Sternenfels (noble family)
Sternenfels (also Sternfels ) is the name of an old, originally noble , Swabian noble family . The ancestral seat of the Lords of Sternenfels was the castle of the same name and the Sternenfels lordship , today a municipality in the Enzkreis in Baden-Württemberg .
history
The family is related to the dynastic lords of Kürnbach, who first appeared with Luff de Kurnbach in the first half of the 12th century. The family of Kürnbach was last mentioned in 1227, but Cunradus liber de Sterrenvils , named after the Sternenfels castle near Kürnbach , has appeared since 1232 . The descendants also had the first name Konrad, which is typical of the Kürnbach family, and can soon be proven to be owned by Kürnbach.
In 1252 two sons of Cunradus, Cunradus and Wernherus nobiles de Sternvels , were mentioned in a document, who moved with Konradin of Swabia to Italy and probably died there, like their duke .
As early as the 13th century, two lines were formed whose members belonged to the local lower service nobility . One line carried the name Frie von Sternenfels or, in a branch line, Frie von Barghusen and became extinct at the end of the 15th century. The other line, with a sideline in Kürnbach, which also died out in 1598, still exists in the main line with the name Sternenfels to this day.
Members of the family were members of the knight society Sankt Jörgenschild , part of Neckar. From 1548 to 1663 and during the 18th century, the Lords of Sternenfels were part of the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Neckar-Black Forest and Kraichgau in the Swabian knightly circle, at the end of the 17th century also to the knightly canton of Odenwald of the Franconian knightly circle . They were wealthy in Kraichgau and Zabergäu until the middle of the 18th century .
In 1828 they were enrolled in the Freiherrenklasse in the Kingdom of Württemberg .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows a gable-shaped, stepped blue rock in silver, topped with a red six or seven-pointed star. The shield is on the helmet. The helmet covers are blue-silver.
Some Swabian coats of arms still show the rock and the star from the coat of arms of the family.
Coat of arms of the municipality of Sternenfels
Coat of arms of the municipality of Zaberfeld
See also
Individual evidence
literature
- Otto Hupp : Munich Calendar 1930 . Book u. Art Print AG, Munich / Regensburg 1930.
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, ISSN 0435-2408
- Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .
