Spörcken (noble family)
Spörcken (also Spoercken) is the name of an ancient Lüneburg noble family .
history
The family first appeared in a document in 1308 with Fredericus Sporeke and later with the Famulus Johannes Sporeke, who was officially sealed on December 20, 1352. Already in 1367 the family was verifiably entrusted with the ducal Braunschweig inheritance- Pütkeramt .
The Langlingen manor near Celle was owned by the family from 1360 to 1827, and Dahlenburg as well since the middle of the 17th century . The manor Lüdersburg near Lüneburg has been in their possession since the 18th century.
Ernst Wilhelm von Spörken auf Langlingen, the electoral privy councilor and landscape director of Brunswick-Lüneburg, was elevated to the status of imperial baron with an improved coat of arms on September 16, 1717 .
On April 7, the inclusion of the Supreme and Adjutant General Adolf Ludwig von Spörcken on Rubow in Mecklenburg, Molzen, Dahlenburg, Süschendorf done so in the Mecklenburg knighthood .
Langlingen manor
Rittergut Lüdersburg
v. Spörcke's house on Schmiedestrasse in Hanover
coat of arms
The tribe arms shows in gold a slanted black Trammel (roast goat, as a decorated hasp interpreted). On the helmet with black and gold helmet covers an open flight divided by black and gold across the corner . The coat of arms from 1717 is the main coat of arms, extended by two golden lions as shield holders.
people
- Alexander Freiherr von Spoercken , President of the European Association of Golf Entrepreneurs
- Dorothea von Spörcken, 1549– † 1565 Abbess of Wienhausen
- Elisabeth von Spörcken from the Dahlenburg house (1560–1633), first prioress , then 1625–1633 domina of Ebstorf monastery
- Ernst Wilhelm von Spörcken (1665–1726), Kurhannoverscher Privy Councilor, director of the land and knighthood in the Principality of Celle, director of the Knight Academy of St. Michael in Lüneburg, imperial sub-delegate in the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Friedrich von Spörcken (1698–1776), electoral Brunswick-Lüneburg field marshal and commanding general in the Seven Years' War
- Friedrich Freiherr von Spörcken , royal Hanoverian Landstallmeister in Celle (1839–1866) with enormous influence on Hanoverian horse breeding and the structural development of the State Stud Celle , resigned in protest against the Prussian annexation of Hanover
- Johann von Spörcken (1486–1581), Lord of Dahlenburg, Molzen and Süschendorf, ducal Brunswick-Lüneburg County and Treasury Council
- Katharina von Spörcken from the Dahlenburg family, since 1581 wife of Duke Moritz von Sachsen-Lauenburg (1551-1612)
- Otto Friedrich Ernst von Spoercken (1849–1938), German officer
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, Volume 113 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISSN 0435-2408 , p. 482
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Lüneburg document book, 5th department, archive of the monastery Mother Maria zu Isenhagen, Hanover 1870, no.82
- ↑ Lüneburg Document Book, 7th Section, Archives of the St. Michaelis Monastery in Lüneburg, Celle 1861, No. 521
- ↑ Historical news from the Erb-Land-Hof-Ämtern, 1746, p. 39 , Von des Post-Rechts and today's post constitution, 1748, p. 918 , Sex history of the noble house of Campe on Isenbüttel, 1783, p 208
- ↑ a b Large complete Universal Lexicon, Volume 39, 1744, p. 310
- ↑ Fatherland Archives of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony, Hanover 1820, p. 312 , Friedrich Lisch , Das Kloster Wienhausen, 1860, p. 11
- ↑ Inscription catalog : Lüneburg monasteries
- ↑ RootsWeb's World Connect Project: Johann von Spörcken