Wrede (Westphalian noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Wrede

Wrede is the name of an old Westphalian noble family . His headquarters are in Amecke , today a district of Sundern in the Sauerland. Branches of the family still exist today.

history

The family appears for the first time in a document with Eberhardus Wrethe , who appeared in 1202 in the entourage of Count Gottfried II von Arnsberg . The safe trunk line begins in 1318 with Heinrich Wrede on Sorpe.

Wrede to Amecke

House Amecke

The von Wrede family in Amecke has had property since 1338. Her house Amecke , called "castrum Adenbecke" in 1397 , was divided in 1419 into an upper and a lower house.

Hennecke Wrede owned the lower house in the 15th century. He was married to NN Neuhoff .

Johann Wrede I. zu Amecke , his son, inherited the lower house. He was married to Margarete von Rotthausen. The couple had two sons, Dietrich Wrede and Johann Wrede . Dietrich Wrede zu Amecke married Margareta v. Cobbenrode, heiress to Melschede, and Johann Wrede came into possession of the Frönsberg family .

The daughter Klara Wrede to Amecke († after 1544) married c.1510 Heinrich von Heygen to forever . Their son Johann von Heygen marries Anna Wrede, heiress von Amecke, upper house . As a result, the upper Amecke house came into the possession of the Heygen family.

The low house remained in the possession of the von Wrede family without interruption. In 1758 Baron Philipp Hermann von Wrede zu Amecke bought back the upper house and thus reunited the entire property. Today the forestry business and golf course are run by Eberhard Freiherrn von Wrede (* 1968) and Baroness Katharina born. Beliczey de Baicza.

Wrede to Melschede

Melschede Castle
Willebadessen Monastery

Albrecht (Albert) Wrede , Drost von Arnsberg , received the upper house of Melschede Castle from the Archbishop of Cologne in 1364 as a gift to the County of Arnsberg for his services in acquiring it.

Konrad von Wrede was Marshal of Westphalia from 1454-1458

Baron Ferdinand von Wrede zu Melschede , Landdrost of Westphalia, had today's castle built as a four-wing complex between 1659 and 1669 (it was sold in 2010). The builders were Bonitius from Trier and Nicolas Spantzl from Meran .

Engelbert Anton von Wrede (1742–1808) was the last provost of the cathedral chapter of Münster during the Old Kingdom.

In 1871 this branch of the family, which still exists today, acquired the former Benedictine monastery of Willebadessen and its lands. In 1977 the monastery buildings were transferred to the European Sculpture Park Foundation. In 2016/17 the Willebadessen monastery was transferred back to the family, as the foundation could no longer bear the maintenance costs for the buildings.

Wrede to Steinbeck

1617 called Count Simon VI. zur Lippe the Junker Rabe de Wrede as a conductor (administrator) for his vacant estate Steinbeck near Salzuflen . As a landlord, he was a tenant who was subject to the sovereign, but who could always bequeath his lease property. The von Wrede family kept Steinbeck in their possession until 1810 and then sold it.

Wrede on Brüninghausen and Mühlenbach

Brüninghausen Castle

Steffen von Wrede (* approx. 1570; † 1629) married Wilhelma von Rolshausen in 1612 and in July 1626 came into her possession of half of the Mühlenbach (Molenbach) estate near Koblenz-Arenberg, which was destroyed in the Thirty Years War .

Johann Heinrich von Wrede auf Brüninghaus and Mühlenbach (1628–1688), his son, inherited half of the property. He also acquired Brüninghausen Castle , the original headquarters of the von Ohle family . His wife was Sibylle Elisabeth von der Horst .

Jobst Bernhard von Wrede auf Brüninghausen and Mühlenbach (1689–1708), their son, died early. 1715 brought his widow Anna Sabina, geb. von und zu Heese (1665–1720), also the other half, which had previously passed to Johann Wilhelm von Hunolstein († 1664 as Imperial Feldzeugmeister ) and then to the von Heddesdorf family through inheritance in a female line , through purchase.

Carl Philipp von Wrede (1702–1775), her son, inherited Brünninghausen and Mühlenbach and married Maria Anna von Schade . In addition, he came back into possession of the family headquarters Amecke.

Philipp Hermann Friedrich von Wrede (* 1728; † February 20, 1793), her son and heir, grew up again in Amecke. He married Eleonora Balduina von Schencking, heiress of Vögeding. In 1758 he bought back the upper Amecke house.

Carl von Wrede, her eldest son, inherited his father's property and was later able to bring it into his allodial property . Mühlenbach Castle (Koblenz) was sold at the beginning of the 19th century. Carl's younger brother Caspar (born September 4, 1793) studied at the University of Münster from 1809 to 1819 . After the brothers' estate settlement in 1816, Caspar bought the Blessenohl house with his severance payment from the von Schade family and married Antoinette von Fürstenberg , with whom he had four children. In 1825 an unknown person laid a foundling on the stairs of the manor house for the young couple. Thereupon Antoinette left her husband with the children. Caspar von Wrede was found shot on the way from Blessenohl to Eslohe on November 13, 1832. Two years later Haus Blessenohl was sold.

Today's owner of Schloss Brüninghausen is Christoph Freiherr von Wrede.

Ranks

On December 10, 1687, Fabian von Wrede was raised to the status of a Swedish count.

The Bavarian Wrede

Field Marshal Carl Philipp von Wrede , who was raised to the status of Bavarian prince in 1814 , does not belong to this family; he came from a Bavarian family that was not raised to the nobility until 1790. However, he adopted a coat of arms similar to that of the Westphalian family.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms , split in red and yellow, shows a wreath with five (1: 2: 2) roses of mixed up colors. On the helmet with a red and yellow cover, the wreath between an open flight, golden on the right and red on the left.

Family saying: "Virtuti pro patria" (bravery for the fatherland)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StArchiv Münster, Wedinghausen Monastery, printed in westf. Document book 7, 1901, No. 15
  2. ↑ Ralf Benner: Transfer of the building back to Konstantin Freiherr von Wrede: Willebadessen monastery changes hands. In: Westfalen-Blatt . December 28, 2016, accessed June 1, 2017 .
  3. ^ Knesebeck: Historical paperback of the nobility in the Kingdom of Hanover. Hanover, 1840 p. 305f.

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