Streitberg (noble family)

Family coat of arms according to the Ingeram Codex

Coat of arms of the von Streitberg family based on Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book

"Streitberger Hans" wayside shrine, erected in the 19th century in memory of Hans Wilhelm von Streitberg in the park of Greifenstein Castle.

Epitaph for Hans Wilhelm von Streitberg, the last of his line († 1690), in the church in Strössendorf near Burgkunstadt.

The von Streitberg family was a Franconian noble family that died out in 1690 and was matriculated in the knightly canton of Gebürg .

history

origin

The family of Streitberg was called after the village Streitberg , now a district of the municipality Wiesenttal in the Upper Franconian district of Forchheim . The Streitbergers are believed to have built the Streitberg Castle before 1120.

Distribution in Franconian Switzerland and Upper Franconia

• In Franconian Switzerland, in addition to their headquarters around 1120, they also built seats in Burggrub , Heiligenstadt with St. Veit and St. Michaels Church , Oberleinleiter, Unterleinleiter I and Zoggendorf II. They were temporarily owned by Greifenstein and Veilbronn .

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  Remains of the surrounding wall of the Streitberg castle ruins

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  Greifenstein Castle

• Ahorn Castle and Ahorn , Muggendorf , Reckendorf , Stücht , Traindorf , Volkmannsreuth

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  Maple Castle

• Epitaphs : Two epitaphs in the Ahorner Schlosskirche

Related sexes

• Lüchau

coat of arms

The coat of arms of the von Streitbergs originally shows a hand sickle. The crests of Johann Siebmacher contained already in the beginning of the 17th century gemehrtes arms, quartered with sickle and lion alternately.

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  Epitaph on the church in Glashütten with coats of arms of Lüschwitz and Streitberg

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  Eiptaph of a cleric of the family in the Würzburg Cathedral, other coats of arms are Wallenrode , Laineck and Aufseß

Personalities

• 1255: Heinrich von Streitberg , Bishop of Samland and member of the Teutonic Order. He consecrated the St. Stephen's Altar in the Sebalduskirche in Nuremberg. Also provable as auxiliary bishop in the dioceses of Bamberg and Würzburg .
• Johann II von Streitberg († April 1, 1428), Bishop of Regensburg (1421–1428)
• Kunz von Streitberg devastated Hohenstein Castle in 1466

See also

• List of Frankish knight families

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gustav Voit u. a .: From the country in the mountains to Franconian Switzerland . Bayreuth 1992. p. 84.

literature

• August Gebeßler : City and District of Bayreuth . Munich 1959.
• Gustav Voigt: the nobility on the Upper Main. The Plassenburg - Writings for local research and cultural maintenance in East Franconia, Vol. 28, Kulmbach 1969.
• Dieter Zöberlein: The von Streitberg, story of a Franconian noble family , Burggrub 2018.

Web links

• The von Streitberg
• www.streitberg.de
• The Streitberg coat of arms in the Book of Arms of the Holy Roman Empire , Nuremberg around 1554–1568