Eissner from and to Eisenstein

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The Eissner von und zu Eisenstein are an Austro-Bohemian noble family whose roots go back to Sebastian Eissner, a soldier in the imperial bodyguard at the time of the Thirty Years' War . An older tribe with a focus on Lower Austria and a younger tribe with a focus on Bohemia descend from him.

history

Older tribe

The Eissner, who comes from a Reutlingen patrician family, was killed by Emperor Leopold I in 1688, together with his son Matthias Franz, who was in Bavarian service, at the request of Elector Max Emanuel in appreciation of his services - he is said to have saved his life in an ambush - raised to the knightly imperial nobility. This was associated with an improvement in the coat of arms and the right to be named after the goods acquired. In 1691 there was a further improvement in the coat of arms and the title Edler von Eisenstein. Matthias Franz was admitted to the court war council in 1698 and in 1712 among the new generations of the knighthood of Lower Austria. He and his wife, Freiin Wertemann de Vertema, acquired various properties in Lower Austria. The son Franz Anton continued the line. He was a district administrator in Lower Austria. His son Franz (Johann) Albert was an officer, most recently a sergeant in charge of the Dragoons, and became a baron. His marriage to Maria Anna Countess von Sedlnitzky zu Choltic remained childless. With him, the older tribe of the family died out. The sister Therese Eleonore married Wolfgang Maximilian Josef Graf von Auersperg in 1778 .

Younger tribe

The founder of the Sebastian Eissner family ran into economic difficulties after the rise of the nobility and settled in eastern Bohemia . He no longer carried his title of nobility. There he had other descendants who owned glassworks, among other things, and partially revived his nobility. A Johann Ignaz Eissner emerged from this. He was a citizen of Prague and a member of the Prague New Town council . He also expanded the importance of the family's own glassworks through technical innovations and founded new factories. He earned services for the expansion of the port of Trieste and by granting social benefits for his workers. Maria Theresa elevated this to the Bohemian nobility in 1773 with the predicate "von und zu Eisenstein" with reference to the nobility of Sebastian Eissner. The coat of arms also corresponded to that of the older line. In 1795 he received the Inkolat the knighthood of the Kingdom of Bohemia . Adalbert Wenzel became heir. This was, among other things, magistrate in Prague. After that, the sex branched out into different lines and branches.

The younger tribe consists of the 2nd line (1st line expired in 1785 as already mentioned), whose descendants lived in Austria (Vienna, Lower Austria) and Bohemia (Prague, Bohemian Forest). The 3rd line, to which Richard Freiherr von und zu Eisenstein and Karl Reichsritter Eisner von und zu Eisenstein also belonged, branched out considerably. Today their descendants live in Austria (Styria), Italy, Germany and Argentina, among others. Some of the descendants bear the title of baron (finally expired in 1907), most of them bear the title of Reichsritter Edler von und zu Eisenstein.

The Eisenstein cave in Bad Fischau-Brunn (Austria) was named after the landlord and sponsor of its development, probably Karl Reichsritter von und zu Eisenstein (kuk Feldmarschallleutnant ).

Status surveys

  • 1688 Elevation into the imperial nobility with von Eisenstein
  • 1691 Imperial knighthood with improved coat of arms and the title Edler von Eisenstein
  • 1712 Landsmannschaft in the new knighthood of Lower Austria
  • 1773 Bohemian nobility with von und zu Eisenstein
  • 1792 Imperial Vicariate Knighthood or 1793 Imperial Knighthood with coat of arms improvement
  • 1795 Incolate of the Kingdom of Bohemia
  • 1889 Austrian barons with improved coat of arms
  • 1904 Approval to omit the name Eissner and to call himself Freiherr von und zu Eisenstein

coat of arms

here the coat of arms from 1691: square with a central shield: this is adorned with pearls at the top, a golden sunshine in blue; one and four in gold, a black double-headed eagle; two and three in red a broad silver bar in which three craggy natural rocks rise from the green lawn. Two crowned tournament helmets: I. with black and gold covers, a black double-headed eagle; on II with red and silver blankets a growing armor with four alternating black and gold, hanging ostrich feathers on the casket, a bare horseman sword in his right hand and a left man pruned in his side.

Personalities

  • Johann Baptist Reichsritter Edler Eis (s) ner from (and to) Eisenstein: Glass manufacturer in Bohemia; founded a glassworks in Unterreichenstein and helped ruby ​​glass to flourish in Bohemia.
  • Richard Freiherr von und zu Eisenstein: kuk Feldmarschallleutnant , world traveler and author of travelogues from Papua New Guinea, North Africa, Malta, South America, Far East.
  • Karl Borromäus Eissner von und zu Eisenstein: author of poems (the forest fall, songs in combat) and plays with which he became famous in what would later become Czechoslovakia.

literature

  • Genealogical paperback of noble houses in Austria. Vienna, 1905 p. 173ff.