Varendorff

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Coat of arms of those von Varendorff

Varendorff (also Varendorf) is the name of an old Westphalian noble family with the headquarters of the same name in the former county of Tecklenburg .

"An old knightly Westphalian family is considered to be its parent company Vadrup, old Varendorf, in the Münster area."

- Otto Titan von Hefner : J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms. Third volume. The nobility of the Kingdom of Prussia.

Family history

"Since 1217 the von Varendorf family was under the service team of the bishop [of Osnabrück], achieved great esteem with them and spread widely."

- Hans Sudendorf , Julius Sudendorf : Contributions to the history of the state of Osnabrück up to the year 1400
Major general and cartographer Gustav Adolf v. Varendorff
Grave slab of Ludolf v. Varendorff in Bremen Cathedral
Gravestone of Eberhard v. Varendorff

The presumably originally free family of the von Varendorff first appeared in a document in the 12th century with Gerhardus de Varenthorpe as feudal man of the Osnabrück bishop Philipp von Katzenelnbogen . The former is mentioned here in 1160 when it was donated to the Asbeck Abbey and later when some free farms were transferred to the church in 1170. The lineage of the family begins with the knight and Mr. Eberhard I. von Varendorff, first mentioned in a document in 1195 .

The gentlemen von Varendorff entered the ministerial services of the bishops of Osnabrück early on . They belonged to the Ravensberger , Holter and Steinfurter vassals and seem to have been under the ministry of the diocese of Münster and the allegiance of the Counts of Arnsberg in the 12th and 13th centuries . In the High and Late Middle Ages, there seem to have been family ties to the noble lords of Osnabrück, the noble lords of Ibbenbüren and von Holte .

In the 13th century, the family built several castles in the Osnabrück region and spread across Westphalia and Lower Saxony . The Lords von Varendorff belonged to the Osnabrück and Ravensberg knighthood and belonged to the Osnabrück , Minden and Bremen cathedral chapters as well as the Prussian , Oldenburg , Danish and Brunswick nobility . Agreement on sex appear in documents as a knight, Burgmannen and officers , sovereign court and state officials , as well as in ecclesiastical as provosts , deans , capitulars and choirs and canons . In the late Middle Ages , the Lords of Varendorff were in feud with the city and the bishopric of Osnabrück , the neighboring knighthood and other neighboring cities in the Osnabrück region .

Members of the family took part in the Turkish Wars of the 15th and 16th centuries and the siege of Metz by Emperor Charles V in 1553. In the 18th century a branch of the family turned to Oldenburg and Holstein , entered royal Danish service there and was naturalized in the course of this in 1774 . At the same time the agreement served as Brunswick officers in the Electorate of Hanover and in royal English services. Since the 18th century, the sex came mainly into the army and state services of the Kingdom of Prussia .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a striding (leoparded), gold-crowned red lion on the divided shield above in gold , below red without a picture. On the helmet with red and gold blankets, a red fox striding between a gold and a red ostrich feather. Originally the fox was depicted lying down and the ostrich feathers were missing. In other variants of the coat of arms, the lower coat of arms appears well, the helmet is bulged or crowned, and a growing fox's body is used as a crest ornament . Several lines led the coat of arms in the tinging red and silver.

Surname

The name Varendorff is originally composed of the old Low German words Vara and Thorpe . The Vara of the first syllable probably means pine . The second syllable corresponds to today's High German form village and originally referred to a group of settlements of several farms around a main courtyard . The historian Christian Grupen traced the Munster place name of the same name back in the 18th century to the Roman general Publius Quinctilius Varus , who was defeated by the Cheruscan prince Arminius around 9 AD in the Varus Battle in the Teutoburg Forest . The spelling of the gender name has varied over the centuries. In addition to the originally Latinized Old Low German form de Varenthorpe , there was a Low German form Varendorp and a High German form Va (h) rendorf (f) . It was not until the 19th century that the standardized Varendorff spelling prevailed. In some cases, the von Varendorff gentlemen continued to lead the property names or gender names of by-related, extinct families, including B. von Sutthausen , von der Wisch , von Holte , Valepage or von der Schulenburg.

