Yorck von Wartenburg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of Count Yorck von Wartenburg
Family seat Schloss Klein Oels, western side with the linden terrace

Yorck von Wartenburg is the name of a Pomeranian noble family .

history

The sure lineage of the family begins with Johann Jarcke Gustkowski from the Schimmerwitz house (* around 1684, † 1736), pastor of Rowe and owner of a share of Vasgow.

In the Sixth Coalition War against France (1813) was General York during October Napoleon I at Wartenburg on behind the Elbe line and on 20 October Unstrut force. The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. thereupon raised him on June 3, 1814 to the hereditary count status with the surname of Wartenburg .

Family seat and ennoblement

The secularized Johanniter - Kommende Klein Oels , district of Ohlau , Silesia , had been the family seat and entails of the Count Yorck von Wartenburg since 1814 . The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. gave it to General Yorck along with the promotion to General Field Marshal and the elevation to the rank of count . The royal document was dated June 3, 1814. From then on, Klein Oels Palace and Park were a central meeting place for German poets, scholars and artists until 1945 . Schloss Klein Oels had a world-renowned library of 150,000 volumes and an excellent collection of copperplate engravings and woodcuts.

coat of arms

Quartered, covered with a silver heart shield, inside a St. Andrew's cross (ancestral coat of arms of the English York of Yarmouth ), in the first and fourth quarters in silver a royal crowned black eagle (Prussia), in the second and third quarters a bare sword with green and red fertilized, green laurel wreath open at the top. The coat of arms is crowned with a nine-pointed count's crown. On the right helmet ornament the Prussian eagle with black and silver covers, on the middle a silver lion head on blue and silver covers, on the left helmet ornament the sword with the laurel branch on green and silver covers. In addition, a natural lion as a shield holder on the right and a silver unicorn on the left.

Coat of arms motto : Nec cupias nec metuas (neither desire nor fear!)

Belong to this family

  • Field Marshal Count Ludwig Yorck (1759–1830) 1st Majorate Lord on Klein Oels

  • Count Ludwig Yorck (1805–1865) 2nd majorate on Klein Oels

  • Count Paul Yorck (1835–1897) 3rd Majorate Lord on Klein Oels

  • Countess Bertha von Kalckreuth, b. Countess Yorck (1864–1928)

  • Count Maximilian Yorck (1850-1900)

  • Count Heinrich Yorck (1861–1923) 4th Majorate Lord of Klein Oels and Mrs. Sophie, b. Freiin Berlichingen (1872–1945)

  • Count Peter Yorck (1904–1944)

Line Klein Oels

Mausoleum of Count Yorck von Wartenburg in the castle park of Klein Oels
Grave place of Count Yorck von Wartenburg in the mausoleum, Schlosspark Klein Oels

Schleibitz line

See also

literature

  • Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, p. 438, CA Starke Verlag , Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN  0435-2408
  • A. v. Mülverstedt: Contribution to answering the question about the fatherland of the family of the Prussian Field Marshal Count York von Wartenburg . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Volume 3 (year 1853, January – June), pp. 211–219 ( online version )

Web links

Commons : Yorck von Wartenburg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files