Stosch (noble families)

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Stosch is the name of two noble families from Silesia . One family, some of whose branches still exist today, belongs to the Silesian nobility . Because of an adoption , a branch has been named Stosch von Tettau since 1936 . Since the beginning of the 18th century there has also been a correspondence family of the same name , whose members were repeatedly confirmed as nobility during the 19th century.

Original noble family

Family coat of arms of those of Stosch

history

origin

According to Kneschke , the Lords of Stosch were related to the original noble family von Kaunitz, who also came from Silesia . Both families also have a similar coat of arms with sea ​​leaves as heraldic figure . Accordingly, the first members of the Stosch in Silesia called themselves Stosch von Kaunitz . Otto Graf Stosch , who already appeared in 1181 as crown field lord of the united Poles and Silesians , is said to have been the ancestor of the later counts and barons of Stosch. Together with the other related families Augezdecz, Martinic , Talmberg , Richnowsky von Reichenau and Černčický von Kácov , the von Stosch families belong to the Kaunitz family .

The genealogical manual of the nobility begins the uninterrupted line of the family with Leonardus , who first appeared in a document on May 8, 1250. He is mentioned in the document as a witness of Konrad, Canon of Breslau and protonotary of Duke Heinrich of Silesia .

Spread and personalities

As early as the 13th century there were three lines, one in Upper Silesia and two in Lower Silesia . The Upper Silesian line that Stosch zu Kaunitz wrote was said to have expired at the end of the 16th century. But Otto Heinrich Stosch, Baron von Kaunitz, appears as governor of the Principality of Sagan in 1632 . The Lower Silesian lines, they were only written by Stosch, were divided into various branch lines and houses.

The oldest ancestral houses of the family included Peterwitz , which at that time still belonged to the Duchy of Breslau and was managed by Count Peter, son of Stosso ("comes Petrus, filius quondam Stossonis") before 1241 and until 1278 , Siegroth in the Duchy of Brieg with the branch line zu Lorenzdorf (both expired during the 18th century) and Mondschütz in the Duchy of Wohlau . The Mondschütz house was divided into the neighboring houses at Großtschirne, Simbschen, Schwarzau, Großwangen, Rinnersdorf, Wandritsch, Kunzendorf and Conradswaldau. The Kreidelwitz house, a side branch of the Schwarzau house, died out in 1688. Melchior Friedrich von Stosch, who died in 1724 as court judge and state deputy of the Principality of Wohlau, wrote an extensive family history of the various lines and branches .

In 1701 Caspar von Stosch received the Bohemian baron status . The baronial tribe was divided into an older and a younger line, of which the older line split into two further branch lines. In 1857 a Freiherr von Stosch was the lord of Lankau in the then Namslau district .

Hans Gottlieb von Stosch was born in 1798 by King Friedrich Wilhelm III. raised to the Prussian count status. He was married to Amalia Henriette Countess von Hoym , a daughter of the royal Prussian secret minister of state Georg Carl Heinrich Graf von Hoym . Their son Georg Graf von Stosch (* 1793), Lord of Manze, Reysau, Rosswitz, Glofenau, Dürrhartau, Kaltenhaus and Sadewitz, died in 1863 as landscape director of the principalities of Breslau and Brieg. He was married twice, first with Minna Freiin von Saurma († 1824) and second with Luise von Kleist (1802–1855). Luise, also called Lulu , was the daughter of Marie von Kleist , lady-in-waiting and friend of Queen Luise of Prussia . Count Georg left four sons and a daughter from his second marriage.

Felix Graf von Stosch (* 1795), a brother of Georg and master of the Hartau and Lawaldau estates, married Luise von Grolman (* 1806) in 1830 . The couple had two sons. Hans Graf von Stosch (* 1797), the youngest brother of Georg and Felix, master of the Polish Kessel, Jany and Stoschendorf estates, became landscape director for the Principality of Glogau - Sagan .

In the Mark Brandenburg the family owned Glogsen in 1720, Baudach, Grimnitz, Hammer and Balkow in 1740, Gollzen in 1680, Leeskow in 1750 and Niedewitz, Steinbach and Steinitz in 1800. In the middle of the 19th century there were members of the count's line in Silesia zu Manze, Glofenau, Dürrhartau, Reisau and Rosswitz in the district of Nimptsch , Sadewitz in the district of Breslau , Hartau in the district of Sprottau , Lawaldau in the district of Grünberg and Polish-Kessel, an old family property as well located in the district of Grünberg, wealthy.

Status surveys

Caspar von Stosch auf Gröditz, Altwasser and Kleinwirsewitz, state elder of the Principality of Wohlau, received the Bohemian baron status in Vienna on January 17, 1701 from the House of Kleinwirsewitz . Also from the Kleinwirsewitz family came the cousins ​​Caspar Anton Bernhard auf Niederpopschütz, a Prussian major a. D. , Eduard, Prussian Rittmeister a. D., and Rudolf von Stosch on Oberjohnsdorf, Prussian Rittmeister a. D., who received Prussian recognition of the baron status by ministerial rescript on April 14, 1840 .

