Lords of Bubenhofen
The Lords of Bubenhofen were a southern German noble family that flourished in the 15th century. Originally located between Rosenfeld and Binsdorf , they formed a lordship around Geislingen , Dotternhausen , Bronnhaupten , Hausen am Tann and Roßwangen , and they also held the lordship of Hainburg with Grosselfingen as their place of residence, which they supplemented with further pledges . Also included the Castle Falkenstein in the Danube Valley and Hettingen in Laucherttal their possession. They were Austrian and Württemberg councilors. Divisions of property and debts led to decline from the early 16th century.
history
origin
The Lords of Bubenhofen have been recorded in the so-called Bubenhofen Valley, between Rosenfeld and Binsdorf, since around 1250. In the valley of Stunzach were three small settlements, Jacks Hofen, Horgenau and Langenau, four mills and three castles, namely the Wasserburg boys Hofen , the castle Tiefenberg and the castle unfaithful target . It is not clear whether the family took their name from this valley or vice versa. Since Hofen locations are unusual in the region, it is assumed that the family had their origins in Upper Swabia and that they were settled here as servants for the Counts of Zollern in the times that were then similar to the civil war . Perhaps as early as the separation of the Zoller rulers , but at the latest since the transition of Rosenfeld to Württemberg around 1317/20, the Bubenhofen orientated themselves more and more to this aspiring regional rule.
distribution
From 1345 on, the Lords of Bubenhofen sold their headquarters in the Bubenhofen Valley piece by piece. Already at the beginning of the 14th century they acquired the local rule over Geislingen and in 1379 they moved their burial place there. Another castle, Neuentierberg Castle , was sold to Knecht Kunz von Tierberg .
Through skilful financial investments, they succeeded in gaining further rulership rights with the associated income from these rulers. During this time they often appear as creditors of the imperial cities of Rottweil and Reutlingen or as pledges of neighboring count families, such as the Hohenbergers , Zollern , or Württembergians .
For example, Marquard von Bubenhofen in 1375 as a believer in the imperial city of Rottweil and in 1379 as Oberhohenberg . He owned lien in Binsdorf , Gammertingen and Bondorf, among others . In 1386 he was enfeoffed with the goods of the Reichenau monastery in Binsdorf. The rule of Kallenberg was released in 1388 from bubenhof pledges, as was Binsdorf in 1393, while Erlaheim and Dormettingen were still in bubenhof possession in 1398. In 1383 Count Mülli von Zollern-Schalksburg and the city of Balingen paid 2000 lb. hlr. back to Heinrich von Bubenhofen. In 1390 he acquired the Falkenstein estate . His sons owned property in Roßwangen and Dürrwangen in 1403 . Wolf von Bubenhofen, one of these sons, got into a feud with the Geroldseckern in 1417 over claims in Fluorn and Sigmarswangen . The Count of Württemberg with about one hundred knights and eleven imperial cities took his side. Wolf also owned a mill in Balingen and in 1438 acquired other properties in Mülheim am Bach and Renfrizhausen . He was active as the Württemberg council and was active as a referee in a variety of ways throughout the region . During these years he bought most of the goods and rights of the Ottmarsheim monastery in the Balingen area. The financial difficulties of Count Ulrich V. von Württemberg , in particular because of his wars with the Palatinate, led to the fact that he in 1461 Balingen with Ostdorf, Engstlatt, Heselwangen, Frommern, Waldstetten and Weilheim, Endingen, Erzingen, Meßstetten, Tieringen, Oberdigisheim and Hossingen for Pledged 17,500 guilders to Wolf von Bubenhofen, a sum that Wolf was able to raise immediately. Wolf's brother Konrad acquired goods and rights to Grosselfingen , Owingen , Stetten , Steinhofen and Engstlatt . His sons Konrad and Hans inherited the entire property after Wolf's death.
This Konrad von Bubenhofen conjured up a severe legal crisis and almost a national war. On Christmas Eve 1465, he had a farmer who wanted to visit the bathing room in Balingen arrested for unknown reasons and had him taken to his castle Hainburg near Grosselfingen, which was outside the Balingen pledge . The citizens of Balingen and the farmers of the associated villages rose up against this illegal shipment to a place outside the responsible judicial district. Konrad von Bubenhofen fled to Rottweil and asked for help from the imperial city because of his citizenship there. Rottweil had been allied with the Swiss Confederation since 1463 . Konrad von Bubenhofen also received support from the Palatinate Elector, whose advice and servant he was. The Balingen people turned to the Count of Württemberg, who had a garrison placed in Balingen. Before a military conflict broke out, the Bishop of Konstanz brokered a compromise in April 1466: Württemberg was to redeem the pledge in two installments within a year and a half, and Bubenhofen was to receive 2,500 guilders for lost income from the pledge.
