Counts of Küssenberg

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The coat of arms of the Counts of Küssenberg in the Zurich coat of arms , around 1340
The later coat of arms of the Counts of Küssenberg after the illustration in the Battle Chapel Sempach (1386)

The Counts of Küssenberg, also Counts of Küssaberg and Stühlingen, were a south German noble family based on the Küssaburg in Klettgau .

history

According to one assumption, the Küssenbergers originally came from the family of the Lords of Wittlisberg (former manor and glassmaking settlement, today a deserted area near houses , mentioned around 1087 to 1124).

With Heinricus de Chussaberch , the family of the Counts of Küssenberg is mentioned for the first time in 1135 and 1150 in documents from the Allerheiligen monastery .

On April 10, 1141 Heinrich I was named Heinricus de Cussachberc at the royal court camp of Konrad III. in Strasbourg as a witness on the occasion of a mediation between the diocese of Basel and the monastery of St. Blasien in a document. Bishop Ortlieb and Abbot Berthold and the later Emperor Friedrich I.

Heinrich appears in other documents until 1168, he was a brother (or cousin) of Abbot Werner von Küssenberg .

In 1177 [according to other information, 1172 or 1173] the Küssenbergers inherited the Landgraviate of Stühlingen with Stühlingen Castle , today's Hohenlupfen Castle , and called themselves Counts of Küssenberg and Stühlingen.

When Stühlingen was still part of the old Albgau , from 1084 a Gerung, Comes de Stulingen and 1131 a Liutold von Stüelingen were called.

In 1177 a Heinricus is mentioned for the first time as Comes (Count) de Stuhlingen Henricus de Cussachberch in a document from Berthold IV. Von Zähringen .

There were apparently early family ties to the Regensbergers ; probably also to the barons of Vaz and with them then to the lords of Krenkingen . The similarity of the coats of arms is striking.

The last Count of Küssenberger

The Küssaburg above Bechtersbohl

On December 26, 1240, Heinricus Comes de Cussaperc and Liutholdus sen. de Reginsperc received a deed of gift. The attached seal of the count shows three lying crescents and the inscription S. HEINR.COMITIS.DE.CHVSSAPERGH. This donation of goods in Lauchringen to the monastery of St. Blasien by the knight Gerung, called Strubel, was confirmed in Tiengen on June 15, 1245 by Bishop Heinrich von Tanne : dum castrum in Chussaperch ad nostram nostreque ecclesie translatum fuisset venditionis nomine postatem

Henry III. von Küssenberg was the last count of the Küssenberg family, he was married to a sister of Rudolf von Habsburg , Kunigunde von Habsburg . After they had left no children, he sold the castle and rule to the bishop of Constance , Heinrich von Tanne , in 1240 . The Küssenberger family continued to exist. Kunigunde then married (around 1250) the knight Otto II von Ochsenstein from the Ochsenstein family .

coat of arms

Entries in documents

  • On April 10, 1141 Heinricus de Cussachberc was named at the royal court camp in Strasbourg.
  • 1170 to 1174, Werner II. Von Küssenberg is abbot in St. Blasien.
  • In 1228 , the Counts Heinricus et Ulricus comites de Chussachberch were named as witnesses in Basel on the occasion of a sale of a farm in Baar to the Kappel monastery by Count Rudolf von Habsburg .
  • December 26th, 1240, Count Heinrich von Küssenberg witnessed an exchange between St. Blasien and Ulrich von Klingen
  • In 1240 Count Heinrich III. from Küssenberg the castle and rule Küssaburg and Stühlingen to the bishop of Konstanz, Heinrich von Tanne
  • 1317, Heinrich von Küssenberg is a loyal servant of Baron Diethelm von Krenkingen .
  • 1345, Gerung von Küssenberg, left several Libeigne lüt hinder him coming to Jacob Hühnen von Hüfingen, citizen of Schaffhausen.
  • 1349, knight Heinrich von Küssenberg awarded his vineyard and the wine trot under the Vogelstaig in Tiengen to the church and the table of the nuns in Grafenhausen for 20 silver marks .
  • 1386, Mr. Gömer (Gomar) von Küssenberg and Hartmann von Küssenberg opposed the confederates before the battle of Sempach .
  • 1386, Mr. Jos von Küssenberg was slain in the battle of Sempach.
  • 1408, Ulrich von Küssenberg was lord of the convent and provost in the St. Agnes monastery in Schaffhausen.
  • 1442, Hans Berger was kissing Dean in Herzogenbuchsee and 1453-1469 Abbot to Abbey of Saint Peter in the Black Forest († February 28, 1484, he led in his arms a Salm )
  • September 13, 1447, Abbot Franz von Hohenrechberg of Einsiedeln Monastery pledged to Anna von Küssenberg, wife of the mayor of Lucerne, Anton Rüssen, goods near Sursee .
  • 1482 to 1505, Henni or Hans Küssenberg are citizens of Klingnau
  • 1521, Heinrich Küssenberg is chaplain to Klingnau, later pastor of Dogern . He wrote the Küssenberger Chronicle, which was important for the history of the Reformation .

