Wietersheim (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Wietersheim

Wietersheim is the name of an originally Westphalian noble family .

history

Cord Smeckeworst , called Wietersheim (* around 1500; † 1571), who is proven to be a citizen in Stadthagen in 1529, is considered the progenitor of the family . The name refers to the East Westphalian Wietersheim . His son, the Holstein-Schaumburg Chancellor Dr. jur. utr. Anthonius Smeckeworst, called Witerßheim on Stadthagen, Sachsenhagen and Apelern († 1614), who was raised to the nobility in 1592, and his second wife Margarethe Langermann left six sons, four of whom continued the line of descendants.

Status surveys

Possessions

Hammerstein Castle (Apelern) built by Anton (I) von Wietersheim in 1590, sold to Major General Friderich Christoph Freiherr v. Hammerstein -Gesmold 1673
Muhrau manor owned by the family from 1916–1945

In Silesia

Coat of arms of those of Wietersheim

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a red bar covered with two golden lilies in blue. On the helmet with blue-red-gold covers a golden lily.

According to Stenzel, the blue coat of arms shows a crossbar covered with two golden lilies (according to others now: two red crossbars in the blue field with two golden lilies between them). On the crowned helmet stands a red crowned pillar, on the crown adorned with a golden lily and three times at an angle to the left with laurel branches. The middle of these branches is studded with a golden six-pointed star. The helmet covers are blue, red and gold.

Representative

literature

  • Theodor Stenzel: On the genealogy of the von Wietersheim family , in: Vierteljahrsschrift für Wappen-, Siegel- und Familienkunde 8 (1880), pp. 135–163
  • Siegfried Joost: History of the von Wietersheim family . Self-published, Diesdorf 1937.
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, pp. 194-195, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Hans Christoph von Wietersheim-Kramsta: One of many. The fate of a Silesian farmer's life . ISBN 3-7053-1775-X , St. Michael, 1982

Web links

Commons : Wietersheim  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Joost: History of the von Wietersheim family . Self-published, Diesdorf 1937, p. 41 .
  2. ibid, p. 66.
  3. ^ Siegfried Joost: History of the von Wietersheim family . Self-published, Diesdorf 1937.
  4. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, Limburg (Lahn) 2005
  5. Stenzel (Lit), p. 137 note.