Wozenitz
Wozenitz (also Wozenze , Wotzense and Wozeniz ) is the name of an old, extinct Mecklenburg noble family .
history
The family first appeared around 1330 with the squire Heino von Wozenitz zu Teschow and his brother, the knight Hartwig von Wozenitz; her cousin Konrad von Wozenitz also appears. The sons of the knight Hartwig von Wozenitz were the squires Klaus, Konrad and the wealthy Heino von Wozenitz.
At the end of the 14th century, the squire Henning von Wozenitz zu Lanken, Otto von Wozenitz and knight Heinrich von Wozenitz are mentioned; the latter in 1379 was a vassal of Prince Lorenz of Werle and among other things this with the Good Vogelsang in the church today Lalendorf at Rostock invested .
Kurd von Wotzense lived in the Neu-Kalen Bailiwick in 1425 .
The main estate of the von Wozenitz family was the Teschow estate.
coat of arms
According to a seal by Klaus von Wozenitz from 1366, the coat of arms of the von Wozenitz family had two corrugated crossbars; the squire Heinrich von Wozenitz sealed a document in 1356 with three crossbars drawn in waves. Another variant had two jagged cross ties or rows of iron hats in the shield; here the tribal affinity with the aforementioned coats of arms of those von Wozenitz is considered not to be certain.
Trivia
- In the floor of the Teterow church behind the altar is the grave slab of Otto von Wozenitz from the end of the 16th century.
- In 1525 Jürgen von Wozenitz was one of the 280 signatories of the Union of Estates in Mecklenburg.
- In the village church Dorfkirche Alt Karin there was or is a painted disc from the 16th century, which shows one of the coat of arms of the von Wozenitz family.
Estates
Literature and Sources
- Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 10th Division; Extinct Mecklenburg nobility; Author: GA von Mülverstedt; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe
- Mecklenburg record book. Vol. I - XX A, Schwerin 1836-1936