Estates and fiefs

“Old Westphalian and Brunswick noble family, which already sat in 1350 in Schierloh in Tecklenburg in 1556 in Sutthausen in Osnabrück, 1589 in Engern near Herford, 1600 in Intrup in Osnabrück and in Milse near Bielefeld and still in 1780 in Rieste near Osnabrück. A seat in Vadrup, formerly Varendorp in Munster, appeared as early as 1160. "

- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon
The Valepagenhof as stamp motif ( stamp series from 1996 to the Deutsche Post )
Good Sutthausen
Epitaph of Amelung v. Varendorff and his wife Amalberga von Lingen in the monastery church in Iburg

The Lords of Varendorff owned numerous fiefdoms and allodial estates in the north and north-west of Germany , especially in the areas of what is today North Rhine-Westphalia , Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein . In the High Middle Ages , around two dozen allodial and feudal estates can be identified in addition to the ancestral property . In the 13th century, the Lords of Varendorff received some of their free goods, which they had previously offered to the church, back as a fief. Feudal relationships existed u. a. to the bishopric of Osnabrück , the Free Imperial Monastery of Herford , the county of Ravensberg , the duchies of Jülich-Berg and Oldenburg , the bishopric of Bremen and the kingdoms of Prussia and Denmark . Various rights were associated with the acquisition of goods and fiefs, including extensive hunting and fishing rights and jurisdictions , e. B. via the adjacent brands . By acquiring goods that were eligible for the state parliament , the sex had eligibility for the state parliament .

The first mention of an ancestral seat of the same name near Ibbenbüren in the former county of Tecklenburg , which is attested in a document from the Prince Diocese of Osnabrück from 1150, occurs at the time of the first documented mention of the family . The "Curia Varenthorpe" mentioned in 1150 can be documented from 1226 in the possession of the Lords of Varendorff. It is no longer clearly documented whether the family offered the family court to the bishops of Osnabrück as a fief . In any case, ownership of the von Varendorffs in the Mecklenburg family estates can only be proven until the first half of the 13th century; then they settled on their castles in the Osnabrück area . After their withdrawal from the county of Tecklenburg, the family estate came into the hands of the Counts of Tecklenburg and was finally converted into a Schulzenhof by them in the 15th century . Today there is a riding stables for dressage horses on the former family estate. The court yard once belonged to an adjoining court yard, which was lined with a linden or oak. In addition to the farm in the county of Tecklenburg, there was a seat of the same name in Vadrup (formerly Varendorf) in Munster, which was assumed to be the ancestral seat in publications of the 19th century. In addition, there was a Gogericht zu Warendorf of the same name , which came to the Lords of Korff by marriage in the early 14th century . In the city of Tecklenburg there is still a street with the gender name.

Under the Osnabrück fiefdom, Sutthausen was one of the most important possessions of the Lords v. Varendorff. It was once the ancestral seat of a family of the same name and consisted of two fiefdoms that belonged to the Osnabrück Cathedral Chapter and to the Iburg Benedictine Monastery . In 1280, Eberhard II von Varendorff expanded the former Sutthausen farm against the will of Bishop Konrad von Rietberg and the city of Osnabrück into a fortified castle. This led to tensions with the city of Osnabrück, which unsuccessfully besieged the Varendorff castle around 1300. In the 15th century the provost Johann von Varendorff von Burg Sutthausen led many raids and feuds in the Osnabrück area, the bitterest against the Osnabrück bishop Erich von der Hoya . This put a strain on the Sutthausen fiefs, which were only able to consolidate slowly, but never again. Already in the years 1400 and again in 1431 Sutthausen had been divided into two partial estates under the descendants of Eberhard II, both of which later became eligible for the state parliament . In 1438 part of the estate came into the possession of the family v. Staël , who built a manor house in place of the former part of the castle, but which fell into disrepair in the course of the 19th century. The other part of Sutthausen remained in the possession of the von Varendorff family until the 17th century and was sold to the von Korff family in 1622 . Today only the Korff manor house, which was built on the walls of the former castle complex, and a chapel, which was built in 1333 by Eberhard III. was founded by Varendorff. Sutthausen Castle (later both estates) possessed the state legislature , the trademark law , the lower jurisdiction , as well as the high and low hunting justice on their own possessions, the high and low paddock hunting in Iburg and Gröneberg, as well as the fishing justice in the adjacent waters of the Düte . The Sutthausener estates included fiefs at Malbergen from 1291 , at times the geological court at Iburg and the castles of Gretesch and Nortrup . The Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters has been working on the grave of the holy martyr Georg zu Thuine at Haus Sutthausen since the early 20th century .

