Wolf of Goddenthow

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Coat of arms of those of Goddenthow

The family of Goddenthow , since 1838 also Wolf of Goddenthow is a noble family , which in the area of in 1284 Lauenburg in Pomerania for the first time was written reference and thus to the Pomeranian nobility counts. From around 1700 it was also located in West Prussia and East Prussia .

history

The family borrowed its name from the Goddenthow estate near Lauenburg, which was mentioned in 1284 . It traces its descent back to the Pomeranian knight Hannus von Ditleve (Ditleben, Dytlenben), who in 1361 was enfeoffed "free and hereditary" by the German Knight Order through his Grand Master Winrich von Kniprode with Goditow (Goddenthow).

The secured line of trunks begins with Albertus von Goddentow (1463-1491) and his brother Jakob von Guddentow (Goddentow), who with his brothers Albertus and Martin, the "Erwen and Lehne von Vaddern and Olderen her", 1491 and 1493 respectively was enfeoffed with Goddentow, Reddestow, the mill of Damerkow, Koppenow and Zdrewen. The family name developed by de Godeto . or de Goditowo , about Goddutow and Goddent (h) ow (around 1523) to Wolf (f) von Goddenthow . Around 1838 the first name Wolf, as with Major Karl Hermann Wolf von Goddenthow, was accidentally added to the surname in some officers' patents, which later resulted in the spelling Wolf von Goddenthow.

The family belonged to the Pomeranian knighthood for centuries. With the death of Major Wilhelm Friedrich Ferdinand von Goddenthow around 1830, the II line died out.

The first line was established around 1700, after the sale of the Pomeranian ancestral estate, in East and West Prussia with changing land ownership, including in the regions: Mohrungen , ( Mosens , Rombitten ), Soldau (Ruttkowitz), Löbau (general leases of the royal domains Krottoschin, Lonkorrek)., Strasburg (Groß Plowenz), Briesen (Dembowalonkaische Güter) and Osterode (Groß Schmückwalde, Klein Schmückwalde, Rheinsgut and Nasteiken) until the sale in 1825 as a result of the devastation and looting of the Napoleonic wars; from 1826 tenant on Wittigwalde.

With the "heroic death" of Major Wilhelm Karl Hermann Wolf von Goddenthow, battalion commander in Holstein Infantry Regiment No. 85 , on August 18, 1870 in the Battle of Gravelotte in the Franco-German War , the 500-year Pomeranian-Prussian era ended Family history. Major Wilhelm Karl Hermann vG was buried together with Captain Fischer, Lieutenant Fontenay, Ensign Patzig and Lieutenant Count Siegfried von der Recke-Vollmerstein in a communal grave in 1870 in the civil cemetery of the Lorraine community of Vernéville. The tomb was completely renovated in 2004.

Coat of arms at Siebmacher

coat of arms

The split coat of arms shows a natural falcon (also a parrot) sitting inwards on a slanted green branch in red on the right , three red bars in silver on the left. On the helmet with red and silver covers three (red, silver, red) ostrich feathers.

literature

  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume IV, Volume 67 of the complete series, p. 156, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1978, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelige Häuser B, Volume XXVI, Volume 140 Complete Series, pp. 127-133, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2006

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Schultz : History of the Lauenburg district in Pomerania. Lauenburg i. Pom. 1912, p. 346.
  2. ^ Prussian document book. Volume 5. No. 998, p. 567.
  3. ↑ Elzow: Pommerscher Adelsspiegel 1684 , p. 73 ff.
  4. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Noble Houses B, Volume XXVI, Volume 140.
  5. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Noble Houses B, Volume XXVI, Volume 140.
  6. ^ Franz Schultz: History of the Lauenburg district in Pomerania. Lauenburg i. Pom. 1912, p. 346.
  7. ↑ Reinhold Cramer: History of the Lande Lauenburg and Bütow. II Theil, 1858, pp. 249, 254, 257.
  8. ↑ A. Bertling (Ed.): The wax tablets of the Danzig City Library . Danzig 1884, p. 30, no.168, panel XV, column 2.
  9. ^ Vassal list of the order of knights 1424 in: Danziger Komtureibuch quoted. after F. Schultz
  10. ↑ Spelling of the name in the loan letter, quoted in n. Elzow, Pommerscher Adelsspiegel 1684. P. 74.
  11. ^ Robert Klempin , Gustav Kratz : Matriculations and registers of the Pomeranian knighthood from the XIV to the XIX century. Berlin 1863, p. 175.
  12. ↑ Micraelius, Johannes (called Johannis Micraelii ). Alten Stetin 1639, Volume 6, p. 447.
  13. ↑ L. Ledebur: Adelslexikon der Prussischen Monarchy A - K. 1855, p. 266.
  14. ↑ Hans Jürgen Bömelburg: Between the Polish Estates Society and the Prussian Authoritative State. From Royal Prussia to West Prussia (1756-1806). Munich 1995, p. 334
  15. ↑ Stern, F. v .: The First Five Years of the Infantry Regiment Herzog von Holstein (Holsteinischen) No. 85 ". Berlin Mittler-Verlag 1894, pp. 27, 28.
  16. ↑ The Battle of Gravelotte - St. Private on August 18, 1870. "Großer Generalstab. First Part, Vol. 2, Issue 6, pp. 722-724.