Chert (noble family)
The barons of Hornstein belong to the Swabian nobility with the parent companies Hornstain (Horenstain) and Hertenstain near Sigmaringen .
history
The family first appeared in a document in 1243 with Manegold von Hertenstain and in 1247 with his brother Heinrich von Hornstain . After the various lines of Hornstein had expired, the Hertenstein line took on the name of Hornstein around 1486. The regular series begins Burkhard von Hertenstein , a document 1,303th
In the years 1579, 1586 and 1623 they acquired possession of the Hohenstoffeln imperial fief with the towns of Weiterdingen, Binningen with Binningen Castle , Bietingen and the Homboll Castle Stables . The three castles on the Hohenstoffeln (Vorder, Mittel and Hinterstoffeln) were destroyed in the Thirty Years' War . The family built new seats in the surrounding towns.
The sex belonged to the Swabian Imperial Knighthood (the Swabian Knight Circle ). Balthasar Ferdinand von Hornstein (1614–1685) was director of the imperial knighthood of the cantons of Hegau , Allgäu and Lake Constance .
Grüningen Castle has been owned by the family since 1311 until today. Binningen Castle and Weiterdingen Castle (both located in the municipality of Hilzingen ) also belong to the family branch of the Barons von Hornstein to the three Hohenstoffeln-Binningen .
The Hornstein ruins
The three castles on the Hohenstoffeln , in the foreground Castle Weiterdingen (17th century)
Grüningen Castle
Bietingen Castle
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a curved silver deer pole in blue on a floating golden three-mountain . The shield image on the helmet with the blue and silver covers.
The increased coat of arms from 1653 is divided into four and covered with the family coat of arms as a heart shield. Fields 1 and 4 show ten-end black deer antlers in gold with an eavesdropper placed between them , 2 and 3 in silver three right-facing silver-armored red bear paws on top of each other.
Hornstein coat of arms in the Zurich coat of arms roll (approx. 1340)
Hornstein coat of arms from the Scheibler coat of arms book
Hornstein coat of arms from Siebmacher's coat of arms book
Increased coat of arms of those von Hornstein
Use:
Church window with von Hornstein's coat of arms in Steißlingen
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people
- Hans Christoph von Hornstein (1551–1606), 1587 Reichshofrat, 1591 Privy Councilor of Emperor Rudolf II.
- Hermann von Hornstein (Hermann Freiherr von Hornstein-Hohenstoffeln-Binningen; 1843–1893), member of the German Reichstag
- Karl Heinrich von Hornstein (1668–1745), Knight of the Teutonic Order
- Marianna Franziska von Hornstein (1723–1809), Abbess of the Säckingen Abbey
- Leopold von Hornstein (1641–1718), Chancellor of the Prince-Bishop of Augsburg and Mayor of Dillingen
- Robert von Hornstein (1833–1890), composer
- Wilhelm von Hornstein (1813–1890), KuK field marshal lieutenant
- Wolf Freiherr von Hornstein (1918–2008), German publisher, editor and cook
- Erika von Hornstein (1913–2005) painter, writer and film director (married to Erika Bausch)
Family castles
- Weiterdingen Castle
- Binningen Castle in Hegau near Hilzingen
- Upper Grüningen Castle in Riedlingen
- Bietingen Castle
See also
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume V, Volume 84 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1975, ISSN 0435-2408
- Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book. Three volumes. Carl Winter's University Bookstore, Heidelberg 1898–1919. Volume 2 here, pp. 118-137 online
Web links
- Hornstein coat of arms ( memento from March 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in the “ Zurich coat of arms roll ” from approx. 1340 (No. 166)
- The history of the baron house Hornstein, Stuttgart 1846
- Hornstein coat of arms in the Ortenburg coat of arms book from 1466
- Hornstein in the coat of arms of the German families Augsburg? 1475
- Hornstein in the Book of Arms of the Holy Roman Empire , Nuremberg around 1554–1568
- Pedigree of Adam Augustin Josef Dominik Freiherr von Hornstein at monasterium.net
