Griessheim

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Coat of arms of those of Griessheim

The Lords of Grießheim , also called von Griessen, were a southern German knightly family who had their origins in Grießen (Klettgau) .

origin

The knight family von Grießheim appears for the first time in 1050 with Witilo von Giesen / von Grießheim and in 1096 with Hiltiboldo de Criseheim who sold goods to the monastery of Allerheiligen in Bahlingen. Documentary evidence / regesta exist in the period from 1124 (1096) to the 16th century. The Lords of Grießheim have their origins in Griessen, in Grießen Castle in Klettgau , so that they are also named “von Griessen” and not “von Grießheim” in various documents. The sex was settled in both Tiengen and Waldshut. Their possessions were scattered in the Klett and Albgau.

The historian Josef Bader suspected that the Lords of Griessheim came from a side branch of the Weissenburg dynasty, whose ancestral seat of the same name, the Weißenburg , was near Weisweil in Klettgau.

Detailed information on this gender is given in the Upper Baden gender book and in the New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library by Emil Stauber. Further regesta can be found in the state archives of the cantons of Zurich, Schaffhausen and Aargau. In the church of Hausen near Ossingen there is a grave slab of Hans von Griessen, Herr zu Widen, who died in 1432.

coat of arms

The family coat of arms shows a shield divided diagonally from gold over blue. On the helmet with blue and gold covers between two buffalo horns divided by gold over blue, the growing torso of a maiden with pinned blond hair, whose blue dress is gold above the breast .

history

In 1124 Bernhard von Grießheim made an extensive donation to Wilperz von Rheinau " de Alpegau nobilitate ". According to other statements, a Hiltiboldus von Grießheim appears as early as 1096 in connection with the Allerheiligen monastery in Schaffhausen, who transferred a field to the monastery for the salvation of his soul.

A document concerning the Lords of Grießheim from the year 1229 contains a rarity. His wife Gertraut separated from her husband Ulrich and decided to enter the Berau monastery . In doing so, she claimed the benefice of her Wittumgut , which her husband Ulrich and his son did not want to surrender , which ultimately led to a dispute between the Lords of Griessen and the Berau monastery. The reason for the dispute was not the separation, but rather the gift of Gertraut connected with joining the monastery. The benefice that Gertraut used was also the benefice of the monastery in which she herself joined. Finally, under Abbot Hermann II of the St. Blasien monastery, a comparison was made between the Berau monastery and the nobles von Griessen. Ulrich received the benefice back and, in return, had to renounce the bailiff for certain monastery properties. It seems that the income of the von Griessen people at that time was quite low, which may have been the decisive factor in his wife separating from him in order to be provided with essentials in the monastery. This was not uncommon at the time and with the comparison achieved the family was able to survive. However, Ulrich and his son did not keep to the agreement and did not give up the bailiwick rights. In addition, they exploited the monastery people, which now led to the public hearing in Tiengen.

In the years 1251, 1262, 1264, 1266, 1270, 1276, 1279, 1280, 1282, 1285, the Lords of Grießheim appear in various documents as witnesses in documents of the Lords of Höwen , the Lords of Krenkingen , Gottfried III. von Habsburg-Laufenburg, the lords of Gutenburg , the monastery of St. Blasien, the city of Waldshut , the Jakobus Edler von Wessenberch and the lords of Tiefenstein . After that, the main line of the noble lords of Grießheim went out, but the name was retained in numerous secondary lines.

In the report on the state of Hauenstein Castle in 1473, a Wilhelm von Grießen († 1515 in Waldshut) is named as the feudal man of Charles the Bold , so he owned the “outer bailey”. His son, Rudolf von Grießen, was forest bailiff from 1494 to 1499. Even before the fire in Hauenstein Castle in 1503, the forest bailiffs no longer resided there, but in Waldshut in the Waldvogteiamt .

Members of the family were also resident in Alsace. Achatius von Griessen / Griessheim was prince abbot in the Murbach monastery from 1476 to 1489 .

Coat of arms of those of Erzingen

In the fourteenth century there was a real sell-off of Griessheim possessions and rights. The majority of buyers are the various monasteries such as the St. Blasien Monastery, the Teutonic Order Beuggen and Klingnau , the Berau Monastery but also the Reichenau Monastery . Gotfried von Griessen and his daughter Anna also sold their farm in Steinbach to the German Order Coming in Klingnau for 60 marks in silver on St. Lawrence's Day in 1350 . The Regeste says: “ Gotfrid von Griezheim ze Tüngen settled down, and his daughter, frow Anna, landlord Johan Wernhers von Rynach, are moving their farm to Steinbach for 60 MS. Give at the grow to St. Lorenz. “This farm was probably later divided into two farms, one half of which Bastian Schäfer acquired in 1538.

