Blumegg (noble family)

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The Blumenegger coat of arms

The sex of the Blum Egger , also Knights of Blumenegg (have survived even spellings like: . Blumek, Blumeneckh, Blumeck, Blumegg) diverged prior to 1292 as an independent line of Lords of Blumberg from.

The Blumegger family spread further, there was a Klettgauer , Albgauer and Breisgauer line. With the Junker Gaudenz von Blumegg zu Dachswangen , from whom a fiefdom for more than 300 lake trout in Schluchsee fell back to St. Blasien , the Blumegger family died out in the male line in 1577. The Blumegg family's ancestral seat was Blumegg Castle on a small rock needle in the Wutach Gorge. They were related to the Lords of Blumenfeld in Hegau → Schloss Blumenfeld .

At the end of the sex, André Bächthold also notes: “Rudolf the younger of the old Blumberg died before April 30, 1451 and with him the Blumberg main line had died out. The Blumberg sidelines did not last long either. "

First mention

Extract from the document from 1292:

" Růdolfus Constantiensis episcopus notificat, quod Heinricus quondam de Blůmenberg miles, Heinricus eiusdem filius, Johannes, Heinricus et Chůnradus fratres, Heinrici secundi filii. Heinricus piae memoriae praefati Johaniis filius, Chůnradus canonicus Constantiensis, Johannes in Stahelegge, Johannes in Tůnoveschingen, Heinricus in Blůmenegge, Chuonradus in Blůmenuelt, Chůnradus in Tannegge, Albertus et Johannes in Blůmenberg, milites. et Bertholdus pupillus, resident in Tůnovweschingen ... "

- UBFrbg. 5, No. 259; Reg. Ep. Const. 1, No. 2818.

The following are found:

The "network of Blumberg castles" includes "Blumegg, southwest of Blumberg, on which Heinricus (von Blumberg) sat in 1292."

Lordship of Blumegg

The rule Blumegg was - like many other dominions, local noble houses - under their name long after the extinction of the original owner of the castle and associated villages, the Lords of Blumegg , over decades or even centuries on.

Chronicle of the village of Fützen
One of the important villages in the Blumegg domain was Fützen (located in the Fützen-Epfenhofen basin), which in documents 1083 and 1179 came to the “third part” and “in the 12th century completely to the St. Georgen monastery . "

The chronicler of Fützens, Paul Willimski, continues: "How and in what way Fützen became a village of the Blumegg rule and came into the possession of the Lords of Blumegg is unknown."

The author continues: “The last member of the von Blumegg family was Gregor Gaudenz von Blumegg. The family died out with him. […] A few years before his death [Gregor Gaudenz] he sold his territory in 1366 to Egloff von Wollfurth. Ulrich von Wollfurth, a descendant of Egloff von Wollfurth, then sold the Blumegg estate to Friedrich von Friedingen. [...] The dominion of Blumegg, to which the localities Blumegg with Burg, Dillendorf, Fützen, Grimmelshofen, Lausheim, Ewattingen, Aselfingen, Opferdingen and Eschach belonged, [...] Friedrich sold 'in 1432 to the Imperial Monastery of St. Blasien'. " The noble von Hallwyl (Hallwil) acquired the dominion of Blumegg from the monastery of St. Blasien as early as 1436, but in 1448 they sold half of the area to St. Blasien and the monastery in Reichenau. In 1457 it was completely taken over by the St. Blasien Monastery . ”According to Willimski, the Lords of Blumegg and Gregor Gaudenz died out at the end of the 14th century - the year 1457 refers to the transition of the Blumegg rule from other owners to the St. Blasien Monastery and with it their final dissolution.

This information is in contradiction to Karl Bader in his chronicle on the Lords of Blumberg . Referring to the year 1457, the death of the last of the Lords of Blumberg, Rudolf von der alten Blumberg, he states that the Blumeggers (also: Blumenecker) continued to exist until the middle of the 15th century:

“The Lords of Blumeneck, however, who had branched off the main line at the end of the 13th century, continued to flourish for a century longer. Since the middle of the 14th century, however, their history had completely separated itself from that of the Lords of Blumberg and their rule, which had its center in Lenzkirch, was no longer connected with the Blumberg rule. "

- Karl S. Bader: castle, village, town and dominion of Blumberg. Blumberg 1950, p. 20.

Further information
Joseph Bader provides another information about the seller of the estate (citation unclear):

  • Heinrich von Blumenegg was married to Adelheid von Fürstenberg and in 1366 sold his rule of Blumenegg to Egloff von Wolfurt to save the house of Fürstenberg, which was in financial need . His heir Ulrich von Wolfurt in turn for 8,700 guilders in 1415 to the Lords of Friedingen , the Blumeneggers with their relatives Snewlin-Bärnlapp, however, immediately started feuding with the Friedingen and destroyed Fützen, among other things, and Heinrich and Rudolf von Friedingen sold the Blumenegg estate in 1432 to the monastery of St. Blasien.
  • After a few years, St. Blasien sold the rulership of Blumenegg to Thuringia von Hallwyl , who in 1448 again sold half to St. Blasien and half to Reichenau monastery; the usual personal fall was waived for the serfs through an estate of 1000 guilders . (without citing the source).