In addition to Sutthausen, the von Varendorff gentlemen came into possession of the Schulenburg near Badbergen in the Osnabrück region . In 1292 and 1293 a knight Balduin von Varendorff is mentioned as the oldest owner and founder of Schulenburg Castle. In the 13th century, those of Varendorff zur Schulenburg were in a feud with those of Kettingham, von Knehem and von Snetlage. The reason for the feud is unknown. In 1303, through the mediation of Bishop Ludwig von Osnabrück and Count Otto von Ravensberg, a peace agreement and settlement of the feud came about. in the 14th century the castle was divided. Part of the castle was bought by the von Knehem family as early as 1379 until the estate was reunited by the von der Recke family in the 15th century . Today's Schulenburg house from the 18th century is still near Badbergen.

As castle men of the episcopal state castles of Iburg and Reckenberg , the Lords of Varendorff were enfeoffed by the bishopric of Osnabrück with several castle man's fiefs in Iburg . These Burgmannshöfe were located within the walls of the Episcopal Castle Iburg . Gerhard II is named in 1241 as the first feudal bearer of a miners' farm. The farm becomes hereditary property under his descendants. 1462 Berndt v. Varendorff enfeoffed with another Burgmannshof. Over the centuries, all the bishops and monasteries bought up all the courtyards and had to make way for an expansion of the castle. In the monastery church of the castle there is still an epitaph showing the knight Amelung von Varendorff and his wife Amelberga von Lingen.

In the 14th century the gentlemen v. Varendorff as the bearer of the feudal and allodial property of the noblemen of Holte in the Osnabrück region . This noble family of the high and late Middle Ages played a not insignificant role in eastern Westphalia . The Lords of Holte built one of the few hilltop castles in the Osnabrück area , the so-called old Holte Castle . This castle complex is said to have been razed in 1144 in a feud with Bishop Philipp von Osnabrück and the Counts of Ravensberg. Around 1340 a squire Nikolaus von Varendorff is mentioned as lord of the Holter possessions. There were family ties between the noble lords von Holte and the lords von Varendorff in the 14th century. The goods possibly came to the family as an Osnabrück fief. The von Varendorff family called von Holte kept the possessions until the end of the 15th century. Then they fell to the von Leden family , who built the Ledenburg , which still exists today, in place of the old Holte Castle .

Gut Buddemühlen near Bad Essen in the former Wittlage district came to the von Varendorff family in the 16th century. The state parliament estate was founded in the second half of the 15th century by the Lords of Bar . In 1565 , Jasper von Varendorff, Drost zu Wittlage , bought Gut Buddemühlen and had a mansion built there in the Renaissance style between 1567 and 1570 . After Jasper von Varendorff's death in 1576, the estate came to the von dem Knesebeck family through marriage . The manor house bore the Allianz coat of arms of the Lords of Varendorff and Lords of Langen . After it fell into disrepair, Buddemühlen had to be demolished in the 19th century. Only the coat of arms stones remained. Hunting and fishing rights were associated with the estate. In the church in Bad Essen, a tombstone shows Drosten Jasper von Varendorff.

House Horst near Alfhausen in the Osnabrücker Land came to the Lords of Varendorff in the 16th century. The property that was eligible for parliament was formerly the headquarters of the Osnabrück noble family von der Horst . First mentioned in a document in 1220, the estate came to the Lords of Closter in 1563 and then to Dietrich Wilhelm von Varendorff through marriage. After his death, the estate passed to his wife Margarete von Varendorff, who bequeathed the Horster fiefdoms and Allode to her children. These sold Gut Horst in 1698 to the von Cappel family. After that, Gut Horst often changed hands.

Due to services to the Free Prince Abbey of Herford , the County of Ravensberg and later also to the Duchy of Jülich-Berg , Messrs. V. Varendorff still owns life in East Westphalia . Gut Milse near Bielefeld made up the largest part of these fiefdoms . The moated castle Milse came into the possession of the family in 1431 through the marriage of the knight Bernhard V von Varendorff with the heir daughter Hille von Westphalen. The ownership included the state parliament as well as extensive hunting and fishing rights. A Ritterhof at Bielefeld had already come into Varendorff ownership as a former Ravensberg castle fief. Gut Milse and the Bielefelder Hof were owned by the Lords of Varendorff for two centuries. In the 17th century, through marriage, the estate came into the possession of those von der Horst , who built the Milse House in 1689, which is today. In the neighboring church in Heepen , a donated epitaph shows Jodokus von Varendorff and his wife Anna von Meschede .

