Sydow (German noble family)
Von Sydow is the name of an old Brandenburg noble family . The ancestral seat of this family is today the district Sydow of the municipality Wust-Fischbeck in the district of Stendal (Saxony-Anhalt).
history
The noble family first appeared in a document in 1259 with Heinrich de Sidow as marshal of Margrave Otto von Brandenburg . The gender thus belongs to the German nobility . Hinricus de Sydow was mentioned in 1262 as a tenant on Schönow , which remained in the family for over 600 years until it was sold in 1863. Schönow belonged to the province of Pomerania until 1945 , but is now part of the Brandenburg Uckermark.
The family split into several lines early on, which initially spread mainly in Neumark and Pomerania . One branch is said to have settled in Poland and adopted the name Zidowsky there.
The best-known Neumark lines were those to Dobberphul , Schönfeld , Stolzenfelde and Voitgsdorf , all of which were located in the area around Königsberg in the Neumark (today Pol. Chojna ).
The Western Pomeranian lines to Schönow (from 1262) and Blumberg (1483 to 1763), both now part of the Brandenburg Uckermark, had their fiefdoms in the former Randow district .
The line on Neuengrape near Pyritz was the only rear Pomeranian line that owned an estate in the Pyritz district (today known as Pyrzyce ). However, they did not have joint ownership of the fiefdom with the other lines .
In the middle of the 19th century there were only the four lines Dobberphul , Schönfeld , Blumberg and Schönow , some of which had settled quite widely in other areas of Germany, e.g. B. in West and East Prussia , Posen , Silesia , Saxony , Lusatia and Westphalia . The branch, which came to the Westphalian castle Westhusen near Dortmund through marriage in 1743 , relocated its headquarters to the rear Pomeranian Gut Zemlin ( Cammin district ) in 1913 .
Possessions
Some historical family goods:
- Gut Schönow , Western Pomerania (today Uckermark) (from 1262 to 1863)
- Gut Blumberg , Western Pomerania (today Uckermark) (before 1430 to 1763)
- Gut Schönfeld, formerly in the Königsberg (Neumark) district, Brandenburg, today: Sitno (powiat gryfiński), Mieszkowice municipality
- Stolzenfelde manor , Königsberg district, today: Stołeczna near Trzcińsko-Zdrój
- Gut Voigtsdorf, Königsberg district, today: Kurzycko, Mieszkowice municipality
- Gut Kalzig near Züllichau , Königsberg district, today: Kalsk
- Gut Rehdorf, district of Königsberg, today: Stoki, district of Chojna
- Gut Neuengrape near Pyritz , today: Nowe Chrapowo in the Powiat Pyrzycki
- Westhusen Castle , Dortmund (1743 to 1913)
- Woltersdorf Estate (Casekow)
- Gut Zemlin , Cammin district , Western Pomerania (acquired in 1913 as a replacement for Westhusen, expropriated in 1945), today: Samlino near Golczewo
- Gut Zirkwitz with Gut Peterfitz , Western Pomerania (1891 to 1945, expropriated)
Schönow , Uckermark
Westhusen Castle , Dortmund
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a black shield in silver (inboard). There are two natural crossed thistles on the helmet. The helmet cover is also black and silver.
The coats of arms of the Neumark lines with two thistle flowers differ from the coats of arms of the Western Pomerania lines with three thistle flowers in the crest . In both lines but the trunk shield is by coating with three to Schächerkreuz (probably originally a shield covering) increasingly made silver nails.
Known family members
- Adam Wilhelm von Sydow (1650–1711), Prussian major general
- Alexander Magnus von Sydow (1622–1679), Brandenburg colonel and chief of the Leib regiment on horseback
- Albrecht von Sydow (1799–1861), Prussian major general
- Albrecht von Sydow (1840–1897), Prussian colonel, commander of infantry regiment No. 81
- Alfred von Sydow (1852–1933), German lieutenant general
- Anna von Sydow (1863–1953), German writer
- Baltzer Friedrich von Sydow (1652–1733), Prussian lieutenant general, commandant of the Küstrin fortress and lord of Radduhn
- Bernhard Andreas Wilhelm von Sydow (1856–1928), Prussian major general
- Carl Friedrich von Sydow (1698–1763), Prussian district administrator in the Randow district and state director in Western Pomerania
- Christian Ludwig von Sydow (1733–1795), Prussian district administrator in the Arnswald district
- Clara von Sydow (1854–1928), German writer
- Eckart von Sydow (1885–1942), German art historian and ethnologist
- Egidius Ehrentreich von Sydow (1669–1749), Prussian general
- Emil von Sydow (1812–1873), German officer and cartographer
- Emmo Karl Ludwig Heinrich von Sydow (1854–1918), member of the Prussian manor house
- Ferdinand von Sydow (1795–1864), Prussian major general
- Friedrich von Sydow (1780–1845), German officer and writer
- Friedrich Ludwig von Sydow (District Administrator) (1701–1742), Prussian District Administrator
- Friedrich Ludwig von Sydow (landscape director) (1749–1820), Prussian landscape director
- Friedrich Wilhelm Hermann von Sydow (1857–1938), German lieutenant general
