Kuenheim

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Coat of arms of those of Kuenheim

Kuenheim (also Kunheim , Cunheim or Kuhnheim ) is the name of an old, originally Alsatian noble family . Later the lords of Kuenheim mainly settled in Prussia . Kienheim , the ancestral seat of the family, is now a French commune in the Bas-Rhin department . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

The family was first mentioned in a document on July 24, 1263 with the knight Cüntze (Kunz) von Künheim . It already bore the name of the family seat, Kienheim , now a village near Strasbourg . The tribe series begins with the knight Johannes de Cunheim , who is mentioned in a document in 1289. The family was related to the family of Berstett, who appeared to be knightly as early as 1120 . Both came from the same area and had the same coat of arms . In 1419 Vollmar von Künheim belonged to a group of knights and other people who, after the Strasbourg magistrate had decided on strict measures to maintain public order, moved out of the city and some of them soon afterwards united to form an association called ' Die Knighthood outside Strasbourg '; This was preceded by an uprising by the Strasbourg citizens.

The main line of the Kuenheim expired in Alsace around 1500. A line that has been located in Prussia since the 15th century - including in Mühlhausen (today Russian: Gwardeiskoje) in the Prussian Eylau district - has continued with a branch to the present day. It originally consisted of three branches with the Fideikommissen Juditten , Spanden (today to Wilczęta ) and Stollen. Another line came from East Prussia to Silesia , but died out again in the male line in the 17th century. The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. The title of count, which was awarded to three Kuenheimers in 1798 , soon expired in the male line .

It is genealogically interesting that through the marriage of the Prussian district administrator Georg von Kuenheim († 1611) to Margarete Luther († 1570), the daughter of Martin Luther , the family passed on to numerous other families, including the von Saucken , von Tettau and von Syburg , inherited.

coat of arms

Coat of arms at Siebmacher

The family coat of arms shows a black lion with a double tail in silver . The black lion growing on the crowned helmet. The helmet covers are black and silver.

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Large complete universal lexicon of the sciences and arts . Volume 15: K , Zedler, Halle and Leipzig 1737, column 2131-2133.
  2. ^ Strasbourg City Archives, Letter A, fol. 59 a
  3. ^ Adam Walther Strobel : Patriotic history of Alsace . Second edition, Volume 3, Strasbourg 1851, pp. 127–130.
  4. ↑ Jakob Twinger von Königshofen : The Old Teutsche as wol general as in particular Alsace and Strasbourg chronicles. From the beginning of the world bit into the year after Christ's birth M CCC LXXXVI . Edited and provided with historical notes by Johann Schilter . Strasbourg 1698, pp. 816-831.
  5. ↑ Sebastian Zinnal: Life and miracles of H. Udalrici . Freiburg im Breisgau 1756, pp. 141–149.
  6. ↑ Christian August Ludwig Klaproth and Immanuel Karl Wilhelm Cosmar: Der Königl. Prussian and Churfürstl. Brandenburg Really Geheime Staats-Rath on its bicentenary foundation day on January 5th, 1805. Berlin 1805, p. 414, no. 173.

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