Gugel von Brand and Diepoltsdorf

The coat of arms of the Gugel

The Gugel von Brand and Diepoltsdorf (also: Gugel von Diepoltsdorf , Gugel von Brandt and Diepoltsdorf or Gugel von Diepoltsdorf auf Brand ) are a patrician family of the Free Imperial City of Nuremberg - first mentioned around 1450. They became a family of lawyers and civil servants as well as successful long-distance traders in 1543 ennobled and in 1729 co-opted as one of the last families in the Nuremberg patriciate ; from 1760 to 1804 they were able to send a representative to the "Inner Council".

history

The name Gugel could be derived from a medieval hooded garment. The following is reported about the progenitor Christoph Gugel († 1546) under Count Gottfried zu Oettingen :
“gräfl. oett. Canzler, was born in Heroldingen , was a very important imperial class, but especially the counselor and advocate appointed by H. Pfalzgraven zue Neuburg , who also came from this Gugel were many prominent scholars from Leuth, especially D. Christoph Gugel, Cantzler and Colonel Consultant to the city of Nuremberg, also viler vernemer Reichsstende Advocat, + 1546 aetat 80, the old, the young Christoph Gugel, however, left ao 1577 with death. "

The marriages with wealthy long-distance trading families such as the Imhoff , the Pömer , the Kleewein and the Upper Palatinate hammer gentlemen's Sauerzapf family at the beginning of the 16th century suggest early wealth and larger trading activities. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the Gugel had a business relationship with Imhoff's trading company. They were also involved in the Bohemian vitriol and alum mining as well as in the Mansfeld Saiger trade . In the 16th century they were, along with the Scheurl von Defersdorf , among the most important Nuremberg legal families and in 1543 they were raised to the imperial nobility by Charles V.

From 1556 the Gugel acquired some mansions in the Nuremberg area, last in 1629 and 1655 from the legacy of the Groland von Oedenberg their eponymous seat Diepoltsdorf bei Simmelsdorf . They also held the patrimonial court in Gebersdorf.

In 1804 the Nuremberg line of the Gugel died out. The Bavarian Gugel line was raised to the baron status in 1812 and last lived in Dürnhausen in the Weilheim-Schongau district .

Former possessions (extract)

• 1556–1577 the Zeidlerschloss in Feucht
• 1589–1618 Schwaiger Castle
• 1600–1706 the Gugelschloss in Erlenstegen (destroyed in 1944)
• 1600–1630 the Steinbühl manor
• 1603–1624 the hammer castle Hirschbach
• 1616–1750 / 1756–1804 the manor house in Brand (Eckental) , Brander Hauptstrasse 12, first manor house from which it is named
• 1627 / 55–1872 Diepoltsdorf Castle , the second mansion that gives the name of the manor, first the "Front Seat" , since 1660 also the "Rear Seat"
• two properties in Deinsdorf near Weigendorf (Upper Palatinate)

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  Zeidlerschloss in Feucht

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  Schwaig Castle

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  Hammer lock Hirschbach

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  Manor fire

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  "Front dwelling", Diepoltsdorf

Known family members

Christ as Man of Sorrows , engraving by Dietrich Krüger (1614) after Albrecht Dürer, with Gugel coat of arms and dedication to Georg Christoph Gugel in Hirschbach

• Christoph Gugel (1466–1546), imperial councilor, chancellor and envoy of the Count Palatine Ottheinrich and Philipp
• Christoph Gugel (1499–1577), Councilor (1526–1577) and named member of the Greater Council (1527–1577)
• Christoph Gugel († 1539), marriage counselor and municipal court counsel
• Erasmus Gugel, established the family foundation in 1545
• Wolfram Freiherr von Gugel (1904–1970), doctor and lawyer
• Fabius von Gugel (1910–2000), draftsman, graphic artist, painter, set designer, porcelain designer and poet

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  Christoph I. Gugel (1466–1546), imperial councilor and envoy

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  Christoph Hieronymus Gugel on Steinbühl and Erlenstegen (1680)

coat of arms

A diagonal blue bar in gold, this one covered with three golden lilies standing one behind the other.

See also

• Patriciate (Nuremberg)
• History of the city of Nuremberg
• Castles, palaces and mansions in the city of Nuremberg

literature

• Christoph von Imhoff (Hrsg.): Famous Nuremberg from nine centuries . Nuremberg: Hofmann, 1984, 425 pages, ISBN 3-87191-088-0 ; 2., erg. U. exp. Edition, 1989, 459 p .; New edition: Edelmann GmbH Buchhandlung, October 2000
• Michael Diefenbacher : Gugel von Diepoltsdorf, patrician family . In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).
• Historologia Oettingana of Count Gottfried zu Oettingen from around 1620, Fürstlich Oettingen-Wallerstein'sches Archiv Harburg, OeB, VI.5.2 ° .6, p. 43

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historologia Oettingana from approx. 1620, OeB, VI.5.2 ° .6, p. 43
2. ↑ Gugelhaus Dürnhausen

Web links

Commons : Gugel von Brand and Diepoltsdorf  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Coat of arms of the Gugel von Diepoltsdorf