Gottfried Werner von Zimmer

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Staatsgalerie Stuttgart : Wildenstein Altarpiece (approx. 1536), Gottfried Werner von Zimmer, left rotating wing inside. He is depicted in Riefel armor . The coat of arms is still barren and without a crest, but the inscription is painted over and Gottfried Werner is referred to as Count. He was raised to the rank of count in 1538
Countess Apollonia von Henneberg with coat of arms, approx. 1536: Wildensteiner altar, right turning wing inside, Meister von Meßkirch

Gottfried Werner Graf von Zimmer (born January 13, 1484 in Meßkirch ; † April 2, 1554 in Meßkirch Castle ) was a family member of the barons of Zimmer . During his lifetime, in 1538, the family was raised to the rank of count. Of the three surviving sons of Johannes Werner the Elder, who died during the Werdenberg feud . Elderly (1454–1495) he was the one who most actively advocated the further expansion of the rule and the dynastic continuation of the line. He began the expansion of Meßkirch into a representative small residential town, he rebuilt the local St. Martin's Church in the late Gothic style and furnished it with rich altar decorations, which were mainly designed by the so-called Master of Messkirch . The expansion of Wildenstein Castle into an early modern fortress, as it is still intact, was carried out by him. Since he had no (legitimate) sons of his own, he took great care of his nephew Froben Christoph , made it possible for him, even against the resistance of his father, to receive extensive humanistic training in Germany, Flanders and France, and made him his heir.

Life dates

Youth and education

Since his father was on the run as a result of the Werdenberg feud, he was raised by his mother alone, and partly by his uncle in Seedorf . After his mother had followed his father to Weesen am Walensee in the Swiss Confederation in 1488 , his older sisters raised him at the monastery of Zurich's Fraumünster . The Zimmerische Chronik reports that he had to suffer from hunger there and that, barely eight or nine years old, he ran away and joined a train of rice peasants moving towards Milan . Only in Chur could he be caught and brought back.

He was then sent to various South German courts to be educated, initially (around 1500) to Duke Georg the Rich of Bavaria-Landshut , where he served as a page for his wife Hedwig and was raised by the knight Johannes Ebron. He stayed there for three years until, according to the chronicles, he became too old for the women's room.

His next stop (around 1503) was Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg-Ansbach . He sent him to the court of Landgrave Wilhelm von Hessen to accompany his son Georg , where he spent two years.

In 1503 he took part in the campaign of Emperor Maximilian I against Duke Karl von Geldern with several southern German aristocrats, primarily Andreas von Sonnenberg . The train only got as far as Cologne, however, because Karl submitted to the Kaiser in Brussels and the campaign was called off.

In between he spent the time in Oberndorf am Neckar with his mother, in later years also with his uncle Gottfried at Wildenstein Castle, together with his younger brother Wilhelm Werner .

At the time of the reconquest of Messkirch in 1503 by his older brother Johannes Werner von Zimmer the Younger , he was at the court of Margrave Christoph in Baden .

He then continued his apprenticeship at the court of Ulrichs von Württemberg . At that time, he ran one of the most splendid courtyards in southern Germany. Gottfried Werner distinguished himself there as a dashing, attractive young man who made a name for himself especially at many tournaments. He took part in various military campaigns by Duke Ulrich, for example in 1503, in the Landshut War of Succession against Count Palatine Philipp (the same Count Palatine Philipp who had helped his older brothers recapture the Zimmer possessions).

In 1508 he went to war against Venice with Duke Ulrich, which Ludwig XII. and Emperor Maximilian I, allied in the League of Cambrai , led. In 1513, already after his marriage, he moved with Duke Ulrich against Ludwig XII. of France and took part in the siege of Dijon . This time Emperor Maximilian I had allied himself with the Confederates and Duke Ulrich commanded the imperial army. The siege was unsuccessful and the army withdrew again.

The Zimmerische Chronik assumes that Emperor Maximilian I deliberately lured Ulrich into a trap with the hope that Ulrich would perish in this campaign. At that time Ulrich was still without an heir and Württemberg would have reverted to Habsburg as a fief.

Zimmer inheritance from 1508

After the death of Uncle Gottfried on May 10, 1508, the estate was divided among the three brothers. While the youngest brother Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer renounced the inheritance and was given a benefice as a canon with the support of his brothers , the two older brothers shared rulership and property rights among themselves. Gottfried Werner received the rule before Waldt, so called from the rooms, i.e. the original rule area around Seedorf , as well as the possessions in Hilzingen and on the Höri . The proceeds from the vineyards in Überlingen and Hilzingen were shared between the two older brothers.

