Rittberg (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Rittberg

Rittberg (formerly also Retberg ) is the name of an originally Westphalian noble family . The family, some of whose branches still exist today, later acquired property and prestige mainly in Prussia , but also in Poland and Mecklenburg .

history

origin

In older literature, it is assumed that the family descended from the von Rietberg family, which died out in 1562 . Accordingly, the last Count Johann von Rietberg is said to have been married to Maria von Sinzemann in his second marriage. Their descendants, who had named themselves by Rittberg and settled in Prussia , would not have had the title of count due to the inappropriate marriage of a ruling imperial count with a young lady from the lower nobility .

According to the genealogical manual of the aristocracy but the sex already appears in 1405 with about Lippstadt Board worn- Hermann from the Redberge first documented. Gobel Redberg received civil rights in the city of Soest in 1651 . His son Johann Rembert Rettberg (1654–1734), Lord of Sassendorf , Mayor of Soest and royal Danish captain a. D. , received on May 1, 1717 in Berlin a Prussian nobility recognition in the form of a nobility renewal as "von Rettberg".

Spread and personalities

Johann Rembert Rettberg married in 1697 Helene Elisabeth von Münnich (1679–1734), the eldest sister of the Imperial Russian Field Marshal Burkhard Christoph von Münnich . From the marriage came the three sons Anton Günther Albrecht, Johann Dietrich Arnold and Johann Wilhelm Florens, who were raised to the Prussian count status in 1751 . Anton Günther Albrecht Graf von Rettberg (* 1693), Herr auf Littschen, died in 1763 as a royal Polish major general and colonel in the Crown Guard . In 1738 he married Dorothea Sophie von Bardeleben (1701–1765). With the death of her son Johann Burchard Theodor Graf Rittberg (* 1735), lord of Littschen as well as royal Polish chamberlain and colonel, on January 26, 1771, their descendants in the male line died out . Johann Dietrich Arnold Graf von Rittberg, Lord of Vietzow and Wutzow in Pomerania , became a royal Prussian colonel. His first marriage from 1751 to Wilhelmine Dorothea von Kunow (1729–1752) and his second marriage from 1753 to Auguste Freiin von Eickstedt from the House of Rothenklempenow (1728–1784). Johann Wilhelm Florens Count von Rittberg (1719–1791) took his leave as royal Prussian captain in 1756 and died without leaving any descendants.

The current Counts of Rittberg are all descendants of Count Johann Wilhelm Ludwig von Rittberg (1752–1831). Of his sons, the three counts Heinrich Karl Ludwig August (formerly Brandenburg line), Georg Albrecht (Prussian line) and Johann Wilhelm Ferdinand (Silesian, formerly Mecklenburg-Pomeranian line) were able to continue the tribe. Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Graf von Rittberg, Lord on Sydow and Schönfeld in the Mittelmark , later on Adamsdorf in the Neumark , was married to Charlotte von Beeren (1760-1832) for the second time since 1790. Several sons emerged from the connection.

Formerly the Brandenburg line

The count's house flourished in three lines in the Mark Brandenburg , Prussia and Mecklenburg - Pomerania in the middle of the 18th century . The latter also made it to Silesia . Heinrich Karl Ludwig August Graf von Rittberg (1790–1866), royal Prussian major and son of Count Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Wilhelm von Rittberg (1752–1831), royal Prussian captain, from his marriage to Caroline von Beeren came from the Brandenburg Lutheran line . He married Henriette Friederike Wilhelmine von Netz (1796–1876) in 1821. In addition to five daughters, the couple had four sons Ferdinand, Oscar, Benno Ernst Ottokar (1834–1868) and Alfons Ludwig Eduard (1836–1910). Daughter Hedwig von Rittberg (1839-1896) became a nurse and founder of the “Auxiliary Sisters ' Association”, the later DRK Sisterhood in Berlin . Ferdinand Graf von Rittberg (* 1826) became the royal Prussian captain of her brothers and Alfons Ludwig Eduard von Rittberg became the landowner at Neusaatz in Hungary . From his marriage to Mariette von Harisch in 1860, his son Dushan came from. Benno Ernst Ottokar Graf von Rittberg, royal Prussian prime lieutenant , married Anna Maria Karolina vom Berge (1825–1913) in 1859 and left behind their daughter Anna Ida Hedwig von Rittberg (1863–1933) the sons Gotthelf August Benno Ludwig (1860–1931) and Georg Dietrich Eugen (1861–1899).

Prussian line

Georg Albrecht Graf von Rittenberg (1758-1812) was royal Prussian captain and Landschaftsrat of marie werder landscape and gentleman on Stangenberg, Pirklitz, Balau, left and Rohdau in West Prussia , where the family already in 1750 the Inkolat received. His first marriage in 1788 was Anna Elisabeth Schach von Wittenau (1760–1793), from whom Heinrich Georg Eduard Karl Graf von Rittberg came from, and in his second marriage, from 1794, Henriette von Steinwehr (1772–1834). Ludwig von Rittberg (1810–1850) came from the latter.

