Schürstab (patrician) – Wikipedia

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Coat of arms of the pilgrimage to Siebmacher

The Dairy (also Schürstabel from Oberndorf ) were an influential patrician family of the imperial city of Nuremberg, first mentioned in a document in 1299. The family seat was the name of the Leupold III in 1375. Rittergut Oberndorf bought at the top.

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In 1299 a Friedrich Schürstab was mentioned in Nuremberg for the first time. According to family tradition, the gender migrated from Hermannstadt in Transylvania, where they had been settled in the country and called “that of Trauttenburg”. As the family assumed, the nickname of one of these ancestors moved the name “Schürstab”, which also corresponded to the “speaking” coat of arms – two crossed burning rods.

The pilot gave a significant reputation through trade talent and skillful marriage policy. Seifried Schürstab († 1357) and his wife Anna Muffel bought the Schürstab-Haus on the milk market in 1328. They also had the Schürstabhof in Lammsgasse. The couple had ten daughters and three sons. The sons were Leupold III, Konrad I. and Seyfried, the first two of whom continued the business and became councilors and the third joined the German order.

From 1351 it was Leupold III. Schürstab († 1379) the first from his family to Inner advice was accepted and thus into the governing Nuremberg patriciate. He successfully acted with luxury goods (Brabant cloth, wine, spices, silver, wax) and had business relationships with Lower Rhine, to Upper Italy, to Poland and Hungary. In 1375 he bought the Rittergut Oberndorf, according to which the family now Schürstabel from Oberndorf called. He also donated the Schürstab window in the Sebaldskirche, which, in addition to the Schürstab coat of arms, also shows the coat of arms of his two wives Kunigunde Nützel and Gerhaus von Streitberg († 1428). [first] Leupold III. Another window for the former Sienchkobelkapelle St. Johannis donated the Schürstab. There is also a ballot window from 1410 in the Marthakirche. The Epitaph of the Dorothea Schürstab with the fair of St. Gregor The master of the Velden altar (around 1475) is located in the Germanic National Museum. [2]

After 1500, the importance of the family decreased when the prospect of their branches in Venice, Lyon and Hungary withdrew, bourgeois marriages and craftsmen, hosts or simple lawyers. 1584 died with Hieronymus III. Schürstab the last Rat rat From the family. The Oberndorf estate was placed in ruins in 1552 in the second margrave war; In 1608 the remains were sold to the Tucher.

The last male representative of the patrician family, Johann Meinhard Schürstab († 1668) was a Nuremberg nurse at Hiltpoltstein. It was discontinued in 1655. In the following decades there were disputes and processes due to the required approval of alleged descendants of the patrician initial staff. After stubborn refusal, the council had to bend the imperial requests and Georg Wolfgang Schürstab, who had been mentioned since 1717 of the larger Council, admitted to council offices. He became city alarm carer in 1729. However, he did not achieve full recognition within the family -capable families. In 1743 this last pilgrimage died without descendants. [3]

The Schürstabhaus, which still existed today, belonged to the Schürstab family in 1328-1478 [4] However, it is essentially a ministerial seat from the 12th century. In 1390 and 1406 (by Erhard d. Ä. People), the first conversions were carried out. [5] [6]

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  • Leupold III. Schürstab († 1379), patrician, wholesale and long-distance retailer and council member
  • Erasmus Schürstab d. J. (1426–1473), Patrizier, wholesale and long-distance retail as well as a member of the council [7]
  • Erhard Schürstab († 1461), patrician, council member, hospital nurse, warlord, mayor and chronicler
  • Hieronymus Schürstab († 1507), councilor, mayor [8] [9]
  • Johann Schürstab von Oberndorf (1522-1567), patrician, lawyer and council member
  • Johann Meinhard Schürstab († 1668), Nuremberg nurse at Hiltpoltstein
  • Johann Mannhardt Schürstab von Oberndorf (1600–1668), Burgvogt zu Hilpoltstein; Last of the family
  1. Bernhard Peter, Gernot Ramsauer, Alex Hoffmann: Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coat of arms No. 1447 , Schürstab window in the Sebaldskirche
  2. Epitaph of the Dorothea Schürstab .
  3. Michael Diefenbacher: Dairy In: Neue Deutsche Biography 23 (2007), pp. 649–650.
  4. Helgard Ulmschneider: Aprostab, easmus, d.j. In: Author lexicon. 2nd Edition. Volume VIII, Sp. 881–883, here: Sp. 881 f.
  5. Georg Stolz: Shear store . In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (ed.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8, S. 952 ( Overall edition online ).
  6. Tafel at the house
  7. In 1469 the Nuremberg patrician Erasmus Schürstab had a splendidly illustrated code, the so -called Codex Schürstabel let publish.
  8. Hieronymus Schürstab , in: German biography
  9. Hieronymus Schürstab , in: Digital portraitindex

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