With regard to the Wildenstein, it was agreed that both of them would be responsible for the administration in alternating years and that they would draw the proceeds from the associated fields and meadows during these years, but would also have to pay for the maintenance.

Herrenzzimmer , which was owned by Heinrich von Zimmer at the time, was also not shared. Heinrich von Zimmer is her cousin, Gottfried's illegitimate son, who, however, had been declared marital and noble by Emperor Maximilian I.

The debts that had accumulated during the period of exile were also divided, 335 guilders for Johannes Werner and 475 guilders for Gottfried Werner. Both brothers gave each other the right of first refusal.

Wedding with Apollonia von Henneberg

Gottfried Werner and Apollonia von Henneberg, pen drawing by Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer from the Donaueschingen Codex 593a
Anna Countess von Zimmer, wife of Jos Niklas II. Count von Zollern , daughter of Gotfried Werner and Apollonias
Barbara Countess von Zimmer, the blind daughter of Gottfried Werner, lived as a nun in Inzigkofen

After Gottfried Werner was also given territorial property, he became an attractive candidate for marriage. In the Zimmerische Chronik, his courtship and wedding resemble a chivalric novel : courtship, knight games, resistance from the bride's father, an adventurous bride kidnapping, wedding, late reconciliation with the bride's father.

The bride was Apollonia von Henneberg, a close relative of Chancellor Berthold von Henneberg . She and Elisabeth, the daughter of Margrave Friedrich of Brandenburg-Ansbach, stayed with her aunt, the Duchess of Württemberg, at her widow's residence in Nürtingen .

The meetings in Nürtingen are also documented in Württemberg historiography, because Duke Ulrich freed the other lady at the same time, contrary to the engagement agreement with Sabina von Bayern .

With the support of the Duke, he used armed force to prevent Apollonia's father's envoys from bringing them home. He succeeded in convincing his brother Johannes Werner, with the argument that the higher-born Apollonia needed a more befitting residence, that he exchanged rulers with him. In 1511, in the same year as Duke Ulrich's marriage to Sabina von Bayern, the wedding took place in Messkirch.

The dispute with the father-in-law was not settled until 1521. At the mediation of the Bishop of Strasbourg, Hermann von Henneberg paid a dowry of 4,000 guilders.

On the Wednesday after Johannes Sonnwend (June 28) 1513 his daughter Anna was born. She married Jobst Nikolaus von Zollern in 1531 . On December 30, 1519, a second daughter, Barbara, was born to him. The child went blind and came to Inzigkofen Monastery at the age of ten .

Gottfried Werner as administrator of his property

At this point in time, Gottfried Werner developed optimistic, optimistic dynastic plans. He even planned to found a new town on the plateau in front of Wildenstein Castle. When there were no male heirs, on the one hand his marriage, which had begun so romantic, suffered, and on the other hand he shifted his activities to building castles.

In 1516 Gottfried Werner acquired the Falkenstein Castle with Kreenheinstetten , Reinstetten (abandoned place between Kreenheinstetten and Langenhart ) and Weiler (since his descendant Count Wilhelm von Zimmer built a game reserve there in 1575, called Thiergarten), as well as the mill in Neidingen around 4880 guilders von Wolf from Bubenhofen . He expanded the lock. He had a high tower above the castle chapel, which allowed a view as far as Mengen , but swayed dangerously in strong winds, to be demolished.

In 1537, when his younger brother Wilhelm Werner was appointed to the Imperial Court of Justice in Speyer , he offered the latter to have the Herrenzimmern castle rebuilt on his own. An undertaking that was abandoned because the renovation plans seemed too modern to his brother and even his nephew Froben Christoph. In particular, his preference to chop off the rock right up to the walls triggered the fear that the castles could collapse due to erosion of the supporting rock, which, at least for the Wildenstein, has not come true.

But Gottfried Werner also expanded his rule in other ways. Engelswies (today the municipality of Inzigkofen) and Oberstetten (today the municipality of Hohenstein ), two villages that had become devastated in the past by war and plague , were rebuilt by restoring the churches and chapels there and supporting pilgrimages there, which was appropriate Generated income.

The Wildenstein became a refuge for Gottfried Werner and his family during the plague epidemics in 1519 or during the Peasants 'War in 1525. In contrast to the farmers of his brother Johannes Werner, the farmers of Messkirch were relatively loyal during the Peasants' War.

In 1525 Gottfried Werner sold the Falkenstein to his brother Johannes Werner, whereby the associated villages were sold to Sixt von Hausen for only 400 guilders.

