Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld
Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld , originally Wittenhorst , is the name of a Klevian baronial noble family , some of whose branches have survived to the present day .
history
The Wittenhorst family, named after their ancestral estate , the Lordship of Sonsfeld, was first mentioned in a document with Alradus de Wisenhurst et frater eius Winemarus on October 18, 1145. The secure and continuous line of the family begins with the inheritance of the Duchy of Kleve Gerhard de Witenhorst, which was mentioned in a document in 1200. The brothers Hermann von Wittenhorst auf Sonsfeld, Kurbrandenburg court and government councilor, Johann von Wittenhorst auf Drongeln and Wilhelm Vincenz von Wittenhorst auf Horst, were raised to the imperial baron status in Vienna on April 15, 1651 .
The von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld family played an important role in the reign of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia .
Sonsfeld Castle near Haldern (2005), in family ownership since 1368 at the latest
Battenbergturm , Haldern (2011), family-owned since 1676
Aspel house near Rees (2009), family-owned 1686–1831
Hueth Castle in Rees-Bienen (2013), family-owned since the middle of the 19th century
coat of arms
The family coat of arms and the baronial coat of arms (1651) are identical. Two red bars in gold . On the helmet with red and gold blankets, a flat black hat turned up at the front (gold-lined) , equipped with two ostrich feathers (or pheasant feathers or shawms ) labeled like the shield .
Family coat of arms of those of Wittenhorst (early 17th century)
Variant of the family coat of arms
Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book
Baron coat of arms
Members (selection)
- Friedrich Wilhelm von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld (1645–1711), lieutenant general in Brandenburg
- Friedrich Otto von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld (1680–1755), Prussian lieutenant general
- Dorothea Luise von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld ("Sonsine") (1681–1746), initially educator, later chief stewardess of Margravine Wilhelmine in Bayreuth
- Alexander von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld , 1828–1829 District Administrator of the Duisburg District
- Gustav Adolf von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld (1811–1881), Prussian major general
- Eduard von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld , 1839–1843 mayor of Burg an der Wupper , 1843–1845 mayor of Hilden
- Otto von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld , 1860–1871 District Administrator of the Ottweiler and Neunkirchen districts
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon. Volume 16, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg an der Lahn 2005, pp. 289-290, ISBN 3-7980-0837-X , ISSN 0435-2408
- Wilhelm Kisky : A Wittenhorst inheritance from 1368. In: Annalen des Historisches Verein für den Niederrhein , Volume 124, 1930, pp. 124–128, doi: 10.7788 / annalen-1934-12405
- Erich Schüttpelz: noble family v. Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld in Haldern 1145-1845. Haldern 1999
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludolph Sloet: Oorkondenboek der Graafschappen Gelre en Zutfen , The Hague 1872, pp. 278–280, no. 285.
- ↑ Jürgen Kindermann describes in: Die Musikalien der Bibliotheca Fürstenbergiana zu Herdringen (Deutsches Musikgeschichtliches Archiv Kassel 1987/88) the life of the family of Major General and Baron Friedrich Otto von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld , in particular his music collection, which is located in Herdringen Castle in Westphalia . His sister Dorothea Luise von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld , former lady-in-waiting to the Prussian Queen Sophie Charlotte , was employed in 1721 as court master and tutor to the eldest princess and later Margravine Wilhelmine von Bayreuth in the Berlin Palace.
- ↑ Portrait of Dorothea Luise von Wittenhorst-Sonsfeld (1681–1746) ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the German Digital Library.
