Stockhausen (Thuringian noble family)
Stockhausen is the name of several noble families. The headquarters of the treated here sex from Thuringia is the village of Stockhausen , today a district of Sondershausen . Together with Stockhausen in Westphalia and Stockhausen in Niedersachsen they belong to on the on October 14, 1962 Trendelburg established family unit at.
history
The family line begins with Hans von Stockhausen from Auleben , who was captain in Nordhausen in 1495 .
In 1574, Hans von Stockhausen sold the Stockhausen manor to the von Bila family , who then shared it.
Julius Hermann Stockhausen (* 1634) was the chief war commissioner of the ducal Braunschweig . On August 3, 1702 he became Vienna in the kingdom knighthood raised and thus belonged to the letter Adel .
On July 6, 1798, the artillery captain Christian Ludwig Stockhausen was raised to the Prussian nobility status by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III (by letter of nobility) “to renew his old nobility”.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the Thuringian Stockhausen from 1798 is similar to that of the Stockhausen in Westphalia, Hesse and Lower Saxony. Inside a golden shield edge, it shows a cut brown oak trunk in silver with four mutilated branches and two drooping green leaves. On the helmet with blue-silver covers an open black flight , each covered with a golden clover stem .
Known family members
- Christian Ludwig von Stockhausen (1746–1820), general in the Prussian army, awarded the Order of Pour le Mérite in 1793 .
- August Wilhelm Ernst von Stockhausen (1793–1861), 1850/51 Prussian Minister of War
- Hans-Gerrit von Stockhausen (1907–1943), German naval officer
- Hans Gottfried von Stockhausen (1920–2010), German glass painter
- Friedemann von Stockhausen (* 1945), German painter, photographer and university lecturer
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B, volume 24 (= volume 129 of the complete series). Starke, Limburg (Lahn) 2002.