Alliance coat of arms Zimmer-Henneberg from the Zimmerische Chronik, manuscript B

In the meantime, Gottfried Werner continued to expand the collegiate church of Sankt Martin in Meßkirch. In 1526 he had the old building torn down. The foundations of previous buildings were found that went beyond the size of the church at that time. In addition to a find of silver coins, the Zimmerische Chronik also mentions marcasite , which was used to prepare fire, but which was burned directly there. The builder of the new church was Lorenz von Speyer , who previously worked at the cathedral in Konstanz.

In 1526, the brothers Johannes Werner and Gottfried Werner agreed in the event of no male heir to let their property pass to the other brother.

According to the Zimmerische Chronik, Gottfried Werner was offered several times by both Emperor Charles V and King Ferdinand , as an advisor or even as governor of the government ( Upper Austria ) in Innsbruck or in the occupation government in Württemberg at the time of Duke Ulrich's expulsion from Württemberg to become active. In contrast to his father and grandfather, who both held similar positions, or even to his younger brother Wilhelm Werner, Gottfried Werner did not have an appropriate education at the leading universities in the empire. But the reference to occupied Württemberg and the fact that the Württemberg city of Ebingen was offered for sale to him shows the intention of the House of Habsburg. The many connections between Gottfried Werner and the imperial estates, which in the meantime also belonged to different denominational camps, were important to this. But Gottfried Werner had learned from the experiences of his family. He did not allow himself to be involved in these power games.

"But how much he enjoys that, he has considered the good graces and graces in his youth of Duke Ulrichen von Würtemberg, and has not gone into service against the hereditary in his driving and chasing away waves or even ainicherlai knows ine act, let alone that he should pull from the land of Würtemberg to himself. "

- ZC, HS B : p. 599; Decker-Hauff, Vol. 2, p. 296.

When Duke Ulrich recaptured his land in 1534 with the help of Landgrave Philip of Hesse and the Schmalkaldic League , he wanted to call Gottfried Werner back into his service. The latter refused and the chronicler of the Zimmerische Chronik praised this behavior, since supporting Duke Ulrich after the Schmalkaldic War had been lost would have led to the loss of the Zimmerische possessions. Gottfried Werner had learned the lesson from his father's fate.

In the absence of a son of his own, he took care of his nephew Froben Christoph more and more intensively . He made sure that his father contributed the necessary tuition money and also supported Froben Christoph himself if they did not come. He took him in in Messkirch and on Wildenstein and in later years increasingly entrusted his nephew with administrative work and foreign representation.

The lack of a male heir also led to a deterioration in his relationship with his wife, Apollonia. The Zimmerische Chronik reports on several extramarital relationships with Faulhänsin, a subject of Christoph von Werdenberg. The fact that Gottfried openly promoted her release from Werdenberg serfdom, that the same dishes were delivered from the castle kitchen to her house, in short, that discretion was not respected, prompted her husband to leave and move to her brothers in 1539, initially to Otto von Henneberg, who was canon in Strasbourg and from there to her brother Bertold in Römhild . At that time Gottfried Werner was in great fear because he feared the blood revenge of his brothers-in-law.

A new marriage contract was then concluded with the mediation of the brothers-in-law Johannes Werner and Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer and Wilhelm von Henneberg by Conrad Praun, the administrator of the imperial chancellery at the Superior Court in Speyer. The brothers of the bride and groom organized a tour of the home, which was concluded with a reconciliation ceremony in Hechingen with their daughter Anna and son-in-law Jos Niklas II von Zollern. But because the plague was rampant again, Apollonia did not return to Messkirch until autumn 1542.

Regardless of this, Gottfried Werner and two women, Anna Fritzin von Leibertingen and Anna Landauerin from Meßkirch, had a total of eight illegitimate children, including two sons. The chronicle reports that both enjoyed a university education, were given a coat of arms by their father and were also allowed to call themselves von Zimmer. The older son Gottfried died miserably later in the Netherlands, the other, Martin, was still alive at the time the chronicle was written, received a small pension and did his job in Messkirch.

In February 1543, Gottfried Werner suffered a stroke for the first time, which temporarily restricted his eyesight.

Old age and death

Death shield of Count Gottfried, Swiss National Museum , Zurich

On the evening of St. Catharinen Day in 1552 (November 24th) “he was on vacation from the Wildenstain house , with anzaig against the people who were changing, that his end was approaching and (he) would never come alive in such a house,” then came moved with his housekeeping to the old Meßkirch Castle and spent his last days there carefree, having Rosse brought to him from Frankfurt and doing compass studies. He handed over his inheritance, bag and key to his grateful successor, Froben Christoph. After another stroke that paralyzed him on one side, he fell asleep in the morning around 5 o'clock on the second day of April 1554. He had already had his epitaph made beforehand, only the day of his death had to be recorded.

