Sarnthein (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Sarnthein (Särnthein)

The family of Sarnthein (Särnthein) is a letter noble , originally from Augsburg derived, South Tyrolean noble family .

Family origin

The family of the later Counts of Sarnthein is of bourgeois origin and comes from Augsburg. They were respected merchants there and carried the family name Wagner. Georg Wagner received an imperial coat of arms letter in Augsburg on September 29, 1530. On May 2, 1541 , Emperor Karl V from Valladolid gave his son Sebastian Wagner a change of coat of arms with feudal articles, his son David Wagner from Augsburg, now a trader in Bolzano , was raised to the imperial nobility on June 18, 1594 with an improved coat of arms.

The family acquired extensive real estate in South Tyrol, including the Rottenbuch residence in Bolzano and Sarnthein in 1610, and were entered in the Tyrolean aristocratic registers on September 11, 1633 . After the Sarntheiner property, David Wagner's sons Ludwig and David were raised on September 27, 1650 by Archduke Ferdinand Carl to the Tyrolean baron class under the name von und zu Särnthein. Finally, their children David, Carl Anton ( Governor on the Adige), Franz Ludwig, Johann Dominik, Johann Joseph, Maria Anna Magdalena and Maria Catharina Theresia became hereditary Austrian counts under the title Graf von Särnthein, Herr zu Rottenbuch, Khellerburg and Kränzlstein raised and at the same time bestowed on them the title high and well-born .

Gräflich Sarnthein-Toggenburg resting place in the Bolzano cemetery

Seats of the Sarnthein

Georg von Toggenburg married two sisters from the family one after the other (1852 and 1858), daughters of Count Maria Ludwig von Sarnthein (* 1792, † 1867), kk chamberlain , lord zu Rottenbuch , cellar castle and Kränzelstein , official ordinator of the lordship and knighthood in Tyrol, and Annette von Menz ("Anna"; * 1796; † 1869). Descendants still live in the Palais Sarnthein in Bozen, later known as the " Palais Toggenburg " .

Reinegg Castle remained in the possession of the Counts of Sarnthein until 1963, Kränzelstein was sold in the 1970s, the Rottenbuch residence in 1976. The cellar castle is still the seat of the last descendants of the Counts of Sarnthein.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those of Sarnthein at the cellar castle in Sarntal

(1681 in the Grafendiplom :) Quartered and covered with a blue heart shield , inside a silver greyhound, around whose head there are 7 golden stars; 1 and 4 a silver bar in red, covered with a gold-crowned red lion (coat of arms of the extinct Sarntheiner von Nordheim, to which Cyprian von Serntein still belonged); 2 and 3 in blue head and neck of a golden twelve-fender (coat of arms originally of the now extinct Augsburg Hupfauf, ancestor of Wagner); 2 helmets, on the right with red and silver covers a golden-crowned red-clad white-bearded man, on the left with black and gold covers the deer head, between the helmets a red Jerusalem cross .

Well-known namesake

Web links

Commons : Sarnthein family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , Adelslexikon, Volume XII, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg, p. 254 f.
  2. ↑ Hans Heiss : »Civil rise in the 17th century. The Tyrolean merchant David Wagner «. In: Louis Carlen, Gabriel Imboden (ed.): Forces of the economy. Entrepreneurship in the Alpine region in the 17th century. Brig 1991, p. 136 ff.
  3. ^ A b Gothaisches Genealogisches Handbuch , Gräfliche Häuser, Volume 1, p. 377 ff.
  4. ↑ Hannes Obermair : »The Becoming of a Room. Rottenbuch before Rottenbuch «. In: Helmut Stampfer (ed.): The Rottenbuch residence in Bozen-Gries. Tappeiner: Lana 2003, ISBN 88-7073-335-1 , p. 17.
  5. ↑ TO Weigel: German count houses of the present. Volume 2, Leipzig 1853, p. 346 f.
  6. ^ Elfriede Rensing: Miszelle: Letters from a German noblewoman of the XVI. Century to her husband , in: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, Volume 25, 1935, December issue, pp. 309–326.