IDEA
REDAKCJA
NUMERY
WSKAZÓWKI
LISTA RECENZENTÓW
I PROCEDURA RECENZOWANIA
KONTAKT
|
Marta Adamska - The current state of research on family
history of Stolberg-Wernigerode Dönhoffstädt and their archives in the State
Archives in Olsztyn
Stolbergowie-Wernigerode were an old aristocratic family, completely unknown in Polish
historiography. The origins of the family, but also development of the individual lines,
may be reconstructed based on the nineteenth and early twentieth-century German heraldic
and genealogical publications, as well as individual biographies of members of the
family. To a certain degree information collected from above resources may be completed
by an album dedicated to the noble's residencies situated in the Kingdom of Prussia in
the nineteenth century, and also by the book Stolberg 1210-2010. Achthundertjährigen
zur Geschichte des Geschlechts published in 2010. Nevertheless, these resources do
not provide a complete image of family life and their activities. In particular - omitted
by researchers to date - was the Silesian branch of Stolberg-Wernigerode, which
inherited the family fortune of the Prussian line of Dönhoffstädt -
Dönhoff. Its fate has been recorded in family archives of Dönhoff family,
preserved in the State Archives in Olsztyn. These family archives are a rich resource
starting point for the family history of Stolberg-Wernigerode Dönhoffstädt.
Documents regarding the following matters are of especially great value: personal
relationships, family, family property, economic and administrative documents on the
management of the Stolberg-Wernigerode forests in the 30s of the twentieth century. One
must also mention here documents of various activities of the last owner of Dönhoffstädt
- Albrecht: political, journalistic and scientific. Nevertheless, the family history
of Stolberg-Wernigerode family remains unknown, and in the shadow of the House of
Dönhoff.
|