Scheuchenstuel
The knights and barons von Scheuchenstuel are a Bavarian and Austrian noble family originating from the Rosenheim citizenry, whose members had made a name for themselves as trades . In Austria it distinguished itself not only through its work in the mining industry, but also in judge, civil and military service.
history
origin
Oral tradition says that the Scheuchenstuel originally came from Thuringia. There is evidence that they were already settled in the first half of the 15th century under the Rosenheim citizenry. Magnificent grave monuments in Rosenheim testify to the importance of this family. The branch that flourished in the Rosenheim area died out with Johann Georg († 1698) in the male line.
In Austria
One branch of the family was already involved in mining in Austria and Styria in the 16th century . Hans, who married Sabina Ho (f) fer in 1541, is to be regarded as the progenitor of the Scheuchenstuel, who live in numerous lines in Austria. Their sons were raised to the knightly imperial and hereditary nobility by Emperor Rudolf II : Albrecht Scheuchenstuel zu Weiching, Imperial Salzmeier in Reichenhall and his sons Wilhelm, chambergrave in the copper trade administration in Neusohl and Schemnitz , and Peter, Lower Austrian chamberlain, In recognition of “ his own and his forefathers as well as his two sons, Wilhelm and Peter, merits ”, on July 18, 1579 in Prague, then on September 12, 1582 in Augsburg , Albrecht's brothers Hans and Georg.
Hans Georg accompanied Archduke Ferdinand of Graz to Italy in 1598 and gained his favor. After the Duke had been elected Emperor Ferdinand II , he even fulfilled Hans Georg's request for an increase in his coat of arms with that of the old, dead family of the Upper Palatinate Hoffer, to which his grandmother belonged, with a second role as a coat of arms of mercy, whereby from Hoffer only the helmet found its way into the coat of arms. The emperor also transferred the coat of arms to his brother Hans Victor, counter writer and bike master of Innerberg-Eisenerz.
By his descendant Hans Karl (1634–1688), predecessor in Weyer , then Verweser in Wildalpen , married to Eva, daughter of Jakob von Pantz, co- trades and chief forest master in Weyer, from a noble St. Gallen trade family and ancestor of the future field marshal lieutenant Viktor von Panz, descended from three sons: Hans Jakob (1667–1739), Edmund (1668–1741), 1687 capitular of the Benedictine monastery Admont and Franz Anton (* 1675 - 14 December 1746 in Weißenbach), from 1709 to 1746 Kastner zu Weißenbach the Enns . The two non-spiritual brothers formed an older and younger line that later branched out even further.
One line of the family came to Carniola , where Anton was chamber procurator and councilor at the beginning of the 19th century. His son Joseph (* 1808 in Laibach ) was admitted as the Imperial and Royal District Court President of Neustadt in Lower Carniola and Knight of the Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order in Vienna on December 21, 1854 without changing the coat of arms, even in the Herbländisch-Austrian Ritterstrand.
Carl von Scheuchenstuel (1792–1867), from the Carinthian line, was a well-deserved Montanist and lawyer, Imperial and Royal Section Head and Privy Councilor . In 1848, Carl, now Oberbergdirektor, was elected as a member of the Leoben district in the elections to the Frankfurt National Assembly. He wrote the idioticon of the Austrian mountain and hut language published in 1856 . He was a bearer of the Order of the Iron Crown, 2nd class, and, in accordance with the statutes of the Order, was raised to the status of hereditary-Austrian baron by the highest resolution of Emperor Franz Joseph I on October 30, 1856 in Vienna .
On September 13, 1917, the kuk General Viktor von Scheuchenstuel (1857–1938), who came from an older branch of the family who had come to Witkowitz , was promoted to Colonel General as a reward on November 16, 1917 , after he had emerged victorious at the Battle of Karfreit by the highest resolution of Emperor Charles I with a diploma from January 3, 1918 in Vienna, elevated to the status of Austrian count.
They owned the Falkenberg Castle .
coat of arms
1579 and 1582: shield in red with black three-mountain, on the outer wings of which a naked little boy in curly yellow hair spread, hands pricked. Stech helmet with black and red cover, bulge in the same colors and open red flight, in between three mountain and boy. In 1582 the Dreiberg became silver, instead of the previously closed helmet, there was a crowned open one with red and silver covers.
1629: Shield split, in front a naked boy on a green hill in front red, his arms braced, in the back gold on a green hill in front a hunter, skirt, trousers and hat green, powder bottle on the right, rifle slung diagonally, the butt on top, with the right the one for Golden horn attached to bubbles, with the lowered left hand holding a striding, leather-collared brown lead dog on a black-brown lead rope. Two crowned helmets, the first with a blanket from the Holy Roman Empire (black and gold) and the boy on the hill, the other with the blanket from Austria (red and silver) and open horns, the right one black, the left one golden, sitting in between a black banded white hound.
1856: As in 1629, but with the baron's crown on the shield and the little boy on 1 between an open red flight (as in 1579).
Heraldic saga
The following legend goes about the origin of their name and coat of arms, according to Anton Pantz: “In the vicinity of the residence of their first ancestor, there was a wild person in the mountain forests who aroused fear and superstition. The inhabitants of the area wanted to kill him, but the ancestor of the Scheuchenstuel had him caught, took him - it was a young man - and made him human again. Years later the news came that a prince was looking for his son, who had been abandoned as a child, to be eliminated. The young man was recognized as the prince's son, who was then reinstated in his rights. To commemorate the rescue of the boy, the ancestor of the Scheuchenstuel received his name and the naked boy in the coat of arms. "
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Scheuchenstuel, the lords of, genealogy . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 29th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1875, p. 242 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Genealogical paperback of noble houses in Austria. Volume 1, O. Maas' Sons, Vienna 1905.
- Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk generals 1816-1918. Austrian State Archives, 1907.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Alfred Anton von Siegenfeld: "Genealogical pocket book of the noble houses of Austria", Verlag O. Maass' Sons, Vienna 1905, p. 535
- ↑ a b c d Oscar Goeschen and AM Hildebrandt: "Kärntner Adel", in Siebmacher's great Wappenbuch, Vol. 4, Bauer & Raspe, Nuremberg 1879, p. 200, T. 24
- ^ Carl von Scheuchenstuel: Idioticon of the Austrian mountain and hut language . For a better understanding of the Austrian mountain law and its motives for non-Montanists. Wilhelm Braumüller, Vienna 1856 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b Archived copy ( 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.
- ↑ Genealogical paperback of the noble houses of Austria, Volume 1, O. Maas' Sons, Vienna 1905, p. 534 ff
- ^ Antonio Schmidt-Brentano: The kk or kuk Generalität 1816–1918, Austrian State Archives, 1907, p. 161
- ^ Anton von Pantz : "Contributions to the research of Styrian historical sources", 32nd year, Verlag des Historisches Verein für Steiermark , Graz 1902, p. 288 f.
