Stotzingen (noble family)

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Family coat of arms of those of Stotzingen

Stotzingen is the name of an old south-west German noble family with ancestral home in Niederstotzingen . The family, some of which still exist today, belongs to the Swabian nobility .

history

origin

The name Stotzingen is said to be mentioned in a document dating from 1143. According to the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility , the family was first mentioned in a document on March 1, 1286 with Ulricus de Stotzingen . He appears in the document as a witness to Count Ulrich the Elder and Ulrich the Younger von Helfenstein . The counts transferred ownership of a farm in Oberstotzingen to Medlingen Monastery . The uninterrupted line of the family begins with Ulrich von Stotzingen . Gabriel Bucelinus begins the family line with Johann Stotzingen , who lived around 1300.

Niederstotzingen , the parent company that gave it its name, is now a small town in the Heidenheim district in Baden-Württemberg . The village is mentioned for the first time in 1049 in a deed of foundation of the Heiligkreuz monastery .

Spread

The Stotzinger, mentioned in 1286 as the landlords of Niederstotzingen, were initially fiefs of the Counts of Dillingen and later of their successors, the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach . Later Niederstotzingen and Oberstotzingen became a territory ruled by imperial knights until the end of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 , which belonged to the knightly canton of Danube of the Swabian knightly circle . But already in 1336 the Lords of Riedheim took over the rule of Niederstotzingen, in 1450 that of Westernach and 1457 that of Stain , in 1809 it was inherited by the Counts of Maldeghem, who still own the castle today. In 1810 it came to Württemberg through mediation .

In 1527 Hans von Stotzingen acquired the Geislingen estate and other possessions of the Lords of Bubenhofen in the area around Balingen , in particular Dotternhausen and Roßwangen . (Geislingen passed through inheritance in 1762 to the Stauffenberg taverns , Dotternhausen Castle in 1789 to the Counts of Bissingen and Nippenburg ).

In 1790 Joseph Wilhelm von Stotzingen acquired the rule of Steißlingen from Messrs Ebinger von der Burg and in 1791 the Wiechs estate from Baron Konrad Lenz von Lenzfeld . In 1793 he donated a family estate from the two, which was confirmed in 1793 by the Imperial Knighthood and in 1823 by the Grand Ducal Government of Baden. Around 1806 the rule came through mediatization under Württemberg and in 1810 under Baden sovereignty. Steißlingen Castle is still inhabited by the Barons of Stotzingen.

Heudorf was owned by the von Stotzigen family from 1471 to 1790.

Ruprecht (also Ruppert ) von Stoczingen (* around 1540–1600), from the Altensperg line (Altenberg, Syrgenstein parish ), was the imperial privy councilor and chief steward of Queen Elisabeth of France . On January 18, 1588 in Vienna he was awarded the title of noble dear loyal knight for his services . Later, in 1591 as imperial Reichshofrat , he was in the realm baron conditions applicable. Ruprecht also founded the place Stotzing in Burgenland and brought the first settlers out of his Swabian homeland. The baron status was confirmed to his two sons in 1608. The great-grandson of Ruprecht's brother Wilhelm von Stotzingen, who lived in the last half of the 17th century, continued the line with three sons.

From the 16th to the beginning of the 19th century, the barons of Stotzigen belonged to the knightly canton of Neckar-Black Forest because of the possession or partial ownership of Geislingen , Dotternhausen and Roßwangen and from 1790/1791 to the knightly canton of Hegau-Allgäu-Bodensee of the Swabian region because of Steißlingen and Wiechs Knight circle. Because of Heudorf , owned by the von Stotzigen family from 1471, they were also enrolled in the knightly canton of Danube. Heudorf was ceded to the Princes of Thurn and Taxis in 1790 .

Status surveys

From the Altensperg line, Ruprecht von Stoczingen auf Altensperg, as the imperial councilor of the Reichshof, was raised to the imperial baron status of baron von Stoczingen zu Altensperg on July 29, 1591 in Pressburg . On September 30, 1592 he received the Lower Austrian gentry. Ruprecht's sons Georg Leonhard, imperial treasurer , and Rudolf Ernst received on August 14th, 1608 in Prague a hereditary-Austrian confirmation of the baron status as barons of Stoczingen zu Altensperg.

From the Heudorf line, the brothers Hans Wilhelm and Sigmund Wilhelm von Stotzingen in Dischingen and Heudorf received an imperial coat of arms association with that of the extinct noble family von Blumeneckh on December 12, 1631 . A grand-ducal Baden confirmation of the use of the baron title for the entire family took place on April 24, 1911 in Karlsruhe .

Relationship of the family to Fidelis von Sigmaringen

From 1604 to 1610, the then law student and later saint accompanied the Freiherr Wilhelm von Stotzingen (noble family) on trips throughout France, Welschland (Northern Italy) and several "Spanish provinces" (ie the Spanish Netherlands). As Fidelis himself wrote, he undertook these journeys "to gain more experience, to seize the world, learn foreign languages ​​and customs and successfully complete all studies". After the end of his travels, he stayed for two years with the Barons of Stotzingen, with whom he remained loyal, and at the same time continued his studies in law.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those of Stotzingen from Siebmacher's Wappenbuch (1605)

Family coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a silver cup (drinking stump) in blue with three golden hoops and a golden handle. On the helmet with blue-silver helmet covers a growing armless blue-clad angel , whose blue wings are covered with silver shamrocks, with a golden cross on his head.

Coat of Arms Association 1631

The coat of arms is quartered . 1 and 4 in blue a silver cup with three golden hoops and a golden handle (coat of arms of those of Stotzingen), 2 and 3 in red three silver bars , which are covered with blue feh (coat of arms of those of Blumeneckh). The coat of arms has two helmets, on the right one with blue-silver blankets a growing, armless blue-clad angel, whose blue wings are covered with silver clovers, with a golden cross on the head (ancestral helmet of the Stotzingen). On the left helmet with red-silver blankets a red bishop's cap , covered with the silver bar (helmet of those von Blumeneckh).

City and town coats of arms

Elements from the coat of arms of the Stotzingen family still appear today in some Baden-Württemberg city and town coats of arms and Austrian municipal coats of arms. The coat of arms of Niederstotzingen shows a silver cup similar to that of the Lords of Stotzingen.

Albrecht von Stotzingen
(1864–1938)

Known family members

literature

Web links

Commons : Stotzingen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Stamm-Tafeln of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden. P. 479.
  2. ↑ Wirtembergisches Urkundenbuch , Volume 9, Page 67
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Genealogical manual of the nobility . Nobility Lexicon. Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series, pp. 175-177.
  4. ↑ a b c New General German Adels Lexicon Volume 9, page 68
  5. ↑ a b www.niederstotzingen.de
  6. ^ Gerhard Köbler : Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 471.
  7. ^ Gerhard Köbler: Historical Lexicon of the German Lands. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 , p. 691.