Weltzien (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Weltzien

Weltzien is the name of an ancient Mecklenburg family . It had its headquarters in Welzin ( Lage → ), today a part of Passow , from which the family borrows its name, and Wessin , both near Lübz . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

The family appears for the first time in a document with Johannes de Weltzyn in 1247 and with Deneke de Welczin , on February 12, 1270 with which the uninterrupted line of tribes begins.

clergy

Numerous daughters of the family went to the Protestant women's monasteries in Dobbertin , Malchow and Ribnitz as conventuals , which from 1572 were also officially referred to as Mecklenburg monasteries. In Einschreibebuch the monastery Dobbertin exactly 21 daughters were registered from 1710 to 1883. Even in the years as a nunnery, Margarethe Weltzien from 1355 and Adelheid (Alheit) Weltzien from 1409 to 1428 were prioresses there . With Mathias Weltzien in the years 1243–1249, another Mathias Weltzien in the years 1435–1437, who became cathedral provost in Güstrow from 1438 , and Ludolf Weltzien for 1520, the family also provided some provosts in the monastery. In the 17th century the family with Baltharsar von Weltzien 1682–1686 and in the 18th century with Gottfried Hartwig von Weltzien (1740–1806) from 1790 to 1801 could also provide the monastery captain, the latter was also provisional from 1778 to 1790 . In the noble women's monastery, Elenore von Weltzien (1737–1822) was the priestess of the convent from 1818–1822.

military

The family has several well-known officers in the armies of Mecklenburg, Denmark and Prussia , of which Heinrich Wilhelm von Weltzien (1759-1827), Prussian lieutenant general, 1794 knight of the Pour le Mérite , commander of the fortresses Neisse , Erfurt and Cosel was the most outstanding.

Lines

All living members of the family are descendants of Joachim von Weltzien , heir to Alt Sammit . With the sons of Daniel von Weltzien , provisional agent of the Malchow virgin monastery , the family is divided into its main lines.

Oldenburg line

Lütke von Weltzien donated the line to Fischhausen in Jeverland . He was a Danish Drost in Nienburg and Kniphausen . His sons were Christoph von Weltzien , castle captain and commander of Jever and Ulrich Friedrich von Weltzien , heir to Fischhausen and Schöngrod, in 1713 Drost in Kniphausen, in 1719 dikgrave and princely chamber councilor in Jever. The latter's sons continued the line.

Mecklenburg line

Alexander von Weltzien donated the line to Sammit and was a princely Mecklenburg captain in Plau . His sons Daniel Joachim Christoph von Weltzien and Gustav Carl von Weltzien continued the line.

Frege-Weltzien

The from the Saxon banking family Frege originating Arnold Woldemar Frege (1841-1916), Vice-President of the Reichstag was in first marriage to Helene von Weltzien from the house Weisin married, whose brother Peter of Weltzien as a one-year volunteer in the 1st East Prussian Fusilier Regiment No. 33 and fell as the last offspring of this house on August 18, 1870 near Gravelotte . At the ceremony ennobled King Albert of Saxony on 18 August 1895 Frege and his relatives in the addition of Zunamens Weltzien .

Weltzien from Parchim

From the bourgeois family Weltzien from Parchim , whose members also spread to Norway , Dr. med. Christian Weltzien († November 26, 1821) moved to St. Petersburg and became the imperial personal physician. As a real councilor of state he received the hereditary Russian nobility . His daughter Marie Weltzien (born September 30, 1808 - † November 26, 1833) married on January 14, 1831 Dr. med. Karl von Seidlitz from the Waetz house (1798–1885).

Likely to this family also Karl Weltzien (born February 8, 1813 † November 14, 1870) a native of St. Petersburg chemist , Otto Weltzien 1918-1926 mayor, from 1919 mayor of Schwerin and the Norwegian orienteers Eystein Weltzien (* 14th December 1949).

A tribal relationship between the Mecklenburg noble family Weltzien and the Parchim bourgeois family Weltzien has not been proven, but it cannot be ruled out either.

possession

The Weltzinen house in Weisin 1570

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows in silver a winged red horsefly lying to the left . The shield image on the helmet with red and silver covers .

Known family members

  • Margarethe Weltzien, 1355 prioress in the Dobbertin monastery
  • Adelheid Weltzien, 1409–1428 prioress in the Dobbertin monastery
  • Baltharsar von Weltzien, heir to Benthen, 1682–1686 monastery captain in the Dobbertin monastery
  • Gottfried Hartwig von Weltzien (1740–1806) from the house of Weisin, Rittmeister at Benthen and Tannenhof, provisional from 1779 to 1790 and cloister captain from 1790 to 1801 in the Dobbertin monastery
  • Heinrich Wilhelm von Weltzien (1759–1827), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Helmuth von Weltzien (1798–1879), Prussian lieutenant general
  • Ludwig von Weltzien (1815-1870), Oldenburg major general, Prussian lieutenant general
  • Viktor von Weltzien (1836–1927), secret senior building officer ; from 1866 among other things construction manager of the municipal hospital in Berlin
  • Wilhelm von Weltzien (1836–1900), Prussian major general
  • Arnold Woldemar von Frege-Weltzien (1841–1916), manor owner and politician (German Conservative Party), member of the Saxon State Parliament and the Reichstag
  • Julius Hartwig von Weltzien (1843–1931), Major General of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg
  • Julius Paul von Weltzien (1881–1955), lawyer, 1933 government councilor in Berlin, member of the German gentlemen's club
  • Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien (1926–2004), genealogist and author
  • Kristina von Weltzien (* 1973), German voice actress

literature

Web links

Commons : Weltzien family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1775). Rostock 1864, p. 287.
  2. ↑ Original in the case and State Archives in Schwerin ; Printed in the Mecklenburg Document Book No. 1180.
  3. ↑ State Main Archive Schwerin LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 Documents Dobbertin Monastery Reg. No. 114 Certificate with provost's seal.
  4. ↑ Horst Alsleben : Compilation of nuns and conventuals from the registration book of the Dobertin monastery from 1696–1918 and the von Weltzienschen family archive. Schwerin 2011.
  5. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 7. Leipzig 1907, p. 53.
  6. ^ Genealogical handbook of the Baltic knighthoods, part Estonia III, Görlitz: CA Starke [1935], p. 254.
  7. ^ Heinrich Schmieden: On the 90th birthday of Viktor von Weltzien In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung (43), booklet, p. 483 .; Retrieved April 18, 2015.