Goldfinch (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Stieglitz

Stieglitz is the name of a German imperial noble family that goes back to a bourgeois Protestant family of the Leipzig patriciate . This should be distinguished from the German-Jewish Stieglitz family from Arolsen , from which Ludwig Stieglitz was raised to the Russian nobility.

history

Stieglitzens Hof (before 1891)

As the Leipzig councilor Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1724-1772) 1765 in Vienna nachsuchte with his brother Wilhelm Ludwig to the confirmation of his nobility, they appealed that their ancestor Bartholomew Stieglitz, mayor of Pilsen , 1583 by Emperor Rudolf II. As Goldfinch von Tschenkau (Čenkov) was ennobled. His son Kaspar (according to other sources, the grandchildren: Melchior 1599–1659) fled as a Protestant to Saxony during the Thirty Years' War , where the family has lived since then. This original legend was recognized in the nobility diploma of 1765. The decisive factor for the ennoblement, however, was that Christian Ludwig and Wilhelm Ludwig, the sons of the long-time mayor Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1677–1758), had been part of the leading citizenship in Leipzig for two generations (cf. Hohenthal, Richter). In the nobility diploma this is called "privilegio de non usu". This took Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1724-1772) as well as his son of the same Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1756-1836), as members of the Leipzig Council to complete. Only the representative of the next generation, Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1803-1854), who lived in the royal residence city of Dresden , sought in 1846 for the royal Saxon recognition for wearing the title of nobility, which he was also granted. The family owned the Stieglitzens Hof, one of the largest properties on the Leipziger Markt , which Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1677–1758) had two existing houses merged into one in 1733 and given a Renaissance facade.

The descendants of Wilhelm Ludwig von Stieglitz, who had been a major in Saxony since 1778, persisted in the Duchy of Saxony-Altenburg , where they were wealthy in Mannichswalde . Wilhelm Ludwig's daughter Charlotte Sophie (1776–1839) married the Dresden city governor Heinrich Adolph von Gablenz (1762–1843 ) in 1799 and became the mother of the later Austrian general Ludwig Karl Wilhelm von Gablenz . Through intermarriage in the Erzgebirge Hammerherrenhaus family of Elterlein Wilhelm Ludwig's youngest son Christian Ludwig Stieglitz was to hammer owners on Breitenhof and Neidhardtsthal . Thuisko von Stieglitz (1808–1881), who became the royal Saxon lieutenant general and chief of staff, belongs to the Mannichswalde house . Among his children, the daughters Charlotte (1866–1947) Karl Ludwig d'Elsa and Priska (1870–1947) married Adolph von Carlowitz in 1893 , the latter was the mother of Esther von Kirchbach . The son Georg von Stieglitz (1848–1912) became Lieutenant General in Saxony, the son Robert von Stieglitz (1865–1933) became a diplomat and the last Saxon envoy to the South German courts.

Heinrich Ludwig von Stieglitz (1762–1824), the youngest son of Christian Ludwig Stieglitz (1724–1772), married Charlotte, born in Ireland, in 1802. Atkinson, and immigrated to Ireland in 1802 . Three of his six sons, Frederick Lewis, Francis Walter and Robert William von Stieglitz, emigrated to Tasmania in 1829 , where they were among the first European pioneers and became major landowners. In 1830 they were followed by Henry Lewis von Stieglitz (1808–1890), and in 1839 their youngest son, Charles Augustus von Stieglitz (1819–1885).

The place Stieglitz on Tasmania is named after them, as well as the abandoned gold mine place Steiglitz, Victoria , in Australia .

Status surveys and recognition of nobility

  • Imperial nobility: Diploma of December 5, 1765 for the brothers Christian Ludwig Stieglitz, councilor in Leipzig and Wilhelm Ludwig Stieglitz, premier lieutenant in the Electorate of Saxony
  • Royal Saxon nobility recognition: 1846 for Christian Ludwig Stieglitz, Appellationsrat in Dresden

Baron Stieglitz-Brockdorff

  • Royal Danish Baron patent with name and crest Association in 1790 for William Theophilus Stieglitz (* 1749, † 1802), married since 1787 with Baroness Charlotte Amalie Brockdorff (* 1752, † 1811), born Baroness Brockdorff, heiress of the barony Scheel Borg, divorced Baroness Buchenwald - Brockdorff. He was landgräflich Hesse-Kassel shear forest Junker and died on August 5, 1802 in Pyrmont (Lower Saxony). The Stieglitz-Brockdorff couple left no sons, but the family on Barony Scheelenborg was continued in the female line through a daughter, Sophie Frederica Baronesse Stieglitz-Brockdorff (* 1790; † 1874), married Baroness Juel-Brockdorff (Iuel-Brockdorff).

