Eberhard VI. from Nellenburg

Reconstruction of the burial place of the Nellenburger in the monastery of All Saints : In the middle Count Eberhard as founder and donor of the monastery with the church model in his arms, north his wife, Countess Ita († after 1100), founder of the double monastery St. Agnes, and south her son Burkhard († 1101/02) with a tree or a stalk with a ball of roots (festuca) in his hands, which symbolizes the donation.

The original tombstones of Eberhard, Ita and Burchard from the Allerheiligen Minster, today in the Eberhard Chapel

Eberhard VI. of Nellenburg Blessed (* around 1015 , † 26. March 1078 / 79 / 1. March 1080 in Kloster Allerheiligen , Schaffhausen ) was Count of Nellenburg , previously from 1036 Graf in Zürichgau and from 1053 as guardian of Werner Graf in Neckargau . Since he was the first to call himself Count von Nellenburg , he is also known as Eberhard I. von Nellenburg . He was the younger son of Count Eberhard V. (Eppo) von Nellenburg and Hedwig ( Haduwig ) von Egisheim  (* around 990, † after 1044; daughter of Count Gerhard von Egisheim and the Brigida of Bavaria).

Life

Eberhard married Ita around 1030/1035 , probably from the family of the Counts of Kirchberg . He supported the Reichenau monastery with foundations for relatives buried on the Reichenau. During the term of office of the abbot Berno around 1040 the Laurentiuskapelle, intended as a burial place for members of the count family, was built. On the Feldberg not far from Sponheim , he founded the Sponheim Monastery on her own property in 1044, supported by his widowed mother . In 1040 they founded the Schwabenheim monastery for themselves in what is now Pfaffen-Schwabenheim , where Haduwig retired and where she ended her life.

“On July 10, 1045, Emperor Heinrich III. Count Eberhard von Nellenburg had the right to mint in his villa Scâfhusun . ”In 1046/47 he succeeded Heinrich III. on his first Italian train. For this he was given the county of Chiavenna .

Foundation of the All Saints Monastery

“Thank you God” - so reports the Schaffhausen Stifterbuch [in chap. 9 ] - for his only son Burkhardt, "he thought [...] to found a house of God on his property and yet to leave his son so much honor and property that he could be a master in the world."

"Pope Leo IX. , an uncle of the count, consecrated an altar for the resurrection of Christ on November 22nd, 1049 in Schaffhausen, the so-called original or Erhard chapel and thus probably also the future building site of the monastery. "

“In 1050 Count Eberhard founded a Benedictine monastery in the Schachwald, between the town of Schaffhausen and the Rhine . [...] When the donor book describes in detail that the monastery complex is in the wilderness of the Schachwald, which nobody dared to enter [chap. 11] , the founding of the monastery is presented as a particularly meritorious act. "

Around the time from 1050 to 1056 he also built the Nellenburg near Stockach , after which he is now named. It was here that he relocated his dominance from Zürichgau .

From 1053, after his cousin Werner II - like his brother Burchard II - in the army of Pope Leo IX. had fallen in the battle of Civitate against the Normans, he was the guardian of Werner III. Graf in Neckargau .

Second trip to Rome and pilgrimage

After his second trip to Rome he and his son Burchard III. had undertaken, in 1070 he and his wife went on a pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago to Santiago de Compostela, Spain . After the happy return he went as a lay brother around 1072 to the monastery of Allerheiligen and Ita to the circle of pious sisters in Schaffhausen.

family

Eberhard and Ita had six sons and two daughters together:

• Udo von Nellenburg , 1066-1078 Archbishop of Trier
• Ekkehard II von Nellenburg , 1073 abbot in Reichenau monastery
• Burchard von Nellenburg , founded the St. Agnes monastery in Schaffhausen in 1080
• Eberhard VII von Nellenburg , died in the battle of Homburg on the Unstrut
• Adalbert, called 1050 (died as a youth)
• Heinrich, like his brother, fell in the battle of Homburg on the Unstrut
• Adelheid was married to Count Arnold von Laufen . They were the parents of Bruno , Archbishop of Trier 1102–1124.

literature

• Georg von Wyß :  Nellenburg, Eberhard III., Count v. N., named the Blessed . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1886, pp. 418-421.
• Eberhard von Nellenburg. Converse in Schaffhausen . in: Arno Borst , monks on Lake Constance . 1978 (full color biography)
• Ekkart Sauser :  EBERHARD Count of Nellenburg. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 23, Bautz, Nordhausen 2004, ISBN 3-88309-155-3 , Sp. 284-285.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Heinz Gallmann: The donor book of the Allerheiligen monastery in Schaffhausen: critical new edition and linguistic classification (= sources and research on the language and cultural history of the Germanic peoples, new series, volume 104). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-11-014185-X , p. 116 * ( limited preview in the Google book search).
2. ↑ CBA Fickler: The church buildings on Reichenau. I. Abth. In: Alterthumsverein des Großherzogtums Baden by its director A. von Beyer (ed.): Monuments of art and history of the homeland . tape V . Karlsruhe 1856, p. 3 , doi : 10.11588 / diglit.12550 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
3. ↑ Friedrich Adler: The monastery and collegiate churches on the island of Reichenau . In: Research on building history in Germany . tape 1 . Berlin 1870, p. 5 ( uni-heidelberg.de ).
4. ^ Heinz Gallmann: The Schaffhauser Stifterbuch. Legend about the founder and foundation of the All Saints Monastery. UVK Universitätsverlag Konstanz, 1995, citations p. 43, 85 and 83.
5. ^ Heinz Gallmann: The Schaffhauser Stifterbuch. Konstanz, 1995, p. 104.