Windheim (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Windheim

Windheim (also: van Wintheim or of Wintheim ) was the name of a since 1303 expressed patrician - family in Hanover , which over several centuries merchants , councilors and mayors presented in the city. Since 1750 the family was counted as a nobility . Like the noble family von Anderten or the patrician families Turk and Volger , the family was one of the respected families of Hanover, similar to the later Pretty Families .

history

The Windheim borrow their name from the church village Windheim an der Weser . With Rodolfus de Winthem, the family was first mentioned in a document in 1304. With the Hanoverian new citizen Conradus de Wintem, documented in 1333, the continuous line of the family begins . Around 1400 the Windheim belonged to the wool weaver guild. Later the family was in both Lower Saxony and in Saxony landsässig . The Windheim have been counted among the nobility since around 1750 .

An archival -set of Wintheim family finds itself as a discount today in Municipal Archives Hannover .

Property ownership

Ledebur gives a rough overview of the historical property ownership of the family :

in Hanover : Campenhoff and Holtzheim
in Saxony: Ermsleben , Wegeleben and Wilsleben

coat of arms

The coat of arms (oldest seal from 1400) shows three intertwined black rings in silver, the top one open. On the helmet with black and silver ceiling , the three rings between an open, silver and black diagonally split flight .

Known family members

Epitaph for Volckmer van Wintheim († 1561) at the market church in Hanover

Diderik von Wintheim, Mayor of Hanover from 1464 to 1485
Ilse von Wintheim († 1598), married the mayor Hermann Bartels
Ilse von Wintheim († 1605), also married Hermann Bartels
Dr. Johannes von Wintheim (1618–1677), Mayor of Hildesheim
Anton Levin von Wintheim (1642–1702), Mayor of Hanover
Emerantia Gertrud von Wintheim, daughter of the patrician Erich von Wintheim , married the ducal chief architect, primus architectus and water engineer Girolamo Sartorio
Christian Ernst von Windheim (1722–1766), Protestant theologian and orientalist
August Friedrich von Windheim († 1777), President of the New Mark District
Conrad Christian Heinrich von Windheim († 1801), District President of Brieg
Wilhelm Georg Christian von Windheim (1781–1847), Prussian major general
Gebhard Johann Wilhelm von Windheim (1851–1925), German lieutenant general
Paul von Windheim (1854–1912), Prussian lieutenant general
Ludwig von Windheim (1857-1935), Prussian civil servant, high president of the provinces of Hesse-Nassau (1903-1907), East Prussia (1907-1914) and Hanover (1914-1917)
Horst von Windheim (1886–1935), administrative officer and district administrator in several districts
Dorothee von Windheim (* 1945), German visual artist

Honors

The "Windheimstrasse", laid out in 1914 in the Linden-Nord district , was named after the council family.

