Österreich Post 13th Century Zwettl Abbey Manuscript of the Kuenringers

ÖSTERREICH POST on 15 May 1981 issued a stamp featuring Azzo (Kuenringer) and his Vassals, which was copied from the cover of a 13th century Zwettl Abbey manuscript. This was part of a State Exhibition held in May 1981. The postmark cancellation originated from the Lower Region of Austria.

The Kuenringer (also Lords of Kuenring,  or Chuenringe(r) ) were an Austrian ministerial family. The first documented mention dates back to 1132. The last Kuenringer died in 1594.

After Azzo von Gobatsburg , the founder of the family from Saxony or the Rhineland (Trier), came to what is now Lower Austria in the 11th century in the wake of a son of Margrave Leopold I, the family acquired, according to a document dated 29 December 1056, three royal hooves in the place Hezimaneswisa, today Hetzmannswiesen, and then by their feudal knights and fortified farmers populated possessions in the Waldviertel , in the Weinviertel and in the Wachau. They played a key role in the country's economic and cultural development. Hadmar I founded the Zwettl monastery in 1137 and built the Kühnring ancestral castle in what is now the market town of Burgschleinitz-Kühnring . There was also a Kuenringerburg in Wullersdorf in the 12th century, and Schöngrabern was owned by the Kuenringers when the Romanesque church was built.

The Kuenringers died out in 1594. The last Kuenringer was Johann VI. Ladislaus (alias Hans Lasla von Kuenring), who died on 9 December 9, 1594 and was buried on 9 April 1595 in the parish church of Seefeld . His grave was never found. The Liechtensteins , whose coat of arms is part of the "Coat of Arms of the Chuen Rings", are considered to be the heirs of the Kuenringers.