The Zimmerische Chronik about Gottfried Werner

Epitaph of Gottfried Werner von Zimmer in the church of Sankt Martin in Meßkirch

His wedding to Apollonia von Henneberg

“When Gotfridt Werher kept himself so well in war and other matters, to whom he was a wonderful, beautiful, straight person, he was loved and valued by Duke Ulrichen and menigclichen, also held up and drawn here. (...) Because of the fact that he was so celibate and well tempered, he admitted his ime vil excellent and occasional marriage ... So we know that Count Hörman von Henneberg called by his husband, the marggrefin of Brandenburg, along with other heralds ain butter Frolin Appolloniam, come over. "

This close relative of Chancellor Berthold von Henneberg was sent to the Duchess's court at her widow's residence in Nürtingen for education, together with the niece of the Duchess of Württemberg, the wife of the deposed Eberhard II of Württemberg.

“These two frolins were Geschwistergit Kündt and were extremely beautiful, for which they were bred and bred well. (...) Mr. Gottfridt Wernher was very fond of the frollin von Henneberg, so that for his own sake he ran, stabbed and all the knightling, so that she came over with no less love and will to ime. Duke Ulrich, who then painted Herr Gotfriden Wernhern with great grace, how he discovered it, would he have suffered that such marriage with a good will and know grave Hörmans, ires Herr Vatters, were behaved because of how he raised several times in Nürtingen and the old princess haunted, name he was always Mr. Gotfridt Wernhern, at times the duke also invited the princess with irem frawenzimmer to the hunt or the herd shout. So then Mr. Gotfridt Wernher takes care to be next to the frawenzimmer. He made the old princess vil entertaining with his histories and good sayings, so that she would have a special favor with others. "

“She has won if the duke or other foreign princes come to any Nürtingen and they are lord or the nobility with them, so they can go to the frawenzimmer after dinner to talk to the frolins and junkfrawen; but as soon as eight o'clock struck, the gentlemen and junkers parted ways. It happened again, in 1509, Duke Ulrich the Duchess of Nürtingen uf ain hunt lude, not of Denzlingen. Alda fiengen Mr. Gotfridt Wernher and Mr. Dieterich Spett ain run and stick, came together by the water. The first was Mr. Lanzlot, the other was Mr. Gabon. Not long afterwards Duke Ulrich came to Sant Bartolome's evening at Nürtingen. After dinner, Herr Gotfridt Wernher was sitting with Frölin von Henneberg; but while the same night came when there was a great storm, the duke, the duchess, should also ask some of the toe watches. At that time, Mr. Gotfridt Wernher and the frolin Appolonia ainander caused the marriages to keep quiet on both sides for two years. "

At the end of the two years, Gottfried Werner asked for Apollonia's hand. But not with her father. He first asked the Duchess to intercede, who supported him and sent messengers to the Franconian region, to Henneberg . However, he immediately sent two nobles he trusted with a traveling car (" cammerwagen ") and a small mounted escort to Nürtingen to pick up his daughter.

"... ir mister vatter beger ir, that you are in the com, he wave you with gowns and all necessities and then deal with honest contradiction. But after a long action and taken carefully, Frolin Appolonia gave the answer in front of the duchess and duchess that she didn’t go to your mister fathers. If the ambassadors from Hennenberg said, we have the right to go for the event, and have thus turned our back on us. "

Gottfried Werner, who was kept up to date in Stuttgart, asked Duke Ulrich for help. This granted him 200 riders who arrived in Nürtingen that same evening under the guidance of Dietrich Späth.

“It hasn't been long, the screams have come to the statute, the streets and velder hold up. As soon as the Franks have found out that they want to commemorate, see why this regret and, where they do not have the time, they will be waited badly. (...) You sent Mr. Gotfridt Wernhern for the job and asked that he would raise you in friden against your man. Well (…) So Mr. Gotfridt Wernher has to mock up again, if you don't bring more people with you than you If you are bragged with you, you should be safe and raise your favor. "

Gottfried Werner had the Duchess of Württemberg promise that she would not hand over Fraulein von Henneberg to her father. He then said goodbye to Duke Ulrich's court and returned to Messkirch.

