Berstett (noble family)

Coat of arms of those of Berstett

The Barons of Berstett were a for Uradel gerechnetes Alsatian noble family with the same name headquarters in Strasbourg .

history

The family first appeared in a document in 1120 with Wido de Berstedden. The Berstett were also part of the patriciate of Strasbourg, where they held the office of Stettmeister several times . In 1680 they were part of the knightly district of Lower Alsace with five sixths owned by Berstett and one sixth from Hipsheim and Olwisheim . Since they also owned a third of Schmieheim , they were also registered with the Ortenau Imperial Knighthood in the Swabian Knight Circle. The male line of the family died out in 1893, the last female descendant died in 1974.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a two-tailed black lion in silver . The lion growing on the helmet with the black and silver helmet covers , with three silver balls on the back.

The Berstett are of the same tribe and coat of arms as those of Kuenheim .

Significant family members

• Philipp Jakob Reinhard von Berstett (1744–1814), last president of the Imperial Knighthood in the Ortenau
• Wilhelm Ludwig Leopold Reinhard von Berstett (1769–1837), Minister of Baden
• Christian Jakob August von Berstett (1773–1860), founder of numismatics on the Upper Rhine
• Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901–1974) b. by Holzing-Berstett

literature

• Franz Josef Gemmert: August Freiherr von Berstett, the founder of the Upper Rhine coin history. In: Badische Heimat , issue 1/1959
• CA von Graß, A. von Bierbrauer-Brennstein in J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, Volume II, Section 6; The nobility in Baden, Nuremberg 1878, p. 5, plate 4
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume I, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972, ISSN  0435-2408 , p. 356
• Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories and imperial immediate families from the Middle Ages to the present. 5th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-406-39858-8 , p. 57.

Web links

Commons : Holzing-Berstett  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Certificate of the Mauersmünster Abbey, Julius Kindler von Knobloch, Das Goldene Buch von Straßburg, Jahrbuch Adler, Vienna 1884, p. 80