Stem (noble family)

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Family arms of the von Stengel family

The Lords of Stengel , later also Barons of Stengel, are a nobility of mail from the Electoral Palatinate and Bavaria who were ennobled in the 18th century ; it still exists today and has important personalities.

Family history

With a diploma from September 26, 1740, issued in Schwetzingen , Elector Karl III. Philipp transferred the Electoral Palatinate Privy Council and Chancellery director Franz Joseph Stengel to the hereditary nobility. Franz Joseph Stengel came from Hechingen in Hohenzollern, where his father Paul Stengel died in 1725 as senior bailiff and princely Hohenzollern chancellor. The noble family was continued by Franz Joseph von Stengel's sons Paul Heinrich Joseph Xaver von Stengel (1717–1754) and Johann Georg von Stengel (1721–1798) and divided into two lines, an untitled and a baronial line .

Untitled line

Paul Heinrich Joseph Xaver von Stengel (1717–1754) married Maria Anna Fischer from Erbes-Büdesheim . He resided as an Electoral Palatinate Landschreiber in Neustadt an der Haardt (now Neustadt an der Weinstrasse ) and built a mansion in the area "am Bergel", which today belongs to Edenkoben and is known as the Herrenhaus Edenkoben or the Künstlerhaus Edenkoben . He and his wife had several children, the most important of which was their son Heinrich Christian Michael von Stengel (1744–1796), a French general valued by Napoleon Bonaparte .

Maria Anna Stengel b. Fischer (1716–1747) died young and is buried in the Catholic part of the collegiate church (Neustadt an der Weinstrasse) . Its magnificent epitaph with the coat of arms of the Fischer and Stengel families is to the left of the sacristy door .

Paul Heinrich Joseph von Stengel died in 1754 and rests in the parish church of St. Sebastian in Mannheim , where his name is noted on the epitaph of his parents created by Franz Conrad Linck .

Baron line

Johann Georg Freiherr (from 1788) von Stengel (1721–1798) was the Palatine chancellery director and State Councilor. He married Maria Christine Edle von Hauer (1734–1796) in 1750 and lived with her in Mannheim. In 1768 they built a castle in the district of Seckenheim and to the south of it an estate called Stengelhof, from which today's Rheinau district developed. Johann Georg von Stengel was a close confidante and advisor to Elector Karl Theodor , with whom he is said to have grown up. He made him hereditary baron with a diploma from June 18, 1788 . Various historians suspect that this was a late act of gratitude on the part of the ruler, since the first-born son Stephan von Stengel was an illegitimate child of Elector Karl Theodor, which Maria Christine Edle von Hauer expected from him when she married Johann Georg von Stengel and the latter around Knowing the boy's descent, raising him like his own son. Stephan von Stengel's descent from Elector Karl-Theodor is historically controversial, although the Elector later drew him into his immediate surroundings and also took him on private trips, such as on a pilgrimage to Rome (1783). The increase in the coat of arms of the Wittelsbachers, which Stephan von Stengel was allowed to lead from this point on, with the lozenges (Wecken) that occurred during the Baron elevation, would point in this direction. Both ancestry versions are represented by historians. Johann Georg Freiherr von Stengel died in Mannheim in 1798 and was buried in the Catholic cemetery there (now square K 2). When the Catholic cemetery was closed, his classical tombstone was moved to the new main cemetery , where it is located in burial ground I / 5.

The village of Stengelheim , today a district of Königsmoos , was created during the drainage of the Donaumoos initiated by Stephan von Stengel and was named after him.

Through his daughter Rosina (1786–1862), Stephan von Stengel is the grandfather of Eichstätter Bishop Franz Leopold von Leonrod (1827–1905).

coat of arms

  • The family coat of arms shows in blue on a green ground a crowned golden lion turned to the right , which holds a golden staff (stem) down in the front paws. Above that, a helmet with four ostrich feathers, alternating blue and gold.
  • The baronial coat of arms is quartered: 1 and 4 in silver two adjoining blue alarm clocks; 2 and 3 the family coat of arms. On the shield, over a five-pearl baron's crown, there are two crowned helmets. A crowned blue lion grows out of the right-hand helmet, looking to the right, holding a blue alarm clock in its front paws, the left wears four ostrich feathers, alternating blue and gold (helmet of the family coat of arms). The helmet covers are blue and gold.

Significant family members

literature

  • Friedrich Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden , 1845, scan of the source
  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families , Volume 2, 1855, scan of the source
  • F. Straub: Carl Albert Leopold von Stengel, a Bavarian statesman , Munich, 1866, on the origin of the family
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1859. Ninth year, S.801ff
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses for the year 1861. Eleventh year, p.792ff

Web links

Commons : Stengel  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A source that mentions him as a princely chancellor
  2. ↑ To the country estate of Paul Heinrich Joseph von Stengel, near Neustadt
  3. ^ Silke Burkhardt: Famous grave monuments in the Neustadt collegiate church, pages 24–27, Historischer Verein Neustadt, 1984
  4. ↑ Source on the father's grave in Mannheim
  5. ↑ Proof of an assumption of descent from Elector Karl Theodor
  6. ↑ Die Friedhöfe in Mannheim, Südwestdeutsche Verlagsanstalt Mannheim, 1992, pages 90–91 (with photo)
  7. ↑ On the naming of Stengelheim in memory of Stephan von Stengel
  8. ↑ Source on the descent of Bishop Franz Leopold von Leonrod from the von Stengel family
  9. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families. Volume 2, pp. 418-419; Book of Arms of the Kingdom of Bavaria, IV. 18; Tyroff , I. 185.