Wopersnow (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Wopersnow

Wopersnow , occasionally also Wobersnow , French : de Wopersnowe , rarely Woperschnow , Wopersnau or Wobbersnau u. Ä., is the name of an old, originally Pomeranian noble family , whose members also settled in Mecklenburg , Denmark , Braunschweig and the French-speaking Luxembourg border area. The sex is believed to have died out before 1800.

history

The first written mention of the noble family goes back to 1385 and mentions the names of the brothers Pribislaus, Tymmo and Tydericus on the occasion of the sale of the village of Nelep . The continuous line of trunks begins with Michael von Wopersnow, mentioned in 1392.

The family estates in Pomerania were Standemin , Kamissow and Natztow .

From the family, Eustach von Wopersnow and Adrian von Wopersnow went to Livonia , where they were mentioned several times in documents in the middle of the 16th century.

With Joachim von Wopersnow († 1574) from the house of Natztow, the Schwerin cathedral dean and court advisor to Duke Ulrich , the family also settled in Mecklenburg from 1562 . The Wopersnow owned the Buchholz , Demelow, Keez, Lipz, Penzin , Rubow, Schlagsdorf , Thurow and Zürow estates here. Starting from Thurow, the male line flourished in the fifth generation last in Denmark with General Joachim Ulrich von Wopersnow († 1782).

A French line split off from the Natztow house around 1600, and its members married into locally important families by around 1700. They owned, among other things, the goods Buzenol in Wallonia and Bazailles in Lorraine . This branch of the de Wopersnowe is also male in 1741 and finally extinguished in 1794 after only four or five generations.

From the Standemin house, the family with Arndt von Wopersnow († 1621) settled in Braunschweig. Under Duke Friedrich Ulrich , Arndt von Wopersnow was appointed as a councilor in the government in 1616 and played an inglorious role in the so-called regiment of the disloyal Drosten around Anton von der Streithorst . The councils pursued enrichment, fraud and counterfeiting of coins. In any case, the Wopersnow family was able to take possession of the Dedenhausen , Hastenbeck , Moringen , Nettlingen , Steyerberg , Wendhausen and Wellersen estates. In Schellerten there is still a Freiherr-von-Wobersnow-Strasse , and the coat of arms of the Wöhle district also shows part of the coat of arms of the Wobersnow family , both of which are reminiscent of the family's historical presence in the region. Rittmeister Staitz von Wobersnau , who was only eighteen years old and executed in Prague on February 14, 1633, also gained notoriety from this branch of the family . With Baron Franz Johann Rudolph von Wobersnow zu Nettlingen, who had four daughters from his marriage Odilia Maria Barbara von Bockenförde called Schüngel , this Braunschweigisch- Hildesheimer branch in the male line in 1722 and in 1778 after three or four generations finally expired.

By the mid-18th century, the pomeranian family had in the Neumark with Wugarten and Crampe . Possession acquired. With the two royal Prussian lieutenants in the Garde du Corps, Ernst Friedrich von Wopersnow zu Standemin († after 1773) and Georg August von Wopersnow zu Wugarten († 1774), the male line of the Pomeranian family was completely extinguished in 1786.

coat of arms

The shield, divided obliquely to the left , shows a growing, naturally-colored deer in silver above , the lower field is obliquely cut from blue and silver ; on the helmet with its blue and silver covers, five alternating silver and black ostrich feathers surrounded by a gold chain .

The Mecklenburg line deviated from the growing stag as a crest .

" Deer over chess " is the recurring motif of a group of coats of arms of several Pomeranian noble families.

Relatives (chronological)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albrecht Elzow : Pomeranian Adelsspiegel.
  2. ^ Siebmacher (Lit.), 1901, p. 260, Tfl. 182
  3. ^ Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . III. Volume, Schwerin 1899, p. 396 and P. 430.
  4. ^ François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chenaye-Desbois : Dictionnaire de La Noblesse. 1774, p. 631.
  5. ↑ On the regiment of the disloyal Drosten : Wilhelm Havemann : History of the Lande Braunschweig and Lüneburg. Volume 2, Göttingen 1855, p. 582ff.
  6. ↑ The Hastenbeck Estate and its masters.
  7. ↑ Bernd Warlich: The Thirty Years' War in personal reports, chronicles and reports.
  8. ^ Siebmacher (Lit.), 1880, p. 107, Tfl. 65.
  9. ^ Siebmacher (Lit.), 1902, p. 119, Tfl. 67.
  10. ^ Wilhelm Havemann : History of the Lands Braunschweig and Lüneburg , Vol. 2, Göttingen 1838, pp. 12-15.