Stralenheim (noble family)

Family coat of arms of those of Stralenheim

Stralenheim , also Strahlheim , actually Veit von Stralenheim is the name of an originally Swedish-Pomeranian , later Lorraine, Bavarian and Hanover noble family.

history

The progenitor of the noble family is Karsten Veith , in Low German Vieth , who is said to have come to Stralsund from Westphalia or the Lower Rhine around the middle of the 16th century and who died as a Stralsund citizen in 1572. His son Michael Vieth became councilor in 1631, his son Henning in 1632 councilor and 1655 mayor. He was married to Margaret Klinckow ; their son Michael Veith (1632-1703) was first protonotary and lawyer in Stralsund, then judge at the Wismar tribunal and in 1685 received the Swedish post office as Michael Veith von Stralenheim .

Henning von Stralenheim (1670–1731), Swedish envoy and governor (around 1708)

His son Henning von Stralenheim , born in 1665, was taken over by King Karl XII. Sent to Vienna in 1699 and here in 1706 raised to the rank of imperial count and master hunter and enfeoffed with the county of Limburg . Charles XII. However, he refused to accept these dignities and in 1710 appointed him Governor General of the Duchy of Zweibrücken . After acquiring the county of Forbach in Lorraine in 1717, Duke Leopold I of Lorraine raised him to the rank of count as Count of Forbach , and in 1720 received imperial confirmation for this. He died in 1731. The descendants from his first marriage with Nicolea Katharina Veronica, geb. Freiin v. Hackelberg form the baronial house, those from his second marriage to Sophie Elisabeth geb. Countess von Wasaburg the count's house, which was named Stra (h) lenheim-Wasaburg with the approval of the Swedish Senate . The count's line died out in the male line in 1872.

By marrying Wilhelmine Freiin von Kipe in 1775, the baronial line acquired the Imbshausen estate , which they own to this day (now von Plate-Stralenheim ).

Status surveys

4th July 1685 Swedish nobility as von Stralenheim for Michael Vieth
July 27, 1699 Swedish baron for Henning von Stralenheim
1708 Reichsgrafenstand (Henning von Stralenheim was forbidden to accept it by Karl XII)
August 13, 1717 Lorraine count as Comte de Forbach for Henning von Stralenheim
1720 imperial confirmation

December 13, 1817 Enrollment in the Kingdom of Bavaria in the count class as Stralenheim-Wasaburg (also: Strahlheim-Wasabourg ) for Gustav Heinrich Graf Straleheim-Wasaburg

December 27, 1912 Royal Saxon confirmation of the Swedish aristocracy and baron status and entry in the Saxon nobility book for the brothers Henning (Auf Imbshausen and Suderburg) and Adolf (on Bovenden)

Possessions

Imbshausen Castle

coat of arms

Family coat of arms (1685)

In gold on six red ashlar steps, a green wreath of leaves decorated with eight (or six) red roses. On the helmet with blue and gold covers, two growing armored arms, holding the wreath of leaves in their hands.

Baron's coat of arms (1699)

Shield quartered with a heart shield , inside the family coat of arms: three red steps consisting of six (1, 2 and 3) cuboids, on top of which a green wreath of leaves with six red roses stands upright; 1 and 4 in blue a golden tree trunk torn by the roots, cut off at the top and branched once on each side; 2 and 3 in red are two silver rafters standing one below the other. On the shield is a seven-pearl crown on which two helmets rise. From the right helmet, which is covered by a red and gold bulge (as in the family coat of arms), two silver armored arms grow up, holding up the green leaf wreath of the central shield with the roses, and the left, also covered with a red and gold bulge Helm carries six flags, which are alternately silver, blue and red, three of which waving to the right and three to the left. The covers of the right helmet are blue and gold, those of the left are red and silver. Shield holders are two silver griffins .

Count's coat of arms (1717)

Count's coat of arms Stralenheim-Wasaburg (1818)

The Count's coat of arms connects the coat of arms of Stralenheim with that of Wasaburg. Squared shield with split heart shield; on the right, in black, a bundle of golden arrows tied up twice with the tips pointing upwards (actually the wasagarbe ), on the left side covered with a red bastard thread ; on the left half a red staircase at the gap, raised by half a wreath of leaves decorated with roses (like 1685). 1 in blue an inward-facing, crowned, silver griffin; 2 in gold, an uprooted natural tree trunk; 3 in gold, two upright barbels facing away , over which a golden crown of leaves hovers, and 4 in red, two silver rafters placed one above the other, of which the upper third extends to the upper third of the field. The shield, covered by a margrave's crown, stands on a cornice and is held by two silver griffins waiting.

Representative

Henning von Stralenheim (1665–1731), Swedish envoy, governor of Zweibrücken
Karl Christoph von Stralenheim († 1740), Braunschweig commission secretary, Minister resident in Hamburg

Count's line

Gustav Henning Graf von Stra (h) lenheim-Wasaburg (1719–1787), French lieutenant general
August Heinrich Graf von Stra (h) lenheim-Wasaburg (1766–1818), Bavarian Chamberlain

Friedrich Graf von Stralenheim-Wasaburg (1807–1867), Bavarian major
Carl Graf von Stralenheim (1810–1872), Bavarian colonel, last until 1870 city commander of Lindau

Carl August Graf von Stra (h) lenheim-Wasaburg (1780–1842), French colonel

Baron line

Heinrich August von Stralenheim, major general in Brunswick-Lüneburg, commandant of Harburg

Adolf von Stralenheim, Braunschweig-Lüneburg master hunter and colonel

Carl Wilhelm August Freiherr von Stralenheim (1777–1847), lawyer, Minister of State of the Kingdom of Hanover and curator of the Georg August University in Göttingen.
Carl Friedrich von Stralenheim (1782–1848), since 1826 Hanoverian envoy to the German Confederation, Privy Cabinet Council

Adolf Freiherr von Stralenheim, Saxon Lieutenant General

Literary

In Byron's Werner (1822) Count Stralenheim is Werner's adversary and is murdered by his son Ulric. His daughter Ida Stralenheim, who is engaged to Ulric, then loses her mind.

literature

Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : The coats of arms of the German baronial and noble families: in a precise, complete and generally understandable description: with historical and documentary evidence. Volume 3. Weigel, Leipzig 1856, p.
Ernst Heinrich Kneschke : German count houses of the present: in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation. Volume 2: L-Z. Weigel, Leipzig 1853, pp. 532-534.
Max Besler: History of the castle, the rule and the city of Forbach. Forbach: Hupfer 1895
Adolf Freiherr von Stralenheim: Notes on the von Stralenheim family. Dresden 1915
Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume XIV, Volume 131 of the complete series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2003, pp. 185 f., ISSN 0435-2408
Stralenheim . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 27 : Stockholm-Nynäs järnväg – Syrsor . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1918, Sp. 270 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

Individual evidence

^ According to GHdA (Lit.); Kneschke ( Deutsche Grafenhäuser , see lit.) describes the heart shield as follows: on the right a bundle of silver arrows tied twice with the tips pointing upwards; on the left half of a wreath of pearls connected to the dividing line, under which there are three red steps of ashlar on the right.

[1] According to GHdA (Lit.); Kneschke ( Deutsche Grafenhäuser , see lit.) describes the heart shield as follows: on the right a bundle of silver arrows tied twice with the tips pointing upwards; on the left half of a wreath of pearls connected to the dividing line, under which there are three red steps of ashlar on the right.