Andreas II of Graben

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The coat of arms of Andreas II von Graben in the Lienz Sankt Michaelskirche. Illustration from 1531.
Coat of arms of Andreas von Graben (archive Matthias Laurenz Gräff)

Andreas II von Graben (also Andrä von Graben ; * Sommeregg Castle ; † 1560 in Lienz ) was a Lienz knight , descending from the noble noble family of the Lords of Graben .

Biographical

Andreas was born as the son of Heinrich von Graben († 1507) from the Sommeregger line of the family. His brother Christof von Graben († 1580) was the prince's keeper / burgrave of Kals between 1543 and 1578 under the Habsburgs , but also appears as a pastor there. They were grandsons of Andreas von Graben zu Sommeregg , a chill -out ortenburger ( regional ) captain.

In 1528 Andreas was appointed district judge and later also city ​​judge of Lienz. He held this post until his death. He was married to a Margaret († 1544), nothing is known about his descendants. In Lienz, in today's Hans-von-Grabengasse at No. 226, Andreas had his town house called Graben . He also had gold mined in the Lienz mountains , on which his enormous wealth was based. He had his coat of arms affixed to many locations in and around Lienz. For example, on a rough, now loose stone slab, in the middle of the Zettersfeld alpine meadow near Lienz, the inscription 1532 Andreas von Graben can be read. Also near the Tristacher See, according to research by Dr. Josef Weingartners to read a similar inscription on a stone. Andreas' coat of arms is also in the Lienz Sankt Michaelskirche, in which the burial place of the Lords of Graben from the Sommeregger line is located.

In 1532 Andreas von Graben had the Helenenkirchl in Thurn in the parish of Oberlienz, originally built by Albert I of Görz-Tirol in 1290, structurally extended to the St. Andrä Church, which still exists today. In the choir of the church there is a plaque walled in with the simple words: “Andrä v. Trench AD MDXXXII ". The new building was consecrated on Easter Monday 1533.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Granichstaedten-Czerva : Brixen. Imperial Principality and Court. , P. 172. Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1948
  2. ↑ Austrian Art Monograph, Volume 7, p. 154 (1963)
  3. ^ Tirol, Von Gert Ammann (Schroll 1980), p. 575
  4. ↑ www.sonnendoerfer.at Oberlienz
personal data
SURNAME Graben, Andreas II of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION District judge of Lienz, had gold mined in the Lienz mountains
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century or 16th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Sommeregg Castle
DATE OF DEATH 1560
Place of death Lienz