Burkard von Weckenstein

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Coat of arms of the monastery founder Burkard von Weckenstein on the portal of the baroque monastery church in Wald, built in 1698

Knight Burkard von Weckenstein (* around 1180, † after 1241) was a Staufer Reich ministeriale (Ministerialis Domini Imperatoris) of Emperor Friedrich II .

He had the von Weckenstein castle built between 1227 and 1233 , of which only remains can be found today. It was located on the right bank of the Schmeie , above Storzingen in the Sigmaringen district in Baden-Württemberg .

In 1212, with the support of the abbot of the Salem abbey , Eberhard von Rohrdorf , he founded the Wald monastery for his sisters Judintha (around 1180 to 1229) and Ita . There was also a brother named Rudolf.

The dynasty of the Knights of Weckenstein had a silver diamond on the top of a green three-mountain as a coat of arms on a red shield. The family died out in 1383.

See also

literature

  • Wolfgang Urban: Burkard von Weckenstein (around 1180 to after 1241) ; in: Erika Jeuck & Wolfgang Schaffer (eds.): 1200 years (799-1999) Stetten am kalten Markt . Ulm: Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, 1999; Pp. 463/464. ISBN 3-88294-275-4 .
  • Maren Kuhn-Rehfus : The Cistercian convent forest (= Germania Sacra , new part 30, the dioceses of the ecclesiastical province of Mainz. The diocese of Constance, volume 3 ). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin & New York 1992. ISBN 3-11-013449-7 .
  • Gisela Gros: The beginnings of the Wald monastery. From the founding year 1212 to 1300. Unpublished typescript (approval work Freiburg i. Br.) 1955. (Holdings: Princely Hohenzollern House and Domain Archive, Sigmaringen.)
personal data
SURNAME Burkard von Weckenstein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Staufer Reichsministeriale
DATE OF BIRTH around 1180
DATE OF DEATH after 1241