Werlhof (noble family)

Coat of arms of the von Werlhof family on a tomb in the garden cemetery in Hanover

From Werlhof the name is one letter noble Lower Saxon noble family .

history

The family originally came from Westphalia , according to the family history from Werl . In the early 17th century, Hermann Werlhof came to Lübeck and became wealthy in the cloth trade. He died in 1640 and was buried in St. Mary's Church, of which he was the head, and where a two-armed brass chandelier on the west side of the fifth southern choir pillar commemorated him. His grandson went to Helmstedt University at an early age , and since then Lower Saxony has become the family's center of life. Wilhelm Gottfried Werlhof (1744-1832), Vice President of the Higher Appeal Court in Celle, was raised to the imperial nobility with a diploma on March 18, 1776 and on April 2, 1813 received confirmation of nobility in the Kingdom of Westphalia . The family rose to become the first civil servant families in the Electorate and later Kingdom of Hanover .

Possessions

Vethem , eligible for state assembly in the Principality of Lüneburg , from 1857

coat of arms

Coat of arms variant

The coat of arms is quartered: it shows a silver imperial orb in the first and fourth red fields ; in the second and third fields in silver a brown railing, behind which a tree with green leaves can be seen. The crest is a flight of silver and red divided across the corner, with the orb in between. The helmet covers are silver and red.

An older variant of the coat of arms (by Johann Werlhof) is divided and shows the silver orb in the upper red field, in the lower golden field a circular fence with a gate, within which two natural trees.

Family members

Johann Werlhof
Paul Gottlieb Werlhof , copper engraving after a painting by Dominicus van der Smissen , 1740

Johann Werlhof († 1667), university-trained cloth merchant and merchant in Lübeck ⚭ Dorothea Elisabeth Meibom, daughter of the physician Johann Heinrich Meibom
- Johann Werlhof (1660–1711), lawyer and professor at the University of Helmstedt ⚭ Maria Dorothea Heigel, daughter of the mathematician Paul Heigel
  - Paul Gottlieb Werlhof (1699–1777), doctor and poet ⚭ 1743 in their second marriage to Sarah Elisabeth Hartmann b. Scriver, widow of the Kiel professor of rights Johann Zacharias Hartmann (1695–1742) and daughter of the Scriver budget councilor
    - Wilhelm Gottfried Werlhof (1744–1832), Vice-President of the Higher Appeal Court in Celle, 1776 ennobled
      - Gottlieb Friedrich Christian von Werlhof (1772–1842), Hanoverian office director in Göttingen (he acquired the Michaelishaus (Göttingen) in 1820 )
        August Carl Ernst von Werlhof (1809–1895), judge
        Anna von Werlhof (1857–1932) ⚭ Louis von Kamphövener (1843–1927), Lieutenant General
      - Ernst August von Werlhof (1778–1857), lawyer and member of the State Council of the Kingdom of Hanover
      - Theodor Heinrich von Werlhof (1791–1854), Hanover government councilor

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Claudia von Werlhof (* 1943), Professor of Women's Studies at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Innsbruck

literature

Werlhof in: Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon , ninth volume [Steinhaus - Zwierlein.], Leipzig 1870, p. 536 ff. ( Digitized version )
Wilhelm Rothert : General Hanoverian biography . Volume 2, p. 591
Genealogical paperback of the knights and Aristocratic families, 1878, third year, p.789ff

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized version ) p. 391 note 5 and p. 419.
↑ Ulrike Hindersmann: The knightly nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover 1814-1866. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen 203) Hahnsche Buchhandlung 2001, p. 595.
^ Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch, Volume II, Section 9; The Hanover nobility. Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe 1870, p. 35, plate 36
↑ contrary to some assertions in the literature in the Lübeck Council Line not proven as councilor.

[1] Gustav Schaumann , Friedrich Bruns (editor): The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck . Edited by the building deputation. Volume 2, part 2: The Marienkirche. Nöhring, Lübeck 1906 ( digitized version ) p. 391 note 5 and p. 419.

[2] Ulrike Hindersmann: The knightly nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover 1814-1866. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen 203) Hahnsche Buchhandlung 2001, p. 595.

[3] Adolf Matthias Hildebrandt : J. Siebmacher's large and general Wappenbuch, Volume II, Section 9; The Hanover nobility. Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe 1870, p. 35, plate 36

[4] trary to some assertions in the literature in the Lübeck Council Line not proven as councilor.