Stiten (noble family)
Stiten , including: Stieten , Styten or Stitten is the name of the Mecklenburg nobility counted noble family, which in 1380 by Lübeck and very soon in the local patriciate came from the exclusive circle of society turned out for generations councilors and mayors.
history
The family takes its name from its former property, the goods Groß-Stieten and Klein-Stieten in Mecklenburg. The von Stiten were settled in Wismar and since 1380 in Lübeck, where several family members belonged to the council. Nikolaus von Stiten , who was accepted into the aristocratic circle society of Lübeck founded in 1379 , was later mayor of Lübeck. The Lübeck line expired in 1692 with the death of councilor Hartwig von Stiten (* 1640).
A branch of the Wismar line came to Erfurt . A representative of this Erfurt branch entered royal Swedish service and rose to the position of commander of the cuirassier regiment of the Swedish field marshal Johan Banér (* 1596; † 1641). The same changed its name to Stietencron , according to the ending of many Swedish noble names.
Hartwig von Stiten (* 1563) was the last member of the Kurbrandenburg Privy Council and owned several estates in the Duchy of Jägerndorf , but died without descendants in December 1621 and was buried in January 1622.
Johann Ernst Stieten , who is believed to be a descendant of the Stiten family, was founded by King Karl XII. Elevated from Sweden to the Swedish nobility on March 10, 1709 with the predicate of Stietencron . In 1712 he became royal Danish forest and hunter master in Delmenhorst and later Electorate Hanoverian Drost in Nienover . The von Stietencron family belonged to the knightly nobility of the calenberg-göttingen-grubenhagen landscape in the kingdom of Hanover in the middle of the 19th century .
coat of arms
Family coat of arms : the shield split in gold and red, at the front of the gap half a red crowned black buffalo head with a red nostril, facing forward, at the back a golden diagonal bar. On the helmet with red and gold covers, a red wing with a gold sloping beam.
Coat of arms of those von Stietencron 1709: In blue a silver pole, on the right side by an inwardly turned, sighted golden crescent moon, on the left by three six-pointed golden stars one below the other; on the crowned helmet with blue and silver covers between a gold and silver split flight, three blue flags on golden poles, the right one waving to the right, the other two to the left; the middle one with the moon, the outer one with one of the stars.
Important representatives of the family
- Nikolaus von Stiten († 1427), 1402-08 and 1416-27 councilor in Lübeck
- Markquart von Stiten († 1451), master's degree and canon of Lübeck
- Heinrich von Stiten († 1484) , bailiff in Bergedorf, mayor of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck
- Hartwig von Stiten († 1511) , Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- Anton von Stiten († 1564), Mayor of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck
- Heinrich von Stiten († 1588) , councilor in Lübeck
- Gottschalk von Stiten (1530–1588), councilor in Lübeck
- Jürgen von Stiten († 1612) , councilor in Lübeck
- Hartwig von Stiten (1563–1621), Brandenburg Council, Governor of the Duchy of Jägerndorf
- Hartwig von Stiten († 1635) , councilor in Lübeck
- Jürgen von Stiten († 1672) , councilor in Lübeck
- Hartwig von Stiten (1640–1692), councilor in Lübeck and the last of his line.
Further
see list of members of the circle society
Possessions
- Large and small towns in Mecklenburg (before 1380)
- Hof in Arfrade (today part of Stockelsdorf )
- Kastorf (1464–1501)
- Krempelsdorf and Hansfelde
- Krummesse , Kronsforde and Niemark (before 1564-1618)
- Schönböcken (1600 (parts earlier) - 1692)
- Trenthorst (16th century)
Foundations
- Stiten's poor house in Stiten's gang in Hartengrube 14 in Lübeck's old town .
- Fireplace in the bridal chamber of the Ratskeller in Lübeck (1575)
literature
- Johannes Baltzer , Friedrich Bruns: The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck. Issued by the building authorities. Volume III: Church of Old Lübeck. Dom. Jakobikirche. Aegidia Church. Verlag von Bernhard Nöhring, Lübeck 1920. Unchanged reprint 2001: ISBN 3-89557-167-9
- Emil Ferdinand Fehling : Lübeck Council Line. Lübeck 1925
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ On July 21, 1733 in Bodenfelde, godfather of the emigrant child Johann Ernst (son of Jacob Pfnier and Clara Köhler).
- ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke, The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in a precise, complete and generally understandable description , Volume 2, Leipzig 1855, pp. 424-425
- ↑ According to J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms. Part III, 3: The nobility of the Free Cities of Hamburg, Bremen and Lübeck. Nuremberg: Bauer and Raspe 1871, p. 21; Fig. On plate 19; see also Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description: With historical and documentary evidence. Volume 2, Leipzig: TO Weigel 1855, pp. 424–425 (in the article Stietencron )
- ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke, The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families in an exact, complete and generally understandable description , Leipzig 1855, p. 424
- ^ Doris Meyn: The two castles of Uetersen. In: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History (ZSHG). 93, p. 45.