blanckensee
A family story, across centuries
From medieval mentions to the shores of the Baltic. Follow the traces of the Blanckensee name through places, people, and time.
Let the story unfold
Land changes.01 / Tracing the beginnings
A suggestion in the old genealogies,
not a confirmed starting date.
Every family story begins somewhere. This one points to lands west of the Elbe.
According to a family history last updated in Germany in 1938, older genealogies suggest the Blanckensee name may reach back beyond 1234. The same account places its possible origins west of the Elbe river.
These are clues, rather than a complete line of descent. The written family tree begins later, in 1333.
A note on the sourceWest of the Elbe
A possible beginning, as described in the family account.
02 / A name on the page
Before a continuous family tree, individual names appear as witnesses and in monastic records.
The family account mentions Aluericus, also rendered as Alverish, in a Latin document at a monastery in Lehnin. The supplied excerpt gives no date for this record.
Wasmusdus de Blanckensee is named as a witness in a Hessian document, according to the family account.
The written family tree is traced to 1333. Gyso von Blanckensee is first mentioned in that year and is later recorded as a witness in a document in 1370.
03 / Places that held the name
For generations, estates formed part of the family story. Their names remain, even as ownership and use have changed.
01 / SCHLAGENTHINEarly 1300s — 1796
The family account describes Schlagenthin as a family estate from the early 1300s until 1796. It was once owned by Gyso von Blanckensee.
Gyso is first mentioned in 1333, the starting year given for the written family tree, and appears as a witness in 1370. The excerpt does not give an exact date for his ownership of the estate.
02 / ZIPKOW1790s — 1945
Zipkow was in the family from the 1790s until 1945. The supplied account places it about 80 kilometres east of present-day Słupsk, near Poland's Baltic coast.
The supplied account describes the former estate as now used as a pig farm. This present-day description has not been independently verified. It also recalls other family estates in Prussia, between Słupsk and present-day Gdańsk.
The estate images are original, imagined illustrations. They do not depict the actual properties.
04 / Beyond dates and places
Documents preserve names. Landscapes preserve traces. Sharing the family account keeps both in view, while leaving room for what is still to be discovered.
This page is based on a family-history excerpt supplied by the site owner, referring to a family history last updated in Germany in 1938. The original volume and documents have not been consulted or independently verified for this site.
Dates, name spellings, locations, and descriptions of present-day use follow that excerpt. Earlier mentions are not presented as proof of a continuous line of descent. Illustrations are interpretive, not archival images or a family coat of arms.