Preen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Preen (after the seal of the squire Johann Preen from 1339)

Preen , also Prehn, is the name of an old Mecklenburg noble family. The family spread to Rügen , flourished for a long time in Pomerania and also spread to Denmark , the Prignitz , the Danzig area and Nassau . According to the unanimous decision of the German Nobility Law Committee IV, 135/3 Ara from September 24, 2005, the Preen (Baden) are of a tribe with the Preen Mecklenburg.

history

With miles Henricus Preen in 1237 or "Thehardus qui et Hinricus Pren appellatus est", the Preen were first mentioned in Mecklenburg in 1242. In 1248 the first named brothers Gotfcalcus, Conradus and Bertoldus appeared in a document. The desert and former castle complex of Preensberg still refers to the settlement activities of the family during this time.

As early as the 13th century, individual members of the family came to Livonia with the order . Henricus Preen fathered the archbishop of Riga for Nikolaus von Nauen in 1241 . In 1341 the knight Conrad de Pren was the royal Danish captain in Reval . In 1501 Christoph de Prene received goods near Rujen from Landmeister Wolter von Plettenberg . In 1599, Franz de Preen was recognized in Livonia as an old noble.

In the 17th century, the family came back into Danish military service. Adam Ehrenreich von Preen († 1702) was last royal Danish colonel and brigadier, as well as chief of the 5th Jutian cavalry regiment. Magnus Ernst von Preen († 1730/1731) was dismissed as major general in 1719 . However, this branch died out again in the 18th century. In 1680 Mutterstranz, Nassenhuben and Pawlow near Danzig, in 1681 Frehne in Prignitz, were acquired.

The Preen in the Grand Duchy of Baden as well as those in the Duchy of Nassau appeared as barons . At least the latter did so without objection.

Mecklenburg

The continuous line of the family begins around 1450 with Lorentz von Preen. The family was above all wealthy around Ribnitz . Already in 1313 the Preen owned Steinfeld, 1320 Gnemern , 1368 Bandelstorf and 1372 Wehnsdorf, which remained with the family until 1803. Johann von Preen was as Johann III. 1454–1461 Bishop of Ratzeburg . In 1523 the Preen were co-signatories of the Union of Estates .

Vollrath von Preen accompanied Duke Heinrich V of Mecklenburg-Schwerin to the Augsburg Reichstag in 1530 as his minister . Otto von Preen (1579–1634) achieved some reputation as the Privy Councilor of Duke Johann Albrecht von Mecklenburg-Güstrow . Of his sons, Adolph Friedrich von Preen (1623–1669), doctor of theology, was initially castle preacher in Güstrow, then from 1658 until his death superintendent of the Stargard church district in Neubrandenburg , Hans Albrecht von Preen was chamber president of Duke Gustav Adolf von Mecklenburg -Güstrow. In 1617 there was a physical dispute between Johann von Preen auf Nutteln in the Office of Crivitz and Georg von Preen auf Golchen in the Office of Mecklenburg about illegally appropriated horses by cutting pastures ”outside the boundaries of the Mödenitz estate before the Reich Chamber of Commerce.

The Preen were still wealthy in Mecklenburg in the 19th century on Bandelstorf, Godow , Rensow, Teschendorf and Wehnsdorf .

Grave slab for conventual Anna Eleonora von Prehn in the cloister of the Dobbertin monastery

In Einschreibebuch the monastery Dobbertin are 17 items of daughters of the families of Preen 1700-1867 from large plastic, Dummerstorf, Ticino, Greven and Schwerin for inclusion in the aristocratic convent in the monastery Dobbertin . The coat of arms of Anna Eleonora von Preen, who was registered before 1700 under No. 8, is located on the northern prayer box on the nun's gallery in the monastery church. Further family coats of arms with an attached star and as an alliance coat of arms hung on the nun gallery. They are currently in storage.

The later Lieutenant General Friedrich Christian Theodor von Preen (1787-1856), heir to Dummerstorf near Ribnitz, was named in 1837 as the successor to the Nassau President of the War College and General Commander of the Troops August von Kruse .

