Schapelow
Schapelow (also Schaplow , Schaplau or Scopelow ) is the name of an old noble family from Brandenburg . The family died out in Germany in the 18th century. A branch continued in Russia.
Originally the family comes from the Meissen area in Saxony . Today's Skoplau near Colditz had the same name.
history
The family was wealthy in the Mark and Neumark of Brandenburg. In 1448 the Margrave of Brandenburg Friedrich II sold the manors of Gusow and Platkow to the two brothers Gebehardt and Gawyn von Schapelow. Wulf Friedrich von Schapelow was the last of those von Schapelow. After his death, his goods Gusow and Platkow passed through his daughter Beate Luise († 1663) to her husband Georg von Derfflinger .
George Adalbert von Mülverstedt describes this family: “Soon after 1717, Jobst Ehrenreich von Schapelow decided on this old knightly, respected family of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, which was well-to-do in Lebusian for several centuries and has flourished in fairly significant expansion. His main goods were mainly Quilitz, Stremmen, Quappendorf, Trebnitz and Tucheband. Jobst Ebrenreich v. S. sold Stremmen in 1710 and was born with a v. Close and then one born vd Dahme married. Two of his sisters married into families v. Rothenburg and v. Zabeltitz. "
Possessions
In addition to the named places Gusow and Platkow, Alt Tucheband , Friedersdorf , Hackenow , Hermersdorf, Markendorf (Frankfurt) , Quilitz (today Neuhardenberg ), Stremmen and Wulkow near Trebnitz were owned by the von Schapelow family for a certain time.
coat of arms
In the red shield is a striding silver dog with a gold collar. The dog growing on the helmet with the red and silver blankets .
Name bearer
- Joachim von Schapelow († 1574)
- Wulf Friedrich von Schapelow (* before 1650), German nobleman
literature
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Nobility Lexicon . Fourth volume, Reichenbach brothers, Leipzig 1837, p. 159f. ( online at Google Books )
- George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt , J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 5th Division; The dead nobility of the province and Mark Brandenburg, 1880 p. 79, plate 47
- Gerhard Schulz: farmers, citizens and nobles Schapelow. (Library of Family History Sources, Vol. 25). 1981, ISBN 3-7686-5057-X .
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 8, 1868, Friedrich Voigt's Buchhandlung, Leipzig, p. 90. ( online at Google Books )
- Association for the history of the Mark Brandenburg (ed.): Research on Brandenburg and Prussian history. Volume 4, G. Kunze, Bernburg 1891, p. 262.
- Johann Friedrich Gauhe , Des Heil. Rom. Reichs Genealogisch-Historisches Adels-Lexikon , Volume 1, S.2037
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 8, 1868, Leipzig, p. 90
- ↑ Platkow village chronicle
- ^ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt , J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch, VI. Volume, 5th Division; The dead nobility of the province and Mark Brandenburg, 1880 p. 79
- ^ Association for the history of the Mark Brandenburg: Research on Brandenburg and Prussian history. P. 262.