Froben Christoph, the author of the Zimmerische Chronik, draws on genre images and literary motifs known at the time in his remarks. Albrecht Dürer 1496: Riding ride

“Mr. Gotfridt Wernher geen Mösskirch paused. His brother there, Mr. Johann Wernher, cleared the lock. So not even two months went by (1511), the two brothers, Mr. Johann Wernher and Mr. Gotfridt Wernher, rode with each other to Nürtingen to fetch the frolin Appolloniam. Mr. Johanns Wernher named his husband, the present from Erpach, with ime, who for ainem dare (...) They don’t stay long, thet in the castle barely a trunk. The Frölin was not driven in the car, but the dog Mr. Gotfridt Wernhern geen Mösskirch rode (…) When they got there, the old lady of Ötingen, Mr. Gotfridt Werhers, had Fraw Muetter, also of both mister sisters, the abbess of Zirich, who received gest , and as the old say, so it was a happy wedding with a small, drawn-in being. "

- ZC, HS B : p. 514 ff .; Decker-Hauff, Vol. 2, pp. 189 ff.

The following story shows that the caution towards the unwilling father-in-law was not unfounded:

"I can not omit to report a historia of ime, that his grim and serious temper against those children, also against those who are not to blame, was noted. After leaving as his husband, the marggrefin of Brandenburg, she left three daughters in four sony, among whom he ain, fröle Appel, swore to his, the duchess of Würtemberg, geen Nürtingen, who has the other He decided in the youth in ain closter eloquently, the third was brought up in the lands of Franconia in a free pen. When Fröle Appel was munching on Mr. Gotfriden Wernhern, he worried that younger children might also marry in the open air, which is why he didn’t let anyone talk about his fornemens, but described the same in uf ain vastnacht, and when she was at im for a number of days and he was very happy with ir, he eloquently spoke to her that she should visit irer sister, who then went to the cloister, and be with ir for a day, to visit her once. The good young mentsch was glad that she should come to my sister once, whom she has not seen in many years, has trusted her mister vatter and no one worried about such, is willing to go to her sister in the cloister. In addition, however, ir father wrote to the abbess in such a closter that his wicked should keep them in there and not let them out at all, if he intends to keep them in there for life. That is so, and has the good young mentsch, as heard, tricked into the closter by your little body father and contained in it tremendously, against your will, for innocence, we live in great commerce and have to end. "

- ZC, HS B : p. 518, Decker-Hauff, vol. 2, p. 194.

The Nürtingen rendezvous are also confirmed by another source. But here it is Duke Ulrich himself who walks on free feet. He has been engaged to Sabina von Bayern since 1497, i.e. since he was 10, but this forced marriage did not seem to please him at all.

"Duke Ulrich had several loves and affections for Marggraf Friderich's Miss Daughter, Elisabeth, a beautiful and gracious princess who was with his sister (wrong, right is aunt), Duke Eberhard's young widow, wife Elisabeth, on hers Widdum in Nürtingen, held up, so he often rode to Nürtingen in the summer after dinner with a trumpeter, who was a very good tin-blower, and announced Fraulein, who afterwards promised Marggraf Ernsten Von Baden, and to him, later that year was married to Michaelis in Pforzheim, made his visit; but the promise of marriage between him and Fraulein Sabina was all too highly praised, and already confirmed by the coup last year that the matter could no longer be changed and that there was nothing left but to secure the marriage by real entrustment. "

- Johann Ulrich Steinhofer : New Wirtemberg Chronicle.

This wedding, too, was celebrated in Stuttgart in March 1511 with lavish pomp.

Gottfried Werner as the client

“Allain to know that Mr. Gotfridt Wernher, after he got married, held himself up for mertails, ridden little to the Höve or otherwise, but in the perception, concluded Wildenstain, so he felt love from youth to whom he was to inherit as he did, too, and with human costs; then he let the alda ain dieven dig in the rocks through the perg and break at the ditch, also at the closed ob den forty thousand güldin and verbawen (...) "

- ZC, HS B : p. 519, Decker-Hauff, vol. 2, p. 194 f.

“He was willing to do whatever he received ain sone from his husband von Henneberg, a steadlin for the castle Wildenstainzu bawen, has the whole place in front of the steadlin, is iezmalls ain wisswachs, bit to want to enclose a mountain with a strong circular wall, and for was , Ain generous work has been done, then the lock to rugk has been held on both sides, so the rock up and go, storm-free; Under the eyes it was ain diefen digging with two large egkthürnen, with two gates, one against Lübertingen, the other against Tonaw and Buchpronnen. The inmates of the stetslin were the mair zu Lübertingen, who had ire velder zu Lübertingen besides the steadlin bawen, as then before jaren vil there were schlösern and steadlin uf such a mountain. "

- ZC, HS B : p. 519, Decker-Hauff, vol. 2, p. 195.

