Werpup
Werpup is the name of a Westphalian noble family . The appellative name is derived from the Low German werp ( Standard German : Werfen) and up ( Standard German: auf), (similar to help - up (help on)).
history
- The von Werpup were originally located in the Grafschaft Lippe in Westphalia , later in Osnabrück , Braunschweig - Lüneburg , Hanover and Lauenburg . The beginnings of the sex go back to a middle class Lemgo family called "von der Felde". A Johann vd F. was councilor in Lemgo from 1409 to 1419 and 1432. His son Gerke Werpup alias von der Felde was in feud with the noble lords of Lippe, but swore an original feud in 1459 and in 1461 received the castle and town of Alverdissen in pledge against payment of a considerable sum Money. This pledge has been extended again and again. In Alverdissen the family exercised the right to church patronage. The family burial place was in the church.
- When, in the middle of the 16th century, national policy began to redeem the pledges , Johan v. W. with parts of the Ullenhausen monastery, which was dissolved during the Reformation , and some other lands and slopes in the area. This resulted in the Ullenhausen estate . In the Thirty Years' War Ullenhausen was heavily destroyed and sold as a result of financial difficulties 1704th
- The descendants, which are so numerous today, especially in northern Germany, can be largely traced back to the family members residing in the Alverdissen / Schwelentrup area. The Ullenhauser and Bissendorfer lines became more important.
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows three (2: 1) silver dice in red, the one above. On the helmet with red and silver covers, five silver ostrich feathers.
As a talking coat of arms , it shows the relationship between the name and the dice game .
Important representatives
Gerke v. Werpup
Probable son of Johann von der Felde from Lemgo: He was married to Anna v. Buck. In 1461 the noble lords of Lippe "Slot and Wigbelde" Alverdissen pledged him. In 1464 he received half a hoof of land from the church lord of Barntrup, which he donated to the church in Bega. - His letters to Bernhard VII testify to great literacy and jurisprudence.
Friedrich v. Werpup
Son of Gerke W. anders vd F .: From 1491 to 1492 he was a member of the Lippe knighthood and envoy of the nobleman to the Duke of Braunschweig.
Simon v. Werpup (the elder)
Son of Gerke W .: He fought on the side of the noblemen in 1493 in the battle of Blekenstedt. He was married to Ermgard von Busche. Both received the Alverdissen Castle and House transferred from the sovereign in 1514 for a debt of 1000 florins, initially for 10 years; in addition there were the services and the tithe that had previously been performed at Sternberg. In the following years, Simon acquired further services and gradients. He seems to have had a good relationship with the farmers in Alverdissen. In 1527 he was Drost zu Sternberg.
Anna v. Werpup († 1586)
Daughter Simon W., the elder: She married Levin von Zerssen in 1536 and had four sons with him. After her husband's murder in 1541, she worked as stewardess at the princely court in Detmold. Your famous family epitaph in the Reformed Church in Detmold, created by an unknown master, is divided into three parts: - The lower area is a panel with a longer inscription about the fate of your family. - The figure relief shows in the middle the cross with prayers: on the left her husband in knight's uniform and his 4 sons, on the right the woman with a basket over her. Above the entablature there is a scrollwork cartouche with a coat of arms on each side. The cartridges are supported by two sphinxes, each crowned by a putto. A bead decorated with leaf tendrils is supported by two small caryatids. - A larger scrollwork cartouche with the coat of arms of the Werpup / Zerssen, and a female symbolic figure adorn the upper border. The ancestral coats of arms are on the relief: Zersen - Reden - Raschenplatt - Offensen - Landesberg - Wirte - Duien - Slistedt; Werpup - Busche - Bock - Quernheim - Trappen - Oienhausen - Bardelage - Kappeln.
