Schlieben (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Schlieben

Schlieben is the name of an old German noble family from the Untergau Zlivin (now Amt Schlieben ). The name changed between Sleben , Zlewin , Zliw , Zlivn , Zlywine , Sliwen , Slieben , Schleyben , Slyben , Zlowin and Schlieben .

history

Oldest representatives

The family was derived from Castle Schlieben , which at that time belonged to Niederlausitz . The oldest known member of the family today was Otto de Sleben , who was mentioned in 1144 on the crusade to the Holy Land.

Houses in the Middle Ages

Liebschützer Line
The oldest line of trunks known today begins with Gumprecht von Schlieben on Dobnoslo (called near Senftenberg , 1269, † 1279), Burgvogt on Liebschütz an der Mulde in the Ascanian Duchy of Saxony . His descendants formed the Liebschütz line of the sex.

Mühlberg line
A Hans von Schlieben auf Mühlberg and Prettin , captain in Jüterbog († 1458) was the oldest known representative of the Mühlberg line today . Baruth and Stülpe (then also the Duchy of Saxony) also belonged to the family in the 15th century. Two Balthasare von Schlieben were electoral councilors in neighboring Brandenburg in the 15th century.

Prussian Line
Georg von Schlieben from the Liebschützer or Mühlberger Line fought for the Teutonic Order in Prussia since 1454 and founded the Prussian line there with the castles of Nordenburg and Gerdauen .

Saxon Line
His eldest son Georg († 1521) founded the Saxon line , whose son Eustachius († 1568) was the most important councilor of the Brandenburg Elector Joachim II and confidante of Luther.

Nobility uprisings

House Birkenfeld: Elevation to the imperial count status with "high and well-born" and coats of arms association with that of Count Truchseß von Wetzhausen on January 11, 1660 in Vienna for the royal Polish treasurer and colonel of the bodyguard Johann Dietrich von Schlieben (1638–1695), hereditary captain to Birkenfeld , Gerdauen , Nordenburg and others in East Prussia . The Brandenburg recognition followed on December 20, 1662. The line died out in 1816 with Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlieben .

House Tucheband: Elevation to the Prussian count status on July 12, 1704 for Adam Georg von Schlieben (1629–1709), landlord on Alt Tucheband near Küstrin .

Sanditten Castle around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

House Sanditten: Elevation to the Prussian count status on August 9, 1718 in Berlin for the royal Prussian Landjägermeister Georg Adam von Schlieben (1649–1720), landlord on Sanditten , hereditary captain of Gerdauen, Nordenburg and Klingbeck in the district of Heiligenbeil .

House Adamshaide: Elevation to the Prussian count status on September 19, 1786 in Berlin with a diploma of January 10, 1787 for the royal Prussian major of the infantry Gottlieb von Schlieben , landlord on Kurkenfeld and hereditary captain of Gerdauen and Nordenburg.

House Nieder-Friedersdorf: Entry in the royal Saxon nobility book on July 30, 1904 for the royal Saxon minister of state and culture Richard von Schlieben (1848–1908), landlord of Nieder-Taubenheim on the Spree , and for his brother, the royal Saxon Colonel Egon von Schlieben , Commander of Grenadier Regiment No. 101 .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows in gold a bar carved from blue and silver . On the helmet with blue and gold covers two buffalo horns marked like the shield .

  • 1663 confirmed coat of arms of the imperial counts of Schlieben

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Schlieben (1704)

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Schlieben (1718)

  • Coat of arms of the Counts of Schlieben (1786)

present

A gender association founded in 1894 and expanded in 1910 to include all noble and countess lines holds a family day every two years.

Name bearer

Count Johann Kasimir von Schlieben (1714–88) with his daughters Eleonore , Wilhelmine , Friederike , Jeannette

literature

Web links

Commons : Schlieben  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • von Schlieben quotes from encyclopedias from the 17th to 19th centuries, castle archive

Individual evidence

  1. ^ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt : Regesta archiep. Magdeburgensis , Volume I, Page 471, No. 1148
  2. ↑ Georg von Schlieben Geneanet