Schwerdtner (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Schwerdtner family

Schwerdtner or Schwerdtner-Pomeiske is a Saxon , later also a Pomeranian - Prussian noble family. Branches of the family persist to this day.

history

On July 31, 1790, Saxon was first lieutenant and aide in Chevauxlegers - Regiment "Duke of Courland" , Jonathan Friedrich Schwerdtner from Hirschberg in the Giant Mountains from the Elector of Saxony Friedrich August III. Who as imperial vicar acted to the peerage lifted .

On January 26, 1845 was issued for Otto Friedrich von Schwerdtner on Ilkendorf in Nossen in Saxony and his descendants, to the possession of Familienfideikommiss United Pomeiske , the royal Prussian permission to name and emblem Association Schwerdtner-Pomeiske .

possession

• Ilkendorf 1827ff, Großendorf until 1945, Groß Pomeiske 1840–1945, Wendischbora Castle 1930–1945; after 1990 re-possession of the remains of the Wendischbora manor

Coat of arms (1844) Schwerdtner-Pomeiske

• Rosenhof in Oberissigheim , came into the possession of Ernst von Schwerdtner-Mitzlaff and von Gerlach from Großendorf and his wife Gabriele, born in 1963 . Jeimke-Karge , expanded into a riding stables , since 2002 run by Alice Knop-von Schwerdtner in the second generation

coat of arms

The family coat of arms (1790) is divided , above in red a striding golden lion , below in green diagonally upwards a sword with a golden handle. On the helmet with (right) red and gold (and left green and gold) covers a growing armor shouldering a sword , whose helmet is equipped with six alternating gold and red ostrich feathers.

The coat of arms (1844) is quartered , 1 and 4 as in 1790, but the coats of arms are turned inwards, 2 ( Pomeiske ) a growing natural stag divided obliquely on the left above in silver, nested in three rows below in blue and silver, 3 like 2 but divided diagonally to the right . Two helmets, the right one like 1790, on the left one with blue-silver covers, three (blue-silver-blue) ostrich feathers (Pomeiske).

See also

• Heraldic group of deer over chess
• List of German noble families

literature

• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, p. 222, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2003
• Otto Titan von Hefner : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms . Volume 2, 3rd edition, Nuremberg 1857, pp. 47–48
• Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Volume 2, Berlin 1856, p. 427
• Illustrated German nobility scroll of the nineteenth century. Ernst Schäfert, Leipzig 1858–1860, p. 83

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (AB), Volume 115, 1998.
2. ^ Newspaper for the German Aristocracy, Volume 3, 1842, p. 157 (9.)
3. ↑ Little Art Guide Church Wendischbora ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Schleppjagdverein Vogelsbergmeute eV: Obituary for Ernst Fritz-Leo von Schwerdtner-Mitzlaff and von Gerlach
5. ↑ Rosenhof website