Heinrich Georg Eduard Karl Graf von Rittberg (1789–1866), son of Count Georg Albrecht von Rittberg (* 1758), who died in 1812, and his wife Anna Elisabeth, née Schach von Wittenau (1760–1793), came from the Prussian line. Heinrich Georg Eduard Karl was royal Prussian district administrator , captain and general councilor as well as lord of the manors Stangenberg, Balau and Höfchen in the former district of Stuhm . In 1816 he married Wilhemine von Fritze (1791–1868). In addition to two daughters, the couple had three sons. Son Heinrich Georg Adalbert Max von Rittberg (1823-1897) became royal Prussian district administrator of the Stuhm district and in 1859 married Anna von Vegesack (1841-1887). From this marriage two sons and four daughters were born. Heinrich's brothers were Count Woldemar von Rittberg (* 1829), royal Prussian lieutenant, and Oswald von Rittberg (1832–1908). The latter was also a royal Prussian lieutenant and district administrator of the former district of Ueckermünde as well as master of Albrechtsdorf. From his marriage to Hedwig Luise Emma von Enckevort from the Vogelsang House (1839–1909), he had two sons.

Silesian, formerly Mecklenburg-Pomerania line

Count Johann Wilhelm Ferdinand von Rittberg (1765–1840), lord of Warbelow in Mecklenburg, royal Swedish captain came from the Mecklenburg-Pomerania and later Silesian line . In 1794 he married Sophie Juliane Dorothea, divorced from Ferber, von Güldner (1774–1882), heir to Beselin and Fresendorf in Mecklenburg. Her son Ludwig Graf von Rittberg (1797–1881) became royal Prussian Real Privy Councilor , first president of the Glogau Court of Appeal as well as crown syndic and member of the Prussian manor for life. In 1823 he married Auguste von Eickstedt -Peterswaldt (1803–1881). They left two daughters and two sons. Son Max Graf von Rittberg (* 1825) became a royal Prussian captain and appellate judge in Frankfurt an der Oder . His brother Count Aurel Hugo von Rittberg (1827–1902), lord of Würchitz, Karitsch and Pudel near Glogau, was a royal Prussian chamberlain and captain. Konrad Nikolaus Friedrich Ludwig Max von Rittberg (1861–1930) came from his marriage in 1858 to Wilhelmine Freiin von Block-Bibran (1821–1864), heiress of the Modlau lordship near Bunzlau in Silesia.

The brothers of Count Ludwig Georg August (1797–1881) were Count Ernst Friedrich Anton (1807–1872) and Dietrich Ludwig Christoph Elias Martin (1813–1897). Ernst Friedrich Anton Graf von Rittberg, Lord of Ober- and Niederposchlitz in the Kreuzburg district , became a royal Prussian lieutenant colonel . He married Adelheid von Dewitz (1816–1886) in 1836 . In addition to six daughters, the couple had four sons, Counts Benno, Ernst, Karl Albert Friedrich August (1844–1911) and Leopold. All entered royal Prussian military service. His brother Dietrich Ludwig Christoph Elias Martin Graf von Rittberg settled in Mecklenburg and married Adele Wanda Marie von Gräve (1865-1897) in Berlin in 1865.

These are the fathers of the seven in Einschreibebuch the monastery Dobbertin situated Count daughters of the family of Rittenberg of 1826-1908 from Warbelow, Beselin and Fresendorf for inclusion in the aristocratic convent in the monastery Dobbertin .

Status surveys

The brothers Anton Günter Albrecht, Colonel of the Polish Guard on foot, Johann Dietrich Arnold, royal Prussian lieutenant colonel in the dragoon regiment "von Alemann", and Johann Wilhelm Florens von Rittberg, royal Prussian lieutenant in the infantry regiment "Fürst Anhalt von Dessau", received on 4. September 1751 by King Friedrich II. By the highest cabinet order the Prussian counts. The diploma was issued on December 30, 1751 in Berlin.

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2: 1) six-pointed golden stars in blue. Two blue pheasant feathers on the helmet with blue and gold covers .

The later extended coat of arms shows on the right in silver a half black eagle leaning against the gap, on the left in blue three gold stars one above the other. Two blue pheasant feathers on the helmet with blue and gold covers.

Count's coat of arms

The Count's coat of arms, awarded in 1751, is quartered and covered with a red heart shield , inside a golden eagle (coat of arms of the extinct Westphalian Counts of Rietberg ). 1 and 4 in silver half a gold-crowned and armored black eagle at the gap, 2 and 3 in blue three (2: 1) five-pointed golden stars (coat of arms of the Lippstadt von Retberg). The coat of arms has two helmets , on the right one with a black and silver helmet cover the golden eagle, on the left one with a red and gold helmet cover a blue and a red ostrich feather. Two forward-looking armor holders serve as shield holders , the helmets are equipped with four red ostrich feathers, holding a golden lance in the right or left hand.

Coat of arms development

  • Family coat of arms of those of Rittberg (Retberg)

  • Increased (split) coat of arms of those of Rittberg (Retberg)

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Rittberg

Well-known namesake

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6, p. 517.
  2. ^ A b Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon. Volume 4, pp. 116-118.
  3. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Volume II, Leipzig 1853, pp. 294-296.
  4. ^ Lippstadt City Archives
  5. ↑ a b c Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume XI, Volume 122 of the Complete Series, pp. 438-439.
  6. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses . Justus Perthes, 1935, p. 385 ( google.de [accessed on May 31, 2020]).
  7. ↑ a b Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses . Justus Perthes, 1935, p. 386 ( google.de [accessed on May 31, 2020]).
  8. ^ A b Max von Spießen : Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility with drawings by Professor Ad. M. Hildebrandt . 1. Volume, Görlitz 1901–1903. P. 104 ; Volume II, plate