Walsleben (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Walsleben

Walsleben is the name of an old Pomeranian - Mecklenburg noble family .

history

The Walsleben are said to take their name from the Altmark town of Walsleben , which is also regarded as the ancestral seat of the family. The coat of arms of the place has also included the three horns of the Walsleben in its coat of arms. Also as a headquarters or at least owned by the family that is occasionally ruppinische Walsleben lists possible that this place reversed its name to Walsleben owes.

Johannes de Walsleue stepped as a witness for Duke Wartislaw III as early as 1243 . from Pomerania , and appeared again in a document as Johannes de Walsleue et frater suus, milites on May 27, 1244.

As early as 1244, the Walsleben and Wedige von Walseben are said to have reached Mecklenburg on the occasion of Prince Pribislaw's second marriage , where they received Beseritz (Stargard) and Priepert (Fürstenberg) as fiefs .

The sex was divided into the lines Wodarg-Werder , Leistenow - Buschmühl and Zarnekow . While the Pomeranian lines began in the 18th century, the Mecklenburg lines continued and spread to Württemberg .

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are four entries by the daughters of the von Walsleben families from Neuendorf and Lüsewitz from 1768 to 1832 for inclusion in the aristocratic women's monastery there . Agnesa Philippina Elisabeth v. Walsleben ad H. Neuendorf died on September 17, 1824 in Dobbertin.

possession

In the period from the 13th to the 18th century, the Walsleben in Western Pomerania owned numerous estates and villages. The following are named: Beggerow , Buschmühl, Cadow / Kadow (near Anklam ), Damerow, Dargitz, Ganschendorf , Gatschow, Gramzow, Gülz , Hagen (Heinrichshagen in the Randow district ), Jagetzow , Kentzlin , Kessin, Conerow , Kummerow, Leistenow (until 1756) , Leuschentin, Lindenberg, Müggenburg, Panschow, Pritzenow, Sarow / Saarow, Schossow , Steinkrug, Tbodyin , Tützpatz , Wodarg and Utzedel .

In Mecklenburg, Zarchelin is mentioned in the Plau office in 1253 as the family's earliest possession. In the 15th century Wodarg , in the 16th century they also owned property, in the 17th century Pleetz and Priepert were added, at the turn of the century Damerow , Passow , Dobbin and Groß Poserin were added. In the 18th century they also owned Lüsewitz , Neuendorf and Woltow , the latter until 1808. The Karow , Damerow , Horst and Werder estates were also part of the family's historic Mecklenburg property. From 1745 to 1871, the Walsleben family , who had been in Neuendorf near Rostock since 1770, owned Petschow and Wolfsberg .

In the 18th century the Walsleben owned the two Schwarzburg estates, Fröbitz and Köditz .

coat of arms

Coat of arms on the church in Wodarg

Name bearer

  • Ernst Christian von Walsleben, district administrator in Wolgast at the end of the 16th century
  • EM von Walsleben († after 1735), war commissioner (mentioned 1723–1729), district administrator (mentioned 1730–1735)
  • Reimar Wedig von Walsleben, heir to Karow († December 24, 1743), whose eldest daughter Margaretha Elisabeth married Rittmeister Hans Reimar Ehrenreich von Walsleben († August 17, 1758), heir to Damerow, Karow, on April 4, 1720, Wodarg and Werder (the latter near Altentreptow)
  • Ernst Sigismund von Walsleben (* 1690; † after 1750), 1721–1743 district administrator in the Demmin-Treptow district, heir to Kessin
  • Detlof Philipp von Walsleben (* 1744, † 1790), Mecklenburg travel marshal, heir to Lüsewitz
  • Friedrich Ludwig von Walsleben († after 1813), Royal Württemberg Major General and Brigadier, Knight of the Order of Military Merit , transferred to the Royal War Department on May 22, 1813
  • Manfred von Walsleben, Mayor of Tramm (Mecklenburg)
  • Marcel von Walsleben-Schied (* 1983), soccer player, has had this name since his marriage.

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pommersches Urkundenbuch , Vol. 1, p. 342.
  2. ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Part 2, Vol. 1, Dietze, Anklam 1865, pp. 140-142 ( Google Books ).
  3. ^ Probst Dr. Gaehtges: On the history of the parish Petschow ( Memento from May 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 , pp. 1064-1065 ( limited preview in Google Book search).