Woldeck (noble family)
Woldeck (also Völdiken, Woldege (n), Woldegge, Woldegghe, Woldeke, Woldekke, Woldike, Welldeck, Wolldeke and Wolldeck ) is the name of an ancient noble family from the Altmark .
history
The family first appears in a document on May 1, 1230 with the knight Heinricus de Woldegen . It was given the nickname "von Arneburg" in the time of Elector Joachim I of Brandenburg . The brothers Alexander Friedrich and Hans Christoph von Woldeck achieved degrees of general from the Gnevicko family . From the House of Storkow , George Woldeck von Arneburg became major general and chief of a cuirassier regiment.
goods
The family owned the estates in Gnevicko and Vehlow in the Priegnitz ; in the Altmark they owned Storkow, Ähre, Polkritz , Klöden and Rohrbeck . In 1847 Oskar Woldeck von Arneburg acquired the Wottnogge manor in Pomerania .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a red eagle in gold on a red wall with a gate. On the helmet with red and gold covers, the red eagle between two buffalo horns divided by gold over red across the corner.
Known family members
- Hans Christoph von Woldeck (1712–1789), Prussian lieutenant general
- Hans Georg Woldeck von Arneburg (1712–1785), Prussian major general
- Heinrich Joachim Woldeck von Arneburg (* 1718), district administrator of the Marienwerder district
- Alexander Friedrich von Woldeck (1720–1795), Prussian lieutenant general
- Carl Christian Casimir Woldeck von Arneburg (1757–1813), district administrator in Stendal
- Charlotte von Woldeck (1781–1863), wife of Heinrich Menu von Minutoli
- Ernst von Woldeck (1788–1863)
- Wilhelm Woldeck von Arneburg (1838–1877), district administrator in Schwetz and Plön
- Fortunat von Laffert-Woldeck, Dr. († 2005), last heir to the Pekuniarfideikommiss founded by Ernst von Woldeck in 1848.
Web links
- Leopold Freiherr von Zedlitz-Neukirch: Woldeck, the lords of. In: New Prussian Nobility Lexicon. Volume 4, Leipzig 1837.
- Arneburg in the Altmark and its history. In: ronnyhertel.de
literature
- Three artistically decorated jubilee volumes for the 50th anniversary of the service of the Prussian Lieutenant General Alexander Friedrich von Woldeck (1720–1795) on loan from the Neuruppin Local History Museum.
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408 , pp. 327-328
- Joachim S. Karig, Dorothea Minkels: Heinrich Menu von Minutoli and his outstanding family , Norderstedt 2019, ISBN 978 3 7481 7568 1 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Riedel, Codex diplomat. Brandenb. I 8, p. 134
- ^ The Woldeck of Arneburg . In: schlossarchiv.de