Stow water
According to current research, the original name Stowasser goes back to a Middle High German modification of the place name Stabossen and means something like "Stabosse (ne) r" or "from Stabossen Stammender". The settlement Stabossen was mentioned in documents in the 14th and 15th centuries and is located near Milhostov northeast of Cheb . The actual roots of the family name Stowasser therefore lie in the Egerland , as demonstrated by analyzes of tax roles and lists of subjects from the Elbogen district after the Thirty Years' War . The most common names in this region included Sander, Steindl and Stowasser.
Johann August von Stowasser, born 162.? died 169.? distinguished himself in 1648 with the student company in Prague in the defense of the city of Prague against the Swedes by particular bravery, was from 1655 - 1668 baronial Questenberg ruler of Bečov, lastly imperial notary in Prague. Married to Maria Susanna Cäcilia geb. Zehrer von Ramsenthal died in Tuln 17./19. February 1687 buried next to the Minoritenkirche, Vienna. He received a letter of nobility from November 16, 1668. Emperor Leopold I recognized the nobility by giving Johann August Stowasser, now an Imperial Public Notary in Prague, an imperial recognition of nobility in Vienna on April 6, 1687. This highest proof of mercy was the reward of his services, about which the nobility recognition diploma says the following: "Did Eyfrige render services for the benefit of the fatherland in the recent Turkish invasion by not only laying down a number of Turkic wars and Tatars in the free Veldt, but also as he received 3 dangerous wounds caught, sold twice and finally redeemed again by the Wallachian prince, nor other 38 Christian slaves blushed, no less brought back by both hostile confederate Wallach and the Moldavian princes special secret message. "
- coat of arms
“Half-split transversely divided. Up front in Roth is a crowned silver lion turned inward. At the top in gold an armored crook, holding a bare sword in one fist. 3 golden stars floating next to each other in blue over natural water. "
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"Between the open flight, on the right of gold over black, on the left of red and silver, the armored arm with the sword growing upwards."
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silver - red - golden - blue - black mixed
On May 2, 1871, the Austrian nobility was recognized for the brothers Anton and Johann von Stowasser, merchants from Prague, and on November 3, 1871, with a diploma from January 6, 1872, for their nephew Friedrich Stowasser, KuK lieutenant . In addition, the name was awarded the title Edler von Feldtreu in Austria on June 17, 1891 in Vienna. Finally, Anton Stowasser, KuK Hauptmann can be named, who already belonged to the Austrian nobility with the predicate Edler von Feldtreu .
“His Majesty and Emperor recognized the descent of Messrs Stowasser (merchants in Prague and Linz) from Johann Augustin Stowasser and deigned to allow them to use the named ancestor again in 1687, who had become part of the nobility and coat of arms. A Stowasser had distinguished himself as a student in the defense of the royal capital Prague against the Swedes in 1648, for which he was raised to the bohemian nobility and at the same time appointed as imperial notary for the imperial Roman Empire. In the years 1684 - 87 the same Stowasser stood out against the Turks, for which the nobility was confirmed to him by the emperor and he was raised to the bohemian knighthood. "Old Austrian nobility lexicon 1st volume 1823 - 1918/9142 Stowasser Friedrich January 6, 1872
Other important representatives of the name Stowasser are:
- Joseph Maria Stowasser , philologist and editor of the dictionary of the same name
- Friedrich Stowasser, better known as Friedensreich Hundertwasser
- Horst Stowasser , writer and anarchist
- Sascha Stowasser , ergonomist and author
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- Gerald Gneist: Ernst Stowasser, a short biography. David. Jewish culture magazine. Issue 51, December 2001. [1]
- Genealogical manual of the nobility, Adelslexikon, Limburg, from 1972: Stowasser (Stowasser v. Feldtreu), brief overview of the noble family (from 2003), with a description of the coat of arms, GAX, Volume XIV.
- Genealogical pocket book of the knight and noble families, published in Brno in 19 volumes, year I (1870) to year XIX (1894)
- Richard Fischer: The Stowasser - from Stobitzhof .. , Our Egerland. 1941, roč. 45, p. 117-119. [2]