Wildenstein (noble family, Franconian Forest)

This article explains the noble family Wildenstein residing in the Franconian Forest, for other noble families of the same name see list of noble families called Wildenstein .

Coats of arms of those of Wildenstein and of the tribal and related families of Berg , von Epprechtstein, von der Grün , von Münchberg, von Radeck , von Reitzenstein , von Sparnberg, Sack , von Stein , von Thoßfell and von Töpen

The von Wildenstein family is a traditional Franconian noble family in the Franconian Forest .

history

The Franconian von Wildenstein family is named after the current district of Wildenstein in the Presseck market in the Upper Franconian district of Kulmbach . In addition to Wildenstein Castle, the Wildenstein rule also included Presseck and Grafengehaig .

Like the von Berg , von Epprechtstein, von der Grün , von Münchberg, von Radeck , von Reitzenstein , von Sparnberg, von Stein , von Thoßfell and von Töpen families, the von Wildenstein families are considered to be a line of the Sack ministerial family, mentioned in 1091 . All of these families are therefore related to the tribe and coat of arms. The von Wildenstein family are related to the von Sparneck and Lüchau family.

coat of arms

The coat of arms shows a silver sloping bar on a red background. The crest consists of an open flight in which the sloping beam is repeated. The coat of arms of the former municipality of Marlesreuth reminds of the family.

• Historical coats of arms
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  Depiction in the book of arms of the Holy Roman Empire by Stephan Brechtel (mid-16th century)

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  Depiction in Siebmacher's coat of arms (1605)

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  Epitaph for Maria von Wildenstein , née von Woellwarth ; their birth coat of arms is similar to that of the von Wild family

See also

• Wildenstein (noble family, Middle Franconia)

literature

• August Gebeßler : City and District of Bayreuth . Munich 1959.
• Genealogical manual of the nobility , Adelslexikon Volume XVI, Volume 137 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 2005, ISSN  0435-2408 . P. 212.
• Maximilian Freiherr von Lerchenfeld: The von Wildenstein and their court in Presseck . In: Archives for history and antiquity of Upper Franconia . Volume 16, Issue 3. Bayreuth 1886. pp. 30-90.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Wildenstein in the history of Presseck
2. ^ Arnold von Dobenck : The landlord families of the Vogt and Regnitzland in the Middle Ages. In: Archive for history and archeology of Upper Franconia, Volume 29, 3 (1926), p. 32 f.