Possessions in Germany

coat of arms

Coat of arms of the Baltic barons Stieglitz

Coat of arms of the ennobled patrician Stieglitz

Shield divided lengthwise: right in a Gold on a projecting coming down from the dividing line, green bush ( thistle bush ) seated to the right sighted Stieglitz ( Distelfink ) and left in silver, an upright on a green hill, left sighted, crowned, red Eagle with outstretched wings with three blue flowers in its beak. On the shield there is a crowned helmet, from which an armored arm, curved to the right at the elbow, grows up between an open, silver and red, with alternating colors, cross-sectioned eagle's wings, with a sword in the fist with a golden handle pointing upwards and swings left. The helmet covers are blue and gold on the right, red and silver on the left.

The manor house at Barony Scheelenborg, around 1900

Coat of arms of the Baltic barons Stieglitz

The Baltic-Russian barons Stieglitz , originally from Arolsen , have a similar coat of arms: shield divided and split at the bottom; above in blue a gold-armored, red-tongued black eagle growing out of the dividing line ; below in front three (1: 2) golden bees in red, behind in silver an obliquely left green thistle branch, above with four, below with three red flowers, on the lowest of the upper half flowers standing and turned to the left, a natural colored goldfinch; on the shield the (French) barons crown , on it the helmet with blue-silver blankets on the right and red-silver blankets on the left, crowned with the same barons crown.

Coat of arms of the Danish barons Stieglitz-Brockdorff

The Stieglitz- Brockdorff coat of arms is the same as that of the barons Vietinghoff- Sheel, from whom the later Brockdorff barony Scheelenborg originally comes. The Kurland tribe of the Vietinhoffs has a golden miter in the main shield of the increased baron coat of arms (and in the helmet ornament) and thus reminds of the bishop's candidacy of their ancestor from 1404/1405, the black double eagle in gold is an imperial sign of mercy of the Vietinghoffs, in the heart shield one Variant of the vietinghoff family coat of arms , a red oblique left bar in gold, topped with three silver scallops. The baron's crown on the main shield and the shield holder, two brown griffins, come from the Vietinghoff baron's coat of arms. On the baron's crown above the main shield of the coat of arms of the Barons Stieglitz-Brockdorff, a winged silver fish (heraldic animal of the Brockdorffs) turned inwards, the lower tip of the tail fin on the third front pearl of the seven-pearl baron's crown, behind a natural-colored goldfinch (heraldic animal of the family Goldfinch ), standing on the fifth pearl.

Important representatives

The family of the Rittmeister (Ludwig Wilhelm) von Stieglitz, Anton Graff 1780

literature

  • Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon Volume 9. Leipzig: Voigt 1870, p. 38 ( books.google.com ).
  • Sir Bernard Burke: A genealogical and heraldic history of the colonial gentry. Volume 1. London: Harrison 1891, p. 383 f.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility. Volume 129, Limburg adL 2002, pp. 380-431.

Web links

Commons : Goldfinch (noble family)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Danmarks Nobility Aarbog
  2. ↑ a b Skeel & Kannegaard Genealogy: Stieglitz-Brockdorff baron coat of arms
  3. ↑ Thomas Morgenroth: Saxony: The last sanctuary of Langburkersdorf Castle. (No longer available online.) Sächsische Zeitung , July 9, 2009, archived from the original on September 10, 2012 ; Retrieved May 4, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sz-online.de
  4. ↑ Baltic heraldic book. Coats of arms of all noble families belonging to the knights of Livonia, Estonia, Courland and Oesel. 1882.
  5. ^ KR Von Stieglitz: Von Stieglitz, Frederick Lewis (1803-1866) In: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Volume 2, Melbourne University Press, 1967, pp. 556-557 ( adbonline.anu.edu.au ).
  6. ↑ in Jetson, von Stieglitz, Karl Rawdon (1893-1967) In: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Volume Supplementary, Melbourne University Press, 2005, pp. 390-391 ( adbonline.anu.edu.au ).