In the year book of the St. Agnesen monastery in Schaffhausen, further family members of the Küssenberg family are listed.

See also

literature

  • Franz Josef Mone (Ed.), B .: ( Joseph Bader ), Die Dynasten von Küssaberg. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine , Volume 3 (1852), pp. 251-255 in the Internet Archive
  • Johann Jakob Rüeger , Chronicle of the City and Landscape of Schaffhausen , 1892
  • Brigitte Matt-Willmatt, Karl-Friedricht Hoggenmüller: Lauchringen - Chronicle of a community , publisher: Lauchringen community, Lauchringen 1985
  • Michael Borgolte , The Counts of Alemannia in Merovingian and Carolingian times , 1986
  • Michael Borgolte, History of the Counties of Alemannia in Frankish times , 1984
  • Helmut Maurer , The role of the castle in the high medieval constitutional history of the landscapes between Lake Constance and the Black Forest , special print from: Die Burgen im Deutschen Sprachraum , Hans Patze Hrsg., 1976
  • Robert Feger , castles and palaces in southern Baden. A selection . Weidlich, Würzburg 1984, ISBN 3-8035-1237-9
  • Norbert Nothhelfer (ed.): The district of Waldshut . Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart / Aalen 1975, ISBN 3-8062-0124-2
  • Arthur Hauptmann, Castles then and now - castles and castle ruins in southern Baden and neighboring areas , Verlag Südkurier, Konstanz 1984, ISBN 3-87799-040-1 , pp. 259-263
  • Heinz Voellner, The castles and palaces between the Wutach Gorge and the Upper Rhine , 1979
  • Helmut Bender , Karl-Bernhard Knappe , Klauspeter Wilke : Castles in southern Baden , 1979, ISBN 3-921340-41-1
  • Franz Xaver Kraus , The Art Monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden , Freiburg im Breisgau, 1892, Volume III - Waldshut District; Pp. 133-142 online
  • Christian Roder , the Schlosskaplanei Küssenberg and the St. Anne's Chapel in Dangstetten . In: Freiburg Diocesan Archive
  • Emil Müller-Ettikon , Brief overview of the history of Küssaberg , Municipality of Küssaberg (Ed.), 1986
  • Andreas Weiß, Christian Ruch, Die Küssaburg , published by the Küssaburg-Bund e. V., o. O., 2009
  • Erwin Eugster, Aristocratic Territorial Policy in Eastern Switzerland: Ecclesiastical Foundations in the Area of ​​Tension of the Earlier Territorial Displacement Policy . Chronos, 1991. ISBN 3905278685

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann , Allerheiligen pp. 113 and 121.
  2. ↑ Helmut Bender, Karl Bernhard Knappe, Klauspeter Wilke: Burgen im southern Baden , 1979, p. 94
  3. ↑ B .: The dynasts of Küssaberg. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, Volume 3 (1852), p. 251 in the Internet Archive
  4. ↑ Erwin Eugster: Noble Territorial Policy in Eastern Switzerland: Church Foundations in the Field of Tension of the Earlier Territorial Displacement Policy, p. 157
  5. ↑ B .: The dynasts of Küssaberg. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine, Volume 3 (1852), p. 251 in the Internet Archive
  6. ↑ image PDF
  7. ↑ ( Martin Gerbert , III, No. 92)
  8. ↑ ( Johann Huber , Regesten, Klingnau, p. 4)