Wüstenhoff (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Wüstenhoff (Wüstenhofen)

Wüstenhoff , until approx. 1525 Becker , later also called Becker Wüstenhoff or Becker called Wüstenhofen or just Wüstenhofen , is the name of a Magdeburg noble family that could spread to East Prussia and Westphalia , but became extinct at the end of the 19th century .

The family is to be distinguished from a Pomeranian noble family of the same name but with a different coat of arms, which is said to have flourished in Silesia later .

history

Henricus de Wüsthove, who was bailiff of the nobles of Querfurt around 1307, is a conceivable agnate of the family . The secured and continuous trunk series begins with the house owner and alleged Pfänner in Groß Salze , Lüdecke Becker. The family thus belonged to the family of salt pans who achieved prosperity through their trade and became heirs and eventually rose to the landed gentry. Hans II von Wüstenhoff (1497–1575) was already a member of the select committee of the knighthood in the ore monastery of Magdeburg.

The Rothensee tower house was family-owned during the Thirty Years War .

General Papemheim moved into his headquarters at the Klein Ottersleben family estate in 1629 , after which the farm was completely torn down in 1631.

Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig von Wüstenhoff (1758–1819), postmaster in Unna , founded the Westphalian line of the family, from which some Prussian officers and civil servants emerged. Dr. phil. Max von Wüstenhoff, editor in the literary office of the Prussian State Ministry , decided on this line in 1859.

Leopold von Wüstenhoff (1793–1881), veteran of the Wars of Liberation and later chief forester in Drusken , continued the Magdeburg line in East Prussia. The family found its starting point with his son Emil von Wüstenhoff (1826–1897), who returned to the Groß Salze family estate. The children of his youngest daughter Elly verm. Kleefeld carried the double name Kleefeld von Wüstenhoff according to the decree of the Reich Ministry of the Interior from 1939 .

In addition to Groß Salze and Klein Ottersleben, the Anhalt estates of Klein Oschersleben and Schermen were temporarily owned by the family.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms is divided transversely by red and silver , above two below a green thistle blossom (desert rose) with mixed up colors . On the helmet with a red and silver bulge and a blanket of the same kind, one of the thistle blossoms between buffalo horns divided by red and silver .

Relatives

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Institute for German Aristocracy Research: Landowning Prussian noble families, 14th-19th centuries. ( Memento from June 21, 2016 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ George Adalbert von Mülverstedt , Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch , VI. Volume, 9th department, extinct Prussian nobility: Province of Pommern , Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1894, pp. 114–115, Tfl. 72.
  3. ↑ Main Old Town Library , Rhineland-Palatinate Bibliography , German National Library , introduction to the period 1850-1919 , The importance of securities lending for the capital market.
  4. ↑ Leopold von Ledebur : Adelslexicon der Prussischen Monarchy , Volume 3, Berlin 1858, p. 145.