Repke (noble family)

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Repke or Rohbeck , also Rebke , Repka , Riepke , Roepke , Röpcke , Röpecke , Röpke or Ropecken , is the name of a Kashubian noble family from Western Pomerania , which was later able to spread to Poland and Prussia .

Spread and personalities

The earliest namesake come from the state of Lauenburg . The first known representative of the family was a Nikolaus Röpke , owner of Gnewin . In 1491 a Nikolaus Röpke from Malchin in Mecklenburg is also enrolled at the University of Rostock . The family was still owned by Schlaischow in the fifteenth century, and still resident in Klein Massow in the sixteenth century . In 1523, the Rapkene family is mentioned with property in Groß Lüblow, the Kashubian village of Węgornia and other places in the area around Lauenburg. In the years 1579, 1608, 1618 and 1621 the family received confirmation of the fiefdoms in Massow and Schlaischow. In 1628 a Chris Repka was mentioned in Massow. In 1658 Christian auf Węgornia and Massow, Ernst Christian wealthy with Schlaischow and Matthis auf Massow and Zdrewen , called the Röpken, were mentioned. The Kurbrandenburg official Lorenz von Somnitz appointed and sworn in a Christian von Röpke as Landschöppen on September 27, 1661 . In 1715 Ernst von Röpcke sat in Schlaischow and Hans von Röpcke in Lüblow .

The family lost their property in Schlaischow in 1740, Lüblow in 1742. After that, they no longer appear as landowners in Kashubia . In contrast, after 1741 a royal Prussian major Georg Heinrich von Repke owned the Tilsewischken estate near Ragnit in East Prussia . In 1806 Leopold von Röpcke was a lieutenant in the Prussian 31st Infantry Regiment v. Goiter . In the nineteenth century the family owned an estate near Danzig (probably Jenkau ). The historian, journalist and astronomer, Kazimierz Repke (* 1936; † 1997) comes from this family

The Robke family , which probably originated in Lower Saxony, should be distinguished from the Repke .

coat of arms

The assumption is that the German partridge is the name giver of the family. In this case it is a speaking coat of arms . A Slavic origin of the name also seems possible, because in Russian partridge is 'rjábka' (рябка), Lithuanian is kurapka. In Prussian the bird is called 'Laucagerto'. In Middle High German one wrote 'reppehuon', 'rapphuon' or 'rabhuon', in Middle Low German, however, 'raphôn'. In earlier times the quail and the meadow rail were also called partridge. When describing the coat of arms under the name Ropeke, there is no mention of a partridge, but only of a green bird. In some areas of the German-speaking area the greenfinch (Polish: Dzwoniec) was also called 'Rappfink'. That would explain the description as a 'green bird'. Partridges , on the other hand, are mostly brown in color.

Various coats of arms are documented in the literature . In Kashubian heraldry, there is a high degree of variability in the coat of arms within a family. The motif of a combination of stars and moon as well as the color combination blue / yellow is also common in Western Pomerania . At least the following four different coats of arms that belong to the Leliwa coat of arms cooperative are known:

  • Repke I : A blue crossbar in silver, covered with a small golden moon (looking to the left) and two stars, including a partridge on a green hill. Three ostrich feathers as a helmet decoration. This representation can be found on the Lubin map from 1618 and in Johann Siebmacher's book of arms under the family name Röpeke .
  • Repke II : The crescent moon in gold and turned to the right, not a hill. Also a partridge as a helmet gem. In the book of heraldry Johann Siebmacher this coat of arms is under Röpeke or Röpke to find. If you disregard the crossbar, this coat of arms resembles that of the von Reppichau family from the town of the same name near Dessau.
  • Repke III : A lying crescent moon in a natural position (eye on the right), not a hill, crowned with a helmet, crest with three ostrich feathers.
  • Repke IV : Split Shield. Blue above, silver below. In the blue the golden crescent moon, lying under three golden stars (the middle one slightly lower). A partridge in the silver field. Gem: three silver tips. In 1726 this coat of arms was confirmed to Albin Stanislaw Repki .
  • Rohbeck : A blue crossbar in silver, covered with a golden moon and two stars. In the lower part of the shield a golden duck on the green ground . The Secret War Councilor Johann Friedrich Rohbeck , son of the citizen and shoemaker Christian Heinrich Rohbeck in Berlin, received an aristocratic confirmation and renovation on August 17, 1786, as well as the coat of arms of the von Röpke and Repcke families , for which the property has to be added: Jenkau since 1776 , Massow 1579 and 1621 and Schlaischow 1579 and 1621.

  • Variant of Repke I

  • Variant Repke II

  • from Reppichau

  • Variant Repke III

  • Variant Repke IV

  • Coat of arms Rohbeck

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Berlin 1856, Volume 2, p. 283; 1858, Volume 3, p. 331
  2. ↑ Registration of Nicolaus Ropke de Malchin in the Rostock matriculation portal
  3. ^ Ferdinand Hirsch: The acquisition of Lauenburg and Bütow by the Great Elector and the establishment of the administration there. In: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian history. 28th year 1915
  4. ↑ Digital dictionary of the German language
  5. ↑ Partridge. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 14 : R - skewness - (VIII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1893 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  6. ↑ Johannes Micraelius : Six books from old Pomerania. Stettin 1640, Volume 6, p. 371
  7. ↑ Röpeken. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 32, Leipzig 1742, column 448.
  8. ↑ Coat of arms of the von Pöpeken (around 1605)
  9. ↑ Coat of arms of the von Reppichau (around 1605)