Pomerania

Knight Godfcalcus dictus Preene appeared in the second generation as a witness in Rügen in 1286. In 1299 the Preen belonged to the Rügischen knighthood. In 1484 Ernst Preen was named as the hereditary lord on Pantelitz . A little later, however, this line seems to have expired.

By marriage of hereditary daughter of Bernd dJ of Moltzan († 1520) Vollrath Preen to has been Schorssow and proportionally to Wolde besitzlich. From 1552 to 1588 there was a dispute over the Wolde estate between members of the noble families von Preen, von Bülow and von Maltzan before Mecklenburg courts and the Imperial Court of Justice. Duke Philip Julius renewed this fiefdom in 1601 for Claus Preen , which was enlarged in 1632 with the ducal approval by purchasing Hermann Behr . In 1639 the property was sold to Wolde.

to bathe

The common set of Preen in Baden begins with Henrich Prien also Prin (* around 1603), citizens and farmers in Hamburg, whose grandson led the nobility, which for the later Grand Duke of Baden Lieutenant Colonel of the Cavalry Guard Friedrich von Preen (1785-1832) Son of a colonel in the Dutch service and commander of the Cape Regiment , when he entered the Baden military service in 1806, there was no complaint.

August Claus von Preen from Dummerstorf in Mecklenburg was chamberlain in Baden in 1800 . Otto von Preen went into kuk services in 1833 and Friedrich von Preen (1823-1894) was chamberlain and city ​​director in Karlsruhe in 1877 . From 1903 to 1907 Wolfgang von Preen was district administrator in the district of Müllheim .

In the Landesarkivet Köbenhavn is the personal history Tidsskrift by Fjerde Räkke, 2 volume from 1899. It contains the genealogy of the Kielman v. Family . Kielmansegg recorded. A short genealogy of the so-called Baden line of the family v. Preen: It reports on Adam Ehrenreich (1638–1702), a high-ranking officer in the Danish service. In his first marriage he had a son Hinrich (Danish: Hendrik) (1667–1717) born in Hamburg, and a daughter Ilsabe Sophie, married to Christian Albrecht von Kielmannsegg since 1692 . Henrik in turn had a son named Henning Joachim (1695–1765), governor at the Cape of Good Hope . There is no evidence of any affiliations to the Hinrich Prien Bürger und Brauer in Hamburg mentioned in the article!

coat of arms

The shield shows three fan-like, red awls in silver . On the red and silver puffed helmet with red and silver blankets, a red awl surrounded by a wreath of thirteen red spheres.

One variant has the three awls parallel to each other. It is probably the older one and can already be found in the coat of arms of Bishop Johann von Preen and on the gothic sacrament cabinet of the village church in Petschow .

  • Seal of Johann Preen from 1339

  • Coat of arms of Bishop Johann von Preen on the choir stalls of the church of Gadebusch (1458)

  • Coat of arms of the Preen in the church of Cammin (near Rostock)

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

Personalities

literature

Web links

Commons : Preen (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In this name with two different sexes ( Prehn (Baden) and Prehn (Mecklenburg) ) in the Adelslexikon vol. 11 (2000), p 3-4
  2. ↑ a b GHdA Adelslexikon Volume XI, Volume 122 of the complete series. Limburg (Lahn) 2000, pp. 3-4
  3. ↑ a b c d New sieve maker. Nuremberg 1857–1901
  4. ↑ a b c d e New general German nobility lexicon. Leipzig 1867, Volume 7, p. 242
  5. ^ HW Harbou: v. Preen, Adam Ehrenreich . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 13 : Pelli – Reravius . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1899, p. 273-274 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  6. ↑ Succession of ownership on Bandelstorf bandelstorf.de ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2011 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bandelstorf.de
  7. ↑ The place ascription on (castle) Stargard in Mecklenburg is wrong!
  8. ↑ LHAS 9.1-1 Reich Chamber of Commerce Trial Files, No. 206-108.
  9. ↑ State Main Archive Schwerin , 9.1-1 Reich Chamber Court , Trial Files, No. 40
  10. ↑ Coat of arms of Schleswig-Holstein, Danish and other noble families . ibiki.ub.uni-kiel.de. Retrieved April 6, 2020.