Oberstein (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Oberstein
The Idar-Oberstein rock church; on the right above Bosselstein Castle , on the left Oberstein Castle

The Lords of Oberstein were a south-west German nobility that died out at the end of the 17th century.

Family history

The Lords of Oberstein or originally just "von Stein" or "Bossel von Stein" came from the area of ​​today's town of Idar-Oberstein and had their headquarters at Bosselstein Castle . Previously, they are said to have lived in a cave castle below it on the site of today's Felsenkirche (Idar-Oberstein) . The first family member mentioned in a document is "Everhardus de Steina" , 1075. In 1197 an Eberhard and his brother Werner von Stein gave their Bosselstein Castle to Archbishop Johann I of Trier as a fief.

A grandson of the aforementioned Eberhard married his daughter Gud to Wirich von Daun in 1250 . Through this marriage, the family split into the two main lines of the "Lords of Oberstein" , at Bosselstein Castle and the later dominant "Lords of Daun-Oberstein" , at the newly built Oberstein Castle . While the Daun-Obersteiners had the Dauner lattice in their coat of arms, the Obersteiner showed a striding, crowned lion in red on a silver background.

The Lords of Oberstein were in constant disputes with their neighboring Daun-Oberstein relatives. After a division of property between the brothers Andreas and Syfried in 1364, they split again into a Gundheimer and a Kredenburger line to Alsterweiler and finally gave up their ancestral castle Bosselstein in 1435.

Kredenburger line

The male line of the Kredenburger line to Alsterweiler died out in 1602. At the cath. Parish church of Maikammer have preserved elaborate tombs of the family branch from the 16th century. There are only the smallest remains of their seat, the Kredenburg, u. a. a coat of arms stone of the Viax von Oberstein from 1548. From this branch came the Mainz cathedral dean Richard von Oberstein († 1487) and his brother, the Speyer archdeacon Andreas von Oberstein († 1450).

Gundheimer line

Oberstein coat of arms from the tomb of Canon Eberhard von Heppenheim called vom Saal († 1559), in Worms Cathedral

The Gundheimer Linie sat at Gundheim Castle , of which only small remains exist. This branch went out in 1683 with Wolf-Ernst von Oberstein , Canon of Mainz , Worms , Speyer and Würzburg . The family was resident in Gundheim before 1405. That year belehnte King Ruprecht the Syfried the stone with the imperial castle Gundheim and its shares in the village. The family expanded this property in the following generations, so that it became the dominant force in the village and retained this position until it died out. Rosine , the sister of Canon Wolf Ernst, married Georg Philipp von Greiffenklau in 1650 . Their son Johann Erwein von Greiffenklau was enfeoffed on December 3, 1699, as part of the line of succession, by Elector Johann Wilhelm with the previously Oberstein property at Gundheim. Emperor Leopold I confirmed this and Gundheim stayed with the Greiffenklau family until the end of the feudal period. A heavily weathered coat of arms tombstone at the Catholic. The church and a partly weathered and incorrectly painted alliance coat of arms from 1506 are the surviving Oberstein relics in Gundheim. The important Speyer cathedral dean Andreas von Oberstein (1533-1603) came from the Gundheim branch of the family. This part of the family also owned the local rule in Steinbach am Donnersberg , where the knights Siegfried and Johannes von Oberstein donated a picture of the Virgin Mary and had the village church built there from 1450 to 1452 . Here a Gothic memorial inscription refers to the foundation and the new building that resulted from it.

coat of arms

In silver a gold crowned red lion. On the helmet with red and silver covers as a crest ornament, a red, golden crowned lion's trunk growing between two silver plungers.

Historical coats of arms

  • Wappenstein, Oberstein (left), Schliederer von Lachen (right), 1506 (partly weathered and incorrectly painted), Gundheim, Hauptstraße 29

  • Coat of arms of the Lords of Oberstein, named from the tomb of Abbess Barbara von Heppenheim from the hall († 1567), Rosenthal Abbey (Palatinate)

  • Coat of arms Oberstein (left), Schliederer von Lachen (right), from the grave slab of Rosina von Oberstein geb. Schliederer von Lachen, Liebfrauenkirche Worms

literature

  • Friedrich Toepfer: Supplements V. The Lords of Oberstein . In: ders. (Ed.): Document book for the history of the royal and baronial house of the Voegte von Hunolstein , Vol. I. Jacob Zeiser, Nuremberg 1866, pp. 307-312 ( Google Books )
  • Karl Heinz Armknecht: The coats of arms of the Oberstein tombs in Maikammer , in: Palatinate Family and Heraldry, Z 539, Volume 6, published by the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Pfalzische Familien- und Wappenkunde eV Ludwigshafen, 1967–1969, Volume VI, p. 208 -209
  • Johannes Leonhardt: The tomb of the Counts of Oberstein zu Maikammer , Pf. M. 1909, p. 9 ff.
  • Gerhard Fouquet: The Speyer Cathedral Chapter in the late Middle Ages (approx. 1350-1540) , Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, Mainz, 1987, p. 692 u. 693
  • Mainzer Zeitschrift , Volume 81, p. 50, Mainzer Altertumsverein, 1986, (detail scan)
  • Rolf Zobel: Coat of arms on the Middle Rhine and Moselle , Books on Demand GmbH, Norderstedt 2009, plate 248 ( ISBN 978-3-8370-5292-3 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Colored coat of arms ( memento of the original from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.matthias-dreyer.de
  2. ↑ Geschichtlicher Atlas der Rheinprovinz , Volume 6, 1914, p. 490, Volume 12 of: Publications of the Society for Rheinische Geschichtskunde ; (Detail scan)
  3. ↑ Website on the Oberstein tombs in Maikammer
  4. ↑ Website zur Kredenburg ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.matthias-dreyer.de
  5. ↑ Close-up of the coat of arms there  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.matthias-dreyer.de  
  6. ↑ Biographical website on Viax von Oberstein ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.club-sellemols.de
  7. ↑ Website on Gundheim Castle
  8. ^ Entry by Reinhard Friedrich on Gundheim Castle in the scientific database " EBIDAT " of the European Castle Institute, accessed on September 14, 2016.
  9. ^ Chronicle of Gundheim
  10. ↑ PDF document on the Obersteiners in Steinbach
  11. ^ The inscriptions of the Protestant church in Steinbach
  12. ↑ Bernhard Peter, Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 1244 / Maikammer (Pfalz) : The Oberstein tombs at the parish church of St. Kosmas and Damian in Maikammer (accessed on January 16, 2015)

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