III.5.5 Hotel Huthsteiner

III.5.5 Hotel Huthsteiner

Founded and operated by Jacob Friedrich Huthsteiner the Hotel Huthsteiner in Siegen was existing from at least 1892 to 1968  and was located near the main station.

It was the usual conference point for different societies, like the local part of the ADAC (german automobile club).

The hotel was heavily damaged during a bomb raid in world war II and built up after the war again.  

 

Hotel Huthsteiner Siegen (first building to the left)

IV. Saxony

IV. Saxony

 

All family members Hutstein(-er) in Saxony originated around Hartmannsdorf close to the city of Kirchberg/Zwickau. It seems that the family moved to Hartmannsdorf approximately 1630 as there are no other members found in the neighbouring parishes before.

On the other hand there has been a place/hill called ‚Hutstein‘ not far away from Hartmannsdorf close to Raschau, district of Schwarzenberg, which could have been a place to search for their origin, but we found the very first of the Hutsteiner, Michael Hutsteiner, in Hofkirchen i.M. in Upper Austria before moving to Saxony in 1626.

Occurrences of Hutsteiner family members

There had been some hints that the family could be related directly to the Hessian Huthsteiner families as there had been some other links in Hartmannsdorf to Hessian aristocrats from Burguffeln (close to the city of Kassel) who settled in Saxony in the 18th century.  But it is the other way round: the Hesse_Nassau Hutsteiner family members came from Saxony.

A more detailed description about hessian ties of the family are here:

III.2 Protestant/Lutheran Line | HUTSTEIN Origins

The classification into Zwickau-, Dresden- or Borna-line is done a little bit arbitrarily as it is just oriented at major family living regions. In fact, as stated above, all families are out of the Zwickau-line.

map Hartmannsdorf / Kirchberg and Borna / Leipzig

The family is originally of protestant confession only, but the Dresden line obviously changed later to catholic religion due to political reasons.

In this area it was also common to use ‚th‘ in ‚Huth‘ thus several of the family members‘ names are spelled as ‚Huthstein(er)‘.

Obviously the family name became extinctic in the 1970s with one of the last members living in Hamburg.

IV.1 Zwickau line

Unfortunately the parish records of Kirchberg and Schneeberg are not publicly available up to now – as most of the Saxonian records -, so a lot of information is still missing. But archives are already working on it and within the next years more documents should become online, too. But there is already some information existing and the family tree starts with Michael Hutsteiner born 1590, who likely was an exulant coming from the Austrian empire.

descendants of Michael Hutsteiner

IV.1.1 Hartmannsdorf – origin of all Saxon Hutsteiner families

IV.1.1 Hartmannsdorf – origin of all Saxon Hutsteiner families

According to my latest research Hartmannsdorf near Kirchberg in the district of Zwickau seems to be the originating place of all known Hutsteiner families in Saxony, i.e. in the eastern part of Germany.

On the one hand there are some hints which could pinpoint to a hessian origin of the first known family member.

First, Johann Georg der Ander, duke of Saxony had been duke of Jülich, Cleve and Berg around the 1670s, a region where Hutstein family members of Westphalian/Hessen-Nassau line were living. Dillenburg, origin city of many Huthsteiner family members, was part of the duchy of Berg, too, as well as Geldern, a region close to the Netherlands and home town to Peter Hutstein in 1634.

Second, the area of Teuchern not far away from Hartmannsdorf was given away to hessian aristocrat family von Freywald, who probably pulled some families of their home to Saxony. Did any Hutsteiner family of Hessen-Nassau come over there, too?

On the other hand it is known that some nearby settlements like Beierfeld (close to the city of Schneeberg) or the city of Johanngeorgenstadt were founded by Bavarian/Austrian immigrants, so a Bavarian/Austrian origin would have been a possibility, too.

Anyhow, first known family member is Michael Hutsteiner a shoemaker, who is mentioned in several court records of Kirchberg in 1637 and then again in church records of Hartmannsdorf in 1641 when he married Eva Hertel.

Michael Hutsteiner, the ancestor of all Saxonian Hutsteiners, born in 1590, likely the son of Pankraz Hutsteiner of the Falkenstein’s fief of Hutstein, lived 1626 in Hofkirchen i.M. Acc. to court records of Saxony he was a shoemaker, Schuster in German language.

