Gottlieb Wilhelm Graf von Platen , the great Platen (* 1765 on Gut Krimvitz on Rügen). He was known for his daring equestrian tricks and the hero of countless anecdotes from the wars of freedom. In 1807 he received the Order pour le Mérite as Rittmeister in the Auer's Dragoon Regiment for an attack on French cuirassiers in the Battle of Heilsberg. In 1810 he was transferred to the Littaui Dragoons for a duel. In the battle near Möckern on April 5, 1813, he was wounded and rescued by his trumpeter.
  • Baron Philip Julius Bernhard von Platen (1732–1805) He was Governor General of Swedish Pomerania and Chancellor of the University of Greifswald from 1796–1800 . He married Juliana Regina von Usedom (1741-1810).
    • Admiral Baltzar Bogislaus Graf von Platen (1766–1829) ran a model farm after his military service on Lake Vänern near the Swedish west coast. He initiated and directed the construction of the Göta Canal from this lake to Söderköping on the Baltic Sea. This canal across Sweden was supposed to avoid the route of ships through the Øresund and thus save Denmark's duty on the sound. When the canal opened on September 26, 1832, however, the railroad was soon introduced.

Other well-known namesake

Epitaph Balthasar von Platens (1642–1716) in the St. John's Church (Schaprode)

literature

Family coat of arms of Otto Hupp in the Munich calendar of 1901
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume X, Volume 119 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1999, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Carl Gustav von Platen: History of the Platen family in 3 volumes
    • 1: History and genealogy of the von Platen family from Rügen from the 12th to the 16th century as well as the complete history of the Prignitzer <Märk.> Family v. Platen
    • 2: CVs and family tables of the younger Platen lines
    • 3: Life pictures from old and new times (memory and probation)
  • The Berlin treason process against the royal Hanoverian state minister, Count Adolf von Platen zu Hallermund: With the expert opinions of Mr. St.-R. Zachariae and R.-R. Neumann. [Onno Klopp]. Munich: White, 1868, digitized
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses, 1903. Fourth year. P.683ff
  • Hofkalender (Gotha) 1917, II. Department, p. 178

Web links

Commons : Grafen von Platen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Nels , Volume Fü ICA Starke-Verlag, Glücksburg 1951, p. 294
  2. ^ Julius Theodor Bagmihl: Pommersches Wappenbuch. Vol. 3, Stettin 1847, p. 142. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  3. ↑ Martin Carl Wilhelm von Wölckern on Kalchreuth: Descriptions of all coats of arms of the princely, counts, baronial and aristocratic families living now in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Part 1, Nuremberg 1821, p. 214. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume A XIII, pages 398 ff, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1975
  5. ↑ the historical spelling of Offeln sometimes leads to confusion with von Uffeln in the literature
  6. ^ Family tree - genealogy in Kur-Hannover ( Memento from October 8, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Stammbaum-ahnenforschung.de
  7. ^ Friedrich Christoph Förster: History of the Liberation Wars 1813, 1814, 1815. G. Hempel, 1864, p. 209. Restricted preview in the Google book search
  8. ↑ See also Bernhard von Poten :  Platen, Gottlieb Wilhelm Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 26, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, p. 256 f.
  9. ↑ Platen . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 21 : Papua – Posselt . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1915, Sp. 1029-1030 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  10. ↑ Platen . In: John Rosén, Theodor Westrin (ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 1st edition. tape 12 : Nådemedlen pontificate . Gernandts boktryckeri, Stockholm 1888, Sp. 1365-1366 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  11. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume A XIII, pages 398 ff, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1975
  12. ↑ Nobilitatis status: or the noble and praiseworthy aristocracy: XX. de Platen , 1727
  13. ↑ Chronicle of the city of Wolgast: From the food and trade of the inhabitants of the city of Wolgast - From the preachers in Wolgast . lexikus.de, [here year of death 1715 instead of 1716]
  14. ↑ Who is who? Das Deutsche who's who , Volume 3, Arani, 1908, p. 1051. ( limited preview on Google Book Search ).