Flint from Feuersteinsberg

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Coat of arms of Count Feuerstein von Feuersteinsberg 1793

The Counts Feuerstein von Feuersteinsberg were a very old Vorarlberg family , originally from Bregenz , Austrian noble family, who acquired goods in Bohemia and settled there.

history

St. Jodok in Bezau
Nadějkau Castle
August Querfurt : Battle of Kollin ( Army History Museum Vienna)

One of the oldest and most respected names in the Bregenz Forest was that of the Feuerstein family. The ongoing series of governors began in this valley, which was once endowed with special rights and freedoms, which were chosen by the people according to Germanic custom in the open air on the forested heights of the Bezegg , with Wilhelm von Fröwis in 1400, who headed his office until 1410. His third successor was Johann I. Feuerstein von Schnepfau , from 1434–1445, then 1446–1451 and finally until 1462; Heinrich Feuerstein von Bezau from 1461 and again 1471–1478; Johann II. Feuerstein von Schnepfau in 1500 and 1508–1511; Jacob I. Feuerstein von Andelsbuch († 1543) from 1506–1508, 1518–1529 and from 1535–1539. On April 19, 1524 to Charles V this to Nuremberg have given a coat of arms letter. A Jacob II appeared on the inscription on a memorial stone in 1564. It should be noted that no family in the Bregenzerwald had such a number of governors until 1726 as that of the Feuerstein. On January 12th, 1807, this Landsmannschaft was dissolved by the royal Bavarian government . None of the Kaspars listed below were Landammans.

Kaspar I. Feuerstein († March 24, 1570), married to Elisabeth Rüberin († December 12, 1578), received on April 6 (after others 20) April 1559 in Augsburg from Emperor Ferdinand I another coat of arms, in which it means “ that in thirty years, first in a number of considerable campaigns and especially in the Narrow Kaldic indignation in the occupation of Bregenz, and then afterwards as a land clerk in the Bregenzerwald. “In fact, the emperor stayed there from January 1st to August 21st, 1559.

According to the archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol, Archduke Ferdinand II of Tyrol issued a letter of coat of arms with the chamois on April 10, 1589 in Innsbruck for Caspar II Feuerstein. On March 8, 1605 in Prague, Emperor Rudolph II issued the following coat of arms for the above son Kaspar III, also a land clerk, married to Christina Meusburgerin on January 20, 1605, and his older brother Jos (Jodok, Jodocus) along with their legitimate offspring. Gabriel (born June 6, 1607 in Bezau; † April 7, 1652 ibid), his son, was appointed archducal captain Leopold V in Tyrol in 1629 and appeared on a panel in the chapel on Schnepfegg: “Gabriel Feuerstein you princely highness of the Archduchess Claudia [Leopold V widow since 1632 and guardian of her two sons] appointed captain in four Vorarlberg lordships ” . He owned two estates and seats in Bezau and Krumbach , the latter located in the front Bregenzerwald and had been married to Anna Greberin († April 25, 1675 in Bezau) since April 6, 1633. Their children were: Franz Ignaz, Syndikus zu Feldkirch in Vorarlberg , the nobility was confirmed and an improvement in the coat of arms and Palatinate was given on July 3, 1669 in Vienna .

Andreas, great-grandson of Kaspar IV, like his father an artilleryman, distinguished himself near Vienna in 1683, in the Battle of Zenta , Second Battle of Höchstädt , but mainly in the second siege of Landau in 1704, where he was the stucco captain of the Archduke and later Emperor Joseph I. . saved the life, but in this case even fell. He had two sons Anton Ferdinand and Andreas Leopold.

Anton Ferdinand (* December 15, 1691 in Prague, † 26 January 1780 in Nadějkau ) was an imperial colonel Feldzeugmeister and commander of the entire imperial field artillery. It is said to have been decorated with the Grand Cross of the Maria Theresa Order . On March 29, 1761, he bought Nadějkau with Starčova Lhota near Tabor for 80,000  florins and on January 31, 1763, the nearby Ružena estate from Apollonia Scherzer von Kleinmühle's wife, all in Bohemia. He remained unmarried and died at the age of 90 after pneumonia. His brother Andreas Leopold (born November 15, 1697; † March 4, 1774 in Nadějkau), was the Imperial and Royal Privy Councilor , imperial field marshal lieutenant of the artillery (April 1, 1759), who was responsible for directing the artillery in the battle of Kolin and immediately after the battle of Empress Maria Theresa on July 4, 1757, was promoted to Sergeant General. The same applied to the siege of the Sunstone in the following year. He propagated the sex. Both were raised to the old baron status on January 19, 1757 in Vienna with the confirmation of the von Feuersteinsberg predicate, "Well-born", and the improvement of the coat of arms. At the same time they received the statute of gentry for Bohemia and on March 12th of that year in Moravia. In the diploma it says: "He [Anton Ferdinand] through his zealous efforts put the entire field artillery corps on a newly improved footing to our greatest satisfaction, which is why the Empress felt motivated to be promoted to General Feldzeugmeister" .

