Brabeck

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Coat of arms of those of Brabeck

Brabeck is a noble family from Kirchhellen near Bottrop . She was the owner of various mansions in various branches such as the House Brabeck (from Brabeck zu Brabeck) until 1818, the House Wittringen (from Brabeck zu Brabeck) from the 14th to 17th centuries, the House Letmathe (from Brabeck zu Letmathe) from 1576 to 1812, the House of Hemer (from Brabeck to Letmathe and Hemer) from 1660 to 1812, the Söder Castle (from Brabeck to Söder) from 1690 to 1862.

Family history

In the 13th century a fief of the Werden Abbey is mentioned with the name Haus Brabeck . From the middle of the 14th to the end of the 17th century, the von Brabeck family owned the nearby permanent house in Wittringen near Gladbeck .

In 1573 Jürgen von Westhoven died as the last of his line. House Letmathe fell to his sister Kiliane von Brabeck and her husband Wolter von Brabeck. Between 1577 and 1585 (no exact date) Walter von Brabeck became a member of the cathedral chapter in Paderborn . After the Cologne War , the governor of Oer, Georg von Brabeck, declared in a letter to the Cologne Cathedral Chapter in 1585 that he was exercising jurisdiction in the Haard bei Oer on behalf of Elector Ernst . In 1605 Johann von Brabeck built the new building (today's south wing) of the Letmathe house. This finally turned the castle into a palace. The future Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim, Jobst Edmund von Brabeck , was born on November 11, 1619 as the son of Westhoff von Brabeck and his wife Freiin Ursula von Landsberg zu Erwitte on Haus Letmathe. Friedrich Moritz von Brabeck was born on January 28, 1742 in Letmathe.

The widow of Arnold von Wachtendonk sold the Hemer house to her son-in-law Melchior von Brabeck around 1660 with the consent of her sons . In 1670 the family of the imperial baron Jobst Edmund von Brabeck took over the mine on the Rhonard , in the Olper area. After Melchior von Brabeck's death in 1680, his brother Johann Ernst von Brabeck, canon in Münster , lived for a time at House Hemer. He died here in 1690. For the descendants of lower Catholic aristocratic houses at that time it was normal to belong to the cathedral chapter of a diocese in order to earn a living from the benefices associated with it. In 1805, the Count of Brabeck stopped mining in Olpe due to the high costs and meanwhile insufficient yield . He leased the mine and the hut until 1807 to his previous factor J. Jakob Weber, who then bought it from the count in 1809.

Jobst Edmund von Brabeck (1619–1702), Prince-Bishop of Hildesheim

In 1690 the Hildesheim prince-bishop Jobst Edmund von Brabeck was able to enfeoff his family from Westphalia , the branch of Brabeck zu Letmathe and Hemer, with the estates of Söder and Nienhagen near Hildesheim, since the last of the von Bortfeld family had died in 1686 . At the end of the 17th century, Prince-Bishop Jobst Edmund von Brabeck had the "Entenfang", a lake area with an allegedly 500 acres of water (125 hectares), laid out in Giften , Tax Forest near Sarstedt . Jobst Edmund von Brabeck died on August 13, 1702 and was buried in the Barbara chapel of Hildesheim Cathedral. Between 1741 and 1742 the bishop's nephew - also named Jobst Edmund von Brabeck - had Söder Castle built, including a house chapel. As early as 1735, the von Brabeck family had temporarily commissioned a priest with pastoral care in Söder . The castle chapel probably had a Mauritian patronage. Thanks to the support of the von Brabeck family, Söder Castle was a spiritual and cultural center of the diocese until the end of the 18th century. Under Friedrich Moritz von Brabeck , Söder Castle housed a valuable collection of paintings from 1788, which drew many visitors to Söder. 1803 Brabeck was by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. in the title of Count Friedrich Moritz sold the house Letmathe erhoben.'1812, as House Hemer. He died on January 8, 1814 at Söder Castle. A fire in 1845 severely damaged the palace building, but it was rebuilt by 1848. Moritz's son-in-law Andreas Graf zu Stolberg first sold the art collection in 1859 and finally the castle in 1862.

In 1720, the Probecksche Hof was built in Winkel on behalf of the owner, Baron Moritz von Brabeck. The name was popularly changed to Probeck. It is surrounded by the vineyards of the Jesuit garden.

Another well-known offspring of those von Brabeck was Johann Karl Theodor von Brabeck . He was born on July 19, 1738 at Haus Lohausen near Hamm as the son of Peter Franz Walter von Brabeck and Maria Ottilia Schenck von Niddeg. In 1776 he became abbot and in 1792 first prince-bishop of Corvey .

In 1818, with Bernhard von Brabeck, the line of those of Brabeck zu Brabeck died out, a little later that of the Lords of Söder (and formerly Letmathe and Hemer).

coat of arms

The family coat of arms, the three wolf fishing rods placed 2: 1 in gold, were adopted in the coat of arms by various municipalities, for example from Hemer (city and office), from all (also former) municipalities of the office Hemer ( Becke , Deilinghofen , Ihmert , Frönsberg , Kesbern , Evingsen ) and Gladbeck , as well as Kirchhellen , Bottrop (the new coat of arms since 1978), Söder (municipality of Holle ) and Giften (city of Sarstedt ).

The coat of arms of the von Brabeck also adorns many important churches in Germany, for example in Hildesheim , Münster , Cologne , Mainz , Freiburg im Breisgau , Tutzing and Bichl and in Corvey .

Important personalities in the family

Brabeckstrasse

In Hanover , Brabeckstraße connects the current districts of Bemerode and Kirchrode . It emerged from an old driveway and was - according to the Hanover address book from 1970 - named after several renaming (1899: Kirchstrasse ; 1907: Kirchroder Kirchstrasse ) in 1926 "[...] after the Count von Brabeck, who was wealthy in Kirchrode "; since 1689 the von Brabecks were feudal lords of several Kirchröder courts . Until 1975 the part of Brabeckstraße in Bemerode was called Kirchroder Straße .

literature

  • Franz-Josef Schlotmann (Ed.): In the footsteps of the Brabecks / Brabeck Symposium Letmathe and Hermer, October 2nd, 2004 , 76 pages, partly illustrated, Iserlohn-Letmathe: Förderverein Haus Letmathe, 2005

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume II, Volume 58 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1974, p. 48.
  2. ^ Helmut Zimmermann : Brabeckstraße , in ders .: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag, Hanover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 46

Web links

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