The von Maltzahn Family
The Maltzahn arms depict the heads of two hares and a grapevine with three leaves; its colors are blue, gold, and red. The oldest historical source for the existence of the Maltzahn family is a document dated 1194.
The various branches of the family bore the name Moltzan from 1270 until the late middle ages. The spelling Maltzan first appears at the beginning of the sixteenth century. The Maltzans were raised to the status of barons of the Empire in 1530. The Pomeranian line of Helmuth von Maltzahn of Kummerow was also granted a barony with the additional right to bear the title count of Plessen. Over the centuries the Maltzahns came to possess fiefs throughout Mecklenburg and West Pomerania, and by about 1500 were counted among the richest and most powerful families northeast of the Elbe.
In 1900 the Maltzahns possessed lands in Mecklenburg, West Pomerania, Silesia, Brandenburg, and Poland with an area of 44,219 hectares or 442,190,000 square meters.
With the end of the Second World War in 1945 all the Maltzahn properties, comprising a total area of 50,000 hectares or 500,000,000 square meters, were expropriated without compensation. The Maltzahns were forced to flee, leaving behind all their worldly goods.
After 1990 not a few Maltzahns returned to Mecklenburg. Helmuth Freiherr (Baron) von Maltzahn, who acquired the ruined castle of Ulrichshusen, converted the property into a hotel and continues to make musical history with the old fieldstone barn: Ulrichshusen has become the main venue for the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Mecklenburg-West Pomerania Music Festival). Similarly, in 1995 Hans-Albrecht Freiherr von Maltzahn was able to buy back the manor house in Pinnow from the municipality, having leased the old family lands in Pinnow and Duckow in 1992.
Source: www.poloclubpinnow.de, published by Mecklenburger Poloclub Pinnow e. V., Hans-Albrecht Freiherr von Maltzahn
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