Towers

Coat of arms of those von Thümen

Thümen is the name of an old Brandenburg noble family .

history

The family first appeared in a document on April 12, 1281 with Johannes von Thümen in an exchange letter from the Duke of Saxony and Burgrave of Magdeburg. The family line begins with the electoral Brandenburg councilor Hans von Thümen († 1456), lord of the manor on Blankensee in what is now the Teltow-Fläming district .

Possessions

Headquartered the family had in later centuries in Stangenhagen in Teltow-Flaming , a town in the triangle between the rivers Nuthe and Nieplitz with the village Gröben on the northern apex of the triangle and a line Stangenhagen - Trebbin as a southerly boundary, in later by Theodor Fontane called Thuemen's angle .

In 1820, Lieutenant General August von Thümen (1757–1826) bought Gut Caputh with Caputh Castle in today's Potsdam-Mittelmark district when he retired from military service , which remained in the family's possession until 1908. The family grave site in the church park there, neglected and partially destroyed during the GDR era, was repaired by two of the general's great-grandchildren in 2002 and ceremoniously inaugurated with the acknowledgment of the press.

In addition, the goods Neu-Langerwisch and Stücken , also in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, were owned by the family.

coat of arms

Coat of arms from 1663
painting in the village church of Siethen , today part of Ludwigsfelde

In silver, a red picket fence sloping diagonally to the right , raised by a red rose. On the helmet with red-silver blankets a growing virgin dressed in red with loose hair and a green headband.

Known family members

• August von Thümen (1757–1826), Prussian lieutenant general and wing adjutant of King Friedrich Wilhelm III.
• Christoph Friedrich von Thümen (1683–1744), Prussian major general
• Eustachius von Thümen - (the educated), member of the fruitful society
• Felix von Thümen (1839-1892), mycologist
• Hans von Thümen (1548–1595), Brandenburg court marshal
• Veit von Thümen († 1543), Lord Master of the Order of St. John from 1527 to 1544
• Wilhelm von Thümen (1792–1856), Prussian lieutenant general, city commander of Berlin and federal commissioner
• Richard von Thümen (1836-1897), Prussian major general

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XIV, p. 419, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN  0435-2408
• Karl von Thümen: History of the family von Thümen. 3 volumes, Liegnitz 1889; with supplements, Liegnitz 1912.
• Johannes Wütschke: Family history of Thümen. (New version), 1997.
• Genealogical aristocratic history. Volume 1, p. 973 Digitized family tables.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses. 1902 p. 819ff. , 1913 p. 683ff

Individual evidence

1. ^ Original in the Magdeburg City Archives