Ploetz (Pomerania)

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Coat of arms of those of Ploetz

Ploetz is the name of a Pomeranian noble family .

The Pomeranian Ploetz are to be distinguished from the Neumark nobility of the same name Ploetz (Neumark) of other tribe and coat of arms.

history

Legend has it that the Pomeranian Ploetze - without reliable evidence - descended from a ministerial family of the Ascanian dukes of Anhalt, who had their seat at Plötzkau Castle , the later Counts of Plötzke. The first representative of this soon-to-be noble family, who were related by marriage to numerous great dynasties, was Bernhard I around 1030/40, an important count in Ostfalen . His son Dietrich, Count von Plötzkau, was married to Mechthild von Walbeck, daughter of the burgrave Konrad von Magdeburg. Cyriacus Spangenberg writes in his Adelsspiegel from 1594 (Lib. X Cap.5 pag. 12) about the von Ploetz family, “that some of this noble family were burgraves of Magdeburg, and we especially thought of Count Herrmannus von Plötzke, whose brother was called Helfried that he ruled as Burg-Graf in Magdeburg around 1117 ”. The Brandenburg prince-bishop Friedrich von Plötzke († 1316) came from the Anhalt family of counts as well as the Grand Commander of the Teutonic Order Heinrich von Plötzke (also: von Plötzkau , † 1320). The New Prussian Nobility Lexicon of 1837 also mentions that the Ploetze were derived from the Plötzk (au) he counts, but confused the coat of arms with that of the New Mark Ploetz.

The Pomeranian Gender is first documented on February 5, 1271 with Dominus de Hermannus Plocech mentioned in a document and starts Roloff ( Rolf ) de Plocech direct regular series , which in 1290 Lüdershagen to the city of Stralsund sold and after Pomerania relocates. The form of the name changed between Plocech , Plocize , Plosz , Plotze , Ploz , Plotzke and Ploetz .

The Ploetze acquired the Stuchow , Medewitz and Staarz estates in Western Pomerania , later they were enfeoffed with Krakow, Gurnitz near Stettin and Zirslaff on Wollin and acquired Moratz, Bresow, the Fideikommiss Groß Weckow (Cammin district) with Schinchow, Gnageland, Deuthin and Kirsteinsdorf (from 1842 to 1945), Gut Klücken ( Pyritz district ) and Gut Stregow ( Cammin district ). Quilow Castle in Western Pomerania was inherited by Stuchower Ploetz in 1858; Henning von Ploetz owned Stuchow until 1945, while Quilow was owned by his younger brother Claus von Ploetz.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows three red fish ( roach ) one above the other in silver , the middle one turned to the left. On the helmet with red and silver covers, a red fish in front of three silver ostrich feathers. It is contained in a coat of arms frieze of the 24 lords and 3 cities of the estate district council of the district of Greifswald. The Ploetz were members of the manor districts of Quilow and Vitense in Western Pomerania.

Historical coats of arms

  • Coat of arms of the von Plötz in the Greifswald district building

  • Coat of arms of those von Ploetz in the Silesian heraldic book

Known family members

Possessions

See also

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Preussisches Adels-Lexicon . Volume 4, Leipzig 1837, pp 39-40 ; The Holy Roman Empire's ancient counts hall. 1702.
  2. ^ Bernhard I. Count of Plötzkau-Hecklingen
  3. ^ New Prussian Nobility Lexicon
  4. ^ Pomeranian document book . II, 1, p. 248.
  5. ^ Journal of Art, Science, and the History of War. Volume 80, 1850, p. 110.
  6. ^ Anton Balthasar König : Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures. Volume 3, 1790, pp. 177f.
  7. ↑ Thomas Stamm-Kuhlmann (Ed.): Karl August von Hardenberg. 1750-1822. Diaries and autobiographical records. Boldt im Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-486-56277-0 , p. 102.
  8. ^ Anton Balthasar König : Biographical lexicon of all heroes and military figures. Volume 3, 1790, p. 176 f.