Wenckstern (noble family)

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Family arms of those of Wenckstern

Wenckstern , also Wenkstern , is the name of an old Mecklenburg and Brandenburg noble family .

history

The von Wenckstern were first mentioned in a document on July 6, 1315 with Hermann Wenkesterne , knight and surety of Duke Rudolf von Sachsen-Wittenberg . The secured trunk series begins with Klaus Wenckstern († before 1490), Lord of Lenzerwische . The family was already seated in a castle in 1353 at Redefin Castle in Mecklenburg and in 1363 at Wencksternburg in Prignitz . In 1572 it took part in the transfer of the Mecklenburg convents to the knighthood. Since the 18th century , the family had used the title of baron in Hanover , which it had also used without objection in Belgium , Russia and Austria .

The family is not to be confused with a family of the same name from Hesse , which derives its line from the Hesse-Kassel lieutenant colonel Johann von Wenckstern († 1659). From this family, the Prussian lieutenant and later major Ludwig von Wenckstern received the Prussian nobility recognition in Berlin on June 3, 1798. These von Wenckstern had a growing red lion in the divided coat of arms above in gold, three golden windows below in blue. On the helmet with red-gold-blue blankets the growing lion.

In the registration book of the Dobbertin monastery there are four entries by daughters of the von Wenckstern families from Hese and Carlow from 1751 to 1899 for inclusion in the local aristocratic women's monastery .

possession

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those von Wenckstern since the 15th century
  • The family coat of arms shows a silver star in blue (six, seven or eight rays). On the helmet with blue-silver covers, the shield image in front of a silver shaft, which is tipped with a black cock plume.
  • since the 15th century: a seven-pointed silver star in blue, which is accompanied by 3 (2: 1) red roses. On the helmet with blue-silver covers, two armored arms, holding a silver star, between a (fallen) gold-spurred armored leg.

Known family members

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch , Volume VI, p. 165, No. 3771.
  2. ↑ a b c Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Noble Houses (A) Gotha 1939, p. 606.
  3. ^ Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, p. 71.
  4. ↑ Registered book No. 356 Sophia Maria Ilsabe von Wenckstern of the Lord Ober-Appellation-Rath von Wenckstern from the house of Hese, received. on August 16, 1751. No. 620 Agnesa Helene Caroline von Wenckstern of the Hanover Rittmeister von Wenckstern Miss Daughter, received. July 16, 1783. No. 1778 Alexandrine Elise Auguste von Wenckstern daughter of Mr. Jagdjunker zu Carrlow in Mecklenburg-Strelitz, in. March 25, 1887. No. 1911 Alheite Ida Luise Sophia Marne Marie Melonie von Wenckstern daughter of Mr. Werner von Wenckstern , first lieutenant à la suite of the Hussar Regiment Graf Goetzen 2nd Silesian No. 6 , received. August 15, 1899.