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Family coat of arms

Coat of arms in Siebmacher's coat of arms book

The von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim family is a Franconian nobility that begins its line with the brothers Kyseling and Siegfried vom Stein in 1273, who were both ministerials to the bishops of Würzburg .

history

Those from Stein zu Nordheim and Ostheim were bailiffs from Mellrichstadt . As an afterfief of the Counts of Henneberg , Meiningen in 1860, they were Vice Castle Counts of Würzburg until 1583. The family was a member of the cantons of Gebürg and Rhön-Werra of the Franconian Imperial Knighthood . On July 3, 1669, Carl v. Stein (1626–1675), Chancellor of the Margrave of Bayreuth , was raised to the status of imperial baron and from 1727 the family belonged to the castle team of the Reichsburg Friedberg . In 1830 the family was accepted into the aristocratic inheritance of the House of Alten-Limburg .

The family was wealthy in Franconia and Thuringia . Her property included the manors Nordheim im Grabfeld , Völkershausen , Roßrieth and Sands in Lower Franconia , as well as Berkach , Schwickershausen , Debertshausen and Hof Ruppers in Thuringia. Furthermore, the place Rappershausen in the Lower Franconian Grabfeld was temporarily in their possession. The Thuringian possessions were expropriated without compensation in the course of the land reform in the then Soviet occupation zone in 1945.

Epitaphs are from Christoph von Stein in the church of Ostheim and Katharina von Stein in the church of Bibra .

According to Cord Ulrichs, the family is said to be related to the Franconian Stein zu Altenstein .

coat of arms

A black slanting bar in silver ; on the helmet with black and silver covers an open flight covered with the beam diagonally outwards .

Well-known namesake

• Hertnid von Stein (* around 1427, † 1491), diplomat, Bamberg canon and patron of the arts
• Caspar von Stein (1590–1632), captain of knights and envoy of the Franconian Imperial Knighthood, Kgl. Swedish Privy Councilor and District Judge in Franconia
• Carl von Stein (1626–1675), Chancellor of Bayreuth
• Erdmann Freiherr von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim (1662–1739), Markgräfl.-Bayreuther Oberhofmeister and Prime Minister
• Carl von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim (1673–1733), Prime Minister of the Electorate of Mainz, governor of the Hessian League of the Teutonic Order , Landkomtur von Thuringia (1731–1733)
• Dietrich Freiherr von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim (1741–1803), Kaiserl. Real advice, Regimental Burgmann of the Reichsburg Friedberg in the Wetterau
• Friedrich Georg von Stein (1769–1851), officer and landowner
• Dietrich Freiherr von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim (1793–1867), Minister of State in Saxony-Coburg
• Otto von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim (1854–1915), Prussian lieutenant general
• Heinrich Eduard Karl Freiherr von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim (1857–1887) German philosopher, educator and publicist
• Hermann Freiherr von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim (1859–1928), Bayr. General of the artillery, holder of the order Pour le Mérite
• Hans Karl von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim (1867–1942), German politician and State Secretary in the Reich Economics Office
• Adelheid von Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim (1870–1960), provost of the v. Cronstett and v. Hynspergischen ev. Women's monastery in Frankfurt am Main

Ganerbestein from 1550 in Rannungen , Stein's coat of arms in the middle

See also

• List of other noble families from Stein

literature

• Gerhard Schätzlein, Ingo von Berchem: The noble family von Stein and Ostheim / Rhön
• Genealogical manual of the nobility - Adelslexikon , Volume XIV, Limburg / Lahn 2003. S. 60f.
• Eike Pies, Anton Rahrbach, Hilmann von Halem: Reichsritter in Mainfranken: on coats of arms and history of Franconian noble families , Bauer & Raspe, 2003, p. 248

Web links

Commons : Stein zu Nord- und Ostheim  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• The von Stein auf Ostheim on frankfurter-patriziat.de
• Epitaph of Moritz von Stein von Ostheim
• The von Stein auf Ostheim in the Wildenfels Castle Archives

Individual evidence

1. ^ Certificate in the Bavarian State Archives in Coburg , Landesarchiv Loc.EV1 Nr104
2. ^ Hennebergisches Urkundenbuch, Volume V, page 245 ff.
3. ^ Hans Körner: Frankfurter Patrizier, page 335, Ernst Vögel Verlag, Munich, 1971
4. ↑ Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period . Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 , p. 209.