Stein zu Lausnitz

Family coat of arms of those of Stein zu Lausnitz

The Stein zu Lausnitz family belongs to the Eastern nobility with the parent company Lausnitz near Neustadt an der Orla.

history

The family first appeared in documents in 1117 with Dudo von Stein . Siegfried von Stein was enfeoffed with Rode Castle in 1301. His grandson Kaspar was enfeoffed with the Lausnitz family estate near Neustadt an der Orla in 1429 . Christoph Heinrich acquired the Wirsitz estate with Hasla in 1620 and donated what would later become the Kochberger Line, while his younger brother Friedrich Wilhelm continued the Lausnitzer Line. In addition to the line to Lausnitz, there were also the lines to Kochberg (1733 to 1938) and Braunsdorf (from 1827 to approx. 1850).

The genealogist Johann Gottfried Biedermann deals in his genealogy about the Vogtland knighthood with this family beginning in the 16th century. He outlines the ancestral line of Wolf Christoph von Stein auf Lausnitz and Miesitz (1668–1731) and his son, who both were in the service of the Bayreuth margraves during the lifetime of the publisher Biedermann and held important positions at the Plassenburg . Wolf Christoph was also bailiff of Schauenstein and Helmbrechts .

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  Gut Lausnitz

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  Kochberg Castle

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a striding blue lion in gold . The lion grows on the helmet with the blue and gold covers .

On the Braunsdorf and Kochberg lines in the split shield, two lions striding towards each other, the right one red on silver, the left one as in the family coat of arms. With the Stein zu Kochberg the lions are crowned. On the two helmets with blue and gold blankets on the right, red and silver on the left, the two lions facing each other, blue on the right, red on the left.

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  Family coat of arms of those of Stein zu Lausnitz

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  Coat of arms of the Stein zu Kochberg (crowned lions)

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  Coat of arms of the Stein zu Braunsdorf

Personalities

• Christoph Heinrich von Stein (born 1665), a Gothic minister, was appointed Reichshofrat by Emperor Leopold I in 1700 and raised to the rank of count by Emperor Joseph I in 1710.
• Charlotte von Stein from the Kochberg family (1742–1827), close friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Gottlob Ernst von Stein at Kochberg Castle (1767–1787), hunting page at the court in Weimar
• Ludwig Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz (1868–1934), officer and explorer

See also

• Stone (noble families)

literature

• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN  0435-2408 , pp. 56-58.
• Johann Gottfried Biedermann : Gender register of the praiseworthy knights in Voigtlande ... Kulmbach 1752. Plate CCLXVI. to CCLXIX.

Web links

• The von Stein zu Lausnitz in the Wildenfels castle archive
• The von Stein zu Lausnitz in Pierer's Universal Lexikon

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dobencker, Regesta diplom. historiae Thuringiae, 1, 1116