Lerch von Dirmstein
The men Lerch of Dirmstein , also of Dürmstein and of Durmstein , in some documents also - probably because of family inherited short stature - Lerckel or Lerckell called ( "Lerchlein") are as well-off family in southwestern Germany demonstrated since the 13th century. They belonged to the lower nobility . Their origins lay in Dirmstein in the north-eastern Palatinate , but they also had properties in today's regions of Rheinhessen , Lower Franconia and Württemberg .
origin
The most influential representative of the family, Caspar Lerch IV. (1575–1642), traced the origin of his gender in his genealogical records to a noble family Frambalcken von Dirmstein , about which there is no other evidence.
A Jacob Lerch von Dirmstein was first mentioned in a document from 1281; he is said to have died in 1298. The line continues uninterrupted through Jacob Lerch II. († around 1356), Jacob Lerch III. († 1400), Caspar Lerch I. († 1480), Caspar Lerch II. (Around 1480–1548) and Caspar Lerch III. (1540–1590) to the aforementioned chronicler. A son of Caspar Lerch III. was married to the sister of Worms Bishop Philipp von Rodenstein (1564–1604).
Hospital Foundation
The grandfather of this fourth Caspar Lerch, the second Caspar Lerch, set up a foundation for the already existing Dirmstein hospice on August 14, 1543 , which continues to this day as a public Catholic Hospital Foundation Dirmstein and has considerable assets.
The founder used the atonement of 350 guilders as a basis, which was contractually secured eight years after the death of his son Christoph Caspar . At the age of 21, he died on May 13, 1531 in nearby Weinsheim in a duel with Hans Sigmund von Plenningen .
The atonement was paid by the debtor, which together with the accrued interest finally amounted to 464 guilders, on March 22, 1563, while the foundation had already been recorded on August 14, 1543 in Ladenburg ; Heinrich von der Pfalz , the Bishop of Worms, had successfully tried to mediate. At the time of payment, the founder had been dead for 15 years; his legacy was carried on by his son, the third Caspar Lerch.
In Weinsheim, the second Caspar Lerch had a memorial cross with the family coat of arms and the following inscription erected in memory of the slain son :
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ANO DMI 15 [31] |
The cross was found in the original place west of the village on the way to Dirmstein in 1615 by the inscription collector and historian Georg Helwich and included in his work Syntagma Monumentorum et Epitaphiorum - German: List of monuments and grave inscriptions. According to the additional inscription, it was moved to its current location in Weinsheimer Hauptstrasse in 1783.
Buildings
Successor to the Lerchschen "castle" in Dirmstein: the "fencing school"
From the legacy of the Lerch family in Dirmstein: the Sturmfedersche Schloss
Michelstor: Fight against the mayor portrayed as the devil
In particular, the fourth Caspar Lerch from around 1600 and his heirs from the Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler family during the 18th century developed a lively construction activity in Dirmstein. Because the entire place was cremated by French troops in the Palatinate War of Succession in 1689 , little has been preserved from the time before. From the “castle” of the fourth Caspar Lerch there is a successor building from the 19th century, the “fencing school” . There and at Sturmfeder Castle , which in its present form dates from around 1780, an old stone from the transition from the 16th to the 17th century was walled in during the construction phase. The identical inscription indicates the interdependence of the family with the history of both mansions:
| CASPAR LERCH THE THIRD VND DOROTHEA ZV ELTZ EHELEVT CASPAR LERCH THE VIRTE VND MARTHA BRENDELIN EHELEVT |
There are two more inscriptions on the archway of the Spitalhof, CASP on the left . LERCH 1602 and on the right CASPAR LERCH VÕ DVRMSTEIN .
