Lords of Burgberg
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The Lords of Burgberg from Burgberg Castle in the village of Burgberg (near Königsfeld in the Black Forest ) appear in connection with the St. Georgen Monastery at the beginning of the 12th century . The local nobility was often associated with the Black Forest monastery, which was also the burial place of the Burgberg family.
history
On May 13, 1295, Hugo, Kraft and Konrad von Burgberg donated the All Saints Chapel in the St. Georgen Monastery, which became the burial place of the noble family. A grave slab of the lay sister Gertrud von Burgberg dates from around 1300 .
The Lords of Burgberg named themselves after Gustav Adelbert Seyler after the Baden village of Burgberg near Villingen . They were co-arms of those von Seedorf. The knight Hug von Burgberg was a citizen of Rottweil in 1301 . His son Heinrich sat in Duningen in 1336 . A Hugo von Burgberg sold his farm in Duningen in 1374. Konrad and Hans von Burgberg, sons of Hans beatified, are mentioned in 1409. In 1412 Hans sold his Islinger Burglehn in Dormettingen .
On November 29, 1382, Abbot Heinrich von Reichenau awarded the brothers Ulrich and Klaus im Steinhus, citizens of Constance, the coat of arms of shield and helmet, which "our gotzshus von Hugen saelgen von Burgberg, who got rid of our gotzshus servant".
After 1455 the lords of Burgberg died out, the place with the two castles became part of Württemberg in 1472 ; the imperial city of Rottweil destroyed the castles in the war of the Swabian League against Duke Ulrich (I) of Württemberg (1498–1550).
coat of arms
The Zurich coat of arms roll (number 407) gives the coat of arms under the wrong inscription "Kurberg". The shield is squared in silver and red, in the first field on a green hill a golden castle with two towers. On the helmet with a golden cover there are two silver-red horns divided over a corner with a fan-like ridge, like the horns divided and tinged.
The coat of arms of the family in the stone house from 1382: red and silver squares, in the first field a golden tower. on the helmet with red and silver covers the golden tower between two silver-red horns divided over a corner.
Elements of the coat of arms appear in the municipal or local coats of arms of Königsfeld , Burgberg , Neuhausen and Unterkirnach .
Coat of arms of the Lords of Burgberg, 1382
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literature
- Max Miller , Gerhard Taddey (ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 6: Baden-Württemberg (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 276). 2nd, improved and enlarged edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-520-27602-X , p. 126f.
- Untermann, M., Association for Local History St. Georgen (ed.), Traces of the St. Georgen Monastery in the Black Forest , Hertingen 2005, p. 172ff
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gustav Adelbert Seyler , Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 2nd Division; Dead Württemberger nobility, Nuremberg 1911, p. 55, plate 117