Strantz (noble family)

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The Strantz family coat of arms
Strantz coat of arms, Petersdorfer Zweig

Strantz (also Stranz , Stranze or Stranzen ) is the name of an old Brandenburg noble family . The Lords of Strantz belong to the Brandenburg nobility. The name is believed to be of Slavic origin.

Ludolf Ehrentreich von Strantz (1660–1723) and his wife Elisabeth Charlotte, b. von Birckholz (1675–1718)

origin

The von Strantz have been found since 1120 with the line of trunks beginning with Ekkehard von Tüllstedt as a noble-free Thuringian family, which with Hermann, Burgrave of Leisnig, acquired the nickname Strantz von Tüllstedt ( Döllstädt near Langensalza ) for a period of about 100 years for a period of about 100 years they are still missing in Brandenburg. The Thuringian documents are directly linked to the Brandenburg ones. Later, when the family died out in Thuringia at the end of the 14th century and appeared in the Mark around 1325, the name Strantz was continued. In Anhalt they were named as Brandenburgers in 1224.

history

The von Strantz can be traced back to their estates in Sieversdorf , Petersdorf and Petershagen until the end of the 18th century.

The old house in Brandenburg was founded by

  • Hermann Strantz von Lebus was documented as early as 1325 as a margrave knight , castle seated and lord of several castles.
  • In 1338 the first mention of Kuntze (Konrad), called Strantz von Lebus , is
  • Heinrich auf Sieversdorf and Petersdorf is first heard from 1393, and it follows
  • Hermann on Sieversdorf and Petersdorf (1416),
  • Kuntze on Petersdorf, Sieversdorf and Briesen († 1443),
  • Heinrich on Sieversdorf and Briesen († 1495) and
  • Bartholomäus (Berthold) von Strantz, on Sieversdorf and Petershagen († 1556).
  • Heinrich on Sieversdorf and Beerfelde († 1591) was also on Petershagen until 1577.
  • Otto on Sieversdorf and Petershagen († 1625),
  • Friedrich on Sieversdorf and Petershagen (1601–1671).
  • Ludolf Ehrenreich in Sieversdorf, Petersdorf and Petershagen, district administrator of the Lebus district (1660–1723)

The sons of Ludolf Ehrentreich , Karl Ernst von Strantz, born in Sieversdorf on April 15, 1707 and Albrecht Ehrenreich von Strantz, born in Sieversdorf on February 1, 1711, became the founders of two new lines:

  • Karl Ernst von Strantz founds the House of Barckow (today Barkowo) in the Greifenberg district in Pomerania .
  • Albrecht Ehrenreich von Strantz founds the Petershagen house .

On January 27, 1847 a new house was established. Karl Julius Strantz, Secret Finance Councilor in Berlin (1801-1880) received recognition and renewal of the nobility.

Elisabeth von Doberschütz , born von Strantz († December 17, 1591) was beheaded as a witch on the Szczecin hay market and burned at the gates of the city.

coat of arms

The Strantz family leads a black, upright, crowned, double-tailed lion with an extended tongue in a silver field and a (crowned) helmet with 3 feathers. The feathers of the Sieversdorfer-Petershagener are made of ostrich feathers of both colors. The Petersdorfers wear peacock feathers .

Known family members

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogy. Manual of the nobility, Volume AX, p. 298. CA Starke-Verlag, Limburg 1969.
  2. ↑ CFF von Stranz: History of the noble family Strantz, who belonged to the free lordship, the castle-sitters and knights in the Middle Ages. Graß, Barth and Comp., Breslau 1838, pp. 2ff.
  3. ^ Marcelli Janecki: Handbook of the Prussian nobility. ES Mittler, Berlin 1893. pp. 554ff. Reprint: Nabu Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1-143-33352-1 .