Wolffersdorff
The Vogtland noble family von Wolffersdorff , also spelled Wolfersdorf, Wolffersdorf, comes from the parent company of the same name Wolfersdorf bei Weida in the Thuringian district of Greiz . She belongs to the Saxon nobility and is related to the family von Ende in tribal and coat of arms.
history
The family name was first mentioned in 1240 with Gotfriedus de Wolfinsdorf . In 1380 family members found themselves in the Guttenberg feud on the side of the bailiffs and the margrave of Meißen. The trunk series begins around 1400 with Hans von Wolffersdorff.
One hundred years later, the family had in Wolfersdorf (1240-1831), Culmitzsch (1360-1785), Endschütz (until 1897), Berga (1432-1569), Markersdorf (1340-1684), Teichwolframsdorf , Mosen and Meilitz .
The Wolffersdorffers were later elevated to barons and one member to the rank of count: The elevation to the hereditary imperial count status took place on July 25, 1741 for the electoral Saxon chief hunter and royal Polish chief forest master Carl Ludwig von Wolffersdorff auf Grödel by Friedrich August II., Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Since Carl Ludwig died without heirs, the title of count expired in 1774 after only 33 years.
In Berga they sat on eponymous headquarters Wolfersdorf six centuries and later on Goddula, Vesta, Dürrnberg , Wölkau , Altscherbitz (until 1843), Promnitz (1717-1746), Wüst Falke , Schloditz, Zscheiplitz and in the 20th century in Weisin in Mecklenburg. In 2017 Wolf-Nicol and Marianne von Wolffersdorff acquired Promnitz Castle on the Elbe, which was baroque in 1728 by Major General Friedrich Albrecht von Wolffersdorff for the Zeithainer Lustlager , in order to save it from decay.
Known family members
- Arthur von Wolffersdorff (1823-1897), Prussian major general
- Hans von Wolffersdorff (1549–1610), Saxon governor
- Johann Friedrich von Wolffersdorff (1639–1691), Saxon-Weimar court counselor and chamber director, assessor at the court in Jena, owner of the Hennersdorf and Berga manors, most recently Saxon house marshal and court counselor in the imperial free secular Quedlinburg monastery and heir and court lord on Scherbitz
- Carl August von Wolffersdorff (1691–1746), heir, feudal lord and court lord from Altscherbitz, canon, senior and scholastic of Merseburg, royal Polish and electoral Saxon major and director of the von Wolffersdorff family
- Carl Ludwig von Wolffersdorff (1700–1774), royal Polish and electoral Saxon chief hunter, director and chief inspector of all rafts and manor owner
- Karl Friedrich von Wolffersdorff (1716–1781), Prussian lieutenant general
- Carl Bernhard von Wolffersdorff (1726–1796), heir, feudal lord and court lord of Altscherbitz, Schkeuditz and Beuditz, canon and prelate of the Merseburg monastery and provost of Merseburg.
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Wolffersdorff (1775–1852), heir, feudal lord and court lord on Altscherbitz, canon of the Merseburg monastery and aristocratic district tax collector in the Thuringian district
- Heinrich von Wolffersdorff (1905–1966), ophthalmologist and professor at the University of Leipzig
coat of arms
In the golden shield a leaping black wolf . On the helmet with black and gold covers a growing crowned black wolf, whose crown is studded with 3 (black, gold, black) ostrich feathers.
Family coat of arms of those von Wolffersdorff, in Siebmacher's coat of arms book , 1605 (reversed)
Count's coat of arms of Carl Ludwig von Wolffersdorff from 1742
literature
- Marianne v. Wolffersdorff: Vuoluoltesdorf Ten centuries of Wolffersdorff history. 1st edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-00-038592-6 , excerpt from the author
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels (Gotha), Volume 145 of the complete series, 2008, CA Starke Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7980-0845-8 , p. 460. at www.wolffersdorff.de
- Günther Wolf von Wolffersdorff: Wolffersdorff, family chronicle 933–1965. Printed by Josef Dötsch, Zwiesel 1968.
- Elise von Wolffersdorff: The von Wolffersdorff and von Ende: According to the available source material. Pressure v. Carl Giessel, Bayreuth 1902.
- Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Hrsg.): Yearbook of the German nobility . Volume 3, 1899, published by WT Bruer, p. 814, digitized
- Henriette Joseph, Haik Thomas Poroda: The northern Vogtland around Greiz , Landscapes in Germany, Volume 68, Böhlau Verlag GmbH & Cie., Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-09003-6 , explanations on the von Wolfersdorf family , Pp. 141/165/167/170/184 / etc.
- Maria Emanuel Herzog zu Sachsen : Patronage in Saxony , Verlag Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1968, mentions and mentions of the von Wolffersdorff family, p. 20
Web links
- Website of the Wolffersdorff family association since 1500
- The von Wolffersdorff family in the Wildenfels castle archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thuringian Main State Archives, Certificate No. 1356, June 23/24, on the sale of the Reinhardtsdorf village
- ↑ http://www.xn--endschtz-c6a.de/Baulichkeiten.php Website of the community of Endschütz, accessed on July 11, 2014
- ↑ Saxon Main State Archives, Dresden, Loc. 5196 and Loc. 10430.
- ^ Deutsche Adelsgenossenschaft (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Adels , Volume 3, 1899, published by WT Bruer, p. 814 - digitized