Starschedel
The Starschedel family is an old Meissen aristocratic family . It comes from the town of Starsiedel near the city of Lützen in the south of today's state of Saxony-Anhalt .
history
The family first appears in a document on March 26, 1311 with Petrus de Starcedel . The von Starschedel family was especially wealthy in Saxony . For a time, members of the family owned the north Bohemian rule Schluckenau . Representatives of the family were primarily in the service of the Electors of Saxony . Between 1445 and 1556 they were owned by the Mutzschen office in the Leipzig district of the Electorate of Saxony . From 1629 to 1801 the family owned the manor Merzdorf near Riesa.
Personalities
- Caspar von Starschedel , from 1585 owner of the Gotha manor , stayed a. a. on business at the emperor's court
- Haubold Heinrich von Starschedel (1650–1701), district chamber councilor, heir, feudal lord and court lord on Lodersleben
- Heinrich von Starschedel , Schneeberger Berghauptmann, built the felt pond near Schneeberg (Ore Mountains) from 1483–1485
- Heinrich Clemens von Starschedel († 1731), German court official
- Otto von Starschedel , owner of the manors Rödern and Gotha as well as the Schluckenau rule, Privy Councilor of Landgrave Moritz von Hessen-Kassel
coat of arms
The crest is of red and black by a silver inclined beams or doubly inclined of red, silver and black divided . On the crowned helmet with, depending on the source, red-silver, black-silver, right black-silver and left red-silver, mixed red-silver-black or red-silver covers a flight , on both sides of red and black through a silver sloping bar, right diagonally left and left diagonally right, or both divided diagonally left.
Historical coats of arms
Coat of arms of the von Starschedel family
Web links
- Weesenstein Castle, website by Bernhard Peter 2011
- The von Starschedel in the Wildenfels castle archive
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, p. 28, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408