"But as soon as it got out of it, he gets well, that's why he ends his fame and got stuck with everything, so the new instead of under-stayed. In the three of the nobility, namely Mr. Dieterich Speet, Mr. Ruodolf von Ehingen and Mr. Conradt Dreisch, known as the Lang Hess, all three knights, each three thousand guldin in gold to bawsteur to shoot themselves, soverr iedem ain dwelling alda Aines burkfridens, which they alberait compare and decide who has been granted, is able to inherit and open up. But the almighty, benevolent God has such plans of the noble people underkomen, then otherwise the rule of Zimbri allain Mr. Dieterich Speeten half again in the extreme danger or villeucht to aim to ruin het may come. "

- ZC, HS B : p. 572 f., Decker-Hauff, vol. 2, p. 261.

What danger was supposed to emanate from Dietrich Späth, who had already helped the rooms with the reconquest of Messkirch, who was Gottfried's closest confidante at Duke Ulrich's court and who had so actively supported him in the wedding affairs with Apollonia von Henneberg? It is about Dietrich Späth, who secretly brought Sabina of Bavaria , the Duke's wife, who was tormented by Duke Ulrich and threatened with death , to safety to her parents, Albrecht IV. (Bavaria) and Kunigunde of Austria , and thus anger himself Ulrichs moved in. The chronicler here seems to fear this anger and thus the enmity of the powerful neighbor of Württemberg. The marriage of Albrecht IV with Kunigunde of Austria played a decisive role in the Werdenberg feud , in the course of which Gottfried's father was banned and the rule of Zimmer was almost lost.

Gottfried Werner in the Peasants' War

In contrast to the farmers of his brother Johannes Werner, the farmers of Messkirch were relatively loyal during the Peasants' War .

“There were quite a few schools at Mösskirch, there were preaching at angles and all kinds of mutinies were started. The same brothers wanted to set up a Protestant life in Mösskirch and managed to put all unchaste people in the place, so outside the marriage, and did not want to tolerate any in the place of being accused or argued with such acts. And with that, however, they held it up, just like they domals, the obrigkait unquestioned to plow every day, and it was concluded by the mertail pöfel ainhelligclichen that such limited people should be out of statute and all fornication be cut off. "

“But it was all under in, a spaifogel, called Jörg Schüßlendreher, who bit quietly. When he hears the dorecht plebiscitum, he speaks unconsciously: "Dear friends, so ir the hunted and poor sins who are in the coffin and are planning to hunt, we have to worry, our parts will have to cook for ourselves." The spoon took that up so much They immediately started screaming and gripping, and he was killed by you in sollicher furia domals, but was saved from you by some of his companions with great hardship and many good words. They were still not satisfied, and if the vogt of the same, Gangolf Örtlin, doesn’t expect anything from the common man who spoke to the right, then he would have to find the poor key-turner and insert it. So that was to please the gentleman Omnes for a number of days in a, albeit gracious, prisoner. In between, Herr Gottfriedt Wernher was given a detailed report of all matters; the bevalch to the vogt, the good man, who owes nothing anyway, then he said the warhait to leave unmarried. "

- ZC, HS B : p. 578 f., Decker-Hauff, vol. 2, p. 268 ff.

Two farmers did not join the others and went to the Wildenstein with Gottfried Werner. They are mentioned by name in the Zimmerische Chronik, Galle Hach zu Oberbeuchtlingen and Jacob Friderich from Gutenstein , so that future generations of Zimmer will keep their families in special memory for this loyalty.

The other farmers set off, but under a flag that identified them as carpentry farmers. After the Weingartner contract they returned. Messkirch refused to provide Georg Truchsess von Waldenburg with horses and supplies for his further train against the Hegau , for which he wanted to punish them after the uprising was finally put down, but Gottfried Wilhelm agreed to carry out such punishments himself.

“Herr Gotfridt Wernher loves his tears, but painfully; but how high such arson was raised, I never found out children. He left in the paurn everywhere in the rule of newen against difficult. The recognized Irish abbah and disobedient and swore with good will. When his ambtleut and bevelchshaber Geen Hewdorf came to receive the homage from there, as well as humiliated, was ain Böser paur alda, called the red Staud, and like the other underthons all swore with raised fingers, he did not want to lift a hand or finger. When he asked what he was painting with it, he replied that he hadn't held the previous aide, worried that he wouldn't hold it either. This boshait dEs pauren was chronologically reported to Mr. Gotfridt Wernher, who moved into the prisoners, the mainung, to be put right. But he was going to bed, and if he wanted to be single, he made up for a hundred parer guldin and then had to face difficulties. "

“The pastor of Kraienhainstetten, Mr. Hanns Mauk, was a born Mösskircher, who had also fallen to the outrageous Cimbrian pauren, with whom he traveled and was a predicant to iren; derab mr. Godtfrid Wernher ain shall displease me, whether the happiness of the priest is spared, which he doesn’t hang on a branch, he still punishes, and if S. Martin has to pay a hundred guilders so par to the fabric, he wants the newen believe preached. "

- ZC, HS B : p. 580, Decker-Hauff, vol. 2, p. 272 ​​ff.

