Altenstein (noble family)
Altenstein (also Stein zu Altenstein ) is the name of a noble family that belonged to the Franconian - Swabian nobility and had its ancestral seat at Altenstein Castle in Altenstein ( Lower Franconia ). It went out in 1878.
The sex is not to be confused with a Thuringian noble family Stein , whose ancestral seat was also a castle Altenstein (in Bad Liebenstein in the Thuringian Forest) and which therefore called itself in a line between Stein and Altenstein .
history
Dye from old Steyn probably have a common origin with the Lords of Lichtenstein , who, however, had a different coat of arms. Common ancestors were probably the noble free von Stein (de lapide), whose original seat could have been the Felsburgstall Teufelsstein below Lichtenstein Castle . Around 1200 they are likely to have divided into the lines on Altenstein (the family treated here) and on Lichtenstein (the latter became extinct in the male line around 1850).
According to Cord Ulrichs, the family is said to be related to the Stein zu Nordheim and Ostheim family .
The altenstein castle in boars in Lower Franconia, one of the largest castles in Franconia, received the Lords of stone from the Bishopric of Würzburg to fief . The family still inhabited them after their destruction in the Thirty Years War . It was not until 1703 that the family moved to the newly built Pfaffendorf Palace . It went out in 1878.
The lords of Altenstein belonged to the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Baunach from the 16th to the 18th century, to the knightly canton of Gebürg during the 17th and 18th centuries , and to the knightly canton of Steigerwald of the Franconian knight circle during the 17th century .
coat of arms
Blazon : The family coat of arms shows three (2: 1) silver hammers in red ; on the helmet with red and silver helmet covers two red buffalo horns , each with three or four feathered arrows on the outside.
Personalities
- Karl vom Stein zum Altenstein (* 1770; † 1840): Prussian politician
- Wilhelm von Stein (*?; †?): Under imperial ban in the Grumbach trade
- Christian Adam Ludwig vom Stein zu Altenstein (*?; †?): Baron; Fulda Privy Councilor and Court Marshal; The baroque Palais Altenstein in the vicinity of the old princely residence (city palace) in the baroque city of Fulda is named after him, which he acquired around 1750 and had it converted.
See also
- List of German noble families
- List of Frankish knight families
- List of noble families named Stein
- Taler for the capture of Gotha (1567) #Tentzel's explanation of Wilhelm von Stein
literature
- Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1934. Munich / Regensburg Publishing House 1934.
- Michael Mott : A house of dance and work / Hessische Landesbibliothek moves into the former Palais Altenstein / builder was a brother of the prince abbot, in: Fuldaer Zeitung , April 27, 1995, p. 15 (series: DENK-mal!).
- Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .
- Johann Gottfried Biedermann, genealogy of the Reichsfrey immediate knighthood of the Landes zu Franconia praiseworthy place Baunach , 1747, p.13ff
- Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1856 S.652f , 1862 S.769f
Web links
- History and coat of arms of the Altenstein family in www.welt-der-wappen.de
- The von Stein zu Altenstein in the Wildenfels Castle Archives
Individual evidence
- ↑ The stone to Altenstein
- ↑ Sage: the Knights of Altenstein
- ↑ Coat of arms on Altenstein Castle
- ↑ History of Altenstein (PDF)
- ↑ Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 , p. 209.