Osten family
Script error: No such module "AfC submission catcheck". Von der Osten [ˈoːstən] is the name of a noble family originally from the Abbey of Bremen, resident in Pomerania since 1248, with its ancestral home in Osten an der Oste in Lower Saxony. It acquired numerous estates in Western- and Eastern Pomerania. In 1854, the Osten's were one of the first ten families to hold hereditary presentation rights to the Prussian manor.[1]
History[edit]
Origins[edit]
The actual area of origin of the von der Osten family is said to be the area around Paderborn in Westphalia.[2] However, the family first appears in documents in 1219 with Egehard de Oste and the presumed pairs of brothers Bertold de Oste, Theodericus de Oste, Walther de Oste and Hizel de Oste as ministerials of Archbishop Gebhard II. of Bremen or more precisely of the counts of Stade, which in turn went in fief from the archbishop and fell home to him in 1236.[3] The family name derives from the church village Osten near Cuxhaven on the left bank of the Oste, a navigable tributary of the Lower Elbe in Lower Saxony, where the Osten had the knight's estate in fief from the Prince-Archbishopric of Bremen in the 13th and 14th centuries. With Hermann III, Burgmann of Horneburg, they are mentioned for the last time in 1426 in their ancestral home.[4]
From Lower Saxony the noble family spread to Holstein, Mecklenburg, Pomerania and the principality of Rügen. The brothers Ulrich and Friedrich ("Olricus advocatus Dyminensis et dominus Fredericus frater ipsius") appear in documents in Demmin in November 1248.[5]
Bailiffs at Demmin[edit]
Knight Ulricus de Osten was mentioned in documents from 1243 to 1255 as a princely Pomeranian bailiff at Demmin. As such, he transferred four hectares in Wittenwerder to the Dargun monastery. His sons Arnold, Hermann and Otto are also mentioned in the period from 1271 to 1322 as knights and burgomasters at the princely castle Haus Demmin. Already in 1264 the ducal line of Pomerania-Demmin had become extinct and the dominion had fallen to the dukes of Pomerania-Stettin, which is why the bailiffs at the castle were now alone in office. Hennecke, the son of Arnold, was designated as ducal Pomeranian bailiff at Lindenberg Castle near Upost from 1319 to 1363. Arnold jun., the son of Otto was also knight and Burgmann zu Demmin from 1303 to 1315. Wedige, the son of Hermann, was named as Vogt zu Demmin, sat on the castle Osten near Demmin. He was thus the first of Osten on this castle, to which he probably gave his name. Osten Castle was probably built at the beginning of the 13th century. It passed to the Winterfelds in the early 14th century and to the Maltzahns in 1330, but the Osten continued to hold estates in the area until after 1363. After the Thirty Years' War the castle was demolished.
Landlords in Pomerania[edit]
But in 1303 Hynricus and Bernardus de Osten were named as vassals of the prince of Werle. Thus they seem to have passed from Pomerania to Mecklenburg into Werle's service.
Fredericus de Osten miles dictus de woldenborch later sits in Pyritz on Woldenburg, district Regenwalde (today Dąbie). With both brothers and their descendants, the Osten belonged to the castle- or palace-settled families in the Duchy of Pomerania.[6] Further the family spread to the Neumark, Poland and Denmark, later also to Prussia and Bavaria.
In 1367 the Osten von den Wedell bought the lordship of Plathe in Hinterpommern. In 1577 Wedige von der Osten was forced to sell the old family castle and part of the town to Hermann von Blücher. Osten built a new castle a few hundred meters away, which belonged to the family until the expulsion in 1945. However, today's "New Castle" is - except for a side wing - only a construction of the early 20th century. Around Plathe existed from the 17th century until 1817 the Osten- und Blüchersche Kreis, so called because of the two families with the largest landholdings. The divided rule over Plathe ended when Matthias Conrad von der Osten (1691-1748), Privy Councillor of Finance and Chief President of the Kurmärkische Kriegs- und Domänenkammer zu Berlin,[7] married the last heiress of the Plathener line of Blücher in 1731 and thus reunited the two estates. The district was now called "Ostenscher Kreis".
Larger estates of the von der Osten family were also located on Rügen, including Gut Kapelle near Gingst and Gut Lipsitz near Bergen on Rügen (1603 to 1730). In 1615, Henning von der Osten bought Penkun with Penkun Castle in Western Pomerania; after a sale in 1756, it was reacquired by August Wilhelm von der Osten in 1817 and remained in the family until expropriation during the land reform in 1945.
Gut Blumberg was acquired by Heinrich Karl von der Osten in 1763 from his father-in-law and uncle from the von Sydow family. His son Karl von der Osten built the manor house in 1792. In 1898 the 2,500 ha estate passed to Friedrich Wilhelm von der Osten auf Penkun. Henning von der Osten was expropriated by the land reform in 1945. In 1996, his three sons succeeded in reacquiring the manor house with farm and park, as well as the larger part of the Blumberger Forest from the state in 1997, and in taking it into their own management.
Other branches became property in West Germany through marriage, for example in 1974 at Bassenheim Castle (whereby the branch of the Barons of Waldthausen-Osten became a member of the Rhenish Knighthood) and in 1978 at the Edelhof Ricklingen in Hanover.
Presentation right to the Prussian Herrenhaus (manor)[edit]
King Frederick William IV granted the family the right of presentation to the Prussian Herrenhaus in 1855. The family was thus one of the ten families to receive this right in the initial phase of the Herrenhaus in 1854/1855.
Coat of Arms[edit]
The coat of arms of the von der Osten family is split. It shows on the right in blue three oblique silver wave beams and on the left in red an upright silver key, whose beard is turned to the left. The wavy bars are supposed to symbolize the river Oste (according to another view the three Elbe tributaries Oste, Lühe and Schwinge), the upright key the archbishopric Bremen.[8] On the helmet in black open eagle flight two crossed golden keys in front of a silver column adorned with three peacock feathers and studded with a silver star. The helmet covers are silver-red on the right and silver-blue on the left.
Notable members[edit]
- Adolph Sigfried von der Osten (21 October 1726, Denmark - 2 January 1797)
- Hans-Georg von der Osten
References[edit]
- ↑ Spenkuch, Hartwin (1998). Das Preußische Herrenhaus. Düsseldorf: Droste-Verlag. p. 174. Search this book on
- ↑ Klempin, Kratz. Matrikeln und Verzeichnisse der Pommerschen Ritterschaft. p. 49, 104. Search this book on
- ↑ Hamburger Urkundenbuch (434 ed.). Search this book on
- ↑ Förste, Arthur Conrad (1975). Die Ministerialen der Grafschaft Stade im Jahre 1219 und ihre Familien. Stade. p. 20-23. Search this book on
- ↑ Grotefend, Otto (1914). Geschichte des Geschlechts v. der Osten (2, 6-7 ed.). Leipzig: Urkundenbuch 1. p. 1-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Grotefend, Otto (1914). Geschichte des Geschlechts v. der Osten (2, 6-7 ed.). Leipzig: Urkundenbuch 1. p. 1-3. Search this book on
- ↑ Zedler, Johann Heinrich; et al. (1741). Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon aller Wissenschafften und Künste (28 ed.). Halle and Leipzig. p. 682-683. Search this book on
- ↑ [gutshof-blumberg.de gutshof-blumberg.de] Check
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