Bach (noble family)
The Lords of Bach were a German aristocratic family that named themselves after the (no longer existing) Bach moated castle in Bühl (Baden) , district of Bach.
Family history
The family is first mentioned in a document with Berthold von Bach in 1311. The eponymous Bach castle in the Bühl district of Neusatz fell into disrepair after the family died out and was demolished at the end of the 18th century. In its place there is today a school, which is called the Bachschloßschule in memory of it (Bühl, Nelkenstrasse 16). The last remnant of it is a coat of arms stone that can be dated to the 16th century with the coat of arms of Bach and von Sickingen , which has since been walled up in the restaurant of the nearby Alt-Windeck Castle .
The Lords of Bach were feudal people of the Palatinate Electors , the Counts of Eberstein , the Margraves of Baden , the Counts of Württemberg and Counts of Geroldseck , as well as the Bishops of Strasbourg and Speyer . Their main possessions were concentrated in the area between Baden-Baden and Offenburg .
Georg von Bach († 1415) was the margravial court master of Baden . His grave slab is at the St. Jakobus Church in Steinbach , where the Ritter-von-Bach-Straße is named after him. His son Adam von Bach married Guda von Weingarten , who also brought goods to the family in their Palatinate homeland. Mainly these were properties in Billigheim and Mühlhofen . In 1420 he acquired the Deidesheim castle loan, to be awarded by the Speyer bishop . Adam von Bach died in 1452 and was buried in the Lambrecht monastery church . The Deidesheimer Burglehen only passed to the wife, in 1461 to the son Georg von Bach, who died on July 4th, 1497. The daughter of the aforementioned Georg von Bach, Elisabeth von Bach , was accused in a poison murder trial in 1488, but was acquitted because she did not make a confession despite embarrassing questioning .
This Georg von Bach is of particular importance for Deidesheim , as he founded the local Catholic parish church of St. Ulrich , which was built between 1462 and 1480. In a mass register from the 18th century, he and his wife Ursula von Stein († 1512) are named as the founder of the church. Accordingly, the foremost vault keystone of the nave bears the family coat of arms of the Lords of Bach. The mother also seems to have been involved in the foundation, because the keystone to the west shows her family coat of arms, the Lords of Weingarten . In 1963, during renovation work, Georg von Bach's grave slab, which had already been worn down, was finally discovered in the Ulrichskirche, on which the family coat of arms can still be clearly recognized and the inscription indicates that he had also erected an altar there in honor of the Holy Trinity . Today it is placed on the outer south wall of the church. In Deidesheim, Georg-von-Bach-Strasse was named after him.
Bernhard von Bach, the cousin of the Deidesheim church founder, served as court marshal of the Electoral Palatinate , and later as the Ortenau governor of the Electoral Palatinate in Ortenberg . With his son Georg von Bach, the male line died out in 1538. As a feudal fiefdom from the Palatinate, he had been the lord of the village and castle of Eichtersheim since 1509 and was buried in the Holy Cross Church (Offenburg) , where his grave memorial has been preserved.
coat of arms
In blue, a buckhorn with four pieces of silver and red with a golden overlay , sometimes also referred to as a sea snail . The crest was a hat in the same shape and color, the helmet covers are silver and red.
literature
- Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book , Volume 1, Heidelberg, 1898, pp. 25-27 (digital scan)
- Parish church St. Ulrich Deidesheim, Festschrift for the consecration of the altar in 1987 , Kath. Pfarramt Deidesheim, 1987, pp. 140–143
Web links
- Family tree , from: Julius Kindler von Knobloch: Oberbadisches Geschlechtbuch , Volume 1, Heidelberg, 1898, p. 26
- Website on the history of the Bachschloßschule Bühl, with its own chapter on the von Bach noble family