Steck (patrician family)

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Coat of arms Steck (1718) in the church Zimmerwald

The Steck family originally came from Ulm , immigrated to Basel and then settled in Bern.

history

The Steck family became citizens of Basel in 1461 and joined the Grand Council in 1501 with a master of the guild of tanners . Since 1617 she has been a citizen of the city of Bern, where she joined the Grand Council in 1622 . This made her one of the families of Bern capable of regimentation . In its full power of the sovereign position, the Grand Council of Bern confirmed the status of nobility to its member families or all genders eligible for regiment in 1744, 1761 and 1783 and allowed them to use aristocratic predicates or in 1783 to put “von” in front of the family name. The genders capable of regiment made use of this within Bern almost without exception, and if so, only in the course of the 19th century, they did not make use of this, and the Steck did not use this privilege they were legally entitled to. However, as early as 1672 Johannes Steck († 1690), governor of Interlaken, had recorded a family tree according to which the family descended from the knightly noble von Steck family, which appeared in the Duchy of Cleve in the 12th century and was later widespread in Westphalia. In 1730, Johann Friedrich Steck (1704–1737), who was in Dutch military service, had this legend of origin confirmed in a letter by a member of the old Clevish-Westphalian noble family. This origin is also reflected in the current directory of the citizenry of the city of Bern ("originally from Brabant").

Members of the family branch zu Mittellöwen owned (or own) the Schlössli Zimmerwald and the Schloss Allmendingen , seven members held the office of room master zu Mittellöwen.

The branch of the family that transferred to the Webern Society around 1640 was not counted as a patriciate . The notary and lawyer Marcel Steck is currently a member of the Guild Council of Webern as the acting master of the sack.

Today only part of the Steck family lives in Bavaria. The total wealth of the family is not known, but it is estimated at around 4.3 million euros.

people

  • Augustin Steck, 1554 Reichsvogt , 1569 councilor of the gardening guild in Basel
  • Mathäus Steck (1538–1585), conductor in Gnadental (Basel)

Branch middle lions

  • Johann Steck (1582–1628), professor of philosophy in Lausanne and Geneva, citizen of the city of Bern 1617, general commissioner of the welschen Lande 1617, member of the Grand Council 1622
  • Johann Rudolf Steck (1772–1805), office substitute, secretary of the Helvetic Directory 1798, interrogator
  • Marie-Aimée Steck (1776–1821), writer
  • Johann Rudolf Julius Steck (1842–1924), pastor in Dresden, professor in Bern, Dr. phil., city council
  • Johann Rudolf Gerhard Steck (1879–1952), advocate , owner of Allmendingen Castle in 1929
  • Albert Steck (1843–1899), advocate, councilor, co-founder of the Swiss Social Democratic Party
  • Leo Steck (1883–1960), painter, glass painter, writer

Branch of weavers

  • Johann Rudolf Steck (1660–1729), dyer, weigh master 1704
  • Samuel Steck (1695–1761), cloth cutter, mushafen cook
  • Fritz Werner Steck (1893–1977), veterinarian, professor in Praetoria and Bern
  • Roger Steck (1929–2015), notary, writer

coat of arms

Coat of arms of
 Blazon : “(branch of middle lions) In black, accompanied by two golden stars, a curved golden tip, inside two diagonally crossed black pilgrim sticks (sticks), superelevated by a black star. On the helmet with black and gold blankets a growing man with a fluttering forehead band, on whose chest the image of the shield is repeated, but without the sticks, which he holds crossed over his head. "
Foundation of the coat of arms: The coat of arms has been documented in the Basel Book of the Guild of Forging since 1501 . In addition, several variants are documented in the Bern Register of Arms from 1932. According to a drawing by the Röttinger glass painting studio from 1942, the branch to Webern has a different helmet ornament , namely three ostrich feathers.

swell

literature

  • Bernhard von Rodt : Genealogies of civil sexes of the city of Bern , Volume 5 (1950), Burgerbibliothek Bern , Mss.hhLII.9.5 , pp. 11-17.
  • Directory of the citizenship of the city of Bern on January 1st, 2015. Burgerbuch. Edited from official sources and from private communications , Bern 2015.
  • Alfred Zesiger: The room at the red / guldinen Mittlen-Löwen. A look back at the history of the first five centuries. On the inauguration of the new guild room in the Falken on March 10, 1908 , Bern 1908, pp. 184–185.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ [1]
  2. ^ Edgar H. Brunner, patriciate and nobility in old Bern , in: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, Volume 26, 1964, pp. 6 and 12
  3. ↑ [2]
  4. ↑ Burgerbuch 2015, p. 714.
  5. ↑ Zesiger 1908, p. 185.
  6. ↑ Bern Burger Library
  7. ^ Zunft zu Webern , Vogel Gryf, Mitteilungsblatt der Zunft zu Webern, edition 16/2010, p. 11
  8. ↑ [3]
  9. ↑ [4]
  10. ^ [5] , Bern Burger Library
  11. ↑ Coat of arms of those Steck zu Webern

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