Posern (noble family)
Posern (with an emphasis on the second syllable) , also Poserne, Pozerne, Buzerne, Puserne and Boszern , is an old Upper Saxon - meißnisches Uradelsgeschlecht that branched out far and still exists.
It must not be confused with the Silesian noble family Poser , although it is assumed that these also come from the Saxon-Thuringian area.
history
The ancestral home of the family is what is now Poserna in the town of Lützen in Saxony-Anhalt . In 1161 this place was first mentioned as Posidrin .
Conradus de Poserne appears for the first time as a representative of the family in 1283. The line of the von Posern family begins in 1269 with Ludolfus de Buzernen, miles .
In 1328, in a document from Landgrave Friedrich von Thuringia, Heinrich von Puzerne, otherwise known as Manegolt, appears as a witness.
Possessions
- Obernessa manor : family property from the Middle Ages to the end of the 17th century.
- Waltersdorf manor : owned by the family from 1611, expropriated in 1945 through the land reform.
- Baroque Rammenau Castle : In 1879, the royal Saxon chamberlain and monastery bailiff in Marienstern, Hans Curt Christoph Ernst von Posern, acquired the Rammenau estate from the von Hoffmannsegg family. He was best known for the ballad Der Grüne Posern by Börries von Münchhausen (1920). His widow, born Freiin von Humboldt (1853–1914), married the general of the cavalry Eugen von Kirchbach . After her death, her daughter Margarete Gisela Gabriele Alexandra von Helldorff , née von Posern, took over the Rammenau Castle.
| Coat of arms of those of posers | |
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Blazon : “In silver the head and neck of a gold crowned and tongued red lion. The shield image on the red and silver bulged or crowned helmet with the same blankets. " |
Well-known representatives
- Carl Friedrich von Posern-Klett (1798–1849), businessman and city councilor of Leipzig, numismatist
- Christoph Adam von Posern († 1685), governor of Mildenfurth
- Curt Ernst von Posern , German politician, Member of the State Parliament (Kingdom of Saxony)
- Georg von Posern (1844–1924), Saxon manor owner, court official and politician
- Heinrich von Posern , author of a travel diary from the 17th century
literature
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , Vol. VII, pp. 225-226.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser, 7 (1906), p. 593.
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Areligen Häuser, Part A, 39 (1940), p. 545.
Individual evidence
- ^ Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Main State Archive Dresden, Loc. 8920 documents from the Counts of Osterfeld
- ↑ Book of Ballads by Börries von Münchhausen , new edition of the Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1963
- ^ Historical library of Upper Saxony and some neighboring countries , 1732, p. 242