Hofkirchen 1626

In 1570 and 1608 in Hofkirchen there was a Michael Schuster mentioned in the Urbar. Perhaps Michael Schuster was the father of Mathias Schuster who took over the Falkenstein fief of Hutstein, Michael Hutsteiner’s home, while he went to Hofkirchen.

It looks like both families had some tight family relations at that time.

Michael Hutsteiner obviously was an immigrant as no earlier documents of this Saxonian region Hartmannsdorf/Kirchberg mention any other Hutstein family members. Court records including last wills or civil contracts of Hartmannsdorf are available as early as 1491, but the first Hutstein family member, Michael, occurred 1637, about 150 years later.

Any other Hutstein family members first popped up in 1682 within a request of Georg, Michael’s son, mentioning Michael’s three surviving children. No other Hutsteiner record between 1637 and 1682.

Hartmannsdorf (church not visible)

A careful look into the history of Hartmannsdorf provides us another important fact: the pest plague was hitting Hartmannsdorf during the 1630s so heavily that by end of 1633 only 8 couples survived. A new colonization of the area was initiated by the duke of Saxony.

Sachsens Kirchen-Galerie, 9. Abteilung, Inspektionen Chemnitz, Stollberg, Zwickau und Neustädtel, Beilage, Dresden 1841 / SLUB Dresden, CC0,
Church of Hartmannsdorf (about 1840)

Taking all this into account the Hutsteiner family probably immigrated from abroad around 1635.

Michael Hutsteiner’s confession had been protestant so this is pointing to an Hessian origin. But from Austria, from the so called “Mühlviertel”, the neighbouring area to Bavaria/Wegscheid, home to the Bavarian/Austrian Hutsteiner families, a lot of exultants with protestant confession joined Saxony until 1635, too.

Michael Hutsteiner is known in Kirchberg church records (2nd hand source) as Huttensteiner, Huttsteiner and ‘Huet’. This ‘Huet’ is clearly pinpointing to an origin in southern Germany’s or Austria’s dialect, where all Hutsteiners were known as ‘Huetstainer’ before the 1700s. It was not the case in Hesse-Nassau/Geldern. Also found in Hesse-Nassau and Geldern: before the 1700s our family name was written as “Hutstein” only.

So, an Austrian origin, as an exulant, seems likely.

Finally, it turned out that this is the real origin of saxonian Hutsteiners. In fact, Michael Hutsteiner was an inhabitant of Neustift i.M. a small town in Upper Austria and left it around 1626.

Let’s look into the court records of Michael Hutsteiner: he several times bought meadows and fields in Hartmannsdorf ~1640. This shows us, that he was not a poor beggar, but came along with some money in his pocket. And this was exactly the fact for some of the exulants until the 1630s who had left their country of religious reasons:  the wealthy ones could afford emigration, many others had to stay and converted back to Catholicism – if it was possible. In later times poor exulants of local population emigrated, too.

2nd source record of church records in Hartrmannsdorf

IV.1.2 From Saxony to Poland

IV.1.2 From Saxony to Poland

Georg Heinrich Günther, a guy from Giegengrün left his home and went to Poland and was searching for his former friend Christian Huthsteiner, also from Giegengrün, who had gone to the saxonian army in Poland, to ask him for some help. He thought he would find him as a simple soldier, but he was surprised when he heard that Huthsteiner had become supreme in the Saxon regiment in Warsaw.

Coat of Arms of the union Saxony-Poland

He went to see him, discovered his situation, and found in Huthsteiner a protector who finally recommended him for personal service with the Saxon prince Clemens, who was in Warsaw. Colonel Huthsteiner was the eldest son of the linen weaver and church leader Michael Huthsteiner in Hartmannsdorf and his first wife Rosina, Christoph Hoffmann’s daughter. Georg Huthsteiner and Michael Huthsteiner, who was born around 1600, shoemakers, are Michael’s father and grandfather.

With him, Günther made himself useful as a personal hunter and servant in every way. There is an old family legend: the prince, who had a very strong beard growth and was therefore very problematic to shave, Günther has literally put a children’s teaspoon in the mouth and pressed out the cheeks with it so that he could shave better; in the true sense of the word, therefore, he “barbed it over the spoon”.

Roman Catholic records of the Church of the Holy Cross, Warszawa-Srodmiescie
Roman Catholic records of the Church of the Holy Cross, Warszawa-Srodmiescie