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 .
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 .
Castle in Regenwalde
Pansin Castle
Stargordt Castle
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:
- 1856–1878: Theodor von Borcke (* 1805; † 1878)
- 1879–1905: Kurt von Borcke (* 1835; † 1905)
- 1906– ?: Wulff von Borcke (* 1839; †?)
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.
Coat of arms from Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book (1605)
Epitaph of Matzke Borcke († 1689) in the Altwigshagen church
Known family members
- Adrian Bernhard von Borcke (1668–1741), Prussian Field Marshal General (also known as the "Pomeranian Marshal")
- Albrecht Friedrich von Borck (1717–1775), Prussian Colonel and Chief of the Königsberg Land Regiment
- Alexander von Borck (1802–1880), Prussian major general
- Andreas Adrian Borck (1629–1690), Saxon court master
- Christian Ernst Wilhelm Benedikt von Borcke (1714–1783), Prussian major general
- Christian August Ludwig Friedrich von Borcke (1804–1888), Prussian general of the infantry
- Christoph Friedrich Berend von Borcke (1689–1770), District Administrator of the Borckescher Kreis
- Claus von Borcke (1868–1949), German administrative officer
- Ernst August Philipp von Borcke (1766–1850), district administrator of the Borckescher Kreis and the Regenwalde district
- Ernst von Borcke (1774–1838), Prussian major general
- Ernst Ludwig von Borcke (1702–1772), Prussian colonel, regimental commander and fortress commander
- Fabian von Borcke (* 1966), entrepreneur and Hamburg politician
- Felix von Borcke (1784–1863), Prussian major general, commandant of the Jülich Fortress
- Ferdinand von Borcke (1811-1883), Prussian lieutenant general
- Franz von Borcke (Lieutenant General) (1802–1886), Prussian Lieutenant General
- Franz Andreas von Borcke (1693–1766), Prussian lieutenant general
- Franz Heinrich von Borcke (~ 1675–1739), Prussian chamber director
- Friedrich Albrecht von Borck (1730–1811), Prussian district administrator
- Friedrich von Borcke (Lieutenant General) (1791–1862), Prussian Lieutenant General, Commander of Berlin
- Friedrich Adrian von Borcke (1734–1806), Prussian lieutenant general
- Friedrich Georg Ludwig von Borcke (1747–1813), Prussian district administrator
- Friedrich Ludwig Felix von Borcke (1702–1751), Prussian major general
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Borcke (Major General) (1680–1743), Prussian Major General
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Borcke (1693–1769), Hessen-Kasselscher and Prussian Minister of State
- Georg Friedrich Borcke (1611–1660), judge at the Wismar upper tribunal, director of the royal Swedish court in Greifswald
- Georg Heinrich von Borcke (1686–1747), Prussian lieutenant general
- Georg Matthias von Borcke (1671–1740), Prussian state official and Chancellor of Neumark
- Gottlob Mathias von Borcke (1717–1797), Prussian major general
- Hans Ulrich von Borcke (1902–1944), German administrative lawyer and officer, district administrator of the Arnswalde district
- Heinrich von Borck (1767–1827), Prussian district administrator
- Heinrich von Borcke (civil servant) (1776–1825), Bergisch and Prussian civil servant
- Heinrich Adrian von Borcke (1715–1788), Prussian general of the cavalry, writer and economist
- Heinrich Gustav von Borcke (1829–1916), Prussian landowner and politician
- Heinrich Leopold von Borcke (~ 1697–1771), Prussian lawyer, director of the Szczecin Consistory
- Johann August Heinrich Heros von Borcke (1835–1895), legendary figure of the American Civil War
- Johann Wilhelm Leopold von Borcke († 1801), Prussian major
- Karl von Borcke (1800–1870), Prussian major general
- Karl August Ferdinand von Borcke (1776–1830), Prussian general and first bearer of the Iron Cross
- Kaspar Wilhelm von Borcke (1704–1747), statesman in the Prussian service and literary translator
- Kurt von Borcke (General) (1847–1921), Prussian major general
- Kurt von Borcke (politician) (1835–1905), German manor owner, politician and member of the Prussian manor house
- Paul von Borcke (1840–1893), German manor owner and member of parliament
- Peter Friedrich Christian von Borcke (1767–1822), Prussian major general, commander of the Neumärk Dragoon Regiment
- Philipp Ernst von Borcke (1729–1792), Prussian major general
- Rüdiger Claus Georg von Borcke (1868–1949), Prussian district administrator
- Sidonia von Borcke (1548-1620), called the "monastery witch"
- Wilhelm von Borcke (1807–1867), Prussian lieutenant general
- Wilhelm Friedrich Leopold von Borcke (1737–1787), Prussian district administrator
literature
- Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Part II, Volume 1, Anklam 1865 ( online )
- Wulf-Dietrich von Borcke: Brief history of the von Borcke family. Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2008. ISBN 978-3-940207-13-5 .
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, pp. 5-6, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, ISSN 0435-2408 .
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of noble houses . Fourth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1903, p. 142ff. ; Sixth year, 1905, pp. 120f.
- Otto Hupp : Munich calendar 1917. Book a. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1917.
- Hans Saring : Borcke. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 459 ( digitized version ).
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Georg Sello : Historical sources of the castle and castle-sitting dynasty of Borcke. 6 vols. ( Digitized version )
- Volume 1: Up to the end of the 14th century.
- Volume 2: Up to the end of the 15th century. Berlin: Stargardt 1903 ( digitized version )
- Volume 3.1: Certificates. Berlin: Stargardt 1907 ( digitized version )
- Volume 3.2: Sidonia Borcke . Mixed documents. Self-published 1910 ( digitized version )
- Volume 4: Documents, files and letters from the 14th to 19th centuries Century.
- Volume 5: Register for Vol. 1–4.
Web links
- Borcke eV family association
- Entry about Borcke in New General German Nobility Lexicon
- Entry about Borcke in New Prussian Adelslexicon
- Biographies of Prussian generals from the Borcke family (PDF; 668 kB)
- Entry via Borcke in the central database of bequests
Individual evidence
- ↑ Local directory of the government district of Stettin according to the new district division. Stettin 1817, p. 12. and p. 66-72.
- ^ 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.
- ↑ See: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon. Volume II, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1974, p. 5.
- ↑ a b E. David (ed.): Handbook for the Prussian manor house . Berlin 1911, p. 224 ( online ).
- ↑ E. David (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian manor house . Berlin 1911, p. 314 ( online ).