Heidelberg (noble family)

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Coat of arms of Heidelberg in the Zurich coat of arms roll , ca.1340
The coat of arms of the Lords of Heidelberg is now used by the municipality of Hohentannen .

The Lords of Heidelberg (also Haidelberg) were a proven noble family in Thurgau from the 12th to 15th centuries .

The lords of Heidelberg, who belonged to the nobility, were in the service of the Bishop of Constance . Albrecht von Heldswil (1176 to 1209) and his sons Wetzel (1209 to 1243) and Albrecht (1236 to 1243), who named themselves from 1210 after Heidelberg Castle near Hohentannen in today's Canton of Thurgau , can be identified as the first representatives of the sex . The family owned goods and rights, mostly episcopal fiefs , v. a. in and around Bischofszell , where she was the mayor several times, but also in Arbon , Gossau SG , Tablat SG , Steckborn and Diessenhofen . Until the dissolution in 1354, Johannes held the town and castle of Bischofszell as pledge . Relationships with Reichenau and the Abbot of St. Gallen existed in the 14th century . From the latter, the Heidelberg received the castles Singenberg (1344) and Schönenberg (1392) as fiefs or pawns . In 1439 Ultimus Konrad sold Heidelberg Castle and his daughter Elisabeth the Bailiwick of the Zihlschlacht .

A sideline of the Lords of Heidelberg was named after the Blidegg Castle in the community of Sitterdorf , for the first time Wetzel von Heidelberg and Blidegg (1265 to 1292), who was probably married to Adelhaid von Schönenberg. From 1267 he held the office of Marshal of the Bishop of Constance. He was followed by his presumed son Wetzel (1307 to 1320) and Herdegen (1327 to 1338), with whom the sidelines became extinct. As a fiefdom of the bishop, this branch of the family owned goods and rights in the vicinity of Bischofszell, such as the Vogteien Altenburg (possibly the Burgstall Altenrain near Gottshaus ) and Hohentannen. The first mentioned Wetzel refunded the latter to the bishop in 1275 in favor of a year for his brother Herdegen. In 1302 the lords of Heidelberg owned two farms in Arbon as episcopal pledges.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the political community of Hohentannen. On the website of the municipality of Hohentannen, accessed on November 1, 2019
  2. ↑ a b Verena Rothenbühler: Hohentannen. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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