Wolzog (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the von Wolzüge since 1588

Wolzogen the name is an original Lower Austria Uradelsgeschlechts , reached some standing and some persist, that later spread far its lines today.

history

The family first appeared in a document in 1393 with Chunrad , fiefdom of the Hube in the linden trees on the mountain in the rule of Strengberg of the Tegernsee monastery . The successors of the property are the brothers Degenhart Wolhaben in Berg and Hans Wolzüge in Thürnbuch , with whom the continuous line of the family begins.

As early as 1565, the Wolzüge were able to occupy the postmaster's office in Lower Austria.

In 1569, as a reward for military and diplomatic services from Emperor Maximilian II , Andreas von Woliehen received the postmaster's office in Kaschau in Hungary . When the Long Turkish War broke out , the family fled to Lower Austria in 1593 , where Andreas was accepted into the knighthood there in 1599 . After his death in 1614, his widow bought the small Missingdorf estate with the castle, after which this branch of the family was named from then on.

On November 6, 1595, Christoph Wolhaben bought Neuhaus Castle . At the beginning of the 17th century, Hans Christoph von Wolhaben had the castle completely redesigned and, in the course of this, the church “St. Nepomuk ”in the castle. As Protestants , the Woliehen lost their property in the course of the Counter-Reformation , and Paul von Wolzüge had to emigrate to Saxony in 1628.

The sons of the imperial court postmaster Paul Wolzo († 1575), Hans and Hans Christoph and their cousin Andreas Wolzo received a hereditary-Austrian coat of arms in Prague in 1588 . In 1591, the same cousins Hans Christoph and Andreas Wolehmen , the imperial postmaster in Kaschau , received the Lower Austrian knighthood. The same Hans Christoph Wolzogen , hereditary lord of Neuhaus and Lower Austrian Councilor received in 1602 in Prague in the knighthood awarded the predicate to Neuhaus , continue in 1605 the Moravian Inkolat and was in 1607 in Prague in the erbländisch-Austrian baron lifted.

The Duke of Saxony-Coburg - Meissen Secret Council Director, and later to become Duke of Saxony-weißenfelssche Prime Minister and Erbschenk the county Henneberg , Baron Johann Christoph von Wolzogen and Neuhaus (* before 1666; † after 1722) was awarded in 1702 in Vienna the baron confirmation.

Charlotte von Mecklenburg-Strelitz (* 1769, † 1818), the future Duchess of Saxony-Hildburghausen , was brought up by Magdalena von Wolfrom when she was 12 years old.

By the 18th century at the latest, the family had split into three lines.

The first line flourished on Java , founded by the Dutch-East Indian colonel and general inspector of the forests there, Baron Carl von Wolhaben . He had come there with the Württemberg Cape Regiment . His son of the same name (* 1800) was government building inspector and engineer lieutenant there, he had two sons, Ludwig (* 1842) and Heinrich (* 1844), who continued the tribe.

The second line flourished Pomerania , where the Wolzogen to 1945 Dubberzin possessed. Several of the family's sons served as officers in the Prussian army .

The Prussian general Ludwig von Wolzüge (* 1773; † 1845) founded the third line, which was continued in Schwerin by his son Alfred von Wolhaben (* 1823; † 1883), heir to Kalbsrieth , Prussian prime lieutenant , Mecklenburg-Schwerin chamberlain and court theater manager in Schwerin .

A special kindred and friendly connection connected the Wolehmen with Friedrich Schiller . Wilhelm von Wolhaben was a student friend of Schiller (brother of the above-mentioned Prussian general Ludwig ). When rumors got out that Duke Carl Eugen was trying to extradite Schillers, the poet, on the mediation of his friend Wilhelm , was given an inconspicuous asylum in Bauerbach, Thuringia, from his mother Henriette von Wolhaben's in December 1782 . Schiller is said to have fallen in love with her daughter Charlotte von Wolehmen (* 1766; † 1794). During a trip through Rudolstadt in 1787, Schiller met Charlotte von Lengefeld (* 1766; † 1826) and her sister Caroline (* 1763; † 1847). The former became Schiller's wife in 1790, the latter the Wilhelms von Wolzüge in 1794 , which is the basis of the marriage with the Wolziehes .

possession

Family coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book, 1605
Coat of arms on Neuhaus Castle (initials: Hans Christoph Freiherr von Wolhaben zu Neuhaus)

coat of arms

  • The family coat of arms shows a red horse trotting upwards between two diagonal bars in gold . On the helmet with blue-gold covers on the right and red-gold covers on the left, a gold-studded red hip horn with a right-turned mouthpiece and a blue cord looped upwards.
  • The coat of arms from 1588 is quartered : I. and IV. In blue a golden diagonal right bar covered with a red horse, II and III. in gold a crowned black eagle . Two crowned helmets: On the right with red-gold blankets on the right and blue-gold blankets on the left, and on the left with black and gold blankets, a hermeled red tournament hat , on it a gold-studded black hip horn with a mouthpiece turned to the right and upwards looped black on the right golden cord.

Relatives

  • Andreas von Wolzüge (around 1540 – before 1603), imperial postmaster in Košice (German: Kaschau) in Hungary
  • Johann Ludwig von Wolzüge (1600–1661), influential Socinians
  • Ludwig von Wolzüge (1632–1690), professor in Utrecht
  • Johann Christoph von Wolhaben and Neuhaus (before 1666 – after 1722), secret director of Saxony-Coburg-Meißnian, Prime Minister of Saxony-Weißenfels and inheritance of the county of Henneberg
  • Ernst Ludwig von Wolzüge (1723–1774), Saxon-Hildburg Secret Legation Councilor; Sons:
  • Christoph von Wolzüge (* 1948), philosopher

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Main State Archives Munich , Tegernseeisches Lehenbuch , No. 33
  2. ↑ a b c d e GHdA, Adelslexikon (2005), Vol. XVI, pp. 363–364
  3. ^ A b c Hans Friedl: Wolzüge auf Missingdorf, Matthias von. In: Hans Friedl u. a. (Ed.): Biographical manual for the history of the state of Oldenburg . Edited on behalf of the Oldenburg landscape. Isensee, Oldenburg 1992, ISBN 3-89442-135-5 , pp. 818-819 ( online ).
  4. ↑ a b c Kneschke: New general German nobility Lexicon. (1870), Vol. 9, p. 603