Guth von Sulz
Guth von Sulz was the name of a Swabian noble family . The town of Sulz am Neckar gives it its name . The famous Guth collection fell to the House of Württemberg in 1653 .
history
The middle-class Gut family has been recorded in Horb am Neckar since 1278 . In the 14th century she was also based in Sulz. Through their shares in the Sulzer Saline , their relatives acquired large estates and rose through marriage to aristocratic circles. In the 15th century the male relatives were called Junkers . An aristocratic seat was acquired in 1534 with the village of Durchhausen near Tuttlingen. As the most important relatives of the Salzgesöds, they continued to receive the salt loan from the Duke on New Year's Day as representatives of all partners .
The nobles were ministerials to the Counts of Sulz and later to von Geroldseck . As a member of the Knight Society Sankt Jörgenschild they belonged to the Swabian Federation in 1488 . They also belonged to the imperial knighthood in the knightly canton of Neckar-Black Forest .
family members
The most important member of the family was the Württemberg senior counselor and chamber master Johann Jakob Guth von Sulz in Durchhausen (1543–1616), who started an extensive art collection in 1600. His son, the female court master Ludwig Guth von Sulz (around 1590–1653), bequeathed it to Duke Eberhard III in 1653 . of Württemberg .
The Guthsche Collection
The extremely extensive Guth collection was created by the Württemberg councilor and chamber master Johann Jakob Guth and is said to have been so famous that it was visited by electors, princes and even imperial legates. The focus of the collection was not on individual treasures, but on their broad range of contents. It tried to cover all arts and crafts, scientific and natural history areas and had large bundles of gems , coins, natural objects and ethnographics.
The collection came into the possession of the Dukes of Württemberg in 1653 as a bequest from Ludwig Guth von Sulz, who thereby fulfilled his father's last will. This access is considered a stroke of luck for the ducal collection, looted in the Thirty Years War after 1634. With the Stuttgart Chamber of Art and Curiosities , the collection came into state ownership in 1927 and became the foundation of the Württemberg State Museum .
coat of arms
The family coat of arms shows two color-changing kettle hooks in the shield split by black and silver. On the helmet with black and silver blankets a growing man, in a robe split by black and silver, holding up one of the kettle hooks in each hand and a silver headband.
The increased coat of arms from 1598 in the diploma of Emperor Rudolf II for Johann Jakob Guth von Sulz (1543-1616) is quartered by his and the maternal family coat of arms, as his mother was the sister of the last of the Füll von Geispolzheim, who died in 1596: Field 1 and 4 the family coat of arms, fields 2 and 3: the coat of arms of the Füll von Geispolzheim, divided three times by gold and red with an eight-pointed black star in the inner corner. Two helmets, the first the heraldic helmet, the second that of the Füll von Geispolzheim, a truncated cone divided three times by gold and red, topped with the black star, seven of the tips each with a peacock's eye.
See also
literature
- Julius Kindler von Knobloch (ed.), Upper Baden Gender Book, Volume 1, 1898, p. 494 ff.
- Landesmuseum Württemberg: The Chamber of Art and Curiosities of the Dukes of Württemberg . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, undated (2016). Pp. 17ff, 29, 75.
swell
- Inventory of a Kunstkammer [Guth von Sulz] , divided into the following departments: coins and medals; Drinking vessels and other tableware made of precious stones, alabaster, mother-of-pearl, ivory, horn, bone, ostrich eggs, wood, metal, porcelain and clay, glass and other materials; Spoons made of various materials; cut and polished gemstones; with ... approx. 1624. DDB entry in the Baden-Württemberg State Archives
- Tobias Wagner : Memoria Guthiorum rediviva. Excerpts printed in: Heinrich Wilhelm Clemm (Ed.): Novae Amoenitates Literariae. Stuttgart 1762, pp. 21-41 ( SLUB Dresden )
Web links
- Casimir Bumiller: We (Sulzer) citizens. Provincial Thoughts on a Universal Subject. ( Lecture held on the occasion of the 725th anniversary of the city of Sulz am Neckar on October 26, 2009. ) p. 5.
- Gustav A. Seyler: The dead Württemberg nobility. Nuremberg 1911 ( J. Siebmacher's Wappenbuch VI, 2), p. 91 ( digitized version )
