Werminghausen
Werminghausen was the name of an old Westphalian noble family .
history
The family's main seat was Haus Wermingsen near Iserlohn . The family name probably goes back to a worm and the wormings belonging to it. A Johann von Werminghausen was a witness in 1278 when Count Eberhard I von der Mark renewed Iserlohn's town charter. A Dietrich Werminghausen was Drost of the Counts von der Mark in Wetter . He negotiated on behalf of the count with the city of Dortmund . He received a sizeable annual pension for his success. The family provided Burgmannen in Iserlohn and owned a Hovestadt or Burgmannshof there. This was on the city wall by the church gate. Also free Count the free court Iserlohn came from the family Werminghausen.
Lines of the family owned at least temporarily the castle Klusenstein (mentioned 1477, 1629). They owned the manors Apricke (called 1545, 1563), Hedhof bei Hemer (1430, 1629), Kotten bei Altena (1437, 1590), Langenholthausen , Porzler bei Lüdinghausen, Rödinghausen (1524), Rünthe (1414), Tödinghausen (1398, 1414) and Westick (1397). There was also a line in Menden . Some of their relatives were in the service of the Duchy of Westphalia as castle men . Other family members belonged to the German order . A Ernst von Werminghausen was Komtur in Reval . A total of three abbesses of Fröndenberg Monastery came from the family in the 14th and 15th centuries. A Johann von Werminghausen was the castle commander of the Electorate of Cologne when Werl was taken in 1586. An Elisabeth von Werminghausen owned the Gevelinghausen and Wiggeringhausen estates in the Duchy of Westphalia .
coat of arms
Divided three times to the right by red and silver. On the crowned helmet with red-silver covers a red flight on the right and silver on the left , the shield in between.
literature
- Anton Fahne: History of the Cologne, Jülichschen and Bergisch families. Part 2, Cologne / Bonn 1853, p. 193.
- Leopold von Ledebur: Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy. Volume 3, Berlin 1858, p. 102.
Web links
- House Wermingsen ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ulrich Barth, Elmar Hartmann, August Kracht , Heinz Störing: Art and historical monuments in the Märkisches Kreis . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Heimatbund Märkischer Kreis, Altena 1993, ISBN 3-89053-000-1 , p. 225 .