Bartenstein (Franconian noble family)
The Knights of Bartenstein had their lordship in Bartenstein in the 13th and 14th centuries . They were feudal men of the Bishop of Würzburg . From the few available documents in which they are mentioned, it is evident that they were on an equal footing with Konrad von Langenburg or Gottfried von Hohenlohe . The currently oldest document, provided with a seal by Gernod von Bartenstein, dates from the year 1234. The seal (picture) shows three axes pointing to the left ( Barten ). According to the description of the Oberamt Künzelsau from 1883 , page 281, the knights of Stetten and von Bartenau from Künzelsau from the Künzelsau region are supposed to be side lines of the knights of Bartenstein. All three dominions have almost identical coats of arms. Family connections are to be assumed, but still have to be proven.
In 1302 Heinrich von Bartenstein received the judicial rule in Riedbach (Crailsheim district) with all its affiliations and two parts at the tithe of Ermershausen ( Niederstetten municipality , Bad Mergentheim district) as a fief .
In 1334 Seyfrid von Bartenstein received the church of Ettenhausen, which was separated from Billingsbach , with goods from Gütbach, Wittmersklingen, Ganertshausen, Hirschbronn and Simprechtshausen from Hermann von Lichtenberg , Bishop of Würzburg. Kraft von Hohenlohe recognized this separation in a document on May 14, 1334.
The Tenth Bartenstein was probably created at this time. The Zehnt Bartenstein had grown to around 30 localities in the immediate vicinity by 1422. The respective owners of Bartenstein Castle were entitled to collect taxes and compulsory labor there. The ownership of the game ban and the hunting rights between Crailsheim and Riedbach was regulated by a contract between Kraft and Ludwig von Hohenlohe from 1339. The seat of the court for the tithe Bartenstein, later Amt Bartenstein, was until 1806 the village of Riedbach. Court was held under the lime tree planted in 1810 and, according to records in the church book of Riedbach, the rod was broken about those who were punished .
The castle on a mountain spur above the Ette , a tributary of the Jagst , has been named after her ever since. The former Hohenstaufen castle Bartenstein, already referred to as a castle in documents from the early 15th century, was converted into a baroque three-wing complex from 1688. Today the castle belongs to the town of Schrozberg in the Schwäbisch Hall district in Baden-Württemberg and is owned by the Princes of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein .
Personalities
- Gernod von Bartenstein (traceable from 1234 to 1277)
- Heinrich von Bartenstein (verifiable from 1295 to 1310)
- Seifried von Bartenstein (verifiable from 1310 until his death in 1349) married to Adelheid Goltstein von Krensheim, died in 1351.
literature
- A. and C. Reimann: Bartenstein as it used to be, by craftsmen, councilors, and lackeys . Niederstetten 2009
- Alfred F. Wolfert: Groups of coats of arms of the nobility in the Odenwald-Spessart area. In: Winfried Wackerfuß (Ed.): Contributions to the exploration of the Odenwald and its peripheral landscapes II. Festschrift for Hans H. Weber. Breuberg-Bund , Breuberg-Neustadt 1977, pp. 325-406, here p. 391f.
- Hohenlohe Central Archive Neuenstein
- Württemberg document book
- Thesaurus philopoliticus p. 399 and 400