Hans Christoph von Gemmingen (1544–1596)

Hans Christoph von Gemmingen (* 1544 ; † 1596 in Liebenfels ) was the landlord in Liebenfels.

Life

He was a son of Hans Dietrich von Gemmingen (1516–1566) and Magdalena Mundpratt von Spiegelberg († 1566) from the Steinegg line of the barons of Gemmingen . From 1551 to 1555, with the Weinfelden rule, the father had already owned the Thurgau from the Mundpratt estate . Hans Christoph acquired Liebenfels Castle in 1572, 1574 or 1578 and then tried to round off his Thurgau property through acquisitions. The collature of the castle chapel in Gündelhart , which was separated from the rule before it was sold to the Gemmingen , remained associated with the Liebenfels reign .

During his time as lord of the castle on Liebenfels, he had various construction works carried out. So he had the forecourt facing the Vorwerk partially built over and the massive extension to the south with its vaulted cellars erected. He died in Liebenfels and was buried in Ermatingen .

Hans Christoph's involvement in the Lake Constance area is not unique within the family. His distant relatives from the Gemmingen-Bürg line acquired the Weinfelden rule again in 1575, a closer relative from the Steinegg line, Georg von Gemmingen , was Commander of the Teutonic Order on the Mainau from 1584. The Thurgau possession of the Gemmingens remained an episode. The rulership of Weinfelden came to the city of Zurich as early as 1614 , Hans Christoph's property in Liebenfels passed to the only secular and aged son Johann , Obervogt in Rötteln. He remained without descendants, the heirs sold his property to the St. Urban monastery in 1654 .

family

His first marriage was to Anna Maria von Ow († 1582) and after her death went a second marriage to Margaretha von Jahrsdorf († 1591).

Progeny:

• Georg (1569–1584), Johanniter, died outside Antwerp
• Otto (1570–1609), Johanniter, fell in Malta
• Christoph (1571–1616), Provost of the Cathedral in Augsburg
• Eberhard (1573–1591), moved to France as a soldier and died there
• Maria Magdalena (1575–1587)
• Maria Jakobe (1577–1616) ⚭ Christoph of Bavaria
• Sebastian (* / † 1579), buried with two unbaptized sisters in the parish church of Ermatingen
• Johann (1590–1652 / 54) ⚭ Johanna von Hornstein zu Grüningen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Erich Trösch: Liebenfels. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . November 27, 2008 , accessed July 8, 2019 .
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from January 6, 2014 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. 
3. ↑ Johann Adam Pupikofer: History of Thurgau 1499-1829, with documents and evidence , Volume 2, 1830, p. 131.
4. ^ Geographical Lexicon of Switzerland , 1902, p. 135.
5. ^ Arnold Nüscheler : All houses of worship in Switzerland up to the year 1860 , Zurich 1864, p. 57.
6. ^ Emil Reisser : Burgen und Schlösser am Untersee , in: Badische Heimat 13 (1926), p. 178.
7. ^ Eduard Paulus: Description of the Oberamt Ellwangen , Stuttgart 1886, p. 688.

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 342.