Schnurbein (noble family)
Schnurbein is a Protestant family from South Tyrol who was raised to the nobility in 1697.
history
The trunk series begins with Pancraz Schnurpein from Niederdorf in the Puster Valley . His son, Nicolaus Schnurpein († 1607), became a citizen in Brixen in 1568 . His son Balthasar I. Schnurbein (1578–1635) came to Augsburg at the end of 1593 , where he worked as a merchant . He acquired citizenship through marriage to Felicitas Bühler, daughter of the wool merchant Hans Georg Bühler. In 1606 the merchant received an imperial coat of arms letter . Since 1619 he was a member of the Great Council as a representative of the Augsburg Confession merchants, and in 1625 he took over the Stierlin trading company. The Augsburg line was extremely successful in the silk and silver trade.
The grandson of Balthasar I. Schnurbein, Balthasar III. Schnurbein (1645–1711), joined the Inner Council of the imperial city of Augsburg in 1680, was raised to hereditary imperial nobility by Emperor Leopold I in Vienna in 1697 . He began in 1704 with the acquisition of the allodial property Meitingen the Schnurbeinschen real estate outside the imperial city of Augsburg and then called himself Schnurbein von und zu Meitingen . In 1711 he bought the hamlet and estate Deuringen . The sons first became members of society through marriage , and in 1706 the Schnurbeins were then accepted into the Augsburg patriciate , to the sexes . Together with other Protestant families from Augsburg, the von Schnurbein family founded the “Patriciate Foundation for the Support of Needy Widows and Descendants” in 1751.
Gottfried von Schnurbein (1700–1749) had been in the service of the Dresden court chancellery from 1723 . In 1728 he was promoted to legation secretary in Vienna , and in 1731 he became a secret agent of Prince Eugene and the court of Electoral Saxony in Munich . 1733-1747 he was electoral Saxon representatives in Augsburg, in 1741 had him Elector Friedrich August II. Of Saxony , also king of Poland , in his capacity as imperial vicar in the realm baron conditions applicable. At that time Gottfried von Schnurbein also carried the title of a royal Polish and electoral Saxon secret war council .
The family was enrolled in the Baron Class in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1813 and is now part of the Schnurbein-Hurlach and Schnurbein-Hemerten lines .
coat of arms
The talking family coat of arms (Kaiserlicher Wappenbrief 1606) of the sex shows two black brackets in gold on a black three-mountain , both of which are tugging on a bone ( leg ) hung on a string . On the helmet with black and gold covers a growing black hound, a bone in its mouth, between a black and a gold buffalo horn.
The coat of arms of the nobility (1697) shows in the shield like the family coat of arms, but with a red three-mountain, in addition a blue shield head , covered with three (2: 1) golden balls. On the crowned helmet the bracke as on the family coat of arms, but between an open flight , divided golden-red on the right, blue-golden on the left.
The baronial coat of arms from 1741 is divided by a blue bar covered with three (2: 1) golden spheres; above, in a field split by gold and red, a growing double-headed eagle split by black and silver; below, in gold on a green three-sided mountain, there are two black brackets , standing up against each other , tugging at a bone. Baron's crown and three crowned helmets; on the right with blue and gold covers a closed flight covered with three balls at the front and gold at the back, on the middle one with black and silver covers the growing double-headed eagle (crowned), on the left black and gold cover a hound growing with the bone in the mouth.
Buildings and monuments
Family grave in the Protestant cemetery in Augsburg
Name bearer
- Immo von Schnurbein (* 1938), captain at sea a. D., commandant of the German Navy's training ship Gorch Fock from April 1986 to December 1992, later captain a. a. the Deutschland , the Bark Sea Cloud II and the Bark Alexander von Humboldt II
- Siegmar von Schnurbein (* 1941), German provincial Roman archaeologist
- Stefanie von Schnurbein (* 1961), German literary scholar
- Katharina von Schnurbein (* 1973), European Commission coordinator for combating anti-Semitism
- Georg von Schnurbein (* 1977), German economist
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul von Stetten , History of the noble families in the free imperial city of Augsburg , p. 333
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIII, Volume 128 of the complete series, Limburg an der Lahn 2002, p. 15 f.
literature
- Paul von Stetten : History of the noble families in the free imperial city of Augsburg , Augsburg 1762, pp. 333–334
- Ernst Heinrich Kneschke (ed.): New general German nobility lexicon . Eighth volume, Leipzig 1886, p. 271
- Stiftung Deutsches Adelsarchiv (Hrsg.): Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels Adelslexikon . Volume XIII., Limburg an der Lahn 2002, pp. 15-16
- Association of the Nobility in Bavaria V. (Hrsg.): Genealogical manual of the nobility enrolled in Bavaria . Volume XXVI., Insingen 2006, pp. 339-352
- Simone Herde: Schnurbein (Schnurbain, Schnurrbain, Schnurpain, Schnurrpain), by u. zu Meitingen (1697 imperial nobility, 1741 barons). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 344-346 ( digitized version ).