Raven Christoph von OEYNHAUSEN (1655-1748): Order NIEHEIM 1733 for REELSEN

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About the noble family of Oeynhausen (source: wikipedia):

Oeynhausen is the name of an old Westphalian noble family. The lords of Oeynhausen belonged to the Uradel in Paderborner Land. The spelling of the name varies from Oyenhausen, Oynhausen, Oinhausen, Öynhausen, Oenhausen to Oeynhausen. Branches of the family exist to this day.

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Origin: In old annals, the name Oeynhausen is interpreted as Einhaus. The family is mentioned for the first time with Bernhardus vilicus de Oienhusen in a May 1237 issued document. Oeynhausen, the ancestral seat that gave the company its name, is now a village near the town of Nieheim in the district of Höxter. The uninterrupted family line begins around 1300 with Johann von Oynhausen. From the second half of the 14th At the end of the 19th century, the family managed to take over the formerly Schwalenbergische Oldenburg (Marienmünster) as a pledge and to permanently establish itself as one of the leading noble families in the border region between the Bishopric of Paderborn and the County of Lippe.

Lines and Possessions: From the mid-14th From the middle of the 19th century until 1632 Merlsheim Castle was owned by the family. Johann, Konrad and the brothers Burchard and Friedrich von Oeynhausen appeared at the feudal day of the Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn in 1500. Since that time, the sex spread to the surrounding lands. As early as 1430, the Lichtenau and Sudheim estates came into possession. part ownership of the family. Since the 16th century to the early 18 In the 19th century Eichholz belonged to the family, which divided it into two estates in 1612. In 1536 the Grevenburg estate near Nieheim was acquired, which to this day belongs to the Barons of Oeynhausen.

In 1592 the family acquired the Oldenburg near Marienmünster. Adam Arnd von Oeynhausen bought further fiefdoms from his brother-in-law Asmus von Baumbach in 1600, he died in 1635 as Burgmann zu Gießen. His son Heinrich Hermann († 1671) became Kammerjunker in Darmstadt in 1641 and Brunswick Landdrost and Berghauptmann. Georg von Oeynhausen was an imperial colonel around 1630 and, like Melchior Hermann von Oeynhausen, ducal-Holstein colonel, distinguished himself during the Thirty Years' War. Arnd von Oeynhausen, lord of the Grevenburg estate, was captain and commander of Gießen in 1650. Raban Arnold von Oeynhausen acquired the deserted village of Nordling from the Schencken zu Schweinsberg family in 1665 as a fief of the Fulda Abbey. Friedrich von Oeynhausen was one of the canons of Paderborn in 1702. Later, individual branches of the family owned Langreder in the Calenberger Land and more recently Brahlstorf near Wittenburg in Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

The lords of Oeynhausen belonged to the knightly nobility in the Calenberger Land early on. During the 18 At the end of the 19th century, they were also members of the imperial knighthood in the Rhenish circle of knights.

The Magdeburg canon Count Ludwig Ferdinand von Oeynhausen, grandson of the first Count of Oeynhausen Raban Christoph and his wife Sophia Juliana von der Schulenburg, was adopted by an uncle on the mother's side in 1725 and then called himself Count von der Schulenburg-Oeynhausen. He later became an imperial colonel and was promoted to major general in 1735. The Count's tribe established two lines and the first line in turn established three branches.

Progenitor of the first branch of the first line was the electoral Hanoverian chief hunter and forest master Friedrich Ulrich Graf von Oeynhausen, lord of Grevenburg, Reelsen and Dören.

The second branch was founded by Count Julius von Oeynhausen, son of the Electoral Hanoverian Major Count Ludwig von Oeynhausen.

The third branch of the first line is characterized as a Portuguese-Brazilian branch by Johann Carl August von Oeynhausen-Grevenburg (* 1777 or 1778 probably in Lisbon), last Captain General of São Paulo (1819-1821), multiple ministers (1827-1831, Foreign and Navy) under the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro I and most recently Portuguese Governor of Mozambique (1837–1838). He was later made Marquez de Aracaty. He was the son of Count Carl August von Oeynhausen (* 5. Nov 1738; † 3 March 1793). His mother is unknown, he was raised by his stepmother, Leonor de Almeida Portugal Lorena y Lencastre, the 4th Marqueza de Alorna (1750–1839, married to his father since 1779). His stepbrother Johann Carl Ulrich (* 1779) inherited the title of count from his father. Johann Carl August von Oeynhausen-Grevenburg died on 28. March 1838, leaving no descendants.

The second line of counts has expired. The last relative was Count Ferdinand Ludwig (II.) von Oeynhausen, princely chamberlain of Lippe († 1860).

In Reelsen, where previously there was only a manager's house, a new manor house was built in 1871 outside of the village. A younger son from Reelsen, Count Cuno von Oeynhausen (1860-1922), married the heiress to the Fideikommisse Driburg, Hedwig Freiin von Cramm-Sierstorpff (1874-1907) in 1894 and, with imperial approval, bore the name Count von Oeynhausen-Sierstorpff from 1909. By marrying into the Cramm family, this branch of the family took over the Driburg spa founded in 1784 by Kaspar Heinrich von Sierstorpff. The descendants still run the health clinics Gräflicher Park Bad Driburg.

Status surveys: The royal-British chamberlain and chief huntsman in the Electorate of Hanover Raben Christoph von Oeynhausen was from Emperor Charles VI. on the 17th Raised to the rank of Imperial Count in Vienna on April 17, 1722. The census was taken on April 14. August 1725 in Hanover recognized and announced. He and his wife Margarethe owe this elevation. Baroness von der Schulenburg, their loyal service to the sovereign Elector Georg I Ludwig, because they had the liaison of their sister or Sister-in-law Melusine von der Schulenburg officially raised the daughters of the later British king as her own children.

In order to be able to be married in a manner befitting her status, the foster daughter Margarete Gertrud von Oeynhausen received a October 1721 the count status with the salutation high and well-born and a coat of arms multiplication with that of the Schulenburg. She married that same year, on March 30. September, the Hereditary Count Albrecht Wolfgang zu Schaumburg-Lippe, the envoys of Hanover and Great Britain at the Palatinate court in Mannheim.

Other branch lines of the family bore the title of baron by customary law. A Prussian recognition of the baronship took place on 28. April 1874 by Supreme Cabinet Order.

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Family coat of arms: The family coat of arms shows an upright silver ladder with four rungs in blue. On the crowned helmet are two silver ladder trees slanting outwards, each with four rungs turned outwards (half ladders). The helmet covers are blue-silver.

Coat of arms illustrations: In later illustrations, a blue flight appears as a crest, whereby each wing is covered with one of the ladder trees.

The ladder from the coat of arms of the Oeynhausen family still appears today in the coat of arms of Bad Oeynhausen, where silver is shown in the tinge of white.