Hans Gottlieb von Stosch auf Hartau, Prussian chamberlain , who came from the Hartau family , was raised to the rank of Count in Berlin on July 6, 1798 .

coat of arms

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows two set torn silver sea ​​plants in red, each with a bent leaf. On the helmet with red and silver helmet covers, a closed red flight with the shield image on the front .

Baron coat of arms

The baronial coat of arms awarded in 1701 shows the family coat of arms with two helmets. Both helmets are the same as the trunk helmet. Two armored arms as a shield holder .

Coat of arms of the Counts of Stosch

Count's coat of arms

The Count's coat of arms, awarded in 1798, shows the family coat of arms, but the shield with a golden border . Two opposing gold-crowned Prussian black eagles serve as shield holders , the wings covered with silver clover stems.

Heraldic saga

According to a legend, an army came to a lake at the time of the ancient Slavic kings. The leaders discussed whether it should be passed or not. Then a nobleman from the army, a colonel on horseback, ventured in on his horse and happily reached the other bank. After discovering the best way to cross the lake, he brought a lake flower that he had picked while his horse was swimming back to the camp. Thereupon the whole army crossed the lake, and the king gave him the sea flower for his coat of arms in gratitude.

Goods of the von Stosch

  • Old boiler / today Nowy Kisielin near Grünberg / Zielona Góra in Poland

Stosch von Tettau

A nobility law non-objection to the use of the name Graf von Stosch Freiherr von Tettau for Joachim Freiherr von Tettau , the adoptive son of the royal Prussian major Albrecht Graf von Stosch auf Hartau, took place on February 1, 1936 in Berlin by resolution of the department for nobility issues. A coat of arms was not specified.

Known family members

Nobility family

history

Another family of the same name from Silesia, whose established line of tribe goes back to Magister Bartholomäus Stoschius (1566–1625), received the Prussian nobility at the beginning of the 18th century, which was confirmed to family members at different times.

The progenitor Bartholomäus Stoschius was the principal of the Princely School in Strehlen . His son Bartholomäus Stosch the Younger (1604–1686) was an important Reformed theologian and preacher of the prince -electoral Brandenburg court and cathedral in Berlin. From 1662 to 1663 he took part in the Berlin Religious Discussion between the Brandenburg Lutherans and the Reformed, initiated by the Great Elector . His sons Friedrich Wilhelm Stosch (1648–1704), royal Prussian secret state secretary, and Wilhelm Heinrich Stosch, royal Prussian secret chamberlain , received the Prussian nobility on January 18, 1701 at Königsberg , the day of Frederick I's coronation .

Other family members received nobility renewals, including Wilhelm Stosch, Prussian lieutenant in the cavalry, on April 18, 1811 in Berlin, Ferdinand Stosch, Prussian staff captain , on January 11, 1815 in Vienna, the brothers August Wilhelm, who later became the royal Prussian secretary and chief medical officer Personal physician to the Queen, Karl Friedrich, Prussian prime lieutenant and adjutant of the 3rd Cavalry Brigade, and Gustav Heinrich Friedrich Stosch, Prussian lieutenant and later colonel in the Guard Artillery Brigade, in Berlin on April 24, 1823, Hans Stosch, superintendent and chief preacher at Bütow in Pomerania , on May 6, 1871 in Berlin, and Richard Stosch, royal Prussian government and building advisor in Stade , on October 23, 1911 by the highest cabinet order in Potsdam Neues Palais ( diploma issued on January 22, 1912 in Berlin).

A family association founded on December 11, 1909 held family days in Berlin in odd years.

coat of arms

The coat of arms awarded in 1701 is quartered . 1 and 4 in silver a royal-crowned inward-looking, gold-armored Prussian black eagle, the wings covered with silver clover stems. 2 and 3 in red two silver sea leaves with their tips bent towards each other with curved stems set with the root ends (ancestral coat of arms of the von Stosch family). The coat of arms has two helmets with red, black and silver helmet covers, the eagle on the right and a red wing covered with sea leaves on the left.

The coats of arms awarded during nobility renewals in 1811, 1815, 1823, 1871 and 1912 are identical to the ancestral coat of arms of the Silesian nobility family von Stosch. In red, two silver sea leaves with their tips bent towards each other with bent stems with the ends of the roots set. On the helmet with red and silver covers a wing marked like the shield.

Known family members

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, pp. 173–175
  2. a b c d New general German nobility lexicon . Volume 9, pp. 65-67.
  3. ^ Colmar Grünhagen : Regesta on Silesian history. Volume 1, No. 719.
  4. Hugo Weczerka (Ed.): Handbook of historical sites . Volume: Silesia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 316). Kröner, Stuttgart 1977, ISBN 3-520-31601-3 , pp. 116-123, p. 401.
  5. Johann Georg Theodor Grasse : Legends of gender, name and coat of arms of the nobility of the German nation. Reprint-Verlag, Leipzig 1999, ISBN 3-8262-0704-1 , pp. 164-165.