The hübsche families (German: Hübsche Familien, meaning 'families at court' at the time the term was in use) were the third elite class of the Electorate...

the Baring family belonged to the upper bourgeoisie, the so-called Hübsche Familien (from hübsch, pretty, or good looking), which comprised the third division...

centuries the Kestner family was one of the families at court (German: hübsche Familien). As a young Brunswick-Lüneburg legation secretary in the imperial...