Minckwitz (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Minckwitz

Minckwitz , also Minckwitz von Minckwitzburg , Minkwitz or Münckwitz , is the name of an old middle German noble family . The lords and barons of Minckwitz belong to the Eastern nobility . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

origin

The family was first mentioned in a document on October 2, 1168 with Siggeboto de Mincuiz . The trunk series begins with Hans von Minckwitz , who is mentioned in documents from 1397.

The sex originally came from the Osterland or the neighboring diocese of Naumburg-Zeitz . An ancestry from Bohemia and from there to Lusatia and Meißen cannot be proven. There is also probably no relationship between the Bohemian Mékovic dynasty , in German: Minkowitz, and the eastern nobility dynasty von Minckwitz described here.

Spread and lines

After Zedlitz-Neukirch , the zealous supporter of the Reformation Nicolaus von Minckwitz , who expelled the Bishop of Lebus from his Fürstenwalde residence in 1528 , and Erasmus von Minckwitz, who was Saxon Chancellor in the mid-16th century, also belong to the family.

In the middle of the 15th century, the trunk line was divided into two lines, one to Falkenhain near Zeitz and one to Breitenhain near Altenburg . The Falkenhainer line was located between Zeitz and Leipzig until recently . With the progenitor of the Breitenhainer line, the knight Hans von Minckwitz, chief marshal of the Saxon Duke Albrecht the Courageous , the family came to Lusatia. The Saxon duke enfeoffed him in 1481 with the rule of Sonnewalde . In addition, in 1499 he was court master in Meissen, councilor of the Electorate of Saxony and governor of Liebenwerda .

Moated castle Fürstlich Drehna

Even the sons of Hans von Minckwitz sold the Sonnewalde estate to the Counts of Solms . His son Caspar (I.) von Minckwitz acquired the Drehna rule in 1521 . The family had the moat built around the castle and the defense towers built. Caspar (I.) von Minckwitz was the youngest of four brothers who continued the tribe together with the eldest, the knight Hans von Minckwitz. The latter was also able to acquire the Trebsen , Ober- and Unterstitzschka , Sachsendorf and Wäldchen estates . The line he founded expired with the death of his last son. His goods came into the possession of the son of Caspar (I.) von Minckwitz zu Drehna, Wolf von Minckwitz. The Trebsen reign was sold to the Counts of Barby in 1548 . In 1697 Caspar Ehrenreich von Minckwitz sold Drehna Castle to the Counts of Promnitz .

Groß Jehser manor house

The descendants of Caspar (I.) von Minckwitz founded numerous other branches, including Drehna, Uckro , Briesen , Wormlage , Lugk , Groß Jehser (from 1576 to the end of the 18th century), Groß Mehßow and Rehnsdorf in Niederlausitz Lindenau , Radibor , Luppa and Malsitz in Upper Lusatia, as well as Ober- and Unterstitzschka (Nitzschka near Wurzen ), Sachsendorf (Wurzen) and Wäldchen in Saxony. Members of the Drehna family later became Prussian , Belgian and Bohemian barons .

Friedrich August Wilhelm von Minckwitz , who died in 1823 , was a leading minister in the Duchy of Saxony-Gotha-Altenburg . His son Johannes von Minckwitz († 1857) became the royal Saxon foreign minister and lieutenant general .

Gottlob Heinrich von Minckwitz († 1851) came to Jemnitz and Preititz from the broadhain-sonnewalder main line . He was a royal Saxon real secret councilor , chamberlain and chief steward of the queen. Carl Caspar Ludwig von Minckwitz died in 1844 as a royal Prussian chief forester .

Status surveys

From the branch line Drehna the width Hainer main line received Caspar brothers Münckwitz on Spermberg, imperial Reichshofrat and Messenger, and Ehrenfried of Münckwitz, royal Bohemian Appellationsrat, on May 16 1586 Wien the Bohemian baron with a coat of arms improvement . The brothers Johann Friedrich von Minkwitz auf Drehna and Hans Christoph von Minkwitz received the Bohemian gentry in Pressburg on October 10, 1646 . An electoral Saxon recognition for her took place on September 27, 1648. Marie Freiin von Minckwitz from the house of Porcheresse ( Luxembourg ) received a Belgian recognition of the title of baron on July 22, 1847 .

A native of the branch line upper Nitzschke the width Hainer mainline Bernhard von Minckwitz, royal Saxon forester decommissioned , was on 21 November 1918, the number 533a in the Saxon Adelsbuch entered.

On January 15, 1915, Hans von Minckwitz, royal Saxon chamberlain and forester out of service, received from the Falkenhain line under number 533b and Wilhelm von Minckwitz auf Dornreichenbach, royal Saxon general of the infantry and adjutant general of King Albert , under number 533c an entry in the royal Saxon nobility book.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Barons of Minckwitz (2nd row, 3rd column) in Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book (around 1605)

The family coat of arms is split from black and silver four times at the top. On the crowned helmet with black and silver (also red and silver) helmet covers, a shuttlecock made of silver and red (umbrella board), which is alternately set with three black and two silver ostrich feathers.

  • Baroque representation

  • Baron coat of arms

Known family members

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Minckwitz (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig August Schultes: Directorium Diplomaticum II. Page 199
  2. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon. Volume IX, Volume 116 of the complete series, pp. 78-80.
  3. ↑ a b New general German nobility lexicon. Volume 6, pp. 300-303.
  4. ^ New Prussian nobility lexicon. . Volume 3, pp. 411-412.
  5. ↑ Jakob Christoph Iselin : Newly increased historical and geographic general lexicon . Volume 3, 1747, digitized