Guta Veldner

Guta Veldner (mentioned in a document from 1316 to 1345, † before 1351 ) was a patroness of the city nobility of Schwäbisch Hall . In a dispute over pledges of the bankrupt Komburg monastery, she prevailed against bishops and the emperor. In 1344 she donated the Schuppach Chapel (no longer preserved today) at Hall's St. Michael Church, probably as atonement .

Career

She was the widow of Hall councilor Konrad Veldner and one of the wealthiest people in Hall in the early 14th century. Her wealth could be due to the wine trade , as she had to remove a cellar neck protruding into the alley in 1316 . A large cellar neck, as was also criticized by other wealthy Hallers that year, suggests a large cellar , and this indicates the storage of wine . They owned boilers , houses and fields. She was probably an important donor in the renovation of the Komburg monastery and in 1319 kept the monastery library pledged by the abbot of the monastery as well as other pledges in the form of paraments and reliquaries . In 1320 she refused to hand over the presumably not yet fully redeemed pledges to the Bishop of Würzburg. The Komburg abbot tried in vain to force the surrender of the pledges by force of arms. In 1324 the abbot was taken into civil imprisonment, in which at least one of the Veldner sons was involved. At the instigation of the Archbishop of Mainz, however, the abbot had to be released again. The Bishop of Würzburg intervened in the dispute in 1327. In 1333 Emperor Ludwig IV decided that the Komburg goods were to be released against cash payment. Payment was probably not made, as the monastery library, which originally comprised 63 volumes, was probably never returned to the monastery in full. In 1344, the Veldneress donated a chapel in the cemetery behind the choir of St. Michael as atonement , which was completed in 1345 and later equipped with four altar plots . The chapel was demolished as early as 1509 when the late Gothic choir of St. Michael was being built.

literature

Gerd Wunder: The citizens of Hall. Sigmaringen 1980, pp. 60, 63, 102, 172, 179.

Individual evidence

^ City chronicle on the website of the city of Schwäbisch Hall; Entry for the year 1316
↑ Kellerhals Bauwesen: outer basement stairs, also vaulted basement access from Lexikon–Wissen.de
↑ Already in the late Staufer period, the salt shelf , i.e. the royal right to the salt works, was largely given as a fief. The royal possession of the mineral treasure was fragmented. The ownership of the Haalbrunnen was divided into shares, so-called "boiling". The number of these ownership shares in Hall was limited to 111 "boilers" for about 500 years, of which the Hall city nobility held the largest share of "boilers" in their possession in the late Middle Ages.

personal data
SURNAME	Veldner, Guta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German donor
DATE OF BIRTH	13th Century
DATE OF DEATH	before 1351

[1] City chronicle on the website of the city of Schwäbisch Hall; Entry for the year 1316

[2] Kellerhals Bauwesen: outer basement stairs, also vaulted basement access from Lexikon–Wissen.de

[3] Already in the late Staufer period, the salt shelf , i.e. the royal right to the salt works, was largely given as a fief. The royal possession of the mineral treasure was fragmented. The ownership of the Haalbrunnen was divided into shares, so-called "boiling". The number of these ownership shares in Hall was limited to 111 "boilers" for about 500 years, of which the Hall city nobility held the largest share of "boilers" in their possession in the late Middle Ages.