Rabenau (noble family)
Rabenau is the name of a family line of the Meissen nobility , which probably goes back to servants of the Margraves of Meissen . The family's headquarters are in Rabenau near Dresden .
The family is not related to the Hessian noble family Nordeck zur Rabenau and also not to the Solms noble family von Rabenau (whose ancestral seat was Rabenau or Rabenscheid , a desert between Braunfels and Tiefenbach ) , who were wealthy in Leun .
history
The family first appeared in a document with Burchardus de Rabinowe in 1235 as the feudal lord of the Burgraves of Dohna at Rabenau Castle . The family left their ancestral seat and the region around the Rote Weißeritz as early as the 13th century, before the Dohna feud led to a conflict between their lords and the Margraves of Meißen. The direct line of trunks begins around 1311 with Apetzko von Rabenau , landlord on Braunau near Guhrau in ( Lower Silesia ).
From 1657 to 1721 the Strahwalde manor was owned by the family.
Nobility surveys / matriculations
- Prussian nobility legitimation through the highest cabinet order of February 8, 1779 with diploma of August 14, 1779 in Berlin with the settlement of the paternal name and coat of arms for the royal Prussian tax inspector George Friedrich , natural son of the royal Prussian captain Georg Friedrich von Rabenau , landlord of Thiemendorf ( district Cross ), and Marie Hanne Gerasch .
- Entry in the royal Saxon register of nobility on September 28, 1908 under No. 297 for Fritz von Rabenau as authorized representative of the life insurance company "Atlas" in Dresden.
coat of arms
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The split coat of arms shows a growing natural (silver) ibex in gold above , red below without a picture. On the helmet with red and gold covers a black raven with a gold ring in its beak.
Name bearer
- Alexander von Rabenau (1845–1923), German homeland researcher in Vetschau
- Dithard von Rabenau (* 1943), German cartoonist
- Eduard von Rabenau (1796–1881), Provost of Naumburg and Prussian politician, member of the Royal Prussian Order of St. John and legal knight of the Order of St. John
- Karl Christian Friedrich Otto von Rabenau (1845–1908), Prussian and Hessian railway director in Mainz
- Eitel-Friedrich von Rabenau (1884–1959), pastor in Jaffa / Palestine (1912–1917) and Berlin, member of the provisional church leadership of the Confessing Church , member of the Sydower Brotherhood
- Friedrich von Rabenau (1884–1945), German general, theologian, member of the resistance against the National Socialist regime and victim of National Socialism, legal knight of the Order of St. John
- Hellmuth von Rabenau (1885–1970), frigate captain and head of the Chiemsee yacht school in the German High Seas Association Hansa; Brother of Eitel-Friedrich von Rabenau (1884–1959)
- Georg Paul von Rabenau (born July 3, 1916 in Stassfurt-Leopoldshall , † March 29, 1991 in Hamburg ), commander of the submarine U-528, frigate captain of the German Navy, from 1972 to 1987 governing commander of the Hamburg commander of the Order of St. John
- Hugo von Rabenau (born February 3, 1845 in Görlitz ; † April 24, 1921), director of the Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz
- Konrad von Rabenau (1924–2016), Protestant theologian, church historian and incunabula researcher
- Siegfried von Rabenau (* 1953), German politician (SPD)
- Wolf-Rüdiger von Rabenau , (1908 - April 1, 1942), German naval officer and submarine commander ( U10 , U52 )
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Rabenau (1876–1952), German naval and colonial officer, participant in the suppression of the Boxer uprising in China and the Herero and Nama uprising in German South West Africa Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John; older brother of Friedrich von Rabenau (1884–1945)
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XI, Page 122, Volume 122 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2000, ISBN 3-7980-0822-1
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses A XXII, page 312, volume 103 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1992, ISBN 3-7980-0700-4
- Festschrift for the 750th anniversary of the family v. Rabenau 1985 in Alexandersbad
- Kurt von Rabenau: Chronicle of those v. Rabenau , Volumes 1-5. Luisenlund 1927–1930
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Aristocracy , Volume 3, 1899, published by WT Bruer, p. 293 - digitized
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New General German Adels Lexicon , Volume 7, Page 308 ( books.google.com )
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon , Volume 4, 1837, Page 78 ( books.google.com )
- Marcelli Janecki , Handbook of the Prussian Nobility , Volume 2, 1893, p.490ff
Web links
- Coat of arms of the von Rabenau family in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book from 1605
Individual evidence
- ↑ Manfred Fay: Chronicon Merenberg ( Memento of the original from December 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.9 MB) with an entry on the von Rabenau family from Leun (headquarters in Rabenau or Rabenscheid near Braunfels-Tiefenbach); Retrieved April 22, 2010.
- ↑ Saxon Main State Archives Dresden No. 7