Stechow (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of the von Stechow family
Increased coat of arms of the Barons von Stechow

Stechow is the name of an old Brandenburg noble family with the parent company of the same name in Stechow in Westhavelland .

history

The family appears for the first time with Latinized names in a document from Emperor Friedrich I (Barbarossa) in 1181 with the brothers Henricus , Wernerus and Gerardus de Stechowe . They were wealthy in Porstendorf near Camburg an der Saale . Only Heinrich continues the line.

The Stechow are originally a noble sex. The family line begins in 1298 with the knight Eckard de Stechow zu Rathenow . On March 12, 1703 Christoph von Stechow was accepted into the old Bohemian gentry .

The Majorat Plawniowitz in the district of Gleiwitz (Upper Silesia), acquired by Franz-Wolfgang Freiherrn von Stechow in 1737 , with Ruda and Biskupitz , passed on to his descendants, Count Carl Franz von Ballestrem , in 1798 and laid the foundation for the with his mineral resources in the 19th century Ballestrem group, one of the largest mining companies in Upper Silesia.

Today the family appears in three houses: Haus Arnoldsmühle , Haus Fahrland and Haus Kotzen , whereby the castle and Gut Kotzen were owned by the family from the 14th century until the land reform in the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany.

Alexander von Stechow (1938–2020) and his wife Benita acquired and renovated the Kotzen neighboring castle Nennhausen in 1996 .

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows three black oblique bars in silver, each covered with three green clover leaves. On the helmet with black and silver covers a natural monkey , which is holding up a natural apple in her right hand.

The gemehrte baronial crest is quartered by the award certificate of 12 March 1703 1 and 4 strain arms of Stechow, 2 and 3 crest Priort (blue in two half against each other with the rim asked golden wheels). Two helmets; on the right Stechow, on the left a growing maiden with blue and gold blankets, in her right hand holding half a golden wheel, her left hand in the side.

Name bearer

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archive school gate, Diplomatarium Portense, fol. 19; in the document book of the monastery gate 1, Halle an der Saale 1893, pp. 43–44, no. 26
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Volume AA XXIII, page 450 with a picture of the Kotzen Castle, CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg, 1994
  3. ^ Alexander von Stechow obituary , FAZ from March 12, 2020
  4. ^ Website of Nennhausen Castle

literature

  • Friedrich-Carl Freiherr von Stechow: The Stechows and their time . Neustadt an der Aisch 1983; plus gleanings (with pedigree) . Neustadt an der Aisch 1988.
  • Genealogical Handbook of the Adels, Adelige Häuser A, Volume XXIII, Volume 106 of the complete series, 1994, page 437 ff.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN  0435-2408