Behaim from Schwarzbach to Kirchensittenbach

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Family coat of arms of the von Behaim family, based on Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book

The Behaim von Schwarzbach auf Kirchensittenbach (also: Beheim ) were one of the oldest patrician families in the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg , first mentioned in a document in 1285. The Behaim were im from 1319/23, with short interruptions, until the end of the Imperial City period in 1806 Represented internal councils and, according to the dance statute, belonged to the twenty old genders eligible for council. In 1942 they went out.

history

Martin Behaim's potato

The exact origin of the Behaim is unclear, but they are said to come from the area around Pilsen in Bohemia . The first bearers of the name can be proven in Nuremberg from 1285 at the latest. From 1319/23 they were represented in the Inner Council - see: Patriziat (Nuremberg) .

The Behaim were European long-distance traders. They operated wholesaling based on the import and export of raw products and processed materials. The Grundherr- Behaim trading company is already in use around 1370 . You were involved as a coal and steel entrepreneur in mining in Salzburg, Tyrol, Upper Austria and Bohemia. In the 14th and 15th centuries they were among the most important patrician trading houses. Your preferred trading partners in the 15th century were the Hirschvogel and the Stromer (Stromersche Handelsgesellschaft). In the 16th century, the Behaim were involved in the areas of Salzburg, Carinthia and Styria alongside the Sitzinger, Legrand and Holzschuhern .

The most famous representative of the family was the navigator Martin Behaim II. The line of the Behaim descended from him already died out at the end of the 16th century.

Christoph Jakob Behaim and his brother received the Schwarzbach title from Emperor Leopold I in 1681 and were raised to the status of hereditary imperial barons.

After the Tetzel died out in 1736, the Behaim became the trustees of the Jobst Friedrich Tetzelschen Family Foundation, thus benefiting from the Kirchensittenbach estate and since then has been called von Schwarzbach auf Kirchensittenbach .

In 1809 their title of nobility was confirmed and they were enrolled as barons to the Bavarian nobility. With Wilhelm Freiherr Behaim von Schwarzbach on Kirchensittenbach, the male line died out in 1942.

Former possessions

Foundations

  • Foundation for 100 poor men and 100 poor women by Georg Friedrich Behaim von Schwarzbach and his widow Barbara Helena, née von Praun
  • Scholarships for four students from Georg Friedrich Behaim
  • Foundation for the rich alms of the city alms office of Michael Behaim
  • Behaim benefice in the Katharinenkirche
  • Behaimsche Fräulein- or Präbenden-Foundation
  • Christoph Wilhelm Friedrich Behaim Foundation
  • Scholarship Foundation of the Susanna Sabina Tucher , née Behaim

Known family members

Martin II. Behaim (1459–1507), merchant and navigator, with his wife Joana de Macedo on a commemorative plaque
  • Albrecht Behaim (*?; †?), Merchant, councilor, mayor 1332–1342
  • Martin I. Behaim (* 1430; † 1475), father of Martin Behaim II.
  • Martin Behaim (Martin II.) (* 1459; † 1507), businessman, cosmographer , navigator / navigator, geographer , Portuguese knight and initiator of the oldest surviving globe
  • Michael Behaim (* 1459; † 1511), merchant, councilor and master builder
  • Paulus I. Behaim (* 1519; † 1568), councilor, chairman of the war room, Nuremberg envoy to the Naumburg prince assembly of 1561
  • Paulus II. Behaim (* 1557; † 1621), member of the Inner Council, foremost slogan (administrator of the city taxes ) and Reichsschultheiß of Nuremberg, co-founder of the Musical Society from 1588
  • Lukas Friedrich B (* 1587; † 1648), accompanied the imperial insignia to the coronation of Emperor Matthias in Frankfurt am Main . Member of the inner council and church curator, Nuremberg music lord
  • Baron Sigmund Friedrich Behaim von Schwarzbach (* 1686; † 1746), member of the Inner Council, warlord and Nuremberg envoy at the coronations of Emperors Charles VII and Franz I Stephan .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

Blazon : split by silver and red with a sloping black flow.

Increased coat of arms

Blazon: shield quartered with central shield. In the golden middle shields the imperial, black double-headed eagle, 1 of silver and red and 4 of red and silver divided lengthways, with an oblique, black river (coat of arms) and 2 of silver and red and 3 of red and silver divided lengthways with a black wall or crossbeam, topped four times (coat of arms of the extinct family of the Behaim von Abensberg) .

Illustrations

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Hirsvogelsaal owned by the Behaim
  2. ↑ Glossary German-New High German ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved December 30, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / webapp6.rrz.uni-hamburg.de
  3. ^ Heraldry: Photos of coats of arms in an architectural context, documentation and database. Retrieved April 19, 2019 .

literature

Web links

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