Johann v. Werpup on Ullenhausen († 1575)
Son of Simon W. (the elder): His relationship as a pawnbroker to the citizens of Alverdissen seems to have been strained, as in the 1540s there were several complaints from the residents of the Lippe Count about obvious attacks. In 1557 he took possession of the Ullenhausen monastery, which was dissolved during the Reformation, and made them available to the sovereign. Thereupon he was u. a. enfeoffed with the field tithes of Ullenhausen and lands in the field of Alverdissen and Asmussen. In 1560 he became a member of the Lippe knighthood. In the same year he bequeathed a capital of 50 Rth to the parish of Almena. The dechen should pay the pastor the interest annually. In 1564 he appeared in a dispute as an arbitrator on the side of the Count of Lippe. Johann W. was Lippischer Landdrost and Schaumburgischer Drost zu Pinneberg. He was married to Katharina von Cramm, had several sons (Friedrich, Simon, Philipp, Burchard, Gerke) and 2 daughters. One of his daughters, Magdalena, was the abbess of St. Marienstift in Minden in 1628. His epitaph, restored in 1999, is in the St. Martini Church in Braunschweig. The missing oil paintings were replaced by photographs: - The lower part is a cartouche with masks and angels' heads and inscriptions. - The middle part consists of two paintings. The upper one shows the transfiguration of Christ: God the Father in the middle, on the left Moses with the tablets of the law, on the right Elias and three disciples. Also on display: two carved putti. The lower rectangular picture shows the kneeling family, on the left the father with five sons, on the right the mother with the two daughters. - The coronation consists of scrollwork decorated with angels and a tree growing out of the middle. On the frieze, pillar, base and under the cartouche are the full coats of arms with inscriptions: Werpup - Kramme / Busche - Bumelborg / Bock - Stenberge / Querem - Scheurenschlohs / Trappen - Feltem / Oyenhusen - Plessen / Bardela - Schulenborch / Kapelle - Bedefeld.
Friedrich von Werpup († 1604)
Son of Johann W .: He was among other things the Lippe court master and caretaker, Osnabrück court marshal and councilor, Drost zu Pyrmont (1582), Fürstenau and Alverdissen. With his wife, Magdalena von Schwarze, he had 6 children, of whom three daughters and one son were still alive when he died. He inherited the Lappenhof. His grave slab (stone tablet) was walled in when the church was rebuilt in 1842 in the south-east corner of the church. It shows him in knight armor: with armor, sash, sword and dagger; Helmet and iron gloves are placed on the floor. A millstone collar can be seen over the neck. On both sides there are coats of arms of the families related to the W. The longer inscription alludes to his family circumstances.
Johann Adolf von W. auf Bissendorf († 1646)
Son of Friedrich W .: He joined the Fruit Bringing Society in 1626 and was nicknamed the "Improver". He was among others Drost in Herford (1633) and in Iburg. With Elisabeth von Zersen he had six sons and a daughter (Maria Sophia). - The estate of W. in Bissendorf was uncovered during archaeological excavations in recent years.
Gustav Casimir v. W. on Bissendorf and Lappenhof (* 1635 / † 1666)
Son of Johann Adolf W .: He served as the Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg lieutenant, his tombstone with the coat of arms is in Wunstorf.
Simon the Younger v. W. on Ullenhausen
Son of Johann W .: His marriage to Ilse von Post took place in 1585. In 1591 he was Drost zu Pinneberg. The children included: Elisabeth, who married Ernst von Münchhausen in 1607; Adolf, b. 1591, who married in 1614; Johann on Ullenhausen (see below); two sons and a daughter were buried before 1623.
Johann v. W. auf Ullenhausen and Oldendorf († 1641)
Son Simon W., the younger: He was married in his first marriage to Elisabeth von Kerssenbrock and his second marriage in 1637 to Gisela Ilse von Saldern. He was buried in Oldendorf.
Ludwig Stats from W. auf Ullenhausen and Oldendorf († 1683)
Son of Johann W. auf Ullenhausen. He was Cellischer Oberkammerjunker of Duke Christian Ludwig, Princely Hanoverian Chief Captain of Oldenstadt (1683) and lived in 1667 as Hoch-Fürstl. Commissaius at an abbess election in Medingen monastery. He married Maria Juliane von Wultzky in 1657. He had 4 sons, including Georg Ernst (see below) and a daughter named Dorothea, who married Christian Friedrich von Lüneburg on Wathlingen in 1690.
