Eberhard von Gemmingen zu Bürg

Eberhard von Gemmingen zu Bürg (* around 1500; † September 2, 1572 in Bürg ) was the landlord in Bürg, Widdern , Maienfels , Presteneck and Treschklingen and Burgmann zu Oppenheim .

Life

He was a son of Eberhard von Gemmingen († 1501) from his second marriage in 1492 with Magdalena von Adelsheim (around 1460-1516). He was born prematurely and was placed in a kind of incubator in a hollow brick behind the stove. After the death of his elderly father, from whom he inherited Bürg and a third from Aries, he lived with his mother in Bürg. The maternal inheritance consisted of a third from Maienfels and Leibenstadt. What he inherited from his mother in cash, he quickly squandered in bad company within a year in his youth. The distantly related Dietrich († 1526) at Guttenberg Castle had a moderating effect on him and looked around for suitable spouses for Eberhard. Barbara von Wolfskehl (1501–1545) was the only daughter of Dietrich's sister Anna. The marriage took place in 1518 and Eberhard came into possession of an estate in Oppenheim through Barbara. At first Eberhard's journeymen tried to dissuade him from his virtuous wife, but Eberhard submitted to the marriage and ran a good household that doubled the couple's fortune. He acquired estates and farms in Oppenheim, Dexheim and Schwabsberg , the presence farm in Cleversulzbach (1522) and the Lautenbacher Hof (1537) as well as the places Presteneck, Buttenhausen and Treschklingen (1538).

In 1533 he was Burgmann zu Oppenheim. In 1545 he had the Burg Castle renewed. Even in later years he continued to increase his property. So in 1556 he acquired a sixteenth of the former von Beckingeschen Weinzehnten zu Rappach and exchanged it with other Gülten for fruit Gülten in Degmarn and Oedheim. In 1569 and 1570 he acquired a total of three quarters of the tithe in Wolfskehl .

Like his distant relatives Dietrich († 1526), Philipp († 1544) and Wolf († 1555) he was Reformation minded at an early age and carried out the Reformation in his areas. When the Reformation pastor Erhard Schnepf had to leave Tübingen in 1548, he found temporary accommodation with Eberhard von Gemmingen.

Eberhard von Gemmingen zu Bürg and his two wives were buried in Neuenstadt am Kocher .

family

His marriage with Barbara von Wolfskehl in 1518 resulted in numerous descendants, of which seven children survived. After the death of his first wife, he married Helena von Schellenberg († 1577), the widow of Erasmus von Mentzingen , in 1546 . There were no more children from the second marriage. When his inheritance was divided in 1581, the son Eberhard (1527–1583) Bürg, the son Hans Walther († 1591) Presteneck and the son Reinhard (1532–1598) received Treschklingen with Oppenheim.

Progeny:

• Pleikard († 1547), is considered to be the builder of Presteneck Castle according to the Schöntaler monastery chronicle
• Magdalena († 1543) ⚭ Ludwig Wolf von Flehingen
• Anna († 1558) ⚭ Wolf Wambold von Umbstadt
• Reinhard (died young)
• Schweikard († 1568)
• Hans Philipp (died young)
• Walter (died young)
• Gertraud († 1548)
• Elisabeth († 1590) ⚭ Philipp von Liebenstein
• Eberhard (1527–1583) ⚭ Maria Greck von Kochendorf, 1st branch (Bürg)
• Reinhard (1532–1598) ⚭ Helena von Massenbach (1534–1601), 2nd branch (Neckarzimmern)
• Hans Walther (around 1540–1591) ⚭ Agnes von Altdorf († 1593), received Presteneck, but died childless

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen . Heidelberg 1895, pp. 173/174.
• Anne and Helmut Schüßler: Treschklingen - From the knightly Kraichgaudorf to the district of Bad Rappenau. City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 2004, ISBN 3-936866-02-3
• Walter von Hueck: lineage of the family of the barons of Gemmingen . Reprint from the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966