Bastheim (noble family)
The von Bastheim were a Franconian noble family based in Bastheim , where it had built a moated castle. It owned goods in the Vorderen Rhön , in the territory of the Fulda Abbey and the grave field , on whose development it had some influence.
There were proven representatives of this family from 1180 to 1848. 1355 conquered the feuding with the noble Bishop Albrecht II. Of Wurzburg Bastheim, but it gave Otto von Basthem, Siegfried of stone and Gobel Steward of Bastheim again as a fief after this apology had done. After the family died out in the 19th century, Bastheim farmers bought the goods in Bastheim, which gave the village an economic boom.
coat of arms
Blazon : In red, a crossbar divided by black and silver in a cloud section. The crest is decorated with a closed red flight, on which a diagonal bar divided by black and silver in the cloud section. Red and silver helmet covers.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Entry on Bastheim on www.rhoen.de
- ↑ a b The Lords of Bastheim on the website of the municipality of Bastheim, accessed on March 30, 2020.
- ↑ Lorenz Fries : How Bishop Albrecht moved for the Basthaim Castle and won it. In: Chronicle of the Bishops of Würzburg . Fol. 280 r. of the " real copy" ( digitized version of the page ). Quoted from: Stein zum Altenstein, an ancient noble family in Francken. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 39, Leipzig 1744, column 1574-1611. Here Sp. 1603.