In the 15th century, a line of the Lords of Varendorff came into the possession of some fiefs of the Benedictine Abdinghof in the Paderborn region . The first documented mention of this fiefdom, which was once a villication and whose center was a treasure-free saddle fief (curia), dates back to 1337. The lords of appear from the late 14th century until they expired in the 15th century the Wichmodeberg called Valepagen , a knightly family of the duchy of Paderborn , as a feudal bearer of the Valepaginian goods. The varendorffsche investiture in 1477 (again in 1481) founded addition Marriage connections to the called Lords of the weighting Fashion Mountain Valepage on the intercession of herzöglich-Westphalia Country Drosten Philip of Hörde . Until the 19th century, courts in remained Delbrücker land owned by the family, whose members continue to bore the name Valepage and the since the 16th century prince bishops of Paderborn as Delbrücker Gografen , Landschreiber and Episcopal Vicars served. At the end of the 17th century, the ancestral seat of the von Sporck family came into the family's possession. The property that remained after the peasants' liberation was bequeathed to a foundation and related families in 1844. The Valepagenhof, built around 1577, is today one of the oldest preserved courtyard buildings in the Paderborn district. The Gografenhof, originally provided with moats , ramparts and a hall extension, is now in the Detmold open-air museum .

In the 16th century, Gut Enger near Herford came to the Lords of Varendorff. The estate that was later eligible for parliament was once a state castle of the Counts von der Lippe , which was razed around 1302 in the course of a feud between the bishops of Osnabrück, Paderborn and Minden with Simon von der Lippe . In 1409 the Enger office came to the County of Ravensberg. As a result, the aristocratic estate came by enfeoffment to the Lords of Varendorff, who are mentioned as owners of the estate in 1589. As early as the 16th century, members of the family presided over the provost and the deanery of the Enger monastery . Gut Enger was owned by the Lords of Varendorff for a century until it fell to the Lords of Quernheim called von Enger through marriage at the end of the 17th century , and from them to the Lords of Consbruch in the middle of the 18th century.

House Intrup near Lengerich in Tecklenburger Land came into the possession of the Lords of Varendorff at the beginning of the 17th century. Intrup was once a Schulzenhof , which was granted freedom of treasure and from which an estate with aristocratic freedom developed. The estate was not eligible for a state parliament. It came by inheritance from the von Schönkirchen family to the von Varendorff family. House Intrup still exists today.

In the early 17th century Nieder-Endebruch and Stickhausen came to the von Varendorff family as an episcopal-Osnabrück fief . The Stichhausen fiefdoms remained in the possession of the von Varendorffs for over two hundred years until the Hanoverian transfer order of 1833. At the same time Gut Rieste in the northern Osnabrücker Land fell into the family ownership of the von Varendorff family, whose name it bears today. Originally the estate was in the 13th century in the feudal possession of the Lords of Stempel and was occupied by Swedish troops during the Thirty Years War. Then it came through marriage to the Lords of Varendorff, who built the manor house that still exists today in 1733. In 1794 the owner at that time, the Danish adjutant general and later major general Gustav Adolf von Varendorf , sold the estate to the von Harthausen family and moved to the Schleswig-Holstein chancellery Tolkschuby near Flensburg . Shortly afterwards Gut Rieste was put up for auction. The alliance coat of arms of the von Varendorff and Freytag still adorns the old manor house today.

Gut Eyhausen in the Ammerland near Bad Zwischenahn formed the core of the Oldenburg fiefdom of the Lords of Varendorff. The fiefdom was first mentioned in 1305. Different sexes sat on Gut Eyhausen. From 1679 the von Pottendorf family acquired the estate. In 1741 it came to the Herzgl by marriage . Oldenburg Land and Conference Councilor Jacob Friedrich von Varendorff . This consolidated the estate through its own possessions and united Eyhausen with surrounding farms. Good Eyhausen came in 1872 at the cloppenburgischen bailiff Caspar Franz Theodor Bothe. In addition to Gut Eyhausen, Gut Horn near Gristede in Ammerland also belonged to the Oldenburg family's possessions. Gut Horn's roots go back to a castle of the same name from the second half of the 13th century. In 1707 the estate came to the von Bilsky family by inheritance, who sold it to Jacob Friedrich von Varendorff in 1741 and 1744. Just a few decades later, they sold Gut Horn for the purpose of expanding the Eyhausen estate. Gut Horn still exists today.

Name bearer

literature

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