Steinbach von Kranichstein

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Coat of arms of the barons Steinbach von Kranichstein 1714

The barons Steinbach von Kranichstein were a noble family of German descent who were wealthy in Bohemia .

history

Anton Steinbach (* 1615; † 1674), the progenitor of the family, was the imperial officer then in 1640 captain of the Theusing rule, who in 1660 acquired the Lichtenstein rule including several smaller estates in the Pilsen district . In 1664 he was accepted into the old knighthood of Bohemia with the predicate "von Kranichstein". Anton had married Maria Magdalene Meiler von Erzberg (* 1625). After Anton's death, his sons shared the property.

Benedikt Steinbach von Kranichstein († 1704) was captain of the Pilsener Kreis, received the goods Groß-Straupitz (Stroupeč) and Lichtenstein. His only son, Karl Max, sold his father's possessions and became a baron in 1714.

Ernst Friedrich Steinbach von Kranichstein (1650–1688), married to Elizabeth Kuttner von Parkheim, bought the Lohowa and Zebus estates in 1677 , which he bequeathed to his son Josef Ernst. Of his four sons, only the oldest and heir, Johann Wenzel († 1780), is known by name. He was raised to the baron status in 1745, and he also bought the Dollana (Dolany) and Rakolaus estates. He only had one daughter. Wenzel Count Borzek von Dohaletz (Bořek Dohalský von Dohalice) married the daughter of this line of Kranichstein.

Anton Franz Steinbach von Kranichstein received Hundschitz and bought Pröhlig in 1680, leaving Hundschitz to his brother Franz Julius. His son was Anton Ignaz. Georg Karl Steinbach von Kranichstein had inherited Kraschowitz. Franz Julius Steinbach von Kranichstein had received Klenau and Wessely, as well as from his brother Hundschitz.

Anton Thaddäus Steinbach von Kranichstein († 1757) was an artillery colonel sergeant who died in Breslau in 1757 from the wounds he suffered in the Battle of Leuthen . He was married to Barbara, née Logk von Nettky, a sister of the Saar Abbot Otto Logk von Netky .

Saar Monastery 1678

Thaddäus Nepomuk Bonifaz Freiherr Steinbach von Kranichstein (born November 13, 1751 in Rosenberg , Bohemia, † February 19, 1791 in Vienna ), who as a monk took the name Otto, son of the above, had been abbot of the Saar Cistercian monastery in Moravia since 1782 . Steinbach wrote several works. Among other things, he published the “Diplomatic collection of historical curiosities from the archive of the Cistercian monastery Saar in Moravia” (1783) and the “Lexicon of all princely ordinances and laws in the clerical field actually existing in the Austrian states” (1790), and the first part is also published his “History of Moravia” (1791) has been preserved in handwriting. In the middle of his work a fever dragged him away.

With the clergy, the sex in the male line is extinct.

coat of arms

Quartered with a heart shield, in this blue-flooded silver oblique right bar, below it three stones lengthways. 1 and 4 in gold a crowned black eagle growing out of the cleavage line. 2 and 3 a silver, gold crowned crane in red, carrying a stone in the right claw. The crown on the helmet. From the crown on the right an open, red-silver, on the right an open, green-gold, split in the middle, the crane rises out of the shield. The helmet covers are red and silver on the left and green and gold on the right.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Friedrich Bernau: "Studies on the special history and local history of the German-speaking area in Bohemia and Moravia", JG Calve'sche Hof- und Universitätsbuchhandlung, Prague 1903, p. 643
  2. ↑ Newer treatises of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences, Volume 2, Prague 1795, pp. 26–28
  3. ↑ Constant von Wurzbach: "Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich", 38th part, KK Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, pp. 47-50
  4. ↑ http://www.zisterzienserlexikon.de/wiki/Steinbach,_Otto