Eberhard Im Thurn

Eberhard Im Thurn zu Büsingen (born November 7, 1658 in Schaffhausen , † 1728 in Büsingen am Hochrhein) from the noble family of Im Thurn , was an Austrian feudal lord and Vogt in Büsingen am Hochrhein from 1658 .

Life

Although he was born in the Swiss was Schaffhausen, he was an Austrian feudal lord. (His family lived in Thayngen and this was part of the Reiat , which in turn was previously the property of the Counts of Tengen and was sold to the House of Austria in 1465 , only in 1723 the high jurisdiction was bought by Schaffhausen). His wife was either Anna Effinger from Schloss Wildegg , or according to other information: Agatha Catarina von Waldkirch .

Kidnapping and imprisonment

Eberhard Im Thurn was accused of being a secret Catholic after a dispute with his family and with the pastor from Büsingen. On April 10, 1693, he was kidnapped by his own family members and taken to Schaffhausen in a carriage, where he was initially kept hidden in a private house. Later it was handed over to the authorities in Schaffhausen, where they were to be sentenced to death. After a trial in which he was initially sentenced to life imprisonment after a narrow vote, he did not return to Büsingen until 1699 after a diplomatic conflict. After his release, the physically and mentally damaged Im Thum was reinstated in his previous offices. As a result, he actually converted to the Roman Catholic faith . The case of his kidnapping is the key event in the history of Büsingen that made it a Swiss enclave . It is the so-called Büsinger trade in history . Today Büsingen is the only self-governing German exclave . His former house, the so-called Büsinger Junkerhaus , is a beautiful half-timbered building in Büsingen .

literature

• Johannes Winzeler, History of Thayngen , 1963

Web links

• Eberhard's kidnapping - it still has an effect today - Background information on the kidnapping of Eberhard's Im Thurn on buesingen.de ( Memento from July 29, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
• Oliver Landolt: Im Thurn, Eberhard. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .