Aarwangen (noble family)

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The lords of Aarwangen were a noble family in the Swiss plateau. They built Aarwangen Castle , located at the river crossing over the Aare . The Aarwangen were ministerials of the Counts of Neu-Kyburg . They first appeared around 1200. They died out around 1350, and the castle and the lordship came as inheritance to the Barons von Grünenberg .

history

Burkhart and his daughter Ita are mentioned as the first members of the von Aarwangen noble family in 1194 and 1212: They donated forest and land to the St. Urban monastery . Burkhart's son Walter participated on August 16, 1277 in the arbitration court against Ortolf I. von Utzigen-Gutenburg. A year later, he made allegiance to King Rudolf I of Habsburg and was knighted by him on August 26, 1278 on the occasion of the Battle of the Marchfeld . In 1313 he received from Count Rudolf III. from Neuchâtel-Nidau all goods lying in the Bipp office , including customs and bridge from Aarwangen as a fief. After activities in the wider area of ​​his headquarters - in Zofingen , Solothurn and Burgdorf - he was appointed mayor of the city of Burgdorf in 1320 by his liege lords.

During the lifetime of knight Walter von Aarwangen the construction of the tower of Aarwangen, the wood of which was dendrochronologically dated to 1265/1266 .

Walter's son Johann von Aarwangen was close to the Habsburg family . In 1333 he became bailiff in Aargau. In 1339 he completely surprisingly handed over his goods to the granddaughter Margaretha von Kien , daughter Verenas and the Bernese mayor Philipp von Kien, and her husband Petermann I. von Grünenberg in order to swap the sword for the habit and enter the monastery of St. Urban. Because the monastery cell was no longer sufficient for him in his search for God, Johann von Aarwangen retired to Entlebuch with six brothers in 1341 , lived in the hermitage in Wittenbach , donated the Heiligkreuzkapelle and died on January 24, 1350.

coat of arms

Blazon : Split of black and silver with a black bar.

The coat of arms is documented in the register of arms of the Holy Roman Empire (Nuremberg around 1554–1568), but incorrectly there in changed colors. It bears no jewel . The helmet covers are black on the outside and silver on the inside.

Today's municipality of Aarwangen still carries the coat of arms of the Lords of Aarwangen. Until the end of its existence in 2009, the former administrative district of Aarwangen had the same coat of arms reversed, i.e. split from silver with a black bar and from black. The Bleienbach community , formerly owned by the Lords of Aarwangen, has the coat of arms with a fish over a clover leaf in the right half of the shield.

  • Aarwangen municipality.

  • Former district of Aarwangen.

  • Bleienbach community.

literature

  • Max Jufer (editor): The district of Aarwangen and its communities . Merkur Druck, Langenthal 1991, ISBN 3-907012-10-0 .
  • Paul Kasser: History of the office and castle Aarwangen . 2nd Edition. 1953 (originally 1908).
  • August Plüss: The Barons von Grünenberg in Kleinburgund, inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate submitted to the high philosophical faculty of the University of Bern . In: Archives of the Historical Association of the Canton of Bern . Volume XVI, Issue 1. Stämpfli, Bern 1900 ( digitized at E-Periodica.ch ).
  • Daniel Reicke: "of strong and great flüejen". An investigation into megalithic and humpback brickwork on castle towers in the area between the Alps and the Rhine . In: Schweizerischer Burgenverein (Hrsg.): Swiss contributions to the cultural history and archeology of the Middle Ages . tape 22 . Habegger, Derendingen 1995, ISBN 3-908182-07-7 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reicke 1995, p. 131.
  2. ↑ Jufer 1963, p. 52.
  3. ↑ Jufer 1963, pp. 45, 52.
  4. ↑ Jufer 1963, p. 52; Plüss 1900, p. 57.
  5. ↑ Bavarian State Library, Cod.icon. 390, family coat of arms of the tournament nobility , p. 582: codicon.digitale-sammlungen.de [ accessed August 5, 2012].