Sternbach to Stock and Luttach

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Coat of arms of the barons von Sternbach 1698

Sternbach zum Stock und Luttach is an Austrian noble family .

history

A family originating from Tyrol, whose original name was Wenzel (Wenzl, Wentzl) and owes its rise primarily to the mines in Ahren zu Taufers in the Pustertal and advantageous pledges for borrowed money to the state government. The Wenzl received a letter of arms in 1571. After the dynasty of the noble von Luttach ( Lugdach , also Luchedach , first mentioned in 1225), who had set up their seat in Stock zu Uttenheim , the property went first to the Anich von Kortatsch, then to the barons of Spaur, and finally in 1619 the nobles of Wenceslaus over. After purchasing the goods, the latter were allowed to use the predicate “von Luttach” or “Stock von Luttach” and add the coat of arms of that family (a piece of the city wall) to theirs. Mathias von Wenzel built the Holy Cross chapel in the tower of the castle.

With the diploma of Emperor Leopold I in Regensburg on January 12, 1664 , Johann Baptist Wentzl, doctor of both rights, was canon of the Salzburg and Brixen monasteries and his brothers Stephan, lord of Kirchegg, Treuenstein and Ragen in Bruneck, and Andreas lord of the noble residence Stock zu Uttenheim, also kk chamber councilor and high war commissioner in Upper and Lower Silesia, Christoph, Jakob and his cousins ​​were awarded the knightly nobility of the Holy Roman Empire and the Austrian hereditary lands, and the heraldic helmet, which had been closed until then, was now open and crowned. With a diploma from Prince Bishop Paulin von Brixen on November 18, 1684, the son of Andreas and his brothers were allowed to call themselves "Wentzl zu Sternpach" from their noble residence Sternpach in the upper suburb of Bruneck . The entry in the Tyrolean aristocratic registers took place in 1690.

Christoph Andreas' son, Franz Andreas († April 24, 1755), imperial councilor, was raised to the imperial baron status on March 26, 1698 with the title "von Sternbach". The Bohemian baron diploma followed around 1700 for Andreas Wenzel von Sternbach, chief chambergrave of the Hungarian mining towns and Upper Austrian court chamber councilor. Later the Wenceslas dropped their original family name and wrote themselves from "Sternbach zum Stock und Luttach".

Franz Andreas mentioned above was married to Maria Elisabeth Franziska Colonna Freiin von Völs (* March 16, 1690 - † February 27, 1762). Having made considerable fortunes as a mountain and trade lord, he bought the Grabenstein residence in Innsbruck in 1709, and in October 1730 the Bludenz -Sonnenberg pawn loan with Geyenhofen Castle, which had existed since 1684 .

Johann Georg Freiherr von Wenzel-Sternbach (1698–1774), related to the Counts of Stachelburg through his wife Maria Helene Countess Tannenberg, received from them the noble seat Windegg in Innsbruck, Adamgasse 23, on the northeast corner of Wiltens.

The Oberst-Erbland-Falkenmeisteramt in Tyrol was awarded to the royal and real secret councilor Carl Matthias Freiherr von Sternbach zum Stock und Luttach on August 2, 1790 for himself and his descendants, after this office was granted in 1789 by the death of Carl Count von Sonnberg and Freiherrn von Heindl had been dealt with.

The family flourished in several lines in Tyrol and Vorarlberg.

As one of nine baronial families, the family received a hereditary seat in the manor house , the upper house of the Austrian Imperial Council .

Possessions

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Among the possessions of the same are especially Stock and Luttach, from which estates the predicates of the sex come. Both are in the Puster Valley. The Stock residence in Uttenheim near Gais - not to be confused with the property “am Stock” in Luttach - was acquired by the Wenzl family in 1619 from the barons of Spaur; it is still owned by the family today; This is also where most of the Freiherrlich Sternbach's archive is kept, which dates back to 1290 with preliminary documents.

The other property was Luttach in Pfalzen. The three-storey rectangular building with a square corner tower and curved pyramid roof was acquired in 1689.

Wolfsthurn Castle in the Mareitertal near Sterzing, which was bought by Messrs Grebmer von Wolfsthurn in 1700 and converted by Franz Andreas Freiherr von Sternbach into the only Baroque palace in South Tyrol between 1727 and 1741, is still owned by the family today. She also owned the Sonnegg castle ruins and the “Meier am Hof” farm in Dietenheim near Bruneck, which Anton Wenzel Freiherr von Sternbach rebuilt in 1700.

