Wistinghausen (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Wistinghausen noble family

Wistinghausen is the name of a German-Baltic noble family . This old council family, which was first documented around 1640 and was based in Reval , was included in the Estonian nobility register in 1845 and 1830 due to the elevation into the Russian service nobility . Marriage alliances with the Pomeranian Buchau / Buchow, who were raised to the Roman-German imperial nobility by Emperor Maximilian II in 1568, who owned the Waschow estate near Lassan as early as 1382 , the patricians of Stralsund and later also councilors of Reval, in 1700 and finally in 1764 of the heir, culminated in the adoption of the Buchow coat of arms, which was merged with the own coat of arms.

history

Jost Wistinghausen (* 1589 in Lübeck ; † 1647, buried in Reval) is mentioned as the progenitor of the German-Baltic family branch. The home of the noble family is the Westinghausen estate in Oerlinghausen near Detmold , which arose from a Freimeierhof. His son Daniel Wistinghausen had immigrated to Estonia before his father and was a member of the Estonian Blackheads from 1636 . In 1812 the first family member was raised to the Russian service aristocracy and entered in the genealogy of the Saint Petersburg governorate . In 1854 the State Councilor Eduard von Wistinghausen, Lord of Leal Castle, was accepted into the Estonian Knighthood , followed in 1860 by the Real State Councilor and Chamberlain Karl von Wistinghausen. The family estates included Wittenpöwel in Estonia 1785–1860, Leal and Sippa Castle in 1815–1860, and Somel and Wastemois in Livonia .

Lineage

Jost Wistinghausen (progenitor) (* 1589 in Lübeck; † 1647, buried in Reval) ⚭ Anna von Lengerke

  • Daniel Wistinghausen (* 1615 in Lübeck; † 1669, buried in Reval), 1636 member of the Blackheads, 1654 councilor and church mayor of St. Olai ⚭ Miss Grote (buried 1675 in Reval)
    • Dierich von Wistinghausen (* 1639, buried in 1699 in Reval), elder of the Great Guild , Lord of Wastemois in Livonia ⚭ 1. Elisabeth Kahl, also Kahlen (buried in Reval in 1676), 2. Elisabeth Ballawary de Sykawa called Burchard (* baptized 1654 in Reval)
      • 1. Marriage to Dietrich (* 1669 † 1707 in Reval), merchant and mayor in Reval ⚭ 1700 Margarethe Buchau widowed Lanting (1683–1750)
        • Christian Wistinghausen (baptized 1701 in Reval; † 1766 in Reval), merchant , elder of the great guild, 1742 councilor, 1746–1762 chamberlain , 1762 mayor, lord of Wastemois ⚭ Anna Elisabeth Tunder (* 1710 in Reval, buried in Reval in 1788)
          • Johann Christian Wistinghausen (baptized 1743 in Reval; † 1787 in Reval), 1775 elder of the great guild, 1776 church councilor for St. Nikolaus in Reval, 1779 councilor, lord of Wittenpöwel ⚭ 1764 Margaretha Buchau (1745-1811), daughter of the Reval councilor Christian Buchau, lord of Wittenpöwel, last of the Pomeranian Buchau / Buchow, formerly patrician of Stralsund, linked her coat of arms with that of Wistinghausen as heir daughter

coat of arms

The coat of arms is split in gold and blue. In the front on a green lawn there is half a red house at the crack, on the roof of which a black dragon sits. In the back a triple beam of red and silver on a blue background, above and below each a broken red stepped gable . The crest shows a black flight , occupied with one abgeledigten triple of red and silver geschachteten beams. The helmet cover is blue-gold and red-gold.

Coat of arms of those Buchow

Except for the house (as a talking coat of arms for -hausen in the family name), this coat of arms, in front with the dragon in the golden field, and in the back the chess bar, accompanied by the stepped gables, in the blue field, as well as the crest, represents exactly the same coat of arms, as it was confirmed by Emperor Maximilian II to Heinrich Buchow, who was an ancestor of Stralsund's mayor Heinrich Buchow († 1628), in a letter of nobility in 1568. The Buchow / Buchau's heir daughter then linked her family coat of arms with that of the Wistinghausen (red house).

Leal Castle

Manor house in Lihula (local museum)

The former manor was built together with the castle in the Middle Ages for the order and the diocese of Saare-Lääne / Oesel Wick . The castle was the bishop's residence between 1242 and 1251 . Later it belonged to the noble families Tott, von Stackelberg , von Wistinghausen and von Buxhoeveden . The local museum is located in the preserved manor house . The Sippa estate was part of Leal Castle.

Wittenpöwel manor

The manor Wittenpöwel (Viti), founded around 1630, belonged for a time to the Reval council and noble families Buchau, Wistinghausen and Stackelberg. A children's home has been set up in today's two-story main building.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wording of the nobility letter from 1568
  2. ^ New Prussian Nobility Lexicon , p. 68
  3. ^ The pay book of the Teutonic Order 1410/1411 , p. 47 f.
  4. ↑ a b c Genealogical Manual of the Baltic Knighthoods , p. 278
  5. ↑ von Wistinghausen. In: The coat of arms of the nobility in the Estonian Historical Archive ra.ee
  6. ↑ On the Collegio of General Welfare and its Duties. In: Your Imperial Majesty Catherine the Second ... Regulations for the administration of the governorates of the Russian Empire . Translated from Russian by CGArndt, Verlag JJ Weitbrecht, 1776, original by University of Michigan, digitized June 8, 2006 books.google.de , page 21
  7. ^ Blazon of the coat of arms. In: Genealogical Handbook of the Baltic Knighthood , Personen.digitale-sammlungen.de p. 277
  8. ↑ von Wistinghausen, coat of arms in the Estonian Historical Archive ra.ee
  9. ^ Wording of the nobility letter of 1568 , cf. Illustration of Buchow's coat of arms in family tables and coats of arms of those families […], XXIIII family table of the Buchowen
  10. ↑ Land of a thousand manors: Lihula / Schloss-Leal manor.ee
  11. ^ Lihula / Leal Castle. On: Estonian manors mois.ee
  12. ↑ Viti / Wittenpöwel. On: Estonian manors mois.ee