![]() 1290) and the entry concerning the earlier burial of his wife, Adelheid, under the date of 21 August (i.e., before 1290). The death record of the Thuringian ‘ancestor’, Hermann von Sand I ( I.01), appears in the Mortuary Book of the Franciscan abbey of Coburg – established about 1250 – under the date of 11 May (c. However, prematurely obituarized families may well survive longest after all … ![]() XVI.13, 1747-1801), at a time when all other members of the family had already moved out of town. The error probably goes back to a misleading annotation in the 19 th century Yearbooks of the Saxonian Duchy of Coburg, reporting that “the von Sand family, Coburg residents and clothmakers, died out here in the 1790s” – presumably a reference to the last male name-bearer to die in Coburg ( August Eusebius von Sand Sr. īaron Otto von Schaumberg lists the family among the “vassals of the Schaumbergs before 1300”, but then mistakenly adds that “the old Coburg township family von Sand fell extinct about 1790”. In the status records of the Saxonian electors, the “vom Sande zu Coburgk” were ranked among the Franconian aristocracy, and in that capacity were summoned by name to the feudal diets held at Jena in 1511 and at Altenburg/Zwickau in 1531. The Sands served as court officials to the Thuringian landgraves until the 15 th century. Georg Berbig locates the family in the “Amt im Sand” district near Meiningen in Thuringia, where they held lands in fee from the counts of Henneberg. The evidence is an entry in the land tenancy records of Kunemund von Sonneberg (1231-1276), to the effect that “ Hermannus de Sante quicquid habet in Melkendorf et Sante”. ![]() The most plausible one yet seems to be by Ernst Cyriaci, who assumes the family’s ancestral seat to have been located in the Thuringian Forest mountains, the “green heart” of Germany viz., a long-deserted estate known as Sand, near Welchendorf southeast of Schalkau. There are several hypotheses as to the actual geographical origin of the Coburg Sands.
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