Seuter (family)
The Seuter (also Seutter ) were a family belonging to the imperial city patriciate in the free imperial city of Kempten , later they were also in Lindau , even later in Ulm . They called themselves after their castle Latvians also Seuter Giżycko . The best-known representative of the family was Gordian Seuter .
In 1484 Jörg Sutter became a member of Rötenbach (what is meant is today's market in Rettenbach ). In 1491 Ulrich Sutter is named as Mayor of Kempten. In 1515 Gordian Seuter became mayor of the imperial city. He concluded the "Great Purchase" with Sebastian von Breitenstein , in which the imperial city bought all the rights of the prince monastery of Kempten within the city walls. What was achieved was that the imperial city could now decide for itself about its property and rights policy, where the prince abbot of the monastery had previously had many rights.
In 1548 the Seuter gave up their citizenship in Kempten. Then they were temporarily in Lindau in Lake Constance , at the end in Ulm. In 1559 the Seuter von Lötzen received the imperial and Austrian nobility.
coat of arms
The Seuter coat of arms shows a yellow fire basket on a black background.
The coat of arms of the ennobled Seuter von Lötzen is quartered with a black heart shield, inside is a yellow fire basket. In the first place there is a crowned eagle in yellow, in the second place in red there is a yellow rafter separated by three white lilies. On the shield are two crowned helmets, on the right a yellow fire basket with five peacock feathers, on the left a crowned black eagle.
literature
- Friedrich Zollhoefer (Hrsg.): In Eduard Zimmermann, Friedrich Zollhoefer: Kempter coat of arms and symbols including the city and district of Kempten and the adjacent areas of the upper Allgäu. In: Heimatverein Kempten (Ed.): Allgäuer Geschichtsfreund. 2. Delivery, No. 62, Kempten 1962, p. 309f.