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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4480317, member: 2844&quot;]The von Pein family I found are called von Pein und Wechmar.</p><p><br /></p><p>Wechmar is a town in Thuringia, Germany, but according in this source:</p><p><a href="https://www.kreis-reichenbach.de/app/download/5792051405/Das+Schloss+W%C3%A4ttrisch.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.kreis-reichenbach.de/app/download/5792051405/Das+Schloss+W%C3%A4ttrisch.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.kreis-reichenbach.de/app/download/5792051405/Das+Schloss+Wättrisch.pdf</a></p><p>the family is regarded as being from the town of Breslau in Silesia. Breslau is currently Polish and known by the Polish name Wroclaw.</p><p>The head of the family is known as Pein, Freiherr von Wechmar. A &#039;Freiherr&#039; is a baron.</p><p>The Pein von Wechmar coat of arms is in the Austrian <i>&quot;</i>Wappenbuch des österreichischen Monarchie, Tyroff, 1831–1868.</p><p>This is the coat of arms:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]388996[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pein_von_Wechmar_-_Tyroff_AT.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pein_von_Wechmar_-_Tyroff_AT.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pein_von_Wechmar_-_Tyroff_AT.jpg</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Silesia is one of those regions that changed hands quite a lot, and it was part of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy for some time, so a mention of the family in a book on Austrian coats of arms isn&#039;t unusual.</p><p>The same one on a bookseller site:</p><p><a href="https://www.zvab.com/kunst-grafik-poster/Pein-Freiherren-Wechmar-Wappen-Adel-coat/22412796942/bd" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.zvab.com/kunst-grafik-poster/Pein-Freiherren-Wechmar-Wappen-Adel-coat/22412796942/bd" rel="nofollow">https://www.zvab.com/kunst-grafik-poster/Pein-Freiherren-Wechmar-Wappen-Adel-coat/22412796942/bd</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Is this what she has?</p><p><a href="https://www.vonpein-fienning.com/pdf2/family_crest_info.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vonpein-fienning.com/pdf2/family_crest_info.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.vonpein-fienning.com/pdf2/family_crest_info.pdf</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I think it would be good for her to research if her von Pein ancestors are indeed from either Wechmar or Breslau/Wroclaw, or if they have a connection to Pinneberg near the Danish border.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t find any reference in the history of Pinneberg of the name von Pein.</p><p>The town was granted to the Earl of Schauenburg in the 12th century, and remained under the rule of the Pinneberg branch of the Schauenburgs until the late 19th century.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are indeed registers of nobility, but none of them official. I would recommend asking these people (site in German):</p><p><a href="https://www.adel-in-deutschland.de/verbaende/stiftung-deutsches-adelsarchiv" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.adel-in-deutschland.de/verbaende/stiftung-deutsches-adelsarchiv" rel="nofollow">https://www.adel-in-deutschland.de/verbaende/stiftung-deutsches-adelsarchiv</a></p><p>Contact info, I&#039;m sure they speak English:</p><p><a href="mailto:info@adelsarchiv.de">info@adelsarchiv.de</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In the German speaking part of the world &#039;von&#039; usually indicates an aristocratic family. It indicates ownership of a certain town or region.</p><p>This is not to be confused with the Dutch and Belgian &#039;van&#039;, which simply means that a family originated from a certain place.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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