Gründlach (noble family)
The Lords of Gründlach were imperial ministers in the service of kings and emperors and were among the oldest and most important families in the Nuremberg region. They appear between 1140 and their extinction around 1315, the Berg-Hertingsberg branch line until 1464.
history
The origin of the Gründlacher (also: de Grinedla , the Herdegen von Gründlach , Grindela de Monto ) is not clearly understood. But they probably descended from the Lords of Berg and were first mentioned in a document in 1140. They had their headquarters in the Gründlach of the same name (today: Großgründlach ). In the 13th century they built a castle here, probably on behalf of the empire. According to various studies, the most likely location of this original castle is to be found on the site of today's Hallerschloss . Gründlach became the center of their extended rule. Their possessions were concentrated in the area of the Sebalder Reichswald , on both sides of the Regnitz and Erlanger Schwabach , in the Seebachgrund as well as on the Bibert and Zenn .
A younger branch of the family, called von Berg-Hertingsberg, settled at the Bibert and Zenn.
Around 1248 Herdegen von Gründlach was involved in the War of the Merano Succession together with Heinrich von Tann and Count Hermann von Henneberg on the side of the Bamberg Bishop . As a result, the family gained influence and property. The Gründlacher were connected to the noble free von Schlüsselberg (see: Konrad II von Schlüsselberg ) and the noble free von Ahorn through marriage . Their wealth was shown, among other things, by the foundation of the Dominican convent Frauenaurach in 1267. The appointment of Leopold von Gründlach as Bishop of Bamberg in 1296 showed the influence of the family.
Around 1314/15 the Gründlacher family died out and the sole heiress was Margarete von Gründlach. In 1323 she and her husband, Count Gottfried von Hohenlohe-Brauneck , were forced to pledge most of the estates to Burgrave Friedrich IV of Nuremberg and sell them in 1326.
The line of those von Berg-Hertingsberg, who still had numerous imperial fiefs around 1400 (including: Tennenlohe and Oberasbach ), died out in 1464.
Former possessions (extract)
- ???? - 1277 Ahorn Castle
- ???? - 1278 Flechsdorf (today: Flexdorf)
- ???? - 1315 Gründlach (Großgründlach) - inherited to the Hohenlohe-Brauneck, 1326 sold to the burgrave of Nuremberg
- ???? - 1315 Malmsbach ( Malmsbach Castle ) - inherited to Hohenlohe-Brauneck, 1326 sold to the Burgrave of Nuremberg
- ???? - 1315 Behringersdorf (Reichslehen), subsequently owned by the Burgraves of Nuremberg
- ???? - 1315 Hohenstadt - inherited to Hohenlohe-Brauneck, 1326 sold to the burgrave of Nuremberg
- ???? - 1315 Röckenhof near Kalchreuth - remained in the possession of the Counts of Hohenlohe-Brauneck until 1390 as heirs of the von Gründlach.
- ???? - 1315 Poxdorf - subsequently owned by the bishops of Bamberg
- ???? - 1315 Marloffstein - inherited to Hohenlohe-Brauneck, 1341 sold to the Bishop of Bamberg
- ???? - 131? the fiefdom Kairlindach near Weisendorf
Known family members
- Lupold I. Gründlach (de Grinedla) (around 1089–1172), Reich Ministerialer to King Konrad III. and Friedrich Barbarossa , mentioned 1138–1172 (with reservation)
- Herdegen I. Gründlach (around 1114–1191), Reich Ministerialer to Friedrich I. Barbarossa and Heinrich VI. , Mentioned in 1135 as a witness of the bishop of Bamberg, May 30, 1191 near Naples with Heinrich VI. called "Reichsschenk Herdegen von Nürnberg". (conditional)
- Lupold II von Gründlach (around 1158–1216), named on February 5, 1200 as a witness for King Philip in a Würzburg document. (conditional)
- Leopold (Lupold III.) Von Gründlach (* around 1190), companion of Heinrich VII. , Mentioned at the royal court until November 18, 1234 (with reservation)
- Eberhard von Gründlach "von Berg" (* around 1189) (with reservation)
- Herdegen von Gründlach, (???? - 1276), founder of the Dominican convent in Frauenaurach .
- Leopold I von Gründlach (???? - 1303), Bishop of Bamberg
coat of arms
Split shield, right: in red two soaring leopard lions on top of each other, left: divided five times at an angle to the right in black / silver (or possibly black / gold - similar to the coat of arms of Oberasbach )
Individual evidence
- ^ Announcements of the Association for the History of the City of Nuremberg, Vol. 3 1881
- ↑ War of the Merano Succession
- ↑ Die Edelfrei von Schlüsselberg ( Memento of the original from January 1st, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Die Edelfrei von Ahorn ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Frauenaurach Monastery -pdf
- ↑ Mention of the sale of Flechsdorf ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d Bertold Freiherr von Haller: Article Braunecksche Lehen in the Erlanger Stadtlexikon , [1]
- ↑ The story of Kairlindach
literature
- Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).
- Adalbert Scharr, Die Reichsministerialen von Gründlach and von Berg-Hertingsberg, in: Mitteilungen der Altnürnberger Landschaft 13, 1964, pp. 86–111
See also
- History of the city of Nuremberg
- Castles, palaces and mansions in the city of Nuremberg
- List of the archbishops and bishops of Bamberg
- List of Frankish knight families