literature

Werner Constantin von Arnswaldt: To the genealogy of the von Windheim. In: Familiengeschichtliche Blätter. Vol. 3, Vol. 6, 1908, pp. 213-214.
Werner Constantin von Arnswaldt: Grave monuments at the Nicolai-Chapel in Hanover. In: Familiengeschichtliche Blätter. Vol. 8, 1910, pp. 42-43 and Panel.
Otto von Dassel: Family monuments in the city of Hanover. In: Familiengeschichtliche Blätter. Vol. 3, Vol. 6, 1908, pp. 65-66; Vol. 7, 1909, pp. 212-213.
Otto Firchau: families Winikowski, Winkelmann, Winterfeld and v. Wintheim and Wintrow in Bromberg. In: Archive of East German genealogists . 14, 1998-2000, p. 37.
Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 52 of the complete series; Nobility Lexicon . Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, pp. 245-246, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408 .
Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Nobligen houses . (B) Gotha 1930 (family line and older genealogy), until 1941 (continuations)
Irmgard Henning: Släkthistoria. Uppsala 1969
Hans Kellinghusen: On the genealogy of the families Kellinghusen, Jarre u. from Winthem. In: Mitteilungen des Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte 27, 1907, pp. 447–448.
Karl Friedrich Leonhardt : Ancestors list of the children of Erich von Windheim and Ilse, born. Lünde. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter . New series 4 (1936), pp. 49-60.
Eduard de Lorme: That of Windheim. An outline with sources. In: The German Herald . 56, 1925, pp. 77-78.
Hans Mahrenholtz: The Upper Presidents of the Province of Hanover and their families. In: North German family studies . 32, 1983, pp. 73-83.
Hans Mahrenholtz: The one from Windheim. In: Göttinger Mitteilungen for genealogical , heraldic and related research. 4th Jhrg. (1951), pp. 282-291.
Hans Mahrenholtz: Document discovery from old people and from Wintheim. In: North German family studies. 25, 1976, p. 368.
Hans Mahrenholtz: Who were the parents of Dorothea Elisabeth von Wintheim, who married Johann Henning von Lüde in Hanover in 1693? In: North German family studies. 24, 1975, pp. 261-263.
Hildegard von Marchtaler: The Hamburg family von Winthem. In: Journal for Family Studies in Lower Saxony . 32, 1957, pp. 1-10.
Georg Nahnsen: Sources u. Contributions to the history of families in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. 23, 1920, pp. L21-238.
von Windheim: family certificates. In: Hannoversche Geschichtsblätter. 14, 1911, pp. 291-294.
Helmut Zimmermann : WINTHEIM (Windheim), from. In: Dirk Böttcher , Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein, Hugo Thielen: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, ISBN 3-87706-706-9 , p. 391 and others; partly online via Google books

Web links

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

Association for computer genealogy : van Wintheim -Persondaten in Hannover

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d Helmut Zimmermann: Wintheim ... (see literature)
^ Association for computer genealogy: van Wintheim (see web links)
^ Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : Rule of the city council. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century , ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt and Druckerei, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , pp. 170–174; here: p. 173
↑ Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.
^ Karl Ludwig Grotefend , Georg Friedrich Fiedeler: Addendum to the document book of the city of Hanover. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. 1870, p. 27.
^ Karl Friedrich Leonhardt : The oldest citizen book of the city of Hanover. Leipzig 1933, p. 3, 21.
^ Karljosef Kreter :: City Archives. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 584f.
↑ ^a ^b ^c Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 3, Berlin 1858, p. 119
↑ ^a ^b Klaus Mlynek : BARTELS, (3) Hermann. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 42
↑ Helmut Knocke : SARTORIO, (3) Hieronymo. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 307f.
^ Helmut Zimmermann: Windheimstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 269.
↑ Contains the list of names of the original documents submitted to the Hannover City Archives.

[SLH-1] Helmut Zimmermann: Wintheim ... (see literature)

[2] Association for computer genealogy: van Wintheim (see web links)

[Stadtrat-3] Carl-Hans Hauptmeyer : Rule of the city council. In: History of the City of Hanover , Vol. 1: From the beginnings to the beginning of the 19th century , ed. by Klaus Mlynek and Waldemar R. Röhrbein , Schlütersche Verlagsanstalt and Druckerei, Hanover 1994, ISBN 3-87706-351-9 , pp. 170–174; here: p. 173

[4] Klaus Mlynek : Pretty families. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 310.

[5] Karl Ludwig Grotefend , Georg Friedrich Fiedeler: Addendum to the document book of the city of Hanover. In: Journal of the Historical Association for Lower Saxony. 1870, p. 27.

[6] Karl Friedrich Leonhardt : The oldest citizen book of the city of Hanover. Leipzig 1933, p. 3, 21.

[7] Karljosef Kreter :: City Archives. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 584f.

[Ledebur-8] Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy . Volume 3, Berlin 1858, p. 119

[Hermann_Bartels-9] Klaus Mlynek : BARTELS, (3) Hermann. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 42

[10] Helmut Knocke : SARTORIO, (3) Hieronymo. In: Hannoversches Biographisches Lexikon , p. 307f.

[11] Helmut Zimmermann: Windheimstrasse. In: The street names of the state capital Hanover. Hahnsche Buchhandlung Verlag , Hannover 1992, ISBN 3-7752-6120-6 , p. 269.

[12] Contains the list of names of the original documents submitted to the Hannover City Archives.