Counts of Lupfen
The Counts of Lupfen (also Counts of Lupfen and Lords of Lupfen ) were a once powerful noble family belonging to the Swabian nobility with possessions in the Baar , in the Black Forest , in Klettgau and in Alsace , there were relationships with the Counts of Rappoltstein , (1397– 1419).
Their ancestral castle on the Lupfen , Hohenlupfen Castle , was first documented in 1065. In 1251 they inherited the Landgraviate of Stühlingen , which until then had been part of the Landgraviate of Klettgau , built Hohenlupfen Castle and founded the town of Stühlingen in Klettgau, and they also owned the Hohenhewen rulership and Alsatian areas.
In 1374 the Junker Eberhard von Lupfen is named as Landgrave of Stühlingen, who was represented by Heinrich Sytinger at a court hearing in Breisach.
Due to ongoing feuds with the neighboring house of Fürstenberg , the Counts of Lupfen sided with the Württembergers against the imperial city of Rottweil , which was allied with the Fürstenbergs, in the town war for the Swabian League of Towns , which led to the razing of the Lupfen castle by the Rottweilers in 1377 . After it was rebuilt, it was finally destroyed again in 1416 by the Rottweilers, this time on behalf of King Sigismund because of the alliance between the Lords of Lupfen and the Dukes of Austria . A few years later in 1439 this line of the family died out, and the people of Württemberg bought the lordship around the Lupfen.
As the Landgraves of Lupfen-Stühlingen , the Counts of Lupfen maintained a castle which, as Hohenlupfen Castle, is the town's landmark to this day; Today's city arms of Stühlingen can be traced back to the arms of the Counts of Lupfen. With Johannes von Lupfen , the Counts of Lupfen provided a prince-bishop of Constance from 1532 to 1537 . Before that, Adelhaid von Lupfen was abbess of the Buchau women's monastery from 1353 until the year she died in 1371 . In 1521 Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer married Katharina von Lupfen.
On December 26, 1582, Count Heinrich VI., The last of the von Lupfen family, died not quite 40 years old. With him the Stühlinger line also went out, and their ownership passed to the Marshals von Pappenheim . Bonndorf and Rosenegg came through his sister, Countess Margaretha von Lupfen († 1588), to her husband Peter von Mörsperg and Beffort.
In memory of the rule of Hans von Lupfen over Hohlandsberg Castle near Colmar in Alsace, the wines of a winery from Kientzheim today bear the name Jean de Lupfen .
literature
- Karl Jordan Glatz: History of the Landgraves of Lupfen-Stühlingen. In: Writings of the Association for History and Natural History of the Baar , Volume 1 (1870). Pp. 1–124 digitized
- Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book , Volume 2, Heidelberg 1898, pp. 543-549 digitized
- Hiroto Oka: The inheritance division of the Counts of Lupfen in 1438. In: Journal for the history of the Upper Rhine , Volume 144 (1996). Pp. 215-240
- Reinhard Wais: The Lords of Lupfen Landgraves of Stühlingen until 1384 , Boltze 1961
Web links
- History of the city of Stühlingen
- Information about the Hohlandsburg and the rule of the von Lupfen
- Martin Leonhard: Lupfen, from. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ^ Announcements of the Baden historical commission, Die Urkunden des Stadtarchiv zu Breisach, P.n9