Andreas Baumkircher

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Statue of Andreas Baumkircher in the Feldherrenhalle of the Military History Museum in Vienna .
Sgraffito portrait in Wiener Neustadt (1937)

Andreas Baumkircher , Baron von Schlaining , (* around 1420 probably in Wippach ( Vipava ), Slovenia ; † April 23, 1471 in Graz) was an imperial military leader .

Life

The son of an imperial administrator spent his youth at the court of Emperor Frederick III. He was a dazzling figure of the late Middle Ages and famous for his extraordinary strength and height.

As a mercenary leader, he served Emperor Friedrich III. several great services, in particular he defended Wiener Neustadt in 1452 against the estate army. He was rewarded princely for this and was given the right to mint his own coins as well as permission to found a town next to his Schlaining Castle .

From 1453 to 1457 he served the Hungarian-Bohemian King Ladislaus Postumus . Both in the Hungarian elections (February 12, 1459) and in a revolt of the Viennese citizens (1462), Baumkircher and his people were on the side of Emperor Frederick III.

In 1469, however, he turned against the emperor and, together with the Hungarian king Matthias Corvinus, organized an uprising of the Styrian nobility against Friedrich III. The so-called Baumkircher feud began with the delivery of the feud letter of the Styrian noble union to Friedrich III. on February 1, 1469. The aristocratic union led by Baumkircher and Johann von Stubenberg occupied the Styrian cities of Hartberg , Fürstenfeld , Feldbach , Marburg , Windischfeistritz , Gonobitz and Wildon Castle . In March 1469 Baumkircher's troops occupied the Mürz Valley , but in April 1469 they lost Scheifling , Oberkapfenberg , Schwanberg and Oberradkersburg to the imperial troops. On July 21, 1469, at the battle of Fürstenfeld , the troops of Baumkircher and Emperor Friedrich III met, in which Baumkircher inflicted a heavy defeat on the imperial troops. Baumkircher's troops carried out raids into the area around Graz .

In October 1469 an armistice was signed between Friedrich III. and Baumkircher agreed. On June 30, 1470, Friedrich III. a contract with Baumkircher, which promised him complete amnesty and a payment of 14,000  florins . In the fall of 1470, Baumkircher rose again against Emperor Friedrich III for failure to make payments.

On April 23, 1471, Baumkircher and Andreas von Greisenegg went to Graz to negotiate , after they had been promised safe conduct until the vesper bell rang . That day the bell rang an hour earlier and both were arrested. In the evening they were publicly beheaded in front of the Murtor without a trial .

Foundations

reception

Due to the imperial resolution of Franz Joseph I on February 28, 1863, Andreas Baumkircher was added to the list of the "most famous warlords and generals of Austria worthy of perpetual emulation" The Imperial and Royal Court Weapons Museum (today: Heeresgeschichtliches Museum Wien ) was built. The statue was created in 1872 by the sculptor Vincenz Pilz (1816–1896) from Carrara marble and was dedicated by Emperor Franz Joseph himself.

literature

Web links

Commons : Andreas Baumkircher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ August Ernst: History of Burgenland. Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2nd edition of March 24, 1992, ISBN 3-4865-4072-6 , p. 95.
  2. ^ The Baumkircher feud in the Atlas Burgenland. In: atlas-burgenland.at.
  3. ↑ Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck : The Army History Museum Vienna. The museum and its representative rooms. Kiesel Verlag, Salzburg 1981, ISBN 3-7023-0113-5 , p. 30.
personal data
SURNAME Baumkircher, Andreas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baron von Schlaining
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian military leader
DATE OF BIRTH around 1420
PLACE OF BIRTH uncertain: Wippach (Vipava), Slovenia
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 1471
Place of death Graz