Thulen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Thülen

Thülen (partly from Thulen ) was an old Westphalian family of the knightly nobility , which spread into the Baltic States in the 15th century . For this line, after a rave by Thülen, the genealogical name von der Raab called Thülen has become established.

history

Westphalian tribe

The gender, whose spelling varied between Thulen, Thylen, Thulen Tulen and Thulon, borrows its name from the seat of the same name, Thülen near Brilon in Westphalia . With Carl Thulen, Knight of the Teutonic Order in Prussia , the family was first mentioned in 1224. In another document from the Bredelar monastery from 1283, the brothers Konrad and Arnold de Tulon were listed as witnesses. A Swicherus, a later lead name (Swicker) of the family, confirmed the donation of a farm in Thülen by his grandfather. The Thülen were also the builders of Helmighausen Castle . A Berthold von Thülen was a Markian Drost at the end of the 13th century and defeated Hunold von Plettenberg , Droste zu Hovestadt , in a feud . The secured trunk line begins with Conrad von Thulen, who was an electoral Cologne castle man at Alme in 1371 . Around the year 1400, the family also owned Steinboll and owned the Wicheln estate near Arnsberg . In 1466 it was also owned by Thulhof in Geseke and in Korbach , where the Tylenturm , named after the family, is still part of the city fortifications. Since the first half of the 15th century, the family appears several times in documents from the Dalheim monastery ; the possessions recorded there refer to Sintfeld , the Essenthoer Mark and Helmighausen. Parts of the family settled in the towns of Brilon and Marsberg and, as members of the local ruling classes, made judges and mayors. Another branch of the family bought estates in Friesland. An Arndt von Thülen was the Kurkölner bailiff in Menden in 1536 . In the 15th century the family also owned Alme . In 1428 they sold Alme Castle to the von Meschede family . The von Thülen also had a share in the possession of Hachen Castle . Some of the prioresses of Rumbeck Abbey came from the family. In 1627, the family also owned Gut Brüggen near Flierich near Hamm . After that, the line died out in Westphalia.

Baltic tribe

The von Thülen were related several times to the barons of Fürstenberg , including the Livonian landmaster Johann Wilhelm von Fürstenberg . The Baltic lineage begins with Heinrich von Thylen, who appeared in Livonia in the 15th century and sold the Oselhof there in 1493. The line he founded was named Rave after an ancestor, von der Raab called Thülen . Ernst Johann von der Raab called Thülen (1734-1811) was an officer in the French service and later wrote the first historical account of the family history. He was registered with the Courland Knighthood (No. 160) in 1799 . In 1840 the descendants of Fedor von der Raab called Thülen (1780-1838), imperial Russian major general and commander of the 2nd Brigade of the 15th Infantry Division in the III. Enter part of the Nobility Book of the Smolensk Governorate and have their nobility confirmed by Senatsukas (No. 24151). Wladimir von der Raab called Thülen († after 1917) was Deputy Governor of Smolensk, Real State Councilor and conductor of the Chernigov and Smolensk Kameralhöfe , as well as multiple landowners in the area. In 1913 the entry for the family was made in Part VI of the Nobility Book of the Smolensk Governorate for Adran von der Raab called Thülen († after 1943). With his son Leonid von der Raab called Thülen (* 1927) the line and the entire family became extinct.

In the Baltic States there was extensive property ownership, for example in Livonia the Lindenberg estate in the Riga district until 1493 . Somel in the district of Dorpat was briefly owned by the family as a pawn from 1743. In Semgallen , Drixenhof and Pudonisnigall belonged to the family. In Kurland were Barbern in circle Bauske , Kimahlen and Barutzen (deposit property) in the circuit Goldingen , Ligutten in circle Grobin , Windaushof and Tuckumshof and Capsen or Kapschenhof in circle Hasenpoth , mill Beck (deposit property) in the circle Tuckum and finally Standsen in circle Windau to Estate of those from the Raab called Thülen.

The assertion of an agnatic relationship with the von Tiele-Winckler family occasionally postulated in the literature does not apply.

coat of arms

Westphalian branch: After spears : a black handle of a lute in gold. On the helmet with black and gold covers, a golden right and black left open flight. A right-jumping unicorn is given as the second coat of arms. According to Kneschke , a black staple or wall anchor in gold. The family also had other coats of arms. These include a soaring red unicorn and a black slanted boar pen in gold.

Liv and Courland branch: in gold, an anchor hanging from a chain of four links.

  • Coat of arms of those von der Raab called Thülen in the Baltic Book of Arms

  • Coat of arms of the Thülen (Brilon)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Essentho in old documents and other documents.
  2. ↑ PD Frommann: From the history of the communities Plettenberg, Ohle and Herscheid , 1927.
  3. ↑ Wilhelm Seedorf, Hans Jürgen Seraphim (Ed.): Joh. Heinr. von Thünen for his 150th birthday: Attempt to honor a researcher personality . C. Hinstorff, Rostock 1933, p. 13 .
  4. ^ Karl Eduard von Napiersky and Johann Friedrich von Recke : General writers and scholars lexicon of the provinces of Livonia, Esthland and Courland . Vol. 4, Mitau 1832, p. 362.
  5. ^ Yearbook for Genealogy, Heraldry and Sphragistics . 1893, p. 201.
  6. ↑ Max von Spießen (ed.): Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility , with drawings by Professor Ad. M. Hildebrandt , Volume 1, Görlitz 1901 - 1903. p. 125.
  7. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . Vol. 9, Leipzig 1870, p. 198.
  8. ↑ Thülen coat of arms. ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brilon-thuelen.eu