Wuthenau (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those
of Wuthenau

Wuthenau is from the Brandenburg nobility originating family, with headquarters in Wutenow that in the 18th century in the Electorate of Saxony was a resident.

history

The oldest detectable representatives of the family were Nicolaus de Wtonowe and his brother Peter de Wtonowe , who appear in documents as followers of the Margraves of Brandenburg in 1273 and 1282 . The uninterrupted trunk line begins with Nicolaus.

The line based in Brandenburg died out. A branch of the family had owned the Großpaschleben manor in Anhalt since 1602 ; In 1706/07 the Wuthenau built a baroque castle there. Another branch had moved to Electoral Saxony . The family seat of Glesien originated in the Saxon office of Delitzsch , which fell to the Kingdom of Prussia in 1815 . In 1836 the Saxon chamberlain Karl Adam Traugott von Wuthenau (died 1862) bought the combined manors of Hohenthurm Castle and Rosenfeld (Delitzsch Office), and in 1861 Niemberg in the Prussian Saalekreis. The two manors Hohenthurm and Rosenfeld formed a family entails commission from 1879 , Glesien and Niemberg followed later.

Elevation of rank

At the request of Max von Wuthenau († 1912), Kaiser Wilhelm II signed the diploma on December 18, 1911, which raised him to Count. The entry in the nobility book of the Kingdom of Saxony under German nobility, Counts , took place on March 31, 1913 at the instigation of Major Carl (Karl) Adam Graf von Wuthenau-Hohenthurm . He was married to Maria Antoniette Countess Chotek von Chotkowa and Wognin, the sister of the Duchess von Hohenberg, who was born Sophie Countess Chotek von Chotkowa , who was murdered in Sarajevo in 1914 .

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Wuthenau
Schlesisches Wappenbuch 1901

The family coat of arms shows two red poker hooks placed upwards in the St. Andrew's cross on a silver shield. A red-clad virgin with loose blonde hair grows out of the helmet, which is decorated with red and silver blankets, and holds a red poker hook in each hand that is held at an angle from the ground.

Some coats of arms of the Wuthenau family are decorated with a star or several stars. It should be noted that on all seals before the 16th century the coats of arms are depicted without a star. At the special request of the count's line of the family, Wilhelm II's coat of arms was returned to its original state (silver shield, red poker hook, no star).

The coat of arms of the count's house, awarded by Kaiser Wilhelm II, has a silver shield with crossed red poker hooks. The crest consists of the count's crown and three crowned tournament helmets with red-and-white blankets. A natural ten-pointed antler grows from the crown of the left helmet. On the middle helmet is the red clad, golden crowned Virgin. She is holding two poker hooks in her hands. On the right helmet there is a tower with battlements. The coat of arms is held on the right and left by two soaring stags. The deer and the deer antlers on the left helmet indicate the wife of Count Max I. Countess Pauline was born Countess of Württemberg . The tower indicates the Hohenthurm Castle , which has been in the family's possession since 1836.

Personalities

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stadtarchiv Salzwedel; from Adolph Friedrich Riedel : Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis , A XIV 14
  2. ^ Carl Adam von Wuthenau-Hohenthurm: The family of the gentlemen v. Wuthenau and Count v. Wuthenau-Hohenthurm, 1969

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