Clarification of controversial rights of rule

There were also disputes about the occupation of pastoral posts, which were resolved in an impressive way: Gottfried Werner said he wanted to fill the vacated pastor in Göggingen again. The abbot of Reichenau had his own candidate, which he also got through with the bishop. This pastor now feels quite self-confident and, in the opinion of Gottfried Werner, preached proudly and haughty against the secular authorities.

“In such disqualification and displeasure, the priest possessed the pastor a little more, then ain jhar, and mr Gotfridt Wernher did not complain a little about the priest's bad words. However, since he did not want to know how to openly tighten the priest or to drive him away from the parish, Mr. Schweikharten von Gundelfingen had a secret understanding, and at the time, when the priest was completely free of all worries, he had his lunch with a full sack , he was accidentally caught up against aubents on the way by a number of unrecognized Reuters, tied to a horse, his hats on, bit into the night in the helzern through vil astray. In the end they came with ime umb midnight uf the Alb to aim hochgericht, not far from Hapsperg; They serve the high court in with the horse under, thetten the caps in the abb, on the other hand they put ain rope around the neck, with ainer ceremoni, as if they are in the same world, with explicit words, so with this they wished posess to the parish to give. The priest had dropped his whistle in the ash trees and row in evil of the hochmüetingen talked, so he drove several times before; Please consider that this is not wrong in this regard. That is why he humbled her to forgive me and have mercy on him, with the hate of leaving the pastor of Geggingen within a month. In addition, he gave inen free wills par one hundred guldin, which were with im in ainem wetschger union. "

“So the good, poor remorse of the priest took pity on the name of the gel and his devotion with good will. They fed in dirty and wrapped up in helzern bit against day, then they left him unmarried in the Geginger woods. Het Gleichwol vil gueter jegerstraich about it, and had been scraped in the wolves. Afterwards he stayed away for a short time, then his defiant and cheeky wisdom had passed and didn’t want to let his abts consolation continue. He left without delay and came to another pastor under the Hailigenberg, wolt kainer should expect limp mere. Afterwards, the tension between the Reichenow and the rule of Zimbri was tolerated for this reason, and that the ain tail umb should have the nomination and collation of the parish to go to the other. Whose baide mister wanted to be satisfied, has also been held up a bit. "

- ZC, HS B : p. 592 f .; Decker-Hauff, Vol. 2, p. 286.

Witch hunt in the Zimmer house

A sad chapter opened up in 1533. A judicial murder of a woman with a flawless alibi from today's perspective. It is noteworthy that the chronicler and nephew Froben Christoph, 30 years later, fully supported the belief in witches and Wilhelm Werner, the learned judge at the Imperial Court of Justice, also shared the belief in witches.

"It het a fraw, it was ..., sampt irer wicked won several years ago in Oberndorf am Necker, she was resentful, also that she and the witchcraft half suspected of not being safe in Oberndorf, had to think Mr. Wilhelmen Wernhern von Zimbern, who at that time held this authority, would make sure that it would be taken prisonerly and that it would continue to be traded with you. But they did not do so, abstaining from wherever they counted. However, when Mr. Wilhelm Wernher addressed the chamber, he handed over the rule to his brother, Mr. Gotfriden Wernhern, as reported. Like a newer gentleman from Oberndorf, the young butters also discover it, then ir muetter [died] in between; and meanwhile the amptleut from irem lord, Herr Gotfried Wernhern, may get cain but bevelch irenthalben, who is also waving away from solichen for himself, do they hope to be safer too, step by step against Oberndorf and walk in the first half, but then publicly there; would hold up, this was also scared old and the suspicion of marriage was forgotten and out of date. "