With the marriage of Wilhelm von Griessen and the Appolonia von Erzingen , the Lords of Griessen came to properties in the immediate vicinity. On November 16, 1489, the couple sold properties in Birkingen . One of the records of this document reads as follows: “ Wilhelm von Griessen and his wife Appolonia, née von Erzingen, confess that, with the consent of their mother-in-law and mother, Frau Urselen von Erzingen, née von Höwdorff, they will pay Hans Mutz zu Waldshut a bailiff's interest of 3 pounds 7 Schilling Heller on the village and the whole community of Birckingen, as they came to them from their father-in-law or father Jörg von Erzingen, for 67 pounds Heller Konstanz currency. The exhibitors, Hans Imhoff, Altschultheiss, and Greorgius Autenriet, known as Vogt, Schultheiss zu Waldshut, seal it. Give mentag after Sant Martins day. “Through his wife Appolonia von Erzingen, Wilhelm von Griessen received the fiefdom of Gurtweil from the Roman-German King Maximilian I in 1499 . In 1502, Wilhelm became the Saint-Blasian Vogt of Gutenburg. In 1520 Wilhelm von Griessen had to sell the fiefdom of Gurtweil to St. Blasien because of financial difficulties.

A short time after 1520 Wilhelm von Griessen died and thus the lineage of those from Grießheim / Griessen died out in the male line.

Castles and seats of the Lords of Griessen

literature

  • Jacob Christoff Beck (ADB: Beck, Jakob Christoph) and August Johann Buxtorff 1742: Newly increased historical and geographic general Lexicon ..., third part D-Ha (from page 897)
  • Julius Kindler von Knobloch: Upper Baden gender book , published by the Baden Historical Commission, edited by, Volume 1, A-Ha. 1898, Tübingen University Library
  • Erhard Dürsteler: Stemmatologia Tiguriana, the Zurich gender book , call number: Ms.E18, folio 154v-155r (1678–1766), Zurich Central Library

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Franz Ludwig Baumann : The Allerheiligen Monastery in Schaffhausen , In: Sources for Swiss History, Vol. 3
  2. ↑ Josef Bader: From the history of the parish village of Grießen im Klettgau, printed in: Freiburger Diözesan Archiv, Vol. 4, 1869, pp. 225 ff
  3. ↑ Upper Baden gender book. published by the Baden Historical Commission, edited by J. Kindler von Knobloch, Volume 1, A-Ha. 1898, Tübingen University Library
  4. ↑ New Year's Gazette of the Winterthur City Library. 1910 part 1, Widen Castle.
  5. ↑ Hohenbaum van der Meer : Historia Monast. Rhenaug. IS 467.
  6. ↑ a b The lords of Erzingen and von Grießheim: On the rise and fall of two noble families. ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2013 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. (PDF; 1.5 MB)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.klettgau-historia.de
  7. ↑ ZGORh , Vol. 5, p. 224.
  8. ↑ StAAG U.16 / 0017
  9. ↑ Heinz Voellner, The castles and palaces between the Wutach Gorge and the Upper Rhine , p. 40
  10. ↑ Archives Departementales du Haut-Rhin: Documents from Prince Abbot Achatius von Griessen / von Griessheim Kloster Murbach 1476-1489. No. 9G 11/10 1478 and 9G 11/10 1478 with seal.
  11. ↑ ZGORh, Vol. 1, p. 466 and ZGORh, Vol. 5, p. 227.
  12. ↑ ZGORh, Vol. 13, p. 357.
  13. ↑ ZGORh, Vol. 30, 1878, p. 278.
  14. ↑ a b ZGORh, Volume 5, p. 228.
  15. ↑ Stemmatologia Tiguriana, the Zurich gender book, shelfmark: Ms.E18, folio 154v-155r, created by Erhard Dursteler (1678–1766), Zurich Central Library.
  16. ↑ Jacob Christoff Beck and August Johann Buxtorff 1742: Newly augmented Historically and Geographical General Lexicon ..., Third Part D-Ha, page 897 concerning the Griesheims.
  17. ↑ Altikon on biblio.unibe.ch/digibern/hist_bibliog_lexikon_schweiz (accessed on May 30, 2017).