Tornow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those von Tornow from the Baltic Book of Arms

Tornow , also Tornau or Tornauw , is the name of a Neumark and Mecklenburg , later Baltic noble family . Branches of the Baltic line continue to the present day.

history

Wittenhagen manor, built in the second half of the 18th century

The family first appeared in documents in 1217 with Erwinus de Tornowe . Since 1360 the family was owned by Strantz and Quiram near Deutsch-Krone . In 1466, Zacharias von Tornow, inherited from Wittenhagen , is mentioned in a document when he sold it to Busso von Dören together with Lichtenberg and Teschendorf. A connection to the town of the same name in Tornow is conceivable. Later the von Tornow bought back Wittenhagen, which remained the family seat until 1796. The gender is also mentioned when the Mecklenburg convents were transferred to knighthood in 1572. In 1554 it is located in the Altmark and later also in the Neumark , in Pomerania , Poland (under the name Tornowski ) and in Courland (under the name Tornauw ), where in 1639 it became the Courland Knighthood with Otto von Tornauw on March 17, 1639 (No. 93, today No. 176). Christoph Felix von Tornow auf Friedrichstorf and Claustorf and Friedrich Ernst von Tornow auf Wittenhagen were among the signatories of the Mecklenburg Land constitutional settlement of inheritance in 1755 . In the 19th century, the family died out in Germany, but still flourished in the Baltic States and Russia . On January 17, 1855, the Russian recognition of the right to use the baron title for the cousins Nicolaus von Tornauw (* 1811; † 1882) and Friedrich von Tornauw (* 1810; † 1890). The Senatsukas of April 3, 1862 legitimized the entire family in the baron class (No. 2823).

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are three entries by daughters of the von Tornow family from Wittenhagen from 1747–1787 for inclusion in the local aristocratic women's monastery .

There is no regular relationship of gender to 1654 in Regensburg in the kingdom nobility collected Brandenburg statesman Johann Tornow (1610-1662) on Schönwalde in Neumark district Oststernberg .

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows three (2,1) silver hand knives ( Schuster-Kneife ) with the round cutting edge turned upwards , each accompanied by a silver star at the top. On the crowned helmet three rhombus bushes of natural color. The helmet covers are silver and red.

One with the Order Decoration (ladies loop and religious cross) surrounded blazon of January 28, 1855 Kloster Dobbertin deceased as no. 638 Konventualin Catharina Friederica Wilhelmina of Tornow is located on the nuns' gallery in the monastery church .

Relatives

Fyodor Fyodorowitsch Tornau

literature

Web links

Commons : Tornow (noble family)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis BI 7
  2. ^ Collection of laws for the Mecklenburg-Schwerin Lands. I / 3, Wismar and Ludwigslust: Hinstorff 1868, p. 200, 233
  3. ↑ Registered book no. 326. Louisa Theresia Ludovica von Tornow ad home Wittenhagen, registered April 18, 1747; No. 638. Catharina Friederica Wilhelmina von Tornow , the heir-lord Ernst Otto Felix von Tornow auf Wittenhagen Miss Daughter, born April 17, 1784, registered on March 9, 1786, from 1837 in the Dobbertin Monastery (according to the Mecklenburg State Calendar ), † January 28, 1855 in Dobbertin; No. 644. Charlotta Sophia von Tornow , the heir-lord Ernst Otto Felix von Tornow on Wittenhagen Miss Daughter, registered February 1, 1787, † November 3, 1787.