"So it takes quite a while that you geen Schiltach to chew on, was called Hanns Schernle, condemned. The het now vil jar a supposed unrained, bad incubum on ir, he doesn't want to leave them at once, but rather ir according to geen Schiltach. Since he is doing a miracle in the Würstshaus with his immense being, he also whistled and makes people dance. Such affenspil trib er vil. That started on our Frawen day of the proclamation. That was so long that the Würt must finally notice that the things with his kechin and this ghost were not right. So he gave me a vacation, she doesn't want to know anything in the house. So the authorities did not want to do anything about it, at times and before the damage was done. So it went, as follows. And regardless of the fact that the kechin went from Schiltach and again Oberndof, the gaist came to Schiltach. Since he tributes his old wisdom with whistles and other things, he also made it clear that since then one has passed away his bulschaft aldo, so he waved the stettlin on fire. But you don't respect your own and let it go. So that was on the sharky big dondersdag. Thu the cook in Oberndorf was seen with other people for the sacrament. In the same hour she was also seen at Schiltach, regardless of whether both were in Stettlin three long hours away from each other, assumed that they had forgotten something in the house. They didn't pay any attention to me, they made them up on the bin in the Würtshaus. You don't really want to know how, the house has been started again and full of fire. That has to be deleted as soon as it is not cleared, it will be the other people above and beyond it. So the air drifted over the alleys, that in somma that is completely burned down bit of a house. It was a terrifying, terrifying sight, then I myself ( Froben Christoph von Zimmer ) lifted myself through within eight days and saw that. Herr Wilhelm Wernher Freiherr zu Zimbern was supposed to be the grand dondersdag at Alperspach in the closter near apt Ulrichen, who saw the heat and took it off that it was half the shape and that it was done, as it was, and it was long time in worry. "

“In all splendor and woe, the Kechin zu Schiltach is lost and at the same time was seen again in Oberndorf. Uf the humble aftertaste and spoilage damage do the world first opened its eyes that it was finally to Oberndorf, when the screaming got so big, caught and embarrassed asked. So she confessed all things, as happened, namely when they came to Schiltach to irem incubo, they gave the bin in the Schernli's house a port full of knowledge and hated to cut it, to report what they were doing , the house and the house instead of immediately afterwards will burn down. She did not do that right away, but rather opposed it. So he gave ir such a good word, besides also tackling a concern that she should have dared to last and then knocked over the harbor. Let it be vainly fiery about her. Further, she did not know how it happened, then immediately afterwards wanted her in an old broom, sat on it, avoided it, and be very secret that no one saw her, came back to Oberndorf. After long inquiries about their matters, she had mr. Gottfridt Wernher interceding and embarrassing at Oberndorf, and had them burned away. Is right after easter in obbemelem jar. "

Works

Froben Christoph described his uncle's great literary interest in the Zimmerische Chronik. After dinner he often ordered his clerk “with the carousel, and under the carousel he makes rhymes of the Berner and the risen, as then so book, so that he can work hard and work, still available at Wildenstain.” The Wall paintings on Wildenstein also bear witness to this interest.

The following works are attributed to him:

  • Die Minnewerbung, a Berlin manuscript quoted in: Ingeborg Glier: Artes armandi. Investigation of the history, tradition and typology of the German Minnereden (MTU 34), Munich 1971.
  • A “Sigenot” Badische Landesbibliothek Hs. Don. 74 and a fragment of the Virginal Badische Landesbibliothek Hs. Don. 91, could also come from him. Gerhard Wolf has: From the Chronicle to the World Book, p. 146 f. pointed out.

literature

  • Beat Rudolf Jenny : Count Froben Christoph von Zimmer 1519–1566 historian. Teller. Dynast. Dissertation, 1959
  • Erica Bastress-Dukehart: The Zimmer Chronicle. Ashgate, Aldershot (GB) and Burlington (USA) 2002.
  • Gerhard Wolf: From the chronicle to the world book: The meaning and claim of southwest German house chronicles at the end of the Middle Ages. Berlin; New York: de Gruyter, 2002.

Web links

Commons : Gottfried Werner von Zimmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Zimmerische Chronik, Volume 2, page 402 ff.
  2. ^ Steinhofer, Johann Ulrich: New Wirtemberg Chronicle. Stuttgart / Tübingen, 1755, p. 3/960 quoted from Gerhard Raff : Hie gut Wirtemberg allewege; The House of Württemberg from Count Ulrich the Founder to Duke Ludwig, p. 470
  3. ^ Hermann Grotefend: Taschenbuch der Zeitrechnung . of the German Middle Ages and modern times. 13th edition. Hahnsche Buchhandlung, Hannover 1991, ISBN 3-7752-5177-4 . , P. 40.
  4. Barack, Z. Chr., Volume IV., P. 153, Col. 2 and 3.
  5. ^ Johann Ulrich Steinhofer: New Wirtemberg Chronicle. Stuttgart / Tübingen, 1755, p. 3/960 quoted from Gerhard Raff : Hie gut Wirtemberg allewege; The House of Württemberg from Count Ulrich the Founder to Duke Ludwig, p. 470.
  6. Barack, Vol. IV, pp. 64, 8-11.