Wedekind to the Horst

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Coat of arms of the Wedekind family (zur Horst)

Wedekind zur Horst is the name of an old and widely ramified, partly aristocratic or baronial family from Lower Saxony , which has its headquarters in Horst near Neustadt am Rübenberge . There it had received the Gutshof zur Horst around 1320 , which is still owned by the family today. Branches of the sex persist to this day.

The Wedekind zur Horst'sche Family Foundation , which has been holding family days in Hanover and Garbsen-Horst every five years since 1845 , emerged from the family association with family funds founded in 1845 . Except in Germany, the sex has branched out to Great Britain , Italy , the Netherlands , North America , South Africa and Switzerland .

Since Wedekind is a so-called multi-stemmed family name, there are several families with the same name who do not have a common ancestor, including a Thuringian family that was ennobled in the 18th century.

history

The lineage traces its descent to Johann Wedekind (* May 30, 1278; † August 19, 1360), ducal treasurer and domain councilor , who was owned by Otto II the Strict , Duke of Braunschweig and Lüneburg, around 1320 the court of Horst in Horst, today part of the Garbsen community .

A descendant was the Landsass and Klostermeier in Horst Johann Wedekind (1531-1614). In 1606 he donated the baptismal font, still preserved today, to the church in Horst, on which the Wedekind family coat of arms can be seen. His son Johann Wedekind junior (1577-1663) was the successor of his father also land Sass and monastery Meier and led the farm to Horst on. He is the progenitor of all members of the Wedekind zur Horst family living today. He was married to Margarethe von Roden (Rhoden) , the daughter of the patrician Heinrich von Rhoden from Hanover, heir and freedman at Gehrden. Court painter Sir Godfrey Kneller portrayed one of her great-grandchildren, Maria Hedewig Wedekind (1691–1729), together with her husband, the first personal and valet of King Georg I. Ludwig Maximilian Mehmet von Königstreu . These pictures are now in Barsinghausen Monastery .

Georg Wedekind (1761–1831), Dr. med., Dr. phil. hc, Grand Ducal Hessian and Electoral Mainz personal physician and writer, as well as Privy Councilor of State , wasraisedto the Grand Ducal Hessian baron statusin 1809and founded a Darmstadt ( baron ) house, which has died out in the male line. Arnd Freiherr von Wedekind (1919), a resistance fighter , wasexecutedby the National Socialists in1943 after being denounced . His brother Horst Freiherr von Wedekind (1924) had been missing since 1944 and was eventually declared dead.

The merchant and Royal Hannoversche Consul Karl Wedekind (1809-1881) founded in 1838 Hanover with his brother, the Royal Prussian consul, later to become the Royal Commerce Friedrich Wilhelm Wedekind (1801-1878) in Palermo the banking and trading house Carlo Wedekind & Co. to Import and distribution of petroleum and export of fruits, with branches in Naples , Venice and Genoa . One of his sons was Paul Wedekind (1845–1910), merchant, banker and kuk consul general in Palermo, landowner in Friedrichswalde (Blankenberg) in Mecklenburg and Glückauf, district of Landsberg (Warthe) in Pomerania. His sons Carlo (1881–1957) and Oscar (1882–1961), as well as his widow Sophie, b. Danzier (1856–1937), were raised to the Prussian nobility in 1915.

Alwine le Juge, b. Wedekind (1855–1939), last of the line to the Horst , bequeathed the Gutshof zur Horst to a relative belonging to another line, the merchant and later farmer Carlo von Wedekind .

