Stubenberg
The Lords and Counts of Stubenberg probably came from Kapfenberg Styria. Members of the family were as hereditary members of the Hungarian Upper House. They held high offices including as provincial governors, bishops, Erbmundschenk and treasurer.
- 2.1 Stubenberger from the Bohemian line in exile
Rise in Styria
The family is originally from Pitten. Progenitor of the family was Otto von Stubenberg, who built the Burgstube mountain in 1160. His descendant Wulfing of Stubenberg participated in 1268 in an uprising of the Styrian nobility against Přemysl Ottokar II, who had occupied the land. The uprising was put down, arrested Wulfing of Stubenberg for 26 weeks and the Burgstube mountain of the troops Ottokar's completely destroyed. Administrative and residence was from this time over four centuries, the castle Oberkapfenberg. Otto's second son Ulrich took part in the crusade of Damietta in 1218 and fell in Damietta. According Loosert Otto's grandfather had participated in the First Crusade and married the sister of a Habsburg comrades.
The family played in the adoption of the rule by Rudolf von Habsburg an important role, but also participated in the uprising of the Federal Landsberger against the successor of Rudolf, Duke Albrecht I. Earliest family documents ( from 1041 ) are in the archives of the city of Graz.
Under the pulpit of the Parish Church of St. Veit ( to 1707 hl. Michael ) in Passail is a crypt of Stubenberg family. There is a grave stone of Hans von Stubenberg from 1400.
In the 16th century took members of the family who shared in Kapfenberg and the Wurmberger line, to the Protestant confession. Wolfgang von Stubenberg († 1597) and his son George of Stubenberg († 1630) still had close ties with the Catholic court of the Archduke Charles II († 1590), to his son Ferdinand II and his successors to Rudolf II and Matthias, which they borrowed a lot of money.
Built in 1691 by Georg parlor mountain in Graz, Hans- Sachs -Gasse the Palais Stubenberg, which was heavily damaged in World War II. 1614 took over from George Stubenberg from his debt-ridden son Georg Christoph lots of stone Schallaburg in Lower Austria, which came in 1641 in the possession of Johann Wilhelm von Stubenberg and was sold in 1660 by this.
With the accession of the Emperor Ferdinand II in 1619, the persecution of Protestants intensified in Inner Austria and Styria. 1628 all Protestant nobles was banned in Styria, the possession of goods, if they refused to convert to Catholicism. Some members of the family were then Stubenberg Catholic and took over the Styrian goods of those who had to emigrate than Protestants. With the acquisition, they committed themselves by contract the emigrants, financially secure their descendants or surviving spouses in exile. This situation led for years on a variety of court proceedings in the Austrian hereditary lands.
Governors
The following Stubenberger served the emperor as provincial governors:
Stubenberger in Bohemia
Wolfgang von Stubenberg acquired in 1548 by John of Pernštejna city and rule Neustadt an der Mettau in East Bohemia and had rebuilt the castle into a Renaissance castle. The plant of the magnificent Renaissance town square, which has remained largely unchanged, goes back to the Stubenberger. 1568 were Wolf of Stubenberg and his sons appointed "for all time " to Bohemian compatriots. The owner of the domain Neustadt were:
Georg von Stubenberg was a Protestant in 1601, ie before the persecutions of Protestants, acquire the rule Geiersberg in Bohemia. He bequeathed in 1629 when he was forced to emigrate to his only grandson Georg Wolf lots of stone. He was the son of his only daughter Anne († 1624), the Catholics Georg Christoph von Stein lots († 1622) had married.
Stubenberger from the Bohemian line in exile
Stubenberger in exile in Bavaria
In 1628, Emperor Ferdinand II, who was also sovereign of Styria, a decree which forbade all Protestant nobles residence and possession of goods in the dominions of the Prince. They were asked to convert or leave the country. Some Protestant Stubenberger converted and remained as owner of the goods in Styria, others left Styria and moved to Saxony ( Pirna, Dresden) and in the free imperial cities of Nuremberg and Regensburg.
Among the emigrants of the most prestigious in Styria Protestant Stubenberger, George was the older gentleman in Kapfenberg (* 1560). He left his home in 1629 and moved with his second wife Amalia of Liechtenstein to Regensburg, where he died shortly afterwards in April of 1630. His grave plate is located on the cemetery of Trinity Church Sent in Regensburg front of the baroque room mountain epitaph. On the inscription plaque of the epitaph is to the deceased in Vienna and umgebetteten to Regensburg Johann Wilhelm von Stubenberg and his son Rudolf Wilhelm von Stubenberg who had emigrated in 1663 to Regensburg, and also their wives recalls.
George's widow Amalia moved to Nuremberg, where other members of the Wurmberger line of mountain living room. There she devoted her life to charity and died 1664 More Stubenberger who had lived in Nuremberg.:
- Georg Augustin of Stubenberg (1628-1691)
- Georg Sigmund of Stubenberg (1570-1632)
- Otto Gall of Stubenberg ( 1631-1688 ).
They were buried in the parlor mountain tomb of St. Bartholomew's Church.
Stubenberger bishops
- Joseph Graf von Stubenberg, Prince Bishop of Eichstätt; Archbishop of Bamberg
- Wulfing of Stubenberg, of Lavant; Prince-Bishop of Bamberg
Coat of arms
The root of the coat of arms Stubenberger shows in black and a silver WolfSense through whose downward swept ring a golden rope is pulled. On the winning helmet are two tufts of ostrich feathers, to the right depending black silver and left. The helmet covers are black and silver.
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