Westenholz (noble family)

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Noble coat of arms (1866)

West Wood is the name of a letter aristocratic Austrian noble family . Branches of it exist today in Great Britain and the Netherlands .

history

The aristocratic family goes back to a middle-class north German family, from which the Danish Westenholz family also emerged.

The Hanoverian citizen Thomas Westenholz († 1593) is considered the progenitor of both lines. The German-Austrian-Swiss line is from his eponymous son Thomas Westenholz (1575-1622) from the Danish whose epitaph in his other son, the councilman and treasurer Hermann Westenholz (1577-1654) Kreuzkirche (Hannover) is received . His grandson Melchior Ludwig Westenholz (1647–1694), the Brunswick-Lüneburg legation secretary to Nijmegen , was raised to the imperial nobility with an imperial diploma on March 7, 1693 . However, this branch was already extinct in the 19th century.

The great-grandson of Thomas Westenholz, Casimir Albrecht Heinrich Westenholz (1695–1767), was the organist in Lauenburg (Elbe) . Of his children, Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Westenholz (1727–1796) became the organist of the Jakobikirche (Lübeck) , Georg Heinrich Westenholz (1732–1806) cafeteria in Lübeck and Carl August Friedrich Westenholz (1736–1789) court conductor in Ludwigslust . His grandson Friedrich Ludwig Westenholz (1787–1873), son of the cellist Carl Friedrich Westenholz (1756–1802), took up the trade, worked as such in Gothenburg , London and Vienna , invested in mining and metallurgy, temporarily acquired Wolfsberg (Carinthia ) , 1842 Waldenstein Castle and 1848 the Dombrowa coal mine near Chrzanów in Galicia . He married Louise Friederike, née Kuh (1800–1849) from a Jewish merchant family in Wroclaw who converted to Christianity in 1804.

The son from this marriage, Friedrich (1825–1898) settled in Hamburg as a merchant and banker. As Austrian consul general, he was raised to the Austrian knightly nobility on May 29, 1866 (diploma from October 2, 1866); on August 30, 1869 (diploma from January 18, 1870) the elevation to the Austrian baron took place.

After the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, Friedrich von Westenholz gave up his citizenship in Hamburg and in 1867 acquired the citizenship of St. Gallen in Switzerland for himself and his descendants . The family died out in Hamburg in 1940.

Possessions

coat of arms

The original bourgeois coat of arms, as it is handed down on the epitaphs in Hanover, showed two branches.

The coat of arms of the imperial nobility from 1693 for Ludwig Melchior von Westenholz is quartered. The 1st and 4th quarters are split into blue and silver; in each field an upright tree trunk cut down three times on both sides, natural color; the 2nd and 3rd quarters are divided by gold over blue by a silver bar with three leopard heads next to each other. The trunks emerge from the crowned helmet, leaning slightly outwards. The helmet covers are black / gold and blue / silver.

The aristocratic coat of arms, awarded in 1866, shows a silver left-slanting bar with three six-pointed red stars, the head split in gold and black with a growing, red-tongued double-headed eagle in alternating colors, accompanied by two natural trunks.

The baronial coat of arms from 1869 is, according to the diploma, a shield with a shield head. In the head of the shield, which is divided lengthways by gold and black (the colors of the Habsburg monarchy), there is a protruding red-tongued double -headed eagle in alternating tinctures. The blue shield is crossed by a slanting silver bar, covered with three red stars one behind the other, which remove two natural tree stumps by stake. The baron crown with three crowned tournament helmets rests on the main edge of the shield . The middle and right-hand helmets are surrounded by black covers with gold, the left-hand side blue with silver.

Tribe list according to Karl Friedrich Ludwig

Karl Friedrich Ludwig Freiherr von Westenholz (1825–1898), imperial and royal consul general in Hamburg ⚭ (I) Clara Elisabeth, b. Ertel (1829–1871)

  • Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Westenholz (1853–1908) ⚭ Mathilde, b. von Miller zu Aichholz (1860–1938), daughter of Vinzenz von Miller zu Aichholz
    • Clara Freiin von Westenholz (1883–)
    • Frieda Freiin von Westenholz (1887–)
    • Karl Friedrich Melchior Siegfried Freiherr von Westenholz (1892–1918), Austro-Hungarian First Lieutenant
  • August Henry Freiherr von Westenholz (1855–1926), banker in Hamburg ⚭ Anna-Marie Palatschek, actress
  • Friedrich Paul von Westenholz (1859-1919), professor at the TH Stuttgart ⚭ Jurke Johanna Landheer (1858-)
    • Rudolf Friedrich Freiherr von Westenholz (1882–), lawyer
    • Elisabeth Meyn-von Westenholz (1883–1951), historian ⚭ Kai Meyn (1872–1940), major general
    • Paul Eberhard Freiherr von Westenholz (1884–1933), banker ⚭ Lily Weyer, daughter of Bruno Weyer
      • Heinz (Henry) Friedrich Eberhard Freiherr von Westenholz (1916–1984) ⚭ Marguerite Gordon Ness (* 1915), landlord
      • Albert Friedrich Paul Freiherr von Westenholz, also Paul West (1921–2011), businessman; ⚭ 1951 Elisabeth Henriette van Hasselt (1927–2014)
        • Caroline Anne Freiin de Westenholz (* 1954), art historian and author ⚭ (II) Julie Antonie Louise, b. Hayn (1849-1916)
  • Mathilde von Westendorf (1872–1940)
  • Albert Wilhelm von Westendorf (1879–1939), private scholar

Personalities

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westenholz , Dansk Biografisk Leksikon , 3rd edition online, accessed on July 9, 2019.
  2. ↑ Entry in the inscription catalog , accessed on July 19, 2019.
  3. ^ Joachim Lampe: Aristocracy, court nobility and state patriciate in Kurhannover. Volume 2: Lists of officials and pedigrees, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1963, p. 147.
  4. ^ Jacob Jacobson: Jewish weddings in Berlin 1759 to 1813: With additions for the years 1723-1759. (= Publications of the Historical Commission in Berlin 28) Berlin: de Gruyter 2011 ISBN 9783110829877 , p. 345.
  5. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses. 34: 967 (1883) .
  6. ^ Fridrich Dieth-Locher: Citizens Register of the City of St. Gallen: completed on December 31, 1886. St. Galllen: Huber & Cie. 1887, pp. 441f.
  7. ^ Entry in the inscription catalog: City of Hannover No. 321, accessed on July 19, 2019.
  8. ↑ J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms: in a new, fully ordered and richly increased edition with heraldic and historical-genealogical explanations. Volume 3/3: The nobility of the free cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck. Nünrberg 1871, p. 23. Otto von Alberti : Württembergisches Nobility and Wappenbuch. Volume 2, p. 1049 wrongly uses this coat of arms for Friedrich Paul von Westenholz .
  9. ↑ von Westenholz , accessed on July 9, 2019.
  10. ↑ Copy in the Hamburg State Archives , illustration in De Familie von Westenholz (lit.), p. 151.
  11. ↑ Cupid, unmasked! Baron's daughter and long-time friend of Prince Harry is 'confirmed as the matchmaker' who first set him up with Meghan Markle , Daily Mail, January 24, 2018, accessed July 9, 2019.