Anna Büschler

Anna Büschler (* around 1497 ; † 1551 ) came from the city ​​nobility of Schwäbisch Hall and was an illustrious figure in Hall's city history. Their love affairs and legal disputes occupied even the Reichsgericht in Esslingen .

Life

She was the daughter of the important Hall master craftsman Hermann Büschler and Anna Hornburg. As a decision maker in the house of Schenken Götz von Limpurg , she began a relationship with the young Schenken Erasmus von Limpurg (1502–1553). After her mother's death in 1520, she was a housekeeper in the house of the Father who strictly all matchmakers dismissed. In the absence of her father, she took on his role as town master and caused a stir and resentment with her clothes and jewelry. During this time, too, she maintained the relationship with Schenk Erasmus, who at that time was undergoing a cavalier training at various courts and with whom she exchanged heartfelt love letters.

When the young gift's interest waned, she entered into a relationship with the young knight Daniel Treutwein. She stole her father's keys and sold stolen fruit and a valid letter for 1200 guilders, for which she had clothes and jewelry made. The father then chased her out of the house. Anna, in turn, sued her father before the Reichsgericht in Esslingen for the surrender of the maternal inheritance , but the father obtained a mandate that authorized him to arrest her. Büschler was finally able to find his daughter, brought her tied back to Hall and had her chained to a large oak table. The Hall council relieved Büschler from his seat on the council because of the interference in an ongoing court case. Anna was released and fled to Heilbronn , from where she sued her father in Rottweil and before the court of justice. Then she married the impoverished nobleman Hans von Leuzenbrunn.

After the death of her father and husband in 1543, Anna's siblings sought a settlement of the disputes about Anna, they paid her 1200 guilders to cover her debts and agreed on a personal property of 80 guilders per year as well as food and wine. Since Anna's debts were probably significantly higher, she objected to the contract concluded with the siblings and claimed to have been drunk when it was signed. The Haller Council invited her to the court hearing without offering safe conduct . She was arrested on the way to Hall an der Münkheimer Steige. After six weeks imprisonment in the New Tower and in the Haller Spital , she managed to escape by installing lattice windows in her room. She turned to Neuenstein under the protection of the Prince of Hohenlohe and married Johann von Sproland. She sued the Haller council again and obtained an imperial order to pay out the personal thing. She died in 1551 amid ongoing lawsuits, and her widower continued the legal battle after her death.

literature

• Gerd Wunder : The citizens of Hall , Sigmaringen 1980, pp. 79, 179, 180.
• Steven Ozment : The Mayor's Daughter: The Rebellion of a Young Woman in the German Middle Ages Dt. by Petra Post and Andrea von Struve, Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-498-05024-9 .
• Raimund J. Weber: The correspondence of Anna Büschler from Schwäbisch Hall. Original letters discovered again in the Leipzig University Library . In: Journal for Württemberg State History , Vol. 79 (2020), pp. 159–218.