Aichelberg (noble family)
Aichelberg (also Count von Aichelberg ) is the name of an old Swabian noble family .
history
The origin of the Counts of Aichelberg is not clearly established. There is much to suggest that they branched off in the 12th century as a branch line of the Counts of Berg-Schelklingen (city of Ehingen , Alb-Danube district) and that they came into possession of the foothills of the Alb through marriage to a Zähringer heiress.
In 1189, Count Berthold von Aichelberg is mentioned in connection with Aichelberg Castle .
In 1230 the Counts of Aichelberg granted Wendlingen am Neckar town rights for the first time, and in 1319 Weilheim an der Teck was raised to town by Count Ulrich von Aichelberg. In 1336 Albrecht von Aichelberg acquired Köngen and Unterboihingen .
Around 1334 the property of the Counts of Aichelberg was sold to the House of Württemberg . Around 1400 the dynasty fell into knighthood, and died out by 1500 at the latest.
possession
Already at the beginning of the 13th century the noble family of the Counts of Aichelberg owned large parts of the Filder district . At that time they were still called Counts of Kersch (1213: Comes Diepoldus de Kerse) after the defunct Kersch Castle at the entrance to the Kersch Valley near Deizisau. That Count Diepold I called himself the first Count of Aichelberg as early as 1220. It is not certain whether he acquired Aichelberg Castle . It is more likely that he had it built himself. The main part of the property lay roughly between the Neidlinger Tal and the Fils (Ochsenwang, Neidlingen, Hepsisau, Pfundhardt, Häringen, Weilheim, Holzmaden, Eckwälden, Zell, Pliensbach, Hattenhofen, Albershausen, Sparwiesen, Jesingen and Lindorf). In addition, there was the headquarters on the Aichelberg and Merkenberg Castle . The possessions in Wendlingen, Unterboihingen and Köngen with the important ferry across the Neckar established a connection to the property on the Fildern. Parts of the county were also around Ravensburg, Waldsee and Saulgau.
Personalities
- Berthold von Aichelberg, Count
- Diepold von Körsch-Aichelberg
- Ulrich von Aichelberg, Count
- Albrecht von Aichelberg, Count
- Konrad von Aichelberg († 1403 or 1406), son of Albrecht von Aichelberg and his wife Guta, Milan General Marshal in Pisa from 1399 to 1402
- Anna von Aichelberg, daughter of Albrecht von Aichelberg, married knight Hans Thumb von Neuburg in 1382/83
See also
literature
- Gerhard Hergenröder: Wendlingen am Neckar. On the way to a city. G & O Druck, Kirchheim unter Teck 1992, pages 54-55.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Casimir Bumiller: History of the Swabian Alb. From the ice age to the present . Casimir Katz Verlag, Gernsbach 2008, ISBN 978-3-938047-41-5 . , P. 110.