Steding (noble family)

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The Steding , also Stedingk, were an old Westphalian noble family in the Oldenburger Münsterland .

history

A Heinrich Steding is mentioned in a document in 1244 as a follower of Count Otto von Oldenburg . The family may originally come from the Stedinger Land near Bremen . In 1335 a Wilke Steding changed from the service of the Counts of Hoya to that of the Bishop of Münster and appeared in 1354 as a Burgmann at Vechta . In 1399 a Wilke Steding was a participant in the feud against the Count of Tecklenburg . In the 16th century the family lived on the Huckelrieden and Stedingsmühlen estates .

The best-known member of the family was Wilke Steding (* around 1500; † 1570), Mr. von Huckelrieden and Stedingsmühlen. In 1534, the bishop of Münster Franz von Waldeck gave him Wildeshausen castle and office and appointed him supreme captain of the mercenaries in the fight against the Anabaptists in Münster. After a long siege he succeeded with about 300 men on 24/25. To conquer the city of Munster June 1535. 1536–1538 he was also Drost von Delmenhorst . From 1539 Wilke Steding was appointed Drost of the offices of Cloppenburg and Vechta for several years . Around 1540 construction of the Stedingsmühlen estate near Cloppenburg. Heir was his son Heinrich Steding (* 1520, † 1602) from his first marriage to Anna von Oeynhausen zu Eichholz. From his second marriage to the bourgeois Anna Wittrock, a bourgeois branch emerged from which several clergymen and ministerials came from. Heinrich Steding married Johanna von Dincklage from Gut Schulenburg in 1546 . After Heinrich Steding's death, the property was divided among his sons Arnd Steding (* 1558; † April 15, 1639 at Stedingsmühlen), Herr zu Stedingsmühlen and Wilke Steding (* 1548; † 1612), Herr zu Huckelrieden.

Huckelrieden

Wilke Steding, (* 1548; † 1612), 1590 Drost zu Cloppenburg, Herr zu Huckelrieden. He was followed by his son Christoph Ludolph, who was the first to write about Steding. The last heir from the Steding family was its grandson. Christoph Ludolph Carl Anton von Steding died unmarried in 1701. The Huckelrieden estate fell to his cousin, the Mecklenburg Drosten Bernard Caspar Heinrich von Lüning on Haus Cappeln near Westerkappeln .

Steding mills

Well Stedingsmühlen

Arnd Steding (* 1558; † April 15, 1639), Lord of Stedingsmühlen. In 1659, grandson Adolph Boldewin von Steding († February 8, 1706) took over the inheritance. His first-born son Johann Carl (born August 13, 1680; † after 1766) was imprisoned around 1700 for a duel at the university, from which the daughter of the Sögeler Vogt, Clara Kösters, freed him. Out of gratitude he married her and converted to the Catholic denomination. His father was upset about this and circumcised him in his will in the allodies . When Adolph Boldewin von Steding died, Johann Carl immediately tried to take possession of the property, but was prevented from doing so by an armed team from Vechta Castle. Only after the death of the widow Steding († January 8, 1707) did he come into possession of the estate. His son and heir Otto Heinrich von Steding remained unmarried and had to sell the indebted property on March 11, 1791.

coat of arms

In silver (gold) two black (or red) crossbars, above a growing, red lion . On the helmet with red and silver blankets the growing lion.

Name bearer

  • Heinrich Steding († 16 May 1580), brother of the aforementioned Wilke Steding († 1570), Teutonic Knight in Livonia until 1577, Commander in Goldingen
  • Wilke Gottfried Steding (* April 24, 1641; † June 17, 1689 Cloppenburg), senior and scholastic of the collegiate church of St. Alexander Wildeshausen , 1671 pastor in Cloppenburg, 4th July 1673 appointment as "Commissarius in Spiritualibus per Embslandiam"
  • Michael Steding (* 1665 Lingen ; † March 10, 1729 Cloppenburg), canon in Wildeshausen, September 17, 1689 pastor in Cloppenburg, 1708 dean in Cloppenburg, 1715 dean in Vechta
  • Gottfried Steding (born August 23, 1673 Lingen; † August 24, 1730 Vechta), 1715 dean of the Alexander Chapter. Buried in the Vechta Provost Church . Memorial stone next to the Joseph Altar
  • Wilhelm Heinrich Steding (born February 16, 1666 Lingen; † before April 30, 1723 Münster), Dr. jur., Princely Chancellery Director of Münster, Councilor and Privy Referendarius, received his appointment as Vice Chancellor from Prince Bishop Clemens August on August 20, 1719

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Hermann Lübbing: Wilke Steding. Cloppenburg's most famous bailiff , 1935 p. 106
  2. ↑ a b c [Peter Sieve: The Trial of the Legacy of the Teutonic Knight Heinrich Steding , Oldenburger Jahrbuch Vol. 94]
  3. ↑ Dr. Hermann Lübbing: Wilke Steding. Cloppenburg's most famous bailiff , 1935 p. 109
  4. ^ Johann C. Fässer: History of the Anabaptists , Münster, printing and publishing house of the EC Brunn'schen Buchdruckerei, 1860
  5. ^ Julius Graf von Oeynhausen: History of the family of Oeynhausen . Third part: Biographical treatment, ed. v. Grotefend, Frankfurt a. M. 1889, pp. 301-302
  6. ^ Carl Heinrich Nieberding: History of the former Niederstift Münster , Volume 2, 1841, pp. 499–500
  7. ^ Carl Heinrich Nieberding: History of the former Niederstift Münster , Volume 2, pp. 500–504
  8. ^ Max von Spiessen , Book of Arms of the Westphalian Nobility . Görlitz 1901–1903
  9. ^ Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon or genealogical and diplomatic news, Volume 8, Gebrüder Reichenbach Leipzig 1836, p. 608.
  10. ↑ Otto Gruber: The coats of arms of the South Oldenburg nobility . In: Yearbook for the Oldenburger Münsterland 1971 . Vechta 1970, p. 29
  11. ↑ a b Karl Willoh: history of the Catholic parishes in the Duchy of Oldenburg , Volume 4, page 230
  12. ↑ Karl Willoh: history of the Catholic parishes in the Duchy of Oldenburg , Volume 3, pp 129-130