More information

  • In a document from 1295 are mentioned: "Iohannes de Blûmenberc, Chůnradus de Blůmenegge".
Coat of arms window in the Blumenegger Chapel in the Freiburg Minster Copy from 1882/83 from the Freiburg glass painting workshop Helmle & Merzweiler by Heinrich Helmle (1829–1909) and Albert Merzweiler (1844–1906) with the collaboration of the glass painter Eugen Börner and the painter Hugo Huber , after the original around 1517, presumably after Hans Baldung Grien . Original in the Augustinian Museum . (The boar head is the Reischach coat of arms )
  • The city of Tiengen belonged to the Lords of Blumenegg for a time . They received this fiefdom from the Lords of Krenkingen, who received it in 1262 as a fiefdom of the Constance monastery .
  • Konrad von Blumenegg owned Lenzkirch , Raitenbuch , Göschweiler , Münchingen, Hüfingen and Katzensteig in the Bregtal, the area stretched from the Feldsee to the footbridge under the Tittisee , from Saig to the Haslach and Wutach and to Bildstein. He died in 1313 and was buried in the church in Lenzkirch. Schnellingen Castle also appears in Blumeggisches possession .
  • Rudolf von Blumenegg was married to Sophia of Krenkingen, they had six sons: Henry, John, Martin, Dietrich, Rudolf and Otto which the 1399 by her grandmother Gisela of Thierstein inherited jewels to a priest prebend have donated to Lenzkirch.
  • In the Swiss War / Swabian War , “In mid-April 1499, the Bernese, Lucerne, Zürcher and Schaffhauser, who had come from Kaiserstuhl via Grießen and Geißlingen to Lauchringen, moved to the town of Tiengen , where the Freiburgers joined the ring of besiegers. The city was held by a garrison of 1,400 men under the orders of Dietrich von Blumegg , who preferred, however, to leave the city secretly with some other nobles at the hour of greatest need, whether out of cowardice or because he did not accept the occupation, which is known to be rampant trust, as a Swiss chronicler thinks, is put there. After two days of siege and shelling, Tiengen surrendered on April 18, 1499. "
  • In 1631 the lords and barons of Stotzingen received the coat of arms of the extinct von Blumeneckh .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Without citing the source; other information on the life and year of death of Gregor Gaudenz in the chapter on the Blumegg rule . There is also an indication that the St. Blasien Monastery finally took over the rule of Blumegg in 1457 and thus dissolved it.
  2. ↑ The document (as above) is reproduced in: André Bechthold: From the Middle Ages to the transition to the house Fürstenberg in 1577. In: Joachim Sturm: The history of the city of Blumberg. Edited on behalf of the city of Blumberg, Dold-Verlag, Vöhrenbach 1995, p. 37. FrbgUB = Freiburger Urkundenbuch. Quotation on 'Blumegg located in the south-west': Bechthold, p. 39, with sources: (Krieger: Topographic Dictionary. 1, Col. 220 ff .; Kindler von Knobloch, 1, p. 112).
  3. ↑ The frequent change was due to the "frighteningly increased feuds " at the time; the struggles of small and small rulers of all against all, so that those who were defeated often only had to sell to stronger rulers, often monasteries. (Willimski, 4 f.)

literature

  • Joseph Bader : The Blumeneker or generous vassal loyalty. In: Badenia or the Baden region and people: a magazine of the association for Baden location descriptions. Volume 2, Karlsruhe 1840, pp. 26-33. (in Google Book Search)
  • Karl Siegfried Bader : Castle, Village, City and Lordship of Blumberg. Blumberg 1950
  • André Bechthold: From the Middle Ages to the transition to the house Fürstenberg in 1577. In: Joachim Sturm: The history of the city of Blumberg. Edited on behalf of the city of Blumberg. Dold-Verlag, Vöhrenbach 1995, ISBN 3-927677-06-X
  • Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book . Volume 1, Heidelberg 1898, pp. 112–114 and pp. 116–118 (family tree) at Heidelberg University Library
  • Paul Willimski: Fützen over time. Ed .: Stadtgemeinde Blumberg 1981

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Bechthold: Middle Ages. In: Sturm: The history of the city of Blumberg. 1995, p. 62.
  2. ^ Paul Willimski: Fützen in the course of time. Ed .: Stadtgemeinde Blumberg 1981, p. 4.
  3. ↑ Joseph Bader: Die Blumeneker, or generous vassal loyalty. In: Badenia. 1840, p. 26 ff.
  4. ↑ (UB - Urkundenbuch - Zürich 6, No. 2344: 1295, August 1, St. Blasien) in: Bechthold, p. 45 (note 110).
  5. ^ Franz Xaver Kraus : The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Volume 3: Waldshut district . Freiburg 1892, p. 153.
  6. ^ Fürstenberg record book , documents from January 12 and 31, 1357; No. 318 and 319, pp. 205 ff. And No. 328 and Siegmund Riezler : Hug's marriage to Adelheid von Krenkingen. In: History of the Princely House of Fürstenberg. 1882, p. 260.
  7. ↑ Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book . Volume 3, 1919, p. 11.
  8. ↑ Trudpert Neugart , Cod. Dipl. Allem., 1791/95, Volume 2, p. 438.
  9. ↑ B. Matt-Willmat, K.-F. Hoggenmüller: Chronicle of Lauchringen. 1985, p. 123.