Wendt (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those von Wendt

Wendt is the name of an old Westphalian noble family .

history

The Wendt had been wealthy in and around Lemgo since the 13th century and belong to the Westphalian nobility. The family appears for the first time in a document in 1231 with Henricus Slavus and begins in a document in 1248 with the knight Gottschalk Wend, the uninterrupted line of tribe .

Knight Heinrich I von Wendt , a castle man of the Bishop of Münster at Stromberg Castle , got engaged to Agnes, daughter of Burgrave Heinrich IV von Stromberg, in December 1330.

The descendants later split into the Crassensteiner, Holtfelder lineage and the Steinheimer lineage. A family association founded in 1450 was supposed to hold the lines together.

In 1535 the von Wendt zu Crassenstein family turned to the Reformation. The von Wendt-Holtfeld family remained Catholic. The Crassensteiner Line lived at Crassenstein Castle and died out in 1710. Your property fell z. Partly to the Holtfeld line, which died out at the end of the 19th century. Their possessions fell to the Counts de Marchant et d'Ansembourg. At the beginning of the 18th century the Wendt-Holtfeld-Crassenstein line went bankrupt, from which it was only able to free itself at the beginning of the 19th century.

The Steinheim line was based on Drostenburg in Steinheim (Westphalia), which was destroyed by the Prince-Bishop of Paderborn in 1639 .

The Imperial General-Wachtmeister Johann Adam Freiherr von Wendt auf Wendhausen, Gymerich and Rottenkirchen was raised to the rank of imperial count in 1715 .

Possessions

Crassenstein Castle was built in 1419 by Heinrich III. bought by Wendt. In 1497 the family inherited Holtfeld Castle and in 1697 Hardenberg Castle (Velbert) with the rule of Hardenberg including the Achternberg house . In 1674 Haus Horst (Essen) was acquired and remained in the family until 1910. In 1860 Oswald von Wendt also acquired Borlinghausen Castle . With his death in 1877, his sister Leonie inherited the Crassenstein, Holtfeld, Hardenberg, Horst and Borlinghausen estates and passed them on to the family of her husband, the Dutch Count Oscar Laurent de Marchant et d'Ansembourg. Their heirs gradually sold these estates. The Achternberg house had to be sold in 1750 when the family went bankrupt.

Gevelinghausen Castle with Wiggeringhausen has been owned by the Papenhausen line of the family since 1796. In 1838 Schellenstein Castle was also acquired. Gevelinghausen together with the goods Schellenstein, Gierskopp, Wiggeringhausen and Papenhausen had to be sold by Karl von Wendt in 1985 when his amusement park Fort Fun Abenteuerland went bankrupt . Maximilian Freiherr von Wendt-Papenhausen acquired Boetzelaer Castle in 1978 .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three (2: 1) silver and blue iron hats in gold with a red tassel and storm ribbon . On the helmet with blue and gold covers there is another monkshood without a tassel, set with three natural peacock feathers.

people

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  • Heinrich I. von Wendt (engaged to Agnes, daughter of the burgrave Heinrich IV. Von Stromberg in December 1330)
  • Francis III von Wendt zu Crassenstein (married in 1598 to Anna von Ketteler zu Neu-Assen and Schulenburg, presumably builder of the current Crassenstein Castle , daughter among others Maria Theresia Amelia von Wendt).
  • Franz Karl von Wendt (1675–1748), general in Hanover and head of the Dragoon Regiment No. 1
  • Amalie Sophie von Wallmoden , b. von Wendt (1704–1765), mistress of the British King George II.
  • Johann Adam Freiherr von Wendt auf Wendhausen, Gymerich and Rottenkirchen ( raised to the rank of imperial count in 1715 )
Steinheim line
  • Franz Freiherr von Wendt (1800–1870)
  • Carl Freiherr von Wendt-Papenhausen († in World War II as Rittmeister in Russia)
    • Karl von Wendt (1937–2006), German racing car driver and entrepreneur
Crassenstein line
  • Wilhelm Wendt zum Crassenstein (1603–1644)
  • Franz Egon I. von Wendt (died childless)

The line died out in 1710.

Holtfeld line
  • Jobst Dietrich von Wendt († 1714, acquired Horst House in Essen and Hardenberg House in Berg in 1673 )
    • Franz Wilhelm von Wendt († May 15, 1717)
      • Franz Egon II von Wendt († 1742, inherits Crassenstein)
      • Franz Arnold († 1768)
        • Clemens August († 1791)
          • Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Wendt zu Holtfeld, Herr zu Hardenberg, Horst, Crassenstein, Heege, Bökenförde, Altendorff etc. (moved the family headquarters to Crassenstein in 1808)

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westfälisches Urkundenbuch 6, No. 247
  2. ↑ Sven Solterbeck: Blue blood and red numbers. Westphalian nobility in bankruptcy 1700–1815 . Waxmann, Münster 2018, ISBN 978-3-8309-3869-9 , pp. 149-168 .