Georg Ernst v. W. auf Ullenhausen, Oldendorf and Dermin († 1722)
Son of Ludwig Stats W .: He was Kur-Hanoverian secret council and Oberlanddrost zu Ratzeburg in the Duchy of Lauenburg. As the landlord of Dermin, he had an Italian specialist create a baroque “pleasure garden” on the slope of the Küchensee (Ratzeburg) . He was used as an envoy on several occasions, particularly at the Danish court. He was married to Eleonore Maria von Bernstorff, daughter of the then Prime Minister von Bernstorff.
Gottlieb Ludwig von W. on Ullenhausen, Oldendorf, Dermin a. Wülfel († 1792)
Son of Georg Ernst W .: He was Hanoverian court squire and legation marshal to Frankfurt am Main 1745, Oberschenk 1747, Canonicus zu Hamburg 1749, chamberlain 1750, castle captain 1755, court marshal 1764, chief marshal 1767. He acquired the later manor Wülfel in the south of Hanover in 1744. He was married since 1739 to Antoinette Eleonore von Alvensleben (* 1717), daughter of the Hanoverian minister Rudolf Anton von Alvensleben and his wife Eleonore von Dieskau , who was 1772–1773 chief steward of Queen Caroline Mathilde of Denmark in Celle. The marriage resulted in a son (see below) and a daughter. The daughter, Eleonore Sophia Luise Christiane, married the Ober-Appellations-Vice-President von Wallmoden zu Celle in 1759 .
Georg Anton Friedrich v. W. († 1765)
Son of Gottlieb Ludwig W .: He was an electoral Hanoverian office auditor in 1760, councilor in 1762. On his trip to Rome he visited Pope Clement XIII. On the way back he had an accident in 1765 between Rome and Castelnuovo on the Via Flaminia with his carriage, which overturned and buried him under it. He was buried in the "Il Cimitereo Acattolico" ( Protestant Cemetery ) in Rome, and his tombstone is the first to be erected there. There were funerals before that, but without a tombstone. With his death this line died out on the male side.
Sources and literature
Used literature
- Large complete universal dictionary. Volume 55, JH Zedler, Leipzig / Halle 1748, column 546 ff.
- J. Ch. Von Hellbach: Adels-Lexikon or manual on the historical… Unchanged reprint of the edition published by BF Voigt in Ilmenau in 1826. Graz 1967.
- Julius Graf v. Oeynhausen: The von Werpup family. In: The German Herald. 6, 1875, pp. 76f.
- O. Pöhlert: Alverdissen. Chronicle of a free soft image and its natives. (Typewriter) OO 1951.
- G. von Recklinghausen: The dice game in the Westphalian coat of arms and name. In: Contributions to Westphalian family research. Volume 12, H. 1, 1953, pp. 18-20.
- F. Wiehmann: Church around the Sternberg. From the history of the Bega and Extertal. Lemgo 1965.
- G. Bastian: Enclave of the Northern Lights in the south. In: Nordsee Zeitung. 19./20. November 1986, p. 35.
- O. Preuß, A. Falkmann (arr.): Lippische Regesten. Volume 1–4, Lemgo / Detmold 1860–1868.
Archival materials
- Landesarchiv NRW, Dept. Ostwestfalen, Lippe, holdings: Register of persons nobles, L 52, W (No. 1, No. 2).
Individual evidence
- ^ Max von Spiessen : Book of arms of the Westphalian nobility. Plate 315, Volume 2, Part II
- ↑ G. von Recklinghausen: The dice game in the Westphalian coat of arms and names. In: Contributions to Westphalian family research. Volume 12, H. 1, 1953, pp. 18-20.
- ↑ Description in: Otto Gaul (arrangement): Stadt Detmold. (= The buildings and art monuments of Westphalia. Volume 48.1.). Münster 1968, p. 103 f.
- ↑ Detailed description: Sabine Wehking, DI 56, No. 548 (+), in: www.inschriften.net, urn: nbn: de: 0238-di056g009k0054803
- ↑ Detailed explanations on this: O. Pöhlert: Alverdissen. Chronicle of a free soft image and its natives. 1951, p. 55 ff.
- ↑ See D. Lau: Archaeological research in Bissendorf. at: ausgrabungbissendorf.wordpress.com/page/6 [accessed on: June 10, 2014].
- ↑ Helmut Zimmermann: On the history of the manor Wülfel. Hanover 1977.
- ↑ See also: Georg Anton Friedrich v. W. († 1765)