Sydow (German noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Sydow

Von Sydow is the name of an old Brandenburg noble family . The ancestral seat of this family is today the district Sydow of the municipality Wust-Fischbeck in the district of Stendal (Saxony-Anhalt).

history

The noble family first appeared in a document in 1259 with Heinrich de Sidow as marshal of Margrave Otto von Brandenburg . The gender thus belongs to the German nobility . Hinricus de Sydow was mentioned in 1262 as a tenant on Schönow , which remained in the family for over 600 years until it was sold in 1863. Schönow belonged to the province of Pomerania until 1945 , but is now part of the Brandenburg Uckermark.

The family split into several lines early on, which initially spread mainly in Neumark and Pomerania . One branch is said to have settled in Poland and adopted the name Zidowsky there.

The best-known Neumark lines were those to Dobberphul , Schönfeld , Stolzenfelde and Voitgsdorf , all of which were located in the area around Königsberg in the Neumark (today Pol. Chojna ).

The Western Pomeranian lines to Schönow (from 1262) and Blumberg (1483 to 1763), both now part of the Brandenburg Uckermark, had their fiefdoms in the former Randow district .

The line on Neuengrape near Pyritz was the only rear Pomeranian line that owned an estate in the Pyritz district (today known as Pyrzyce ). However, they did not have joint ownership of the fiefdom with the other lines .

In the middle of the 19th century there were only the four lines Dobberphul , Schönfeld , Blumberg and Schönow , some of which had settled quite widely in other areas of Germany, e.g. B. in West and East Prussia , Posen , Silesia , Saxony , Lusatia and Westphalia . The branch, which came to the Westphalian castle Westhusen near Dortmund through marriage in 1743 , relocated its headquarters to the rear Pomeranian Gut Zemlin ( Cammin district ) in 1913 .

Possessions

Some historical family goods:

  • Gut Schönow , Western Pomerania (today Uckermark) (from 1262 to 1863)
  • Gut Blumberg , Western Pomerania (today Uckermark) (before 1430 to 1763)
  • Gut Schönfeld, formerly in the Königsberg (Neumark) district, Brandenburg, today: Sitno (powiat gryfiński), Mieszkowice municipality
  • Stolzenfelde manor , Königsberg district, today: Stołeczna near Trzcińsko-Zdrój
  • Gut Voigtsdorf, Königsberg district, today: Kurzycko, Mieszkowice municipality
  • Gut Kalzig near Züllichau , Königsberg district, today: Kalsk
  • Gut Rehdorf, district of Königsberg, today: Stoki, district of Chojna
  • Gut Neuengrape near Pyritz , today: Nowe Chrapowo in the Powiat Pyrzycki
  • Westhusen Castle , Dortmund (1743 to 1913)
  • Woltersdorf Estate (Casekow)
  • Gut Zemlin , Cammin district , Western Pomerania (acquired in 1913 as a replacement for Westhusen, expropriated in 1945), today: Samlino near Golczewo
  • Gut Zirkwitz with Gut Peterfitz , Western Pomerania (1891 to 1945, expropriated)

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a black shield in silver (inboard). There are two natural crossed thistles on the helmet. The helmet cover is also black and silver.

The coats of arms of the Neumark lines with two thistle flowers differ from the coats of arms of the Western Pomerania lines with three thistle flowers in the crest . In both lines but the trunk shield is by coating with three to Schächerkreuz (probably originally a shield covering) increasingly made silver nails.

Known family members

Special tombs

There is no central family burial site, especially since many possessions / goods were lost and expropriated during World War II.

Swedish family von Sydow

See: von Sydow (släkt) (Swedish Wikipedia article)

A Swedish noble family von Sydow that still exists today can be traced back to a Christian (von) Sydow who left Poland-Lithuania as a Protestant in the 17th century because of religious unrest and settled in Curow near Stettin (probably in the Principality of Western Pomerania) . According to the tradition of his descendants, he is said to have belonged to the German aristocratic family, but there is no evidence for this. Christian's son was a David Sidow (1661–1734) from Usedom, who moved to Sweden in 1724 and settled in Kalmar . His son Christian Fredrik von Sydow (1714–1773) is considered the ancestor of today's Swedish family, who were accepted into the Swedish knight's house in 1830 under the number 2305 . The Swedish family, however, has a different coat of arms.

Members of the Swedish family:

  • Carl Wilhelm von Sydow (1878–1952), Swedish ethnologist and father of Max von Sydow
  • Björn von Sydow (* 1945), Swedish politician, former Minister of Defense and President of Parliament
  • Ebba von Sydow (* 1981), Swedish journalist and granddaughter of Oscar von Sydow
  • Henrik von Sydow (* 1976), Swedish politician
  • Max von Sydow (1929-2020), Swedish actor
  • Oscar von Sydow (1873-1936), Swedish politician and Prime Minister

The family association of the families von Sydow e. V. is in contact with the family association of the Swedish von Sydow family.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Schönow
  2. ↑ Pantheon of the Prussian Army
  3. ↑ Coat of arms of the Swedish von Sydow