Löwenstern (southern German noble family)
Löwenstern was the name of a southern German noble family that was founded in the second half of the 17th century by Johann Elsener , who advanced to become Reich Commissioner General .
history
origin
Little can be said about the origin of the progenitor . The margravial Baden-Durlach chamber secretary Johann Elsener von Löwenstern, already in the margravial service in 1660, was appointed Privy Councilor and Upper Bailiff of Staffort and Mühlburg in 1666 .
The later Reich War Commissioner General von Löwenstern had, in addition to his son Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern , who was promoted to government president in the Württemberg state service before moving to Hesse-Darmstadt services as a secret government and consistorial councilor , probably also a son, Friedrich Anton von Löwenstern , who in 1696 bought the leasable place Tiefenbronn from Franz Karl von Gemmingen (or took it in pledge).
The son of Freiherr Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern and Loysa Gottliebe von Remchingen was the painter and poet Christian Ludwig von Löwenstern , who was accepted as court squire in Darmstadt in 1727.
The historian and statistician Heinrich Friedrich von Storch from Riga married Wilhelmine von Löwenstern from Württemberg on June 28, 1791. Since she is said to come from the Württemberg royal seat of Ludwigsburg , it is likely that she was an agnate .
The extent to which Karl von Löwenstern (1771-1840) , a general of the artillery in Russian service from Württemberg, belongs to this family is also unclear.
Elevation of rank
When Johann Elsener was elevated to imperial nobility by the emperor with the predicate name von Löwenstern on March 12, 1667 in Vienna , he was already Margrave of Baden-Durlach Privy Councilor, steward and senior bailiff.
The appointment to the Reichs-General War Commissioner carried out before December 11, 1674. When the Emperor Johann Elsener of Löwenstern in Vienna on 22 March 1676 under the sole name of Löwenstern into the realm baron replied, while the title "Honor" gave, he was " Imperial Councilor , Reichspfennigmeister and Supreme Field War Commissioner (= Reich General War Commissioner) ”.
coat of arms
The coat of arms, awarded in 1676, alludes to the name Löwenstern, the military profession of the progenitor, as well as the Baden origin. The square shield with a crowned heart shield (gold bordered) , inside a silver rafter on a black background (mirrored sloping bar from Baden, in other colors), shows in field 1 an inward, sword-swinging golden lion on a red background (similar to Landgraviate Sausenburg in the coat of arms of the margraviate Baden-Durlach ), in fields 2 and 3 an eight-pointed golden star on a blue background (for the name part "star") and in field 4 divided in a wave cut a golden lion growing above, swinging a blue standard , on a red background, three times silver below -blue divided in a wave cut (similar to the rule Rötteln in the coat of arms of the margraviate of Baden-Durlach). The sword-wielding lion grows on the helmet with its red and gold blankets on the right and blue and silver on the left .
Relatives
- Johann Elsener von Löwenstern (* around 1635, † after 1676), Reich Commissioner General for War
- Friedrich Gottlieb von Löwenstern (* around 1668; † after 1727), administrative lawyer in first Württemberg , then Hesse-Darmstadt civil service, and namesake of the lion pit near Altdorf
- Christian Ludwig von Löwenstern (born August 10, 1701 in Darmstadt; † October 15, 1754 there), German painter, poet and composer
See also
Löwenstern - to differentiate the individual sexes Löwenstern .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Rott : Art and Artists at the Baden-Durlacher Hof until Karlsruhe was founded. Karlsruhe 1917, pp. 122, 126 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe : Holdings 72: Fiefdom and aristocratic archives No. 4503
- ↑ Ludwig Clemm, Hans Dieter Ebert: Hofhaltung and Hofmarschallamt Hessischer Herrscher (= Repertories Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt ) inventory D 8 (PDF; 402 kB). In: Archive Information System Hessen (Arcinsys Hessen), as of September 2006, accessed on September 22, 2016.
- ^ Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Heinrich Friedrich von Storch. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
- ^ Wilhelmine von Löwenstern. September 18, 2017, accessed September 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Karl von Löwenstern on the Russian Wikipedia