Schnehen (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Schnehen from 19th century

The noble family von Schnehen is a Lower Saxon ancient noble family with the same name parent company Klein Schneen in the district of Göttingen , which has been family-owned since around 1320 until today.

history

Around 1320 the squire Johannes von Schneen was enfeoffed by Duke Otto the Strict of Braunschweig-Lüneburg with the first lands of the parent company in Klein Schneen south of Göttingen . This is documented as Johannes de Sneyn for the years 1333 and 1334 in the Lower Saxony State Archives in Hanover at the same time with the oldest seals of the family. The secured line of the family goes back to Hermann von Sneyn († 1455), documented for the first time in 1408 , who as lord of Geismar and Klein-Schneen acquired Göttingen citizenship in 1410 and became councilor of the city in 1425. TheThe manor in Klein Schneen is still managed by the family today.

Relations between the von Schnehen family and the city of Göttingen remained close. Gabriel von Schnehen, who was a pupil at the Göttingen pedagogy in 1598, was councilor of the city from 1608 to 1628 and 1632/33. During his time as mayor of the city (1626/27) it was handed over to General Johann t'Serclaes von Tilly in August 1626. The latter took up quarters in the mayor's house at Weenderstraße 32. Schnehen was the only council member of the city that affected the plague epidemic survived in October 1626. His coat of arms was in the St. Jacobi Church , under which the von Schneen Chapel is located as a family burial.

From 1857 to 1945 the Kützkow estate in Brandenburg and the Parchen estate in Saxony-Anhalt from 1922 to 1945 were owned by the family; both were expropriated without compensation through the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone .

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Relationship with Bishop Johann von Speyer

The partially supported view of the descent of the Bishop of Speyer Johannes II. Nix von Hoheneck with the justification “Nix” is a Latinization of “Schnehen” with coats of arms is not shared by recent research.

Austrian line

The Austrian line of the von Schnehen family received confirmation of the previous baron status for Ernst Freiherr von Schnehen. In 1910 the nobility was recognized by its sons as Austrian nobility with a diploma dated July 15.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms (oldest seal from 1333) shows a helmet, since the 15th century a three-mountain, with two semicircular umbrella boards, each with three plumes of feathers on the outside.

The coat of arms of those of Schnehen had several other changes and adjustments over the centuries:

• In the 17th century it showed a lying crescent moon from which three feathers grow, on the helmet the shield image
• In the 19th century, a gold ring set with three pearl-shaped rubies in blue. Two blue buffalo horns on the helmet with blue and gold covers

people

• Gabriel von Schnehen (effective 1598–1633), councilor and mayor of the city of Göttingen
• Friedrich von Schnehen (1771–1855), kk lieutenant colonel
• Rudolf von Schnehen (1868–1932), writer and forester
• Margarete von Schnehen (1938–), writer
• Maximilian von Schnehen (1864–1931), KuK chamberlain and field marshal lieutenant
• Hans von Sneyn (1482–1556), Mayor of the City of Göttingen
• Heinrich David von Schnehen (1674–1744), Colonel
• Friedrich Gustav von Schnehen (1808–1893), Prussian government councilor
• Wilhelm von Schnehen (1785–1876), German lieutenant general

literature

• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2002, pp. 5-6 ISSN  0435-2408
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schnehen, the lords of, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1876, p. 10 ( digitized version ).
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1859. Ninth year, p.735ff

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Adelslexikon (lit.), p. 6
2. ↑ Adelslexikon (lit.), p. 6
3. ↑ Gabriel v. Schnehen and his coat of arms in the St. Jacobi Church in Göttingen at the inscription portal
4. ^ So Constantin von Wurzbach (BLKÖ)
5. ↑ So in the result: Adelslexikon (lit.), p. 6
6. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Schnehen, Friedrich Freiherr . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing House, Vienna 1876, p. 9 ( digitized version ).
7. ^ H. Holl: Rudolf von Schnehen in: Österr. Biographer. Dictionary
8. ↑ Schnehen, Margarete von in the catalog of the German National Library