The noble Polish family Ramel.
The noble Polish family Ramel.
Ramel also Rahmel earlier Romele is the name of an old Pomeranian noble family . Today the family lives in the baron class in Sweden .
The history of research does not provide a uniform picture of the origins of the family. Research has not yet been able to provide evidence of the previously frequently postulated descent from a Brunswick family of the same name , which also flourished in Mecklenburg between 1190 and 1378 . The assertion made that the Ramel came to Pomerania from the Margraviate of Brandenburg cannot be supported either .
In any case, the Ramel are counted among the oldest and later also among the castle-sitting and thus most respected families of Pomerania.
The Ramel and Gerborg, the widow of Herbert Romele zu Lassan, were first mentioned in a document in 1256 when she exchanged their village of Banzin on Usedom for the Grobe monastery for the now- disappeared village of Rauene near Lassan .
Both the presumed son Johannes von Ramel († after 1303) was Lord of Lassan, Alt Schlage and Persanzig . The family came to Western Pomerania with him . He was married to Miroslawa, the widow of Casimir , castellan of Kolberg from the house of the Swantiborids , which underlines the high reputation of the early Ramel. Two daughters and four sons are known from the next generation, with the two sons Arndt († after 1336) and Egberdt († after 1313) continuing the family line and becoming the founders of the two main lines Alt Schlage- Wusterwitz and Nemitz - Weitenhagen . Both lines were subdivided several times in the period that followed.
The Wusterwitz line was also able to take over the office of hereditary marshal in the Cammin monastery . When they lost this office during the secularization, in 1657 they were given the office of hereditary kitchen master of Western Pomerania by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm , which they held until 1773. The last male member of the family in Pomerania was the District Administrator Caspar Friedrich von Ramel (* 1727, † 1795).
In 1584, the Danish nobility naturalization for Henrik Ramel from the Wusterwitz line, whose descendants, the brothers Ove and Hans Ramel, received the Swedish nobility naturalization in 1664. In 1770 the Ramel were raised to the status of Swedish barons . Only this line has survived to the present day and has been based at Övedskloster Castle since 1753 .
The divided coat of arms shows a hexagonal gold star in red above, and below it is interwoven with blue and silver. On the helmet with blue, red and gold covers, nine tendrils each of three (blue, red, gold) intertwined. Kneschke goes into detail on deviations in tinging and the gem with reference to Meding and Bagmihl .
Ramel coat of arms (vol. 8 p. 90)
Ramel's coat of arms . It should be a red wall with three pinnacles, above it a silver star in a golden field, on the helmet and crown: four peacock feathers or other black and white checkered ones. The Ramel family in Pomorskie is proud of this coat of arms. One of them was Henryk Ramel, King Dulski's Chancellor. Otto Ramel with Jan Fryderyk, the Pomeranian Duke, chancellor for 18 years and in 1610 the course of his mortal life ended. Jerzy Protonotarius the Pomeranian Prince 1482. In the Brunświcki Duchy of Ramel, a nobleman tied his horse to a branch under the mountain on a tree, which, when he hit the ground once or twice with his hoof, dug a lead line over it A lead mountain was then dug out of which lead is very strong: as a souvenir. this mountain is called Ramel. 319. de family. Prussia. N. stood behind Weiher, the mother of Colonel Ernst.
Hondorf, coat of arms of Nabram (vol. 4 p. 367-374)