Bempflinger contract

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Contemporary image detail in Zwiefalten Monastery (around 1140)

The Bempflinger contract describes an inheritance settlement from the year 1089/1090 between the two brothers and counts Kuno von Wülflingen († 1092) and Liutold von Achalm († 1098) on the one hand and their nephew Count Werner IV von Grüningen on the other. The name of the contract is the town of Bempflingen in the Baden-Württemberg district of Esslingen .

background

Bempflinger contract in Ortlieb's chronicle
Reconstructed keep of Achalm Castle , named after the Counts of Achalm. In the hereditary comparison, the castle fell to Count Werner IV von Grüningen

In 1089 the two Counts of Achalm - Kuno and Liutold - founded the Zwiefalten monastery on the Swabian Alb . Both were papal partisans and remained childless under inheritance law. With half of their extensive possessions, they created a place of retreat and burial in keeping with their status ( their own monastery ) in Zwiefalten . The other half was given to her nephew Werner IV von Grüningen, the son of her sister Willibirg von Achalm and Count Werner III. von Grüningen and Maden , awarded. The Bempflingen contract was intended to prevent the nephew (and his heirs) from later claiming ownership of the monastery. Without this contract Werner von Grüningen would probably have been the main heir.

Documentary mention

The Bempflingen Treaty is mentioned for the first time in the chronicle of the Zwiefalter monk Ortlieb (1135/37), who wanted to create legal security for the monastery with the written fixation. It is difficult to assess how correctly the chronicle reproduces the content of the event that was almost 50 years ago.

Content of the contract

In the chronicle several people are named as witnesses for the Bempflingen contract. A total of 54 locations in the area of ​​southwest Germany, Chur and Alsace are affected, which are wholly or partially assigned to either Werner von Grüningen or the Zwiefalten monastery.

Examples
  • A quarter of the town of Dietikon and the country church there falls to Zwiefalten: "In eodem pago tradidit ... quartam villae Dietinchovin appellatae et unam salicam terram et quartam partem eiusdem loci ecclesiae."
  • Half of the church and districts in Dettingen, Metzingen and Eningen are owned by Werner von Grüningen: "Quapropter eidem Wernhero nepoti suo tradiderunt dimidiam ecclesiae partem apud Tetingin et eandem villam dimidiam ... Ad haec quoque tradiderunt ei dimidiam partem villae quae Metzingin dicitur cum parte ecclesiae nec non dimidiam ecclesiae partem apud Eningin cum una terra salica in eadem villa ... “.

Witnesses present

The 13 witnesses are apparently hierarchically and regionally grouped from number 5:

  1. Burchard von Wittlingen / Lechsgemünd (at Hohenwittlingen Castle , later Bishop of Utrecht )
  2. Konrad I. , ancestor of the House of Württemberg
  3. Eberhard von Metzingen
  4. Trutwin von Metzingen , brother of the aforementioned
  5. Marquard von Gruoningen (Ludwigsburg district), companion of Count Werner IV. Von Grüningen
  6. Sigebot from Remmincheim ( deserted area on the Enz in the Ludwigsburg district)
  7. Rudolf von Rutelingin (Reutlingen district)
  8. Gebino von Pfullingen (Reutlingen district), later monk of the Zwiefalten monastery
  9. Alberich von Schlaitdorf (Reutlingen area, today Esslingen district)
  10. Werner von Schlaitdorf (Reutlingen area, today Esslingen district)
  11. Volmar von Berinhusin (Esslingen district)
  12. Rudolf von Berinhusin (Esslingen district)
  13. Wernher von Lindorf (Esslingen district)

Affected places (among others)

Bempflingen , Bernhausen , Achalm Castle , Dettingen an der Erms , Dietikon , Metzingen , Eningen unter Achalm , Kohlberg (Württemberg) , Neuhausen an der Erms , Reutlingen , Wittlingen (Bad Urach) .

The Bempflingen Treaty means the earliest historical mention of their existence for many places today.

See also

literature

  • Ludwig Friedrich Heyd : History of the Counts of Gröningen . Stuttgart 1829.
  • Stefan Schipperges: The Bempflinger contract of 1089/90 . Esslingen am Neckar 1990.
  • Hendrik Weingarten: Dominion and Land Use. On the medieval economic history of Zwiefalten Monastery. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7995-5257-X .
  • The Zwiefalter Chronicles Ortlieb and Berthold , ed. by E. König and KO Müller, Schwäbische Chroniken der Stauferzeit 2, Stuttgart 1941

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Zwiefalter Chronicles Ortlieb and Berthold , ed. by E. König and KO Müller, Schwäbische Chroniken der Stauferzeit 2, Stuttgart 1941, c. 6, p. 36
  2. The Zwiefalter Chronicles Ortlieb and Berthold , ed. by E. König and KO Müller, Schwäbische Chroniken der Stauferzeit 2, Stuttgart 1941, c. 7, p. 38.