The Lords of Bubenhofen nevertheless remained important partners of the Counts of Württemberg. Count Ulrich sold them the castle and town of Gammertingen , Hettingen and the bailiwick through the Mariaberg monastery . Hans von Bubenhofen was the Württemberg Landhofmeister and one of the five councilors who carried out official affairs in Württemberg during the pilgrimage of Count Eberhard V (in the beard) of Württemberg-Urach . In 1473 and 1474 Eberhard Neufra and Kettenacker left him . From 1481 to 1511, Schalksburg Castle was again pledged to von Bubenhofen.
The relative wealth and the special position of the Bubenhofen can also be seen in documents from that time. In the income declaration of the members of the quarter on the Neckar of the society with Sankt Jörgenschild from 1488, the Bubenhofen with five people were listed with 3260 florins . Followed by the Neuneck with 1414 florins for 9 people, Ehingen , with four people and 1411 florins, Sachsenheim, six people with 1109 florins. Count Eitelfritz von Zollern only reported income of 1000 florins. Other noble families, such as the gentlemen von Rosenfeld, compared income of 251 fl, or the gentlemen von Tierberg , 240 fl.
descent
With the sons of Hans von Bubenhofen - Wolf and Hans Kaspar - the descent of the sex began. They spent 12,000 florins in gold, which they inherited in addition to their rulership rights, in the first year at the Frankfurt trade fair after they inherited their inheritance in 1481. The tendency to display splendor - Hans Kaspar was called "the golden knight" - turned them from creditors to debtors. Hans Kaspar was the Württemberg marshal and court master and in this connection the tutor of Duke Ulrich , with whom he later fell out of favor. In 1495 he still acquired Aichelau with Oberstetten and Ödenwaldstetten . In 1502 he was federal governor of the Swabian Federation , in line with his income, in the royal class. After Duke Ulrich's expulsion, he entered the service of Rottweiler. In 1521 he had to sell the lords of Gammertingen and Hettingen because of his debts. These came to Dietrich Spät . Winzeln and Hausen am Tann , which he had acquired in 1480, were also lost. He lived impoverished in Rottenburg until his death . His son Markus had to sell the Justingen reign again in 1530 .
With the death of the royal Bavarian major general Wilhelm Freiherr von Bubenhofen, the male line of the family died out in 1814.
coat of arms
Two silver zigzag bars in red. On the helmet, with red-and-silver blankets, a red-clad growing man holding two fallen red-and-silver buffalo horns.
Coat of arms of Geislingen near Balingen
Coat of arms of Feldhausen near Gammertingen
Grosselfingen coat of arms
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Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich Haasis (Ed.): The Zollernalbkreis. 2nd Edition. Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-8062-0522-1 , pp. 98f.
- ↑ Monika Spicker-Beck (ed.): History of the city of Rosenfeld . City of Rosenfeld, Rosenfeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-028859-3 , p. 80 .
- ↑ Holdings Dep 38 T1 No. 1351 on Landesarchiv-BW.de
- ↑ Zimmerische Chronik, Volume 2, p. 456.
literature
- Reinhold Rau: The Lords of Bubenhofen in Leinstetten , in: Sülchgau. No. 16, 1972, pp. 9-20.
- Casimir Bumiller: The Lords of Bubenhofen and the Haimburg rule. In: Gemeindeverwaltung Grosselfingen (ed.): Grosselfingen: A tour through the history of the community 1296–1996 . A. Conzelmann, Bisingen 1995, OCLC 249582462 , pp. 21-35.
- Max Duncker: The Lords of Bubenhofen. In: Journal for Württemberg State History. (ZWLG) Jg. 1 (1937), pp. 335-369.
- Fred Feist: The inglorious end of the brothers Hans Caspar and Hans Wolff von Bubenhoven, sons of the landlord Johannes I. von Bubenhoven. In: Hohenzollerische Heimat. Vol. 49, No. 3, Sept. 1998, pp. 37-42.
- Albert Gaier: The history of the noble family of the Lords of Bubenhofen, with special consideration of their rule in the Lautertal near Donzdorf . (Hohenstaufen. Publications of the history and antiquity association Göppingen eV, 7th episode, 1969/70). History and Antiquity Association Göppingen, Göppingen 1970, DNB 750851473 .
