Steinwehr (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Nemitz tribe
Coat of arms of the Woitfick tribe

Steinwehr is the name of a noble family from Holstein , which in the Middle Ages spread to the Duchy of Pomerania , and later to Brandenburg , Magdeburg , Westphalia and East Prussia as well as other German regions.

history

The sex appears first with Marquardus de Stenwer than this in 1216 by Count Albert von Holstein in Probsteier Ländchen invested was. In 1309 Johannes de Stenwere first appeared in a document in Pomerania . Here the family split early into two tribes with different coats of arms, one in northwestern Pomerania on Nemitz and one in southwestern Pomerania with the ancestral estate Woitfick . The latter were first mentioned in a document in 1435 with Peter Steinwehr . The family estate Woitfick was sold in 1745.

Coats of arms variant of the tribe Woitfick

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the Nemitz tribe shows in blue a silver armored and spurred leg , on the helmet with blue-silver covers three red roses in front of three (blue-silver-gold) ostrich feathers .

The coat of arms of the tribe Woitfick shows two golden (red) stirrups in silver on set red straps, on the helmet with red-silver covers three (or nine) (gold-red-blue) ostrich feathers.

Relatives

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Schleswig-Holstein Regesta and Documents , Volume 1, p. 191
  2. Pommersches Wappenbuch (lit.), Volume 1, p. 155
  3. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part II. Volume 3. Anklam 1868, p. 781 ( online ).
  4. According to Julius Theodor Bagmihl in Pommersches Wappenbuch , Volume 1, Stettin 1843, p. 157 , after Ludwig Wilhelm Brüggemann , I. 176, with nine ostrich feathers: alternately golden, red, blue.

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