Anton Franz Freiherr Feuerstein von Feuersteinsberg, son of Andreas, kk Oberstwachtmeister of the artillery, was raised to the rank of count in Vienna on March 7th, 1793 with the improvement of the coat of arms. Anton Ferdinand (born June 28, 1789, † March 12, 1858 in Pressburg ), kk colonel of the artillery , came from the marriage of his son Anton Franz with Johanna Countess von Sternberg auf Rudelsdorf (* July 14, 1770) . On October 26, 1840, he married the Bavarian honorary canoness to St. Anna in Munich Maria Elisabetha (born September 1, 1801 in Vienna, † February 13, 1846 in Kritzendorf ), daughter of the former kk Internuntius in Constantinople , then a State Councilor , Ignaz Freiherrn von Stürmer. The count lived for a few years in Kritzendorf near Klosterneuburg on the Danube as the leaseholder of the so-called St. Florian-Hof, a former property of the Canons' Monastery of St. Florian in the land of the Enns, which at that time belonged to the Convent of the Brothers of Mercy in Leopoldstadt Vienna belonged. The countess died here with her daughter, who both rest in the family crypt there.

With Anton's death, the counts of the Feuerstein von Feuersteinsberg family died out.

coat of arms

1605: In a golden shield on a three-hill mountain, an upright chamois in its natural color, which holds a fire iron in its two front feet, on the shield a stinging helmet, on both sides with a yellow and black helmet cover, and on top of it a pelvis adorned with such colors, over which between two yellow eagle wings turned inward with the saxes the front part of a chamois appears again, holding a fire iron as in the shield below.

1793: Squared shield with central shield. Central shield of gold and black divided lengthways with a Maltese cross-shaped rosette of alternated tinctures. The two side leaves of this rosette have the shape of the fire steel found in the 1st and 4th fields, but the upper and lower leaves are three-pointed. I and 4 in gold on a green ground an inward facing chamois of natural color, which holds a black fire steel with both forelegs. 3 and 4 in silver an inward-facing red lion. Three crowned helmets rise above the count's crown. The right helmet, in front of which a red flag on a red handle with a golden tip is blowing, carries the chamois of the 1st field, without the fire steel, growing between two golden buffalo horns, from the mouths of which three flames come. A flame breaks out on the middle helmet and on the left the red lion of the second field grows up between two eagle wings divided by gold and black with alternating tinctures. The covers of the right helmet are black and gold, those of the middle and left helmets are red and silver.

literature

  • Hermann Soltmann (Hrsg.): “Historisch-heraldisches Handbuch zum genealogischen Taschenbuch der Grafliche Häuser”, Verlag Julius Perthes, Gotha 1855, p. 209.
  • German Adelsarchiv, Committee for Nobility Law Issues of the German Nobility Associations, German Nobility Law Committee: “ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels ”, Ostsee, CA Starke, 1975, p. 260.
  • Jaromir Hirtenfeld , Hermann Meynert : "Oesterreichisches Militär-Konversations-Lexikon", Volume 2, D – G, Verlag Carl Gerold and Son, Vienna 1852. P.401
  • Genealogical paperback of the German count's houses for the year 1840, p.185

Web links

Commons : Feuerstein von Feuersteinsberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Dr. Joseph Alexander Freiherr von Helfert (Ed.): "Communications from the KK Central Commission for Research and Preservation of Architectural Monuments", Volume 15, Verlag Carl Gerold and Son, Vienna 1870, pp. XCVII ff.
  2. ↑ a b Joseph Bergmann: “Landeskunde von Vorarlberg”, Verlag der Wagner'schen Universitätsbuchhandlung, Innsbruck and Feldkirch 1868, p. 39 f.
  3. ↑ Johann Trajer: "Historical and statistical description of the diocese of Budweis", Verlag F. Zdarssa, Budweis, 1862, p 657
  4. ↑ Jaromir Hirtenfeld, Hermann Meynert: "Oesterreichisches Militär-Konversations-Lexikon", 2nd volume, DG, Verlag Carl Gerold and Son, Vienna 1852, p. 401 f.
  5. ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: Imperial and Imperial Generals (1618-1815), Austrian State Archives / A. Schmidt-Brentano 2006, p. 31
  6. ↑ http://www.coresno.com/index.php/standeserhoehungen/181-rekem/4564-rekem
  7. ↑ Rudolf J. Graf von Meraviglia-Crivelli: "The Bohemian Adel", in Siebmacher'schen Wappenbücher Volume IV, 9 Department, Nuremberg 1886, p. 121
  8. ↑ The crypt no longer exists, the grave slab was still on the cemetery wall until the 2000s
  9. ↑ Prof. Dr. Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: "German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation", 1st volume, AK, Verlag TO Weigel, Leipzig 1852, p. 131