Steinberg (noble family)

Coat of arms of those von Steinberg

Bodenburg as a Merian engraving around 1650

Bornhausen around 1654

The von Steinberg family was an old Lower Saxon noble family that came from the Hildesheim nobility and already owned rich estates in the Leinebergland in the 12th century . With the Bishopric of Hildesheim a stiftisches was Junkertum to which the gentlemen from Stenberge included. The sex died out in the male line in 1911.

history

To Bodo Steinberg , the Bodenburg built and is said to have made his line to headquarters, there are no more documents.

The family first appears in documents in 1182 with Conradus de Steinberche , who was an episcopal ministerial of Hildesheim around 1200 and lived on the Bodenburg . Under his sons and grandchildren, the family branched out into six subsidiary lines, three of which gained importance and survived the Middle Ages:

• Bodenburg-Brüggen (the Brüggen estate had also been owned by the family since around 1180),
• Bodenburg-Bornhausen ( Bornhausen remained in the family until the 17th century),
• Alfeld (leash)

The ancestor of the Alfeld branch, Konrad II von Steinberg , had a free castle man's seat in Alfeld and extensive holdings in the area as a fief. There, the lords of Steinberg became the most powerful vassals of the monastery for five generations - alongside the lords of Saldern , von Adelebsen , von Wrisberg , von Schwicheldt , von Rutenberg and von Alten .

The bishop, their feudal lord and sovereign, was dependent on them because of the debts of the monastery. The brothers Cord , Lippold and Heinrich V. von Steinberg received additional properties for the money they borrowed.

The knight Burchard the Elder von Steinberg documented 1339-1376. He made extensive donations to the Lamspringe Monastery and was also a benefactor of the Hildesheim Franciscan Monastery of St. Martini . After his death in 1379 he was buried in a high grave in the Franciscan monastery. The grave slab with the knight depicted in full armor has been preserved.

Keystone of the Steinberg Chapel

Lipold von Steinberg donated a chapel in Hildesheim Cathedral , which was named after him.

Heinrich V († 1430) was enfeoffed in 1399 by Bishop Johann with the village of Gardessen ( Gerzen ). When his sons Henry VI. and Dietrich took over their inheritance, there was a dispute with the citizens of Alfeld. Bishop Magnus von Sachsen-Lauenburg therefore allowed them to build a wooden castle in 1451 at the confluence of the Wespe and Leyna , the mouth of the Wisp. They called the castle Wispenstein .

In 1561 Siewert von Steinberg acquired the Imbshausen estate , which remained in the family until 1777.

Later lineage

• Friedrich I. von Steinberg (* 1619; † 1679); Hereditary lord of Brüggen ⚭ 1. 1645 Elisabeth von Spiegel (1620–1660 adH Peckelsheim )
  • Georg von Steinberg (1650–1703); Hereditary lord on Bodenburg , knighthood deputy ⚭ Eva von Korff († 1744; daughter of Victor von Korff and Margarethe von Voss)
    • Ernst von Steinberg (* 1689; † 1759); Real secret advice ⚭ 1726 Margarethe Louise von Wendt (* 1704; † 1753; daughter of Franz von Wendt and Friedericke Charlotte von dem Bussche .)
      • Georg Friedrich von Steinberg (* 1727; † 1765)
      • Eva von Steinberg (born May 20, 1730 in Osterode; † May 5, 1769 in Kassel) ⚭ on February 16, 1749 in Hanover, Friedrich von Adelebsen (born June 18, 1728 in Hanover; † September 25, 1791 in Göttingen; son by Dietrich August von Adelebsen and Christine Louise Freiin von Spörcken); Major general. Madman, major general, heir to Adelebsen
  • Magdalena Elisabeth von Steinberg (* 1646; † 1700) ⚭ Heinrich von Voss (* 1630; † 1662; son of Bernhard von Voss and Margarethe Elisabeth von Oer ); Heir to Gut Böckel
    • Margarethe Elisabeth von Voss († February 6, 1733) ⚭ Johann Heinrich von Korff (born March 3, 1661; † July 7, 1723; son of Eberhard Victor von Korff and Elisabeth Margarethe von Voss); Drost. Hereditary lord on Lüddecke , Drost zu Rhaden
      • Beate Elisabeth von Korff (* 1708; † 1767)
• Friedrich I. von Steinberg ⚭ 2. 1664 Hedwig von Wiedensee
  • Dorothea Elisabeth von Steinberg († 1731) ⚭ Ernst Friedrich Freiherr von Spörcken (* 1665; † 1726; son of Werner Hermann von Spörcken and Anna Eleonore von Lenthe ); Hereditary lord on Langlingen , landscape director of Lüneburg, 1717 baron
    • Sophie Wilhelmine Freiin von Spörcken
    • August Ludwig Freiherr von Spörcken († 1752); Real Privy Councilor and Oberhofmarschall zu Wolfenbüttel; ⚭ Catharina von Arnswald 1724

Brüggen Castle

• • Friedrich II. Von Steinberg (* 1659; † 1716); Oberhofmarschall and holder of other high offices at the court of Anton Ulrich (Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel) ; In 1693 he had the Brüggen Castle built by the later ducal agricultural master Hermann Korb according to a design by Johann Balthasar Lauterbach ; ⚭ Gertrud von Grapendorff (possibly from the von Grappendorf family , who had their headquarters on a Burgmannshof in Lübbecke and who owned Grappenstein for a long time ).

In 1888 the family with Ernst von Steinberg , chamberlain and member of the Prussian mansion, was raised to the Prussian count and died out with him in 1911 in the male line. His universal heiress was his eldest daughter, Jutta Countess von Steinberg ⚭ 1905 Burghard von Cramm . One of her 7 sons was the tennis player Gottfried von Cramm . The goods Brüggen , Bodenburg , Wispenstein and Harbarnsen were transferred to the Barons von Cramm .

Web links

• Genealogical and partly historical presentation of the clock jump and continuation of some clock ages, well-born high nobility houses including those of Adelips, von Alvensleben, von Asseburg, von Bartens
• to Friedrich II. and the manor of Brüggen
• Behrens: trunk = tree of the Lords of Steinberg, 1697
• From the castle and village chronicle of Wispenstein

literature

• Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, pp. 67-68, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN  0435-2408

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Document book of the Hochstift Hildesheim and its bishops 1, No. 418
2. ^ Inscription catalog : City of Hildesheim