Kregel from Sternbach
The Kregel von Sternbach were a Saxon aristocratic family that emerged from a Central German merchant family and that became extinct in the male line in 1789.
history
On August 22, 1697, the Leipzig wool wholesaler, master builder, councilor and landlord of Abtnaundorf Johann Ernst Kregel (the elder) (1652–1731) was raised to the imperial nobility with the title “Noble Lord of Sternbach”. He was the son of Nikolaus Kregel, a citizen of Magdeburg, and the grandson of the Hamburg merchant Ernst Kregel. Johann Ernst Kregel was also a royal Polish and electoral Saxon senior court assessor as well as court and judicial councilor. In addition to the Abtnaundorf manor, acquired in 1696, Kregel owned the Flößberg manor and from 1720 Güldengossa . In addition to Neuscherbitz, he also had a baroque country palace built in Güldengossa.
From his first marriage, Johann Ernst Kregel von Sternbach left a son of the same name, Johann Ernst (II.), Who inherited his father, but died in 1737. Among the children of the latter were again a Johann Ernst (III.), Governor and lord of Güldengossa, and Karl Friedrich Kregel von Sternbach (1717–1789), with whom the family in the male line went out. Karl Friedrich Kregel donated large parts of his fortune to institutions of the University of Leipzig, for which he was given a memorial speech every year.
people
- Johann Ernst Kregel von Sternbach (1652–1731).
- Karl Friedrich Kregel von Sternbach (1717–1789).
literature
- Jan Bergmann: The Kregel von Sternbach family , in: Life pictures of the Saxon nobility I, ed. by Lars-Arne Dannenberg / Matthias Donath (Adel in Sachsen, vol. 5), Bernstadt ad Eigen 2014, pp. 31–82.
- Johann Matthias Gesner : Memoriae Viri Illustris Jo. Ernesti Kregel SRI Equitis De Sternbach Praediorum Gossa Et Abtnaundorf Domini […] , Leipzig 1732. ( digitized version )
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German Adels Lexicon , Vol. 5, Leipzig 1864, p. 278.