Wreech (noble family)
Wreech is the name of an old Neumark noble family .
history
The family first appeared in a document on January 25, 1278 with the knight Gerhardus de Wreech in Neu-Landsberg. The form of the name changed between Wrech, Wreich and Wreech. The coat of arms is identical to that of Jagow , which comes from the Altmark .
On October 2, 1786, the royal Prussian chamberlain Ludwig von Wreech was raised to the Prussian count status.
coat of arms
- The family coat of arms shows a six-spoke silver wheel in blue. On the helmet with blue-silver covers an open silver flight.
- The count's coat of arms from 1786 shows an eight-spoke silver wheel in blue. On three helmets with blue-silver covers on each side a black wing, in the middle the open white fluig of the main helmet. Two royally crowned, resisting black eagles serve as shield holders.
people
- Joachim Friedrich von Wreech (* 1650; † 1724), Brandenburg general of the cavalry
- Adam Friedrich von Wreech (* 1689; † 1746), royal Prussian lieutenant general
- Louise Eleonore von Wreech (* 1708; † 1784), born von Schöning , granddaughter of Field Marshal Hans Adam von Schöning , heiress of Schloss Tamsel (wife of the previous one)
- Ludwig von Wreich , also von Wreech (* 1734; † 1795), chamberlain and court marshal of Prince Heinrich of Prussia
Individual evidence
- ^ Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , A 18, p. 63
literature
- Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, pp. 393-394, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408