Wersebe
Wersebe , also Wersabe up to the end of the 16th century , is the name of an ancient Bremen noble family . Branches of the family persist to this day.
history
The family borrows its name from their ancestral seat of the same name, Wersabe, and first appears in a document with Luderus de Wersebe on April 1, 1189. The closed family line begins with Christian de Wersabe , who was mentioned in a document in 1248.
The manor of those von Wersebe in Meyenburg was first built in 1309 as a moated castle ; it is still owned by the family today. Tradition has it that the castle was founded at the end of the 13th century, when a Wersebe moved to the high Geest on the edge of the march to take over protection for the southeastern city and the colonization of the lowlands as a liege of the Archbishop of Bremen. The present manor of the manor was rebuilt in the Renaissance style in 1504 after its destruction in 1429 .
Luder von Wersebe took part in the robberies at the mouth of the Elbe in 1325 on the side of John II of Stotel . Clamor von Wersabe was canon in Minden in 1603 . The Wersebe also provided several bailiffs at Hagen Castle in Bremen . For a few decades from 1666, Franz Wersabe owned Overvelddingen, where he also took up residence, as well as the goods belonging to the Abdinghof in Gladbeck.
In 1537 Gut Neuenhausen was first mentioned in a document in Bremen. The last lord of the castle of Wersebe there planned a revolt against Napoléon Bonaparte in 1809 .
Herleshausen in Hessen, near the Thuringian border, came to the Wersebe in the 17th century as a fiefdom of the Landgraves of Hessen-Kassel , with its seat at today 's Augustenau Castle . After this line died out, the fiefdom fell back and in 1678 Landgrave Karl ceded it to his brother Philipp .
Several members of the family distinguished themselves as officers of various European armies. In 1901 the Austrian prevalence of the previous baron title took place in the capacity of a foreign one for the KuK Chamberlain , Privy Councilor and General of the Cavalry Gustav von Wersebe and in 1905 for his brother KuK Major General z.D. and heir to Bacskò in Hungary Hartwig von Wersebe .
possession
- in Bremen : Axstedt , Bokel , Cassebruch , Harrendorf , Holte , Langwedel , Liethenhoff, Loppersum , Lübberstedt , Meyenburg, Neuenhausen, Sandstedt , Overvelddingen, Uthleda , Voslohe, Woldhöfen and Wurthfleth
- in Hessen : Herleshausen
- on Rügen (Western Pomerania): Gutshaus Boldevitz (since 1993)
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a shield split by silver and black. On the helmet with black and silver covers, two buffalo horns , the right one silver, the left one black.
Relatives
- Wolf Heinrich von Wersebe (⚔ 1626), Danish colonel, killed in the battle of Lutter
- Heinrich von Wersabe, heir to Loppersum, 1687–1696 president of the East Frisian landscape
- Hans Melchior von Wersebe, (1747–1782) Kurhannoverscher officer, 1776 major general, 1782 owner of the Ratzeburg garrison regiment
- Dietrich August Adolf von Wersebe (* 1751; † 1831), administrative lawyer, historian and author, cf. the article in the ADB
- Anton Friedrich Christian von Wersebe (* 1784; † 1841), 1838–1840 Landdrost of the Landdrostei Aurich
- Hartwig Freiherr von Wersebe (1838–1913), 1884–1890 regiment commander of Dragoon Regiment No. 4 and KuK major general zD
- Gustav Freiherr von Wersebe (1834–1913), KuK General of the Cavalry, Chamberlain and Privy Councilor of the early 20th century
- Hartwig von Wersebe (1879–1968), German opera singer
literature
- Harro Buß: The tomb of Ortgies v. Wersabe in the old reformed cemetery in Leer. In: Sources and research on East Frisian family history and heraldry. 57, 2008, pp. 78-85.
- vd blankets: 14 documents plus some regesta , touching the von Wersebe family. In: Archives of the Association for History and Antiquities of the Duchies of Bremen and Verden and of the State of Hadeln zu Stade. 1, 1862, pp. 72-88.
- Genealogical handbook of noble houses . A 3, volume 15 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1957, pp. 519-521.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility. Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, pp. 110–111 ISSN 0435-2408
- Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen houses . Gotha, Justus Perthes, 1904, (series) 1906–1942 (continuations); Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Uradeligen houses. 1905, p. 803 ff (family tree and older genealogy), 1907–1940 (continuations)
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description. Leipzig 1856, Volume 3, pp. 448-449.
- Leopold von Ledebur : Nobility Lexicon of the Prussian Monarchy . Berlin 1858, Volume 3, p. 103.
- Gustav von Lehsten: The nobility of Mecklenburg since the constitutional hereditary comparisons (1755/1864). Rostock 1864, p. 290.
- Luneburg Mushard : Monumenta nobilitatis antiquae familiarum illustrium, in ducatibus Bremensi & Verdensi, ie the feast of the clock-old, noble families, in particular the highly commendable knights in the Hertzogthum Bremen a. Verden. Herman and Berthold Brauer, Bremen 1708 or 1721 (1905 reprint), p 539 et seq. Digitalisat
- Eberhard Nehring: House book of Berendt von Wersebe zu Meyenburg from 1537. In: Sources for genealogy. 6, Heinz Reise Verlag, Göttingen 1982, pp. 1-14.
- Ferdinand Frensdorff: Wersebe, August von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 42, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1897, p. 101 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Archives Hanover , document d. Klosters Zeven, No. 7
- ↑ a b Adelslexikon . Volume XVI, 2005, p. 110.
- ^ Meyenburg manor house