- George Wilhelm von Sydow (1699–1767), Prussian district administrator in Randow's district
- Götz von Sydow , German musician (album: The richest man in the world from 1994, single: summer from 1995)
- Gustav Adolph von Sydow (1715–1772), Prussian major general and chief of garrison regiment No. V
- Günther von Sydow (1855–1924), German administrative and church official
- Hans von Sydow (General, 1790) (1790-1853), Prussian major general
- Hans von Sydow (General, 1865) (1865–1923), German major general and director of the Great Military Orphanage
- Hans Joachim Friedrich von Sydow (1762–1823), Prussian lieutenant general
- Hans Siegmund von Sydow (1695–1773), Prussian colonel and chief of garrison regiment No. 2
- Heinrich Bernhard von Sydow (1711 / 12–1789), lieutenant general from the Electorate of Hanover
- Joachim von Sydow (1632–1686), German major general, most recently in command of the city of Danzig
- Konrad von Sydow (1853–1929), landowner and member of the Prussian manor house
- Konrad Theodor Ferdinand von Sydow (1859–1938), German major general
- Margarethe von Sydow (1869–1945), writer (née von Weiß), pseudonym Franz Rosen
- Oskar von Sydow (1811–1886), German historian and Protestant theologian
- Otto Hans Heinrich von Sydow (1851–1925), German major general
- Rolf von Sydow (1924–2019), German author, film and theater director
- Rudolf von Sydow (1805–1872), German lawyer, Prussian legation councilor and member of the Prussian mansion
- Stephan von Sydow (1857-1919), Prussian administrative officer
- Theodor von Sydow (1770–1855), poet and declamator, company colleague of Karl von Holtei
- Wilhelm von Sydow (* 1939), Austro-German archaeologist
- Wilhelmine von Sydow , b. von Criegern (1789–1867), pseudonym: Isidore Grönau, German writer
Special tombs
There is no central family burial site, especially since many possessions / goods were lost and expropriated during World War II.
- In Berlin, some of the Sydows are buried in the family grave of the von Humboldt family near Tegel Castle (where Wilhelm & Alexander von Humboldt and Gabriele von Bülow were also buried).
- Berlin near Schloss Friedrichsfelde ( Tierpark Berlin ) is located in the hereditary burial place of the von Treskow-Friedrichsfelde family (Manfred von Sydow)
Swedish family von Sydow
See: von Sydow (släkt) (Swedish Wikipedia article)
A Swedish noble family von Sydow that still exists today can be traced back to a Christian (von) Sydow who left Poland-Lithuania as a Protestant in the 17th century because of religious unrest and settled in Curow near Stettin (probably in the Principality of Western Pomerania) . According to the tradition of his descendants, he is said to have belonged to the German aristocratic family, but there is no evidence for this. Christian's son was a David Sidow (1661–1734) from Usedom, who moved to Sweden in 1724 and settled in Kalmar . His son Christian Fredrik von Sydow (1714–1773) is considered the ancestor of today's Swedish family, who were accepted into the Swedish knight's house in 1830 under the number 2305 . The Swedish family, however, has a different coat of arms.
Members of the Swedish family:
- Carl Wilhelm von Sydow (1878–1952), Swedish ethnologist and father of Max von Sydow
- Björn von Sydow (* 1945), Swedish politician, former Minister of Defense and President of Parliament
- Ebba von Sydow (* 1981), Swedish journalist and granddaughter of Oscar von Sydow
- Henrik von Sydow (* 1976), Swedish politician
- Max von Sydow (1929-2020), Swedish actor
- Oscar von Sydow (1873-1936), Swedish politician and Prime Minister
The family association of the families von Sydow e. V. is in contact with the family association of the Swedish von Sydow family.
literature
- from Sydow . In: Marcelli Janecki , Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Third volume. WT Bruer's Verlag, Berlin 1899, p. 513-564 ( dlib.rsl.ru ).
- Anna von Sydow (Ed.): Gabriele von Bülow. Daughter of Wilhelm von Humboldt. A picture of life from the family papers of Wilhelm von Humboldt and his children 1791–1887. Mittler & Son, Berlin 1913.
- Otto Hupp : Munich calendar 1930. Book a. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1930.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon. Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, p. 283. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408
- Hans von Sydow: Genealogy of the family von Sydow. 3. verb. Ed., Edit. u. continued v. Ferdinand von Sydow, as manuscript. printed, 1969.
- Hans von Sydow: Genealogy of the family von Sydow. 2nd edition as Ms. gedr., Schlotke, Hamburg 1897. Digitized
- Hans von Sydow: Genealogy of the family von Sydow. Dobberphul, 1877. Digitized
- Genealogical paperback of the knights and Aristocratic families , third year, Brno 1878, p. 702ff
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses , seventh year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1906, p. 781ff
Web links
- Coat of arms of the Sydow in the coat of arms book of the Westphalian nobility
- Website of the family association of Sydow