The once Count Welspergian residence in Bruneck (Palais Sternbach) and the Bludenz lordship with the Gayenhofen and Sonnenberg castles in Vorarlberg were acquired as pawns in 1684. Baron Franz Andreas von Sternbach (1675–1755) had Gayenhofen Castle rebuilt; it was sold in 1936.

The older line owned the Ober-Falkenstein, Groppenstein, Deutschnoven and Taur estates around the beginning of the 20th century. The head of this line carried the title of Oberst-Erbland-Falkenmeister in Tirol and his brothers Erbland-Falkenmeister in Tirol. The younger line is divided into the Mareiter, Sterzinger, Bludenzer and Pustertaler branches. The Mareiter Ast owned Wolfsthurn, the Sterzinger Ast the dominions Landstein in Bohemia and Triesch in Moravia and the Bludenzer Ast Bludenz and Sonnenberg.

coat of arms

1571: Black shield with a wavy, oblique, silver bar in it , which is each accompanied by a six-pointed gold star at the top left and bottom right.

1698: Squared shield, with a crowned black central shield and in the same a wavy, oblique, silver bar, which is accompanied by a six-pointed gold star at the top left and bottom right. 1 and 4 in red a freely floating, black grooved, silver wall piece of four layers, which is provided with three pointed battlements at the top (Luttach). 2 and three, also in red, three silver crossbars (Groppenstein). The baron's crown rests on the shield , and above it are three open, crowned helmets . The helmet covers are red-silver.

  • Wenzel coat of arms (Sternbach family coat of arms) 1571

  • Coat of arms of the Imperial Knights von Sternbach 1664

  • Coat of arms of the Barons von Sternbach

  • Coat of arms of the barons of Sternbach in Bohemia

  • Coat of arms of the Imperial Knight Ferdinand von Sternbach, 19th century.

Great personalities

Paul von Sternbach
  • Leopold Freiherr von Sternbach (born May 21, 1819 in Innsbruck; † March 24, 1887 there) was the son of the Maria Theresa knight Eduard Freiherr von Sternbach and father of the Tyrolean genealogist Hans von Sternbach.
  • Paul Freiherr von Sternbach (1869–1948) was a South Tyrolean politician who was persecuted several times for his patriotism.
  • Therese von Sternbach , daughter-in-law of Carl Freiherr von Sternbach and widow of Baron Franz Andreas, who died in 1808, who did outstanding work in the defense of Tyrol in 1809 and received the highest recognition from Emperor Franz I of Austria on December 25, 1820 for her patriotic sentiments and actions .

literature

Web links

Commons : Sternbach zum Stock and Luttach  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum (ed.): New magazine of the Ferdinandeum for Tyrol and Vorarlberg. 11th volume. Innsbruck: Wagner 1845, p. 121.
  2. ↑ Franz Anton sense Acher: Beyträge the history of the Episcopal Church Saeben and Brixen in Tyrol. Volume 5, Edition 3, Aloys Weger's writings, Brixen 1828, p. 490.
  3. ↑ Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the baronial houses . Volume 16, Verlag Justus Perthes , Gotha 1866, p. 904 ff.
  4. ^ A b Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : New general German nobility lexicon . 9th volume, Friedrich Voigt'sche Buchhandlung, Steinhaus - Zwierlein, Leipzig 1870, p. 18 f.
  5. ↑ Entry on the Grabenstein residence (Sternbach) in the private database "Alle Burgen". Retrieved September 16, 2015.
  6. ^ Rudolf Granichstaedten-Czerva: Alt-Innsbrucker town houses and their owners , Sensen-Verlag, Vienna 1962, section "Adamgasse 23 - Windegg".
  7. ↑ Martin Bitschnau , Hannes Obermair : Tiroler Urkundenbuch, II. Department: The documents on the history of the Inn, Eisack and Pustertal valleys. Vol. 1: Up to the year 1140 . Universitätsverlag Wagner, Innsbruck 2009, ISBN 978-3-7030-0469-8 , p. Inlet p. 34 .
  8. ↑ http://www.burgen-adi.at/ansitz_sichelburg/sichelburg_sehensw.htm Ansitz Luttach in Pfalzen
  9. ↑ Rudolf Granichstaedten-Czerva: North Tyrol - bourgeois and noble families. Schlern-Schriften 131, Wagner, Innsbruck 1954.