Borcke

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Coat of arms of those of Borcke

Borcke (also Borke, Bork, Borck ) is the name of an old Pomeranian noble family .

history

The progenitor of the family is probably Bork , a high aristocrat of Wendish descent who fell in the battles between Duke Bogislaw I of Pomerania and the Margraviate of Brandenburg between 1170 and 1187. His grandson Borko II was burgrave of Kolberg until 1255 . In the inscription of his seal from 1282 he was called Borco de Vressow and in a document from Duke Barnim I of Pomerania from 1271, but also later, dominus de Lobis ( lat. Lord of Lobis).

At the end of the 13th century, the Wendish personal name Borko became a family name, but also remained the baptismal name of individual people. In a document from 1338 the old knight Borke, Claus Borke (I), Bernt Borke, Jakob Borke and Claus Borke (II) appeared. A Borko was canon of Kammin since 1361 , who is expressly called Borco de Lobeze in 1368 . Around 1460 two Borcke had the first name Schir, synonymous with the Upper German Eitel.

Because of these ancestors, the Borcke are also called Borkonen in historiography .

Map of the Duchy of Western Pomerania with the Borkische Kreis (in the southeast)

The Borcke possessions in Western Pomerania formed a rounded circle with several cities, including Labes , Regenwalde , Strahmel and Wangerin . It comprised an administrative unit that was officially called Borckescher Kreis until 1817 and then continued as the Regenwalde district . In their home country, the Borckekreis, the Lords of Borcke exercised the entire administration and the high and low jurisdiction . In 1460 they confirmed the privileges of their city of Labes.

Since the 12th century the village and the Stargordt estate have belonged to a branch of the family. From 1717 to 1721 General Field Marshal Adrian Bernhard von Borcke built a castle in Stargordt in the style of the North German Baroque.

In Regenwalde , the gentlemen from Vidante were co-owners. When they died out, knight Hans Borcke was enfeoffed with their goods in 1447, including Dorow (until 1826). Especially under Heinrich Borcke , who was also called the black knight, the property could be increased amply. He received from the Elector of Brandenburg the accrual of the share of those from Wolde in the castle and town of Falkenberg in the Neumark . After he had secured this property through purchase, Heinrich was enfeoffed with it in 1479. Duke Bogislaw X. of Pomerania granted him in 1481 and 1484 the accruals of the Schmelingschen and Schwochowscher fiefdoms. In 1493 he bought the Pansin Castle and the property belonging to it as a fief from the Order of St. John , which passed to the Puttkamer family through marriage in 1682 .

It has been handed down from the Borkkonians that for generations they refused to receive their old hereditary and ancestral estates from the griffins as the Pomeranian overlords by taking the oath of feud. They only consented to the newer possessions that had been transferred to them by the sovereign himself. They maintained their exemption from feudal conception until 1567, when they gave up their resistance under the government of Dukes Johann Friedrich and Barnim X , but made it a condition that they should not suffer any disadvantage.

It was not until the end of the 17th century that members of the gender took the predicate “von” into their names. In the years 1740, 1790 and 1840 the count's diplomas came into the family.

In the 18th century the Auerose Castle in Western Pomerania came to the family (until 1945), where Franz von Borcke had a representative mansion built in the neo-Gothic style from 1848. Around 1865 a branch of the family also settled in Hohensee near Wolgast. The lords were represented in the district council of the district of Greifswald. A coat of arms frieze of the members was installed in the district building, which also contained that of Borcke. Other West Pomeranian possessions existed in Krienke , Suckow (Usedom) and Regezow (1527-1945) and Altwigshagen . Other possessions (as of 1863): Demitz / Anklam, Annenhof and Heinrichshof near Lübs (Western Pomerania) .

In 1837 Reselkow came to Borcke in the district of Kolberger, in the back Pomerania.

Significant members of the family have emerged who have achieved great merit, especially in Prussia . Adrian Bernhard von Borcke was the Prussian General Field Marshal and Minister of State and one of the closest confidants of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I. Georg Matthias von Borcke was Chancellor of Neumark and Heinrich Adrian Graf von Borcke Prussian General of the Cavalry, educator of the royal princes and writer.

Presentation right to the Prussian manor house

Because of the services to the crown and the important land ownership, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV granted the family the right to present themselves to the Prussian mansion on November 22, 1855 .

At the presentation of the Association of the Pomeranian Castle Seated Family von Borcke sat in the manor house:

coat of arms

The gold coat of arms shows two crowned red wolves lying on top of each other and about to jump with ringed gold collars. On the crowned helmet a growing red deer. The ten-man with a ringed gold collar wears a crown between his antlers. The helmet covers are red and gold.

Known family members

Sidonia von Borcke (1548–1620), the "monastery witch"

literature

Web links

Commons : Borcke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Local directory of the government district of Stettin according to the new district division. Stettin 1817, p. 12. and p. 66-72.
  2. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Part II, Volume 7, Berlin and Wriezen a / O. 1874, p. 709.
  3. ↑ See: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon. Volume II, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1974, p. 5.
  4. ↑ a b E. David (ed.): Handbook for the Prussian manor house . Berlin 1911, p. 224 ( online ).
  5. ↑ E. David (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian manor house . Berlin 1911, p. 314 ( online ).