Christoph von Nellenburg-Tengen

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Christoph von Nellenburg-Tengen also called the Great Count Christoph (* before 1495; † February 12, 1539 at Wehrstein Castle ) was a count and heir to the Counts of Nellenburg , Lord of Tengen with the county of Tengen and Lord of Wehrstein.

Life

Christoph was an extremely handsome man and his weight is said to have been about 5 quintals (250 kg). Emperor Charles V wanted to see this with his own eyes, he had the tallest and the smallest man of his time at his court and therefore wanted the heaviest man and invited him to the Reichstag in Augsburg in 1530 . As a thank you, the Emperor Count Rudolf von Sulz asked Count Christoph to give Count Christoph the office of court judge in Rottweil as governor for a limited period of time . Count Wilhelm von Fürstenberg gave him the high hunt in the Kinzig Valley for this time .

The tower of the Tengen Hinterburg

The Zimmerische Chronik reports several times about him, including how he lived at his castle in Tengen, the rear castle Tengen . After Count Christoph's death, Count Gottfried Werner von Zimmer became the guardian of his underage children and therefore came into conflict with the Hohenzollerns . After the nocturnal fire in the building of the Hinter Tengen Castle in 1519, during which the last documents of the Nellenburgs were destroyed and which he was the only one to notice and to save his people's lives, he stayed in Radolfzell. In 1522 he sold Hintertengen Castle to Emperor Karl V and his brother King Ferdinand I for 8,353 marks of silver. The Tengen rule later fell back to Austria as an imperial fief. In 1528, with the proceeds from the sale of the Tengen estate, he acquired the Wehrstein and Fischingen estate with Wehrstein Castle from Count Joachim von Zollern . He was buried (with his wives) in the church to receive .

anecdote

The heavyweight Count Christoph courted Countess Helena von Zollern. After her two sisters got married, she no longer wanted to stay in the monastery either. In order to make the young lady happy , Count Christoph moved to Haigerloch on the opposite side of the valley opposite Wehrstein Castle with drum beaters and bagpipers . And it showed success. Later on at the wedding a cousin worried about the tender bride, he told her that she could easily be harmed by such a clumsy and tall man, that she could easily be crushed ... However, she answered nonetheless: Mr. Vetter, we shouldn't do it like that I am very astonished, since we have learned that no mouse, how klain it is, suffocates under a big hewschochen : he should not be surprised that it is not a mouse yet, no matter how small it is, ever under one Haystack choked.

family

His father was Count Eberhard VIII von Tengen-Nellenburg and his mother was Adelheid von Montfort (* 1470); he was married twice:

  • 1. ⚭ 1495 with Ehrentraud von Staufen he had the children:
    • George of Tengen
    • Christoph Ludwig von Tengen and Nellenburg ⚭ Anna von Kyburg
    • Konrad von Tengen († young, buried in Empfingen)
    • Eberhard von Tengen († young, buried in Empfingen)
    • Maria Salome von Tengen and Nellenburg (* around 1520) ⚭ Baron Adam von Wolfstein zu Sulzburg
  • 2. ⚭ (23 August 1531) with Helena Eleonore von Zollern he had the children:
    • Oswald von Tengen
    • Christoph Ladislaus from Tengen
    • Eberhard von Tengen and Nellenburg ⚭ Anna von Limpurg-Gaildorf

literature

  • Zimmerische Chronik, Volumes II. And III.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zimmerische Chronik Volume III. P. 73
  2. ↑ EG Johler, History, Land- und Ortskunde der Sovereign Teutschen Principalities ... , p. 147, 1824
  3. ↑ Website for Wehrstein Castle
  4. ↑ EG Johler, History, Land- und Ortskunde der sovereign Teutschen Principalities ... , p. 147 1824
personal data
SURNAME Nellenburg-Tengen, Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baron and Count
DATE OF BIRTH before 1495
PLACE OF BIRTH Tengen
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1539
Place of death Wehrstein Castle