Wussow (noble family)
Wussow is the name of two Pomeranian nobility families . While the Western Pomeranian family, which is named after their ancestral estate Wussow near Stettin, has died out, branches of the Western Pomeranian family, which borrowed their name from their ancestral estate Wussow in Lauenburg , still exist today. There is no proven tribal relationship between the two families.
Western Pomerania
The Wussow belonged to the oldest noble families in Pomerania, and may well be regarded as an indigenous family. As early as the 13th century, the family had extensive property in the Szczecin area.
In 1262, Marquard Wussow , a feudal man of the church, was awarded 13 hooves in Mandelkow . 1445 got the Wussow by Duke Swantibor III. awarded the gift office .
After disputes about homage , Adam Wussow's property and the Schulzengericht zu Lübzin were confiscated in 1594. It was not until 1604, after a long legal action, that he was reinstated in his estates. Lübzin then stayed with the family until 1795, when it was finally sold to Julius Friedrich Wilhelm von Flemming for 114,500 Thaler .
With the death of the hereditary cupbearer Philipp Otto Ludwig von Wussow († March 26, 1804), the male line of the family found its way out.
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows half a red stag in silver. On the crowned helmet with silver-red blankets the red stag, growing.
The shield is first documented in 1471 by an imprint of Heinrich Wussow's seal , and again by a certificate seal from Joachim Wussow in 1528. The gem is first documented in a document seal from Lüdtke Wussow from 1557.
Western Pomerania
The first recorded family member is Petrus de Wussow , who appeared in 1277. The lineage of the family begins with Jeske von Wussow , which is documented in 1379.
The tribunal councilor and later district administrator Georg Christoph von Wussow tried in 1772 to enfeoff King Friedrich II with the goods of the noble family Wussow from West Pomerania, since their extinction appeared possible. But he could not provide evidence of a tribal relationship and was unsuccessful.
coat of arms
The root of arms shows in silver shield three of three stars excessive side by side upright lampreys . On the helmet with silver-blue blankets three ostrich feathers, blue-silver-blue.
The shield is evidenced by the seals of Hans Wossowe and Matias Wossow in 1528, whereby the seal of the latter depicts the central star in a differently exaggerated manner.
The following shield has been used since 1680: Divided by blue and silver, at the top an upturned golden crescent moon , above its center and each horn a golden star, below three blue lampreys, one above the other. On the helmet with blue-silver covers three (blue, silver, blue) ostrich feathers.
Known family members
- Georg Christoph von Wussow (1745–1794), Prussian district administrator in the Lauenburg-Bütow district
- Philipp von Wussow (1792–1870), Prussian infantry general, adjutant general to the king
- Alexander von Wussow (1820–1889), Prussian district administrator in the Heiligenstadt district
- Botho von Wussow (1828–1891), Prussian lieutenant general
- Udo von Wussow (1854–1915), Prussian major general
- Friedrich von Wussow (1856–1914), Prussian major general, died near Liège
- Waldemar von Wussow (1865–1938), Saxony-Altenburg Minister of State
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility. Nobility Lexicon . Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN 0435-2408 , pp. 428-429.
- Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Volume 2, Stettin 1846, pp. 118-125 .
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the noble houses. 1903. Fourth year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1902, pp. 943ff.
Individual evidence
- ^ Diplomaticae familiae de Wussow. State Archives Stettin , p. 5.
- ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . Volume A XI, p. 507.