Wreech (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Wreech

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

1. ^ 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