Randow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Randow

Randow (formerly Randau ) is the name of a German noble family that comes from the primal nobility of the ore monastery of Magdeburg . Name-giving ancestral seat of the later widely branching family was Randau Castle south of Magdeburg and west of the old Elbe , which before 1012 formed the main stream of the then border river. The village and Gut Randau are today east of the Elbe on the Elbenauer Werder on the now largely dried up Elbarm. The name Randau means on the edge of a floodplain , a water. The spelling varies over time between Randau, Randaw and Randow.

history

origin

The family first appeared in a document in 1236 with Thegenardus de Randowe , who probably had his knight's seat at the castle or the Magdeburg customs fortress in Randau.

The family initially spread to Anhalt and the Archdiocese of Magdeburg and the Diocese of Halberstadt . Numerous Randows as knights , court owners, ecclesiastical lords or nuns are documented there until around 1350 .

The destruction of the ancestral castle Randau in 1297 was the result of a long-standing feud between the Magdeburg nobility and the powerful archbishop and sovereign of Magdeburg, Burchard II of Blankenburg . The legend of the ancestor of the old Randau Castle describes this event very clearly. The remains of the castle are preserved as a ground monument in the area of ​​today's Randau "auf dem Göbs".

Family lines

In the 14th century the family divided into three tribes. The 1st and 2nd tribe appear first with Arnold von Randow (first documented mention 1363-1397). Arnold was Vogt zu Plaue and held fiefdoms in Redekin as well as in Legen- Bellin , Groß- Wulkow and Langhusen , all in the later district of Genthin . The III. Stamm appeared around the same time with Hermann von Randow , who was notarized in 1382 as a feudal holder of Zollchow in today's Havelland district .

expansion

The first two tribes remained in the Genthiner Land until the 17th century and with one branch in Hornburg ( Wolfenbüttel district ). They died out in the male line after the Thirty Years War . Only the III. Tribe continues to this day in two lines. He took over the feudal estates of the other two tribes in what was then Jerichower Land .

Epitaph for Jobst von Randow from 1552 in the church of Loburg

Two lines

In the 16th century, this family line, based at the time in Loburg , split into the two current lines. Their ancestors were Albrecht († 1605) and Caspar († 1610), the sons of Jobst von Randow . Caspar's son, Hans Caspar , went to Silesia at the beginning of the 17th century as a chamberlain of Princess Anna Sophie von Anhalt , later Duchess of Brieg , and became the progenitor of today's so-called “Silesian Line”, which first settled in Brieg , but then bought the Bogschütz estate, where she built the Randowhof Palace .

A three-time great-grandson of Albrecht, Christian Ernst , settled in Mecklenburg towards the end of the 18th century after his father had sold the old Redekin , Bellin , Güssow and Zabakuck estates . He founded the so-called "Mecklenburg Line" of the Randows, which later spread to Pomerania and in the 19th century also to England and the USA , where few descendants still exist. In Mecklenburg, the family owned the property Grammow , Kowalz ( Thelkow municipality ) and Greese ( Lübow municipality ).

Randows in Brazil ...

A descendant of the Silesian Randows, Adolph , emigrated to Brazil with three sons in the middle of the 19th century and thus founded a very large Brazilian family branch, which today has about four times as many namesake as the European Randows. Many of them no longer bear the title of nobility (which is meaningless in Brazil), and the spelling of the name has also changed significantly - due to incorrect pronunciation and illiteracy - (Rondow, Rondon, Vorondom and the like).

... and New Zealand

A New Zealand branch of the Silesian line came into being after the Second World War when two sons of Elgar von Randow and their mother settled there.

coat of arms

The family's coat of arms shows a silver-rimmed red shield inside a red shield; in the language of heraldry, a silver inboard on a red background . On the helmet with its red and silver blankets grow from a red and silver bead, which in turn is crowned with three red roses, three ostrich feathers (red, silver, red), between which there are two outward-waving flags, divided red over silver. Often the flags were also shown divided in silver over red.

There is a coat of arms related to the Thuringian von Haldeck , a tribal relationship is not known.

Historical coats of arms

  • Seal of Arnold von Randow, document from 1367

  • Seal of Arnold von Randow (signed)

  • Coat of arms in the Koethen Society Book 1619

  • Illustration in Leonhard Dorst's book of arms in 1847

Estates

The Randows have owned numerous estates throughout their history.

Grammow Mansion
Saxony-Anhalt (Jerichower Land)

Redekin (1397-1763); Lage -Bellin (1397-1757); Groß-Wulkow (1397–…); Langhusen ; Güssow (… –1763); Neuermark (1482-1601); Zabakuck (1477-1757); Zollchow (1382-1614); Ferchland ; Schartau ; Wörmlitz ; Loburg ; Padegrim ; Möckern ; Barleben (1530 (?) - 1602); Schattberge ; Ringelsdorf ; Schesiber .

Mecklenburg

Wendhof (1788-90); Grabenitz (1788-93); Poppentin (1788-93); Lansen (1793-98); Grammow (1832-1945); Neuhof (… -1845); Kowalz and Sophienhof near Ticino (until 1945); Greese near Wismar (until 1945).

Pomerania

Kummin , Kr. Kammin ; Dolgen , District of Dramburg; Brussendorf and Klein-Voldekow ; Collin (1872-1935), Kr. Pyritz; Kloxin (1834-1929), Kr. Pyritz; Gross-Machmin , Kr. Stolp .

Silesia
Randowhof-Bogschütz mansion

Neudorf near Brieg ; Polish Jägel; Bukowine , Wroclaw District ; Bogschütz ( Randowhof ) and Damnig in the Principality of Oels ; Kreicke and Weigwitz near Ohlau , Wroclaw district; Groß- and Klein-Wilkau, Namslau district ; Ossen and Polish Ellguth , district of Oels ; Klein-Peiskerau , district of Ohlau ; Groß- and Klein-Pohlwitz near Jauer ; Krakowahne , Trebnitz district ; Scotchine (1805); Schreibersdorf (until 1807); Pangau , district of Oels; Golkowitz , Kreuzburg OS district ; Nauke and Stronn , Oels district; Stuben , Wohlau district .

Poznan Province

Piechczyn (Hansdorf) near Bromberg .

people
  • Randow Family Tree.png
Gravestone of Heinrich von Randow, who wrote a postage, ( Düsseldorf-Golzheim cemetery)

The Randow family, who were aristocratic in letters

Not to uradeligen Randow counted one also in the 19th century in Silesia ( United Wilkawe , Kreis Trebnitz ) well-off letter noble family von Randow. She received her nobility in 1804 in the form of a “graceful renewal and confirmation of the nobility” after its founder, the Royal Prussian District Administrator of the Wielun district in South Prussia , Karl Benjamin Randow, made his membership of an alleged “third line of the old Magdeburg family von Randow probable would have". It was therefore allowed to carry the same coat of arms as the ancient Randows, but with a golden border. The family has meanwhile expired in the male line .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ kopial the monastery Our women love to Magdeburg , 9 and 10
  2. ↑ The legend of the ancestress of the old Randau Castle
  3. ↑ Gutshäuser.de: "Grammow near Bad Sülze"
  4. ↑ Gutshäuser.de: "Kowalz bei Tessin"
  5. ↑ Gutshäuser.de: "Greese bei Wismar"

literature

See also

List of German noble families

Web links