Straß in Steiermark

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STRASS IN STEIERMARK

State : Steiermark
District : Leibnitz

Strass2.jpg

Official blazon

Origin/meaning

The arms were granted on September 4, 1625.

The arms were not granted by the Emperor, but by the landlord of the market borough of Straß, Johann Ulrich von Eggenberg, Fürst von Krumau. Straß was a "Patrimonialmarkt", a market borough not under the jurisdiction of the Emperor and Duke of Styria, but under that of some other nobleman. The Eggenberg family was very rich and very powerful. They made sort of a model career. The Eggenbergs constantly granted loans to the monarchs of their time and in due course rose from the status of burgess or citizen to gentry and finally to princely rank. Their possessions were immense. They gave their name to Schloß Eggenberg, a beautiful Baroque castle at Graz. The family died out in the early 18th century.

The raven in chief is taken from the Eggenberg arms. Straß castle (now a barracks of the Bundesheer, the Austrian army) forms the main charge of the arms.

Strass.hagat.jpg

The arms in the Coffee Hag album +/- 1932

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Literature : Image provided by Karl Palfrader (k.palfrader@aon.at), MStLA 13 (1963), p. 85