Heinrich von Zimmer

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Heinrich von Zimmer (also called Heinrich Zimmerer ) was a son of Gottfried von Zimmer, who died in 1508 . He founded a short-lived branch line of the gentlemen from rooms .

He was married to a noble von Heggelbach and had several sons and daughters. He was appointed by his father as senior bailiff in the lordship of Wald and he was given the Herrenzimmern castle as his seat. In 1501 he was also given the so-called Lower Court in Messkirch by his father.

He represented his father in the negotiations regarding the Werdenberg feud with Emperor Friedrich III. in Vienna and was declared marital by King Maximilian at the Reichstag in August in 1500 and raised to the nobility. From then on he could call himself Heinrich von Zimmer. As a coat of arms he led a yellow upright lion on a red field with a yellow and red stag pole as a crest ornament.

In September 1504 Heinrich Zimmerer participated in the reconquest of Meßkirch by Johannes Werner the Younger . In 1504, when, as the Zimmer Chronicle noted elsewhere, Heinrich carelessly handled the fire while bathing, the Herrenzimmern castle burned down and was rebuilt by Heinrich von Zimmer.

At first he proved to be a skilful housekeeper, because after the reconstruction of the Herrenzimmern, he acquired the Mühringen Castle on the Eyach, as well as the associated villages Mühringen near Horb , Wiesenstetten and Dommelsberg (both today the municipality of Empfingen ). After the death of his wife, he remarried a noblewoman from Weitingen . This marriage was without children. But then he got more and more financial. His father Gottfried transferred his part of the Hilzingen Bailiwick with the associated tax revenue to him.

When he continued to get into debt, he raised more funds on his father's behalf using his father's seal. He transferred the fiefs of the rooms to the tenants of the rooms for free property against payment. When creditors demanded their loan from his father Gottfried, even citing him before the Imperial Court in Rottweil , Gottfried, now over 90 years old, suffered a stroke from which he died on May 10, 1508.

Gottfried's nephews challenged Heinrich's inheritance. With the mediation of some distinguished Rottweiler citizens, the following agreements were made:

  1. Heinrich received an annual pension from the lordship in front of the forest and the lifelong right to use the castle Herrenzimmern. On his death, the barons of Zimmer or their heirs were supposed to pay 800 gulden to the heirs of Heinrich von Zimmer, who thus had to give Herrenzimmern back to the barons.
  2. Heinrich received the bailiwick over Hilzingen and the Höri .
  3. Heinrich and his male heirs received the lower court in Meßkirch.
  4. Heinrich had to hand over all seals and books to the barons of Zimmer. He received a reimbursement of 200 guilders for this .

In spite of this advantageous contract, he was obviously still unable to manage the budget, so that he was soon to hand over gentlemen's rooms to Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer and the lower court in Meßkirch to Johannes Werner the Younger von Zimmer.

His own acquisitions, the castle and village of Mühringen am Neckar , as well as Wiesenstetten and Dommelsberg, were lost to other houses.

His housekeeping as Vogt of Hilzingen and Höri must have been so bad that Johannes Werner the Younger dismissed him. He tried for several years to go to court against the barons von Zimmer, but soon died impoverished in Oberndorf am Neckar .

His son Jacob, who with the illegitimate daughter Anna of Count Eitel Friedrich III. von Hohenzollern was married, also died in the 1540s.

Froben Christoph von Zimmer wrote in a mixture of anger and satisfaction: "With im, the new stam of the Adelich family died, who cost the rule of Zimbri whether the twenty thousand guldin and 45 years of being harmless."

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Chronicle of the Counts of Zimmer: Hs. 580 u. 581 d. Princely Furstenberg. Hofbibliothek Donaueschingen / [Froben Christoph Graf von Zimmer]. Edited by Hansmartin Decker-Hauff with co-workers. by Rudolf Seigel. Volume 1, page 402; Volume 2, page 49
personal data
SURNAME Zimmer, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmerer, Heinrich; Zimmer, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Son of Gottfried von Zimmer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 16th Century
Place of death Oberndorf am Neckar