Ranks

  • Grand Ducal Hessian nobility and barons Darmstadt May 15, 1809 for Dr. med. Georg Wedekind , Grand Ducal Hessian Privy Councilor and personal physician, formerly professor at the University of Mainz , court advisor to the Elector of Mainz and personal physician. (This branch died out in the male line in 1944).
  • Grand Ducal Hessian coat of arms of Darmstadt March 30, 1810 (for the latter).
  • Royal Saxon recognition of the baron class of Dresden October 21, 1913 for Georg Freiherr von Wedekind , grand-ducal Hessian court hunter and forest assessor , royal Saxon lieutenant in the reserve.
  • Entry in the Royal Saxon Nobility Book November 29, 1913 under No. 488 (for the same).
  • Royal Prussian hereditary nobility through the highest cabinet order Great headquarters August 31, 1915, diploma there November 10, 1915 for the brothers Carlo and Oskar Wedekind (from the house of Palermo) and their mother Sophie, widowed Wedekind, née. Danzier .
Bookplate Prof. Dr. Ludwig Fr. Wedekind z. Horst von Otto Hupp , 1908

coat of arms

The ancestral coat of arms of Wedekind zur Horst (proven since 1606, also shown in the Prussian nobility diploma from 1915) shows a silver crescent moon in a blue shield accompanied by a silver star. On the crowned helmet with blue-silver covers, between a silver buffalo horn on the right and a blue buffalo horn on the left, the silver star. In 1794, the motto “Nil Differre” (nothing to postpone) was added to the coat of arms.

The baronial coat of arms (diploma 1810) shows a red rooster in a blue and red crossed shield in 1, in 2 a gold-framed silver mirror covered with a snake (Aesculapian snake), in 3 a silver crescent moon and in 4 two silver stars arranged at right angles. On the helmet, crowned with a seven-pearl crown, with blue and red covers, five ostrich feathers, three of which are silver, one red and one blue.

Members of the Wedekind zur Horst family (chronological)

Same name, Thuringian family ennobled in 1749

According to current knowledge, the Wedekind family is not related to the tribe and begins its uninterrupted, documented line of trunks with Nicolaus Wedekind († 1693), the Count of Schwarzburg's chief forester at Keula near Sondershausen since 1649 . This was raised to the nobility on October 7, 1749 in Sondershausen with the aforementioned son Johann Heinrich Wedekind , princely Schwarzburg district chamber councilor and forester , by the imperial court palatinate Count Heinrich I, Prince of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen .

Coat of arms of the Schwarzburg family with the same name (diploma 1749): square , in fields 1 and 4 in blue diagonally right a silver flag wound around the stick with a black horizontal stripe, in fields 2 and 3 in gold a striding black stag with a gold ring around the Neck and in the uterus ; on the helmet with blue-silver covers on the right, red-gold covers on the left, an eight-pointed golden star between two buffalo horns, the right blue, the left red (helmet ornament similar to that of the family coat of arms of the Wedekind zur Horst family ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DGB Volume 187; Articles of Association of the Wedekind zur Horst family; Letter from the Wedekind zur Horst family (1845 edition)
  2. ↑ GHdA, Adelslexikon, Vol. XV, Limburg an der Lahn 2004, p. 506 f.
  3. ↑ German coat of arms role. Edited by the HEROLDs committee for the German coat of arms at the HEROLD association in Berlin, Neustadt an der Aisch 1966/1967, p. 29, or cf. Wedekind family table (web link) based on the German Gender Book (DGB), vol. 187 (1982).
  4. ↑ See DGB, Bd. 187, Limburg an der Lahn 1982, or Wedekind family table (web link).
  5. ↑ Cf. GHdA, Adelslexikon, Vol. XV, Limburg an der Lahn 2004, p. 506 f.
  6. ↑ a b GHdA, Adelslexikon, Vol. XV, Limburg an der Lahn 2004, p. 506

literature

  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon , Volume XV, Volume 134 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 2004, p. 506 f.
  • German Gender Book , Volume 187 (17th Lower Saxony Volume), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1982, p. 481 ff.
  • German coat of arms , published by the Herold, Association for Heraldry, Genealogy and Allied Sciences, zu Berlin , Volume 17, Neustadt an der Aisch 1966/1967, p. 29
  • The Wedekind zur Horst family, Danzig, Circular VIII. 1885–1890 Digitized

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