Wisch (noble family)

Coat of arms of those von Wisch and the relatives of Pogwisch

Wisch is an old Holstein noble family that belonged to the Equites Originarii .

history

The family first appeared in a document with Marquardus de Stenwer . This was in 1216 by Count Albert von Holstein with a meadow ( Latin : in pratum) Schwartbuck in Plön invested . His sons Thietbernus de Prato and Siricus are both mentioned in 1220 and Siricus as a knight alone from 1225 to 1245. The safe trunk series begins documented between 1390 and 1424 with Claus von der Wisch (Wisch = Low German : meadow). The Wisch were related to the coat of arms and tribe of the Pogwisch and Wulf families .

The family was quite influential in the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein and was wealthy in the 15th century. The noble family died out in the Duchy of Schleswig with Claus Oswaldsen von der Wisch (1552–1621), lord of the Danish Nienhof and Kaltenhof estates in the Danish Wohld. In the Duchy of Holstein she died out with Heinrich Adolphsen von der Wisch († 1675), lord of Gut Wittmoldt , royal Danish court counselor and general war commissioner in Schleswig-Holstein. The family as a whole died out with Hieronymus Christiansen von der Wisch (1788–1873) on Embsen , Etelsen and Ruschbaden in the Kingdom of Hanover .

coat of arms

Coat of arms on tombstone

Like the Pogwish: in blue a jumping, red-tongued silver wolf . On the helmet with blue-silver blankets, the wolf growing out of a brown entrenchment .

Name bearer

• Abel Cathrine von der Wisch (1626–1676), lady in waiting
• Clement von der Wisch (* around 1480; † 1545 in Uetersen), lord of Hanerau and monastery provost of Uetersen
• Detlef von der Wisch († 1500 in the Battle of Hemmingstedt ), knight
• Henneke von der Wisch († 1500 in the Battle of Hemmingstedt), Knight and Lord on Röst
• Joachim von der Wisch († 1500 in the Battle of Hemmingstedt), knight
• Johann Caspar von der Wisch (* 1785; † 1865), Landdrost in Aurich, 1831-1848 Hanoverian Minister of the Interior, in a paddock in the Duchy of Bremen

• Johanna von der Wisch († March 30, 1803), abbess of the Itzehoe Monastery from 1790
• Johann von der Wisch (* around 1455, † around 1527), hereditary journeyman of Olpenitz, canon of Schleswig and monastery provost of Uetersen
• Otto von der Wisch , gentleman at Gut Rundhof
• Wulf von der Wisch († 1500 in the Battle of Hemmingstedt), Knight of the Rundhof

literature

• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, page 273, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISBN 3-7980-0837-X

Individual evidence

1. ^ Registrum I in the Preetz monastery archive ; see. P. Hasse: Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg Regesta and Documents , Volume 1 (1886), No. 328
2. ^ Johann Caspar von der Wisch , in: Ostfriesische Landschaft