Feurer (patrician family)

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The Feurer family (further spellings: for, Fiur, Fuirer) was an old patrician family in Heilbronn and Schwäbisch Hall , which originally came from Hall and belonged there to the Seven Castle families .

Origin of the name

According to the founding legend of the imperial city Hall, the "Seven Castles of Hall" were the first significant structures in the medieval settlement. They formed the official residences of the noble heads of town and saltworks , including their apartments.

These were:

  • the Salzgrafenburg, or Burg Hall; Seat of the salt count , now the location of the main church of St Michael .
  • the Schultheißenburg; Seat of the mayor
  • the mint master's castle; Seat of the mint master
  • the Sulmeisterburg ; Seat of the Sulmeister , the overseer of the salt works.
  • the Feurer castle; Seat of the fireman , the overseer for the firewood of the salt works.
  • the Keßlerburg; Seat of the kessler , the overseer of the forge and pans .
  • the Siedersburg ; Seat of the boiler , which the Siedknechten board.

In the course of time, these offices were passed on to Erb , so they were passed on from one generation to the next. The original office titles became the family names of the respective office holders. Only the earlier salt counts called themselves, differently, von Hall . The bearers of the name and descendants of these families were considered to be the original families of the Hall patriciate and were referred to as the Seven Castle families .

A Berchthold Feurer was mayor of Hall in 1415.

Feurer in Heilbronn

The family is proven in Heilbronn in the early 14th century. Her coat of arms showed a unicorn in the shield and helmet decoration, each of which undergoes a color change in the middle. The most important early representative is the Mayor of Heilbronn Conrad Feurer († 1323), whose widow and children donated the Leonhard Altar in Heilbronn's Kilian Church. Heinrich and Konrad as well as their cousin Hans were municipal judges in Heilbronn among the children. A Hans Feurer had a fiefdom of Count Eberhard der Greiner in Neipperg in 1395 and named himself after the place. In the 14th century, the Feurer, together with the Erer , Gebwin , Lämlin , Lutwin and Wigmar, formed the core of the Heilbronn Meliorate .

Well-known representatives

  • Conrad Feurer († 1323), mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn
  • Peter Feurer († 1553), mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn
  • Wolf Feurer († 1557) mayor of the imperial city of Heilbronn

Individual evidence

  1. ^ From the description of the Oberamt Hall from 1847 in Wikisource: History of the city of Hall, the seven castles; official titles become family names pages 144–145 and page 148
  2. ↑ Schäfer 1954, p. 166.
  3. ↑ Schäfer 1954, p. 159.

literature

  • Albrecht Schäfer: The Heilbronner patriciate at the time of the family rule until 1371. In: Publications of the Heilbronn Historical Society. 21, 1954, ISSN  0175-9833 , pp. 157-179.