Steuben (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those von Steuben

Steuben is the name of an old middle German noble family . The Lords of Steuben belong to the primeval nobility in the Mansfelder Land . Branches of the family still exist today.

history

Friedeburg (Saale)

The origins of the family can be traced back to the middle of the 11th century. In 1053 Siegboth Steube appeared in a document from Count Palatine Friedrich von Sachsen . In it he testified to the transfer of the Gott Eck monastery to the Archdiocese of Bremen .

In 1260 Heinrich Steube and 1262 Volcmarus Stouve appeared in a document , still without proper mention. In 1271 Volkmar appeared as a witness to the noble lord von Barby , already called milites ( lat. Knight ). In 1283 he was mentioned in a document in the entourage of the Count of Friedeburg .

In 1321 Thidericus Stoibe in Vredeberch (Friedeburg) was first mentioned as a feudal man of the Counts of Mansfeld . As knights and vassals of the Mansfeld counts, the Lords of Steuben sat for centuries at Friedeburg Castle and in Gerbstedt . In the 17th and 18th centuries Tresewitz near Gerbstedt and Schnaditz (today a district of Bad Düben ) were also part of their ancestral home.

In the 13th century the sex was divided into two lines. The elder went out to Gerbstedt already around 1600. The younger line, with among other Friedeburg, Tresewitz, Schnadnitz and Gerbstedt by inheritance wealthy, gained great influence, especially in the military field.

coat of arms

The coat of arms is split from blue and silver, above a red diagonal right bar. On the crowned helmet there is a blue buffalo horn on the right and a silver one on the left, each covered with a red sloping bar. The helmet covers are blue-silver on the left and red-silver on the right.

Former possessions

Gerbstedt manor around 1860
Wendhusen monastery in Thale around 1860
Schnaditz Castle

Known family members

General Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben

The relationship of the famous North American major general Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben (1730–1794) with the Mansfeld nobility is controversial in genealogical research. In the Gothaischen Genealogical Pocket Book of Noble Houses (Part B. Vol. 27. 1935), p. 557 it is stated: “The Steube (n) family comes from the area of ​​the middle Werra Valley (name has been occurring here since 1427) and begins the secure line of tribe with Klaus Steube, 1595--1635, Müller in Heldra , where a bourgeois clan branch is still in bloom in the male line. Augustin Steube, Heldra 1661, & # 134; Brandenburg ad H. January 11, 1738, last O. Preacher in Brandenburg, appears since 1708 as "von Steube (n)", which name, used by his descendants as "noble", was not objected to in Prussia and Denmark. The coat of arms is the same as that of the mansfeld nobility from Steuben, with whom a genealogical connection cannot be proven. ”According to this, the German comrade General George Washington's bourgeois origin and his nobility can only be deduced from a certain right of use.

In numerous other sources, on the other hand, the American general is identified as a descendant of the von Steuben family. In 1982, the Berlin historian Theodor Albrecht also questioned the bourgeois theory of descent again. Reason: In contrast to all other children of Ludwig Steube, the dates of birth of his "son" Augustin are not recorded in the church records of the Reformed communities of Treffurt, Heldra and Altenburschla, the relationship to the Heldra tenant Ludwig Steube is not documented and cannot be scientifically proven. Belonging to the Steuben ancient noble family, on the other hand, is unequivocally derived from the ancestral line of the general's mother, Marie Justine von Jagow. Her paternal line shows several direct ancestors of Christoph Otto von Steuben: His great-grandmother (Magdalena von Jagow, 1525–1585), his great-grandfather in the second generation (Hans von Jagow on Aulosen) and in the third generation (Asmus von Jagow Aulosen). Likewise the maternal line of ancestors of Christoph Liborius von Steuben: His great-grandmother in the second generation (Armgard von Jagow) and his great-grandfather in the third generation (Dietrich von Jagow). The general's share of von Steuben's blood is at least 32.25 percent, which clearly proves his relationship with the mansfeld nobility.

literature

Web links

Commons : Steuben family  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mansfelder Blätter 30 (1916) p. 188 and 199
  2. ↑ State Archive Magdeburg
  3. ↑ Albert Brackmann et al. Fritz Hartung (ed.): Annual reports for German history. 11th year. Leipzig 1935/1936: Koehler. P. 650
  4. ↑ Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe "Haus und Hofsachen - Hausorden der Treue", holdings 47, no. 1658 / Friedrich Kapp "Life of the American General von Steuben", published by Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1858 / Gothaischer Genealogischer Hof-Kalender, noble houses, year 139 , Verlag Justus Perthes, Gotha 1902 / Karl Renatus Hausen “Historical portfolio for knowledge of the past and present”, 4th year, first volume, Berlin 1785
  5. ^ Theodor Albrecht: In the footsteps of the family of General von Steuben. in: The Werraland. A chronicle of the landscape on the Werra, 33rd year, June 1981, issue 2.