Abbess Anna Lerch von Dirmstein
Anna Lerch von Dirmstein (1580–1660), the sister of the fourth Caspar Lerch, was the last abbess of the Rupertsberg monastery near Bingen and successor to St. Hildegard . When the Swedes threatened the monastery during the Thirty Years' War , she fled to Cologne in 1632 , taking with her the head, heart and tongue of the saint. She hid the other relics of the body and Hildegard's dress in the grave vault on the Rupertsberg. She made sure that all relics of Hildegard of destruction escaped and eventually Mainz into Eibingen reached where they are worshiped today. Caspar IV. Lerch made notes about the fate of the bones and the related activities of his sister.
Going out
In 1699, the male line of the Lerch family died out because all of the grandchildren of the fourth Caspar Lerch had no further male descendants. The considerable fortune therefore finally fell to the family of the second oldest daughter, Maria Magdalena Dorothea (born August 26, 1612 in Tauberbischofsheim ), who had married Philipp Friedrich Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler in 1640 .
Caspar Lerch's great-grandson Marsilius Franz Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler (1674–1744) became legendary through his quarrel with the authorities. He immortalized partially encrypted details about it on the Michelstor when he had it added to the Sturmfedersche Castle named after him in 1738 . With carved inscriptions and a sculpture above the archway, he documented his allegedly victorious fight against the devil , who symbolizes the mayor as the local representative of the sovereign.
The great-granddaughter of Marsilius Franz Sturmfeder von Oppenweiler was the unmarried lady-in-waiting Louise von Sturmfeder (1789–1866), educator of Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria and his brother Emperor Maximilian of Mexico .
The last bearer of the family name Sturmfeder died in 1901.
Other noble families in the region
- Monkey stone
- Flersheim
- Leiningen
- Leyser from Lambsheim
- Nagel from Dirmstein
- Storm spring from Oppenweiler
- From the hoods
literature
- Michael Martin: The Lerch von Dirmstein family . S. 63-76 .
- Hans-Helmut Görtz: Family table of the Lerch von Dirmstein . S. 77-81 .
- Andrea Storminger: The "Catholic Hospital Foundation Dirmstein" . S. 403-414 .
- All in: Michael Martin (Hrsg.): Dirmstein - nobility, farmers and citizens . Chronicle of the Dirmstein community. Self-published by the Foundation for the Promotion of Palatinate Historical Research , Neustadt an der Weinstrasse 2005, ISBN 3-9808304-6-2 .
- Caspar Lerch von Dirmstein: Annales . (1602–1610, family chronicle, more than 300 pages, subsequent dating through historical studies).
- Georg Peter Karn, Ulrike Weber (arrangement): Bad Dürkheim district. City of Grünstadt, Union communities Freinsheim, Grünstadt-Land and Hettenleidelheim (= cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Volume 13.2 ). Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 2006, ISBN 3-88462-215-3 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Lerch of Dürmstein, family". Authority record GND 129 349 763 . Retrieved December 25, 2019.
- ^ Inscription on the coat of arms 1703.
- ↑ a b Michael Martin: The Lerch family from Dirmstein . 2005, p. 63-76 .
- ↑ Hans-Helmut Görtz: Family table of the Lerch von Dirmstein . 2005, p. 77-81 .
- ^ A b Andrea Storminger: The "Catholic Hospital Foundation Dirmstein" . 2005, p. 407-408 .
- ↑ a b c memorial cross in Worms-Weinsheim. suehnekreuz.de, accessed on August 4, 2011 .
- ↑ Damage to the inscription is added in square brackets.
- ^ Karn / Weber: Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany, cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate . tape 13 , no. 2 , 2006 (Verbandsgemeinde Grünstadt-Land).
- ↑ Document registers from 1602 with the names of Anna Lerch von Dirmstein's parents in the German Digital Library .
- ^ Anton Philipp Brück (Ed.): Hildegard von Bingen: 1179–1979 - Festschrift for the 800th anniversary of the death of the saints. Verlag der Gesellschaft für Mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, 2nd edition, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-929135-19-1 , pp. 374–376.
- ^ Website on the history of the St. Hildegard Abbey with mention of the abbess Anna Lerch von Dirmstein.
