Vieregg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Vieregg

The gentlemen, barons and counts Vieregg , also Vieregge , Viereggen or Viereck belong to the Mecklenburg prehistoric nobility and were also able to gain some reputation in Bavaria , Prussia and Denmark . Branches of the family persist to this day.

history

Mecklenburg

The Vieregge family first appears with the brothers Diedrich and Grubo Vereghe , who were mentioned in documents in 1346, 1347 and 1349. The continuous lineage of the family begins with the above Grubo Vereghe , heir to Blengow , squire and chamberlain to Duke Albrecht I. A knight Otto was heir to Wokrent in 1348 . Other family estates from Mecklenburg were Rossewitz and Weitendorf . Otto Vieregge sold his half in 1375 in the villages of Moisling , Niendorf and Reecke to Hermann von Osenbrügge . In 1499 the family sold the village of Glasewitz to the dukes of Mecklenburg . In the diocese of Schwerin the Vieregg held the office of court marshal . In 1523 the Vieregg were co-seals of the Union of Estates . From 1498 to 1508 Sophie von Vieregge was the prioress of the Dobbertin monastery . Elise von Vieregge (1866–1951), married to Wilhelm von Amsberg (1856–1929), was the paternal grandmother of the Dutch Prince Consort Claus von Amsberg and thus great-grandmother of today's King Willem-Alexander .

In the registered book of the Dobbertin monastery from 1696 there are 14 daughters of the von Vieregg (e) family from 1739 to 1876 from Kobrow, Steinhausen, Wattmannshagen and Weitendorf for inclusion in the noble women's monastery there .

Bavaria

Gerzen Castle , Lower Bavaria

In 1552 Paul Vieregg did military service for Duke Albrecht of Bavaria . He married a Schellenberg in 1556 and died as governor of Höchstadt . From 1597 to 1833 Gerzen Castle was owned by the Bavarian line. In 1615 Dietrich Vieregg , heir to Görtzen ( Gerzen ), received the ducal-Bavarian noblemen's freedom. His son, Wolf Heinrich Viereckh , the Bavarian treasurer and carving master at the Bavarian and Cologne court, received permission to write from Viereckh on July 28, 1663 . His sons, the heir to Görtzen Ferdinand Joseph , the prince-bishop Freising court chamber councilor Maximilian Joseph and Georg Florian Erasmus , were raised to the status of imperial barons by Emperor Leopold I on December 10, 1692 . During the Bavarian vicariate , on March 1, 1790, he was raised to the rank of imperial count for the curb-Bavarian Privy Councilor, treasurer and head stable master Matthäus Carl Anton von Vieregg (1719-1802), son of the above Baron Ferdinand Joseph zu Görtzen. Count Franz Joseph von Vieregg , son of the above mentioned Matthäus , heir to Tutzing and Bavarian major general , enrolled in the Bavarian count class of knighthood on March 18, 1809. The enrollment in the baron class of knighthood took place on February 3, 1813.

On April 14, 1846, Count Matthäus von Vieregg (1719–1802) founded the Bavarian Family Fideikommiss for the Upper Bavarian and Lower Bavarian family goods.

Graf-Vieregg-Straße in Tutzing is named after the family. Epitaphs of the Vieregg can be found in St. Peter and Paul in Feldafing and in the former parish church of the same name in Tutzing.

Prussia

In 1590 the family settled on Gut Vorwerk near Lassan in Western Pomerania . Matthias Viereggen had acquired the estate from his son-in-law Joachim Zitzewitz with ducal permission as a pledge. Already in 1603, the castle justice not until 1613, the lien was confirmed to the son of Matthias , Jakob Viergge . The latter sold his share in Relzow to Rudolph von Elwern in 1639 , after which the family in Pomerania did not appear any more until further notice.

Adam Otto von Viereck (1684–1758), heir to Weitendorf and Wattmannshagen , electoral Brandenburg Privy Council and Higher War Commissioner received the Prussian indigenous community in Kleve in August 1692 .

Henriette Dorothea Ursula Katharina von Viereck († 1854), daughter of the royal Prussian headmaster Georg Ulrich von Viereck , was mistress of Lossow and first lady-in-waiting and registrar of Queen Luise , she was raised to the Prussian count status on March 30, 1834. In 1836 she had Schinkel build the Sillginnen manor in East Prussia .

Denmark

The father of the same name, Adam Otto von Viereck (1634–1717), was the Prussian ambassador in Copenhagen from 1698 to 1706 . His daughter Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg (1679–1704), initially lady-in-waiting to the sister of the Crown Prince, Princess Sophie Hedwig (1677–1735), became Frederick IV's mistress in 1699 . On September 6, 1703 she was raised to the Danish count status. However, she died in childbed with a boy, Frederik Gyldenløve (1704-1705), after which the king entered into another morganatic relationship.

On March 28, 1776, the Danish nobility naturalization for Frederik Ludvig von Viereck from the Kobrow line took place . He was a royal Danish chamberlain and later bailiff and governor on Fehmarn . He founded the Danish line of sex.

The Danish governor of Norway , Claus Henrik Vieregg , the Danish major general Julius Johann von Vieregg (1689–1756) and the Danish diplomat Cuno Hans von Vieregg (1728–1795) also gained greater prominence in the Danish service .

possession

Mansion Rossewitz , built 1657–1680 by Joachim Heinrich von Vieregge
  • in Prussia : Kampenbruch, Karschau, (Kuglacken), (Megussen), Postehnen and Sillginnen
  • in Brandenburg: Birkholz , Carow, Cossar and Lossow with Buschmühle

coat of arms

The tribe coat of arms shows 3 (2, 1) in silver, each obliquely left, with a black hook covered with overturned black hunting horns or fire or well hooks with red inside . On the crowned helmet with black and silver covers a growing black greyhound with a gold collar.

Known family members

Adam Otto von Viereck , Prussian Minister of State

literature

Web links

Commons : Vieregg family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. See Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch , Volume X, No. 6709, 6751, 6994.
  2. Danmarks Nobility Aarbog. Volume 52, 1935, Afsnit 2, pp. 115-132.