Lords of Dürrmenz

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Coat of arms of the Lords of Dürrmenz, Enzberg and Niefern

The lords of Dürrmenz were a noble noble family with their eponymous seat in Dürrmenz an der Enz , today a district of Mühlacker . An important member was Ulrich I von Dürrmenz , who served Emperor Friedrich I as Imperial Chancellor and in 1162 became Bishop of Speyer .

history

Castle above Dürrmenz, now called the Löffelstelz ruins

The Dürrmenzers were related to the lords of Niefern and the lords of Enzberg . The relationship of the three noble families is concluded from the use of the same coat of arms, which shows a gold ring with a red stone on a blue background. The family seat of all three families is said to have been the former Enzberg Castle of the Zeisolf-Wolframe family near Mühlacker .

Around 1150, the Andreas chapel in Dürrmenz is mentioned as the independent church of the noble local lords. It was around this time that their ancestral seat, Dürrmenz Castle , today the “Löffelstelz Ruin”, was built, whose fortress- like cubature is very similar to Altsachsenheim Castle . In the 1150s, the chaplain and priest "Drutwin von Durminza" also served as a witness to the Speyer bishop Günther von Henneberg or his provost several times. From 1159 to 1161 an Ulrich is mentioned as Reich Chancellor who could be identified as Ulrich I. von Dürrmenz . He was elected Bishop of Speyer in 1162 , died on December 26, 1163 and was buried in Maulbronn Monastery.

In 1282 a Heinrich von Dürrmenz is mentioned as lord of the castle. A feudal letter from Albrecht von Dürrmenz, Vogt of Pforzheim , for Heinz Schirsich von Dürrmenz for a number of goods there in exchange for an annual validity of 33 malers of the three kinds of fruit dates from around 1310 .

From 1365 onwards, numerous documents document the splitting up of the Dürrmenz family estate through the division of inheritance and its sale, especially to Maulbronn Monastery . In 1482 the ancestral castle, including all of its parts, was completely in the hands of the monastery. After the related lords of Enzberg had struggled in vain against the decline of the knightly families in the Schlegler War, they gave up their ancestral estates in Enzgau and established themselves near Mühlheim an der Donau . Previously vassals of the Counts of Vaihingen , the Dürrmenzers, who were loyal to the location, became increasingly dependent on the House of Württemberg from 1344 onwards .

Personalities

literature

  • Karl Eduard Paulus : Description of the Oberamt Maulbronn . Edited by the Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau. Lindemann, Stuttgart 1870. (digitized version)
  • Stadtarchiv Mühlacker (publisher): poor and burned down - from Löffelstelz Castle and the Middle Ages in Mühlacker . Heidelberg u. a. 2010, ISBN 978-3-89735-612-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Eduard Paulus : Description of the Maulbronn Oberamt . Lindemann, Stuttgart 1870, p. 212ff. (Wikisource)
  2. ↑ Example: Württ. Urkundenbuch Volume II, No. 355, p. 104, WUB online .
  3. ↑ LABW, HStA Stgt., A 502 U 685, LABW online .
  4. ↑ LABW, HStA Stgt, A 502 U 658, LABW online .

Web links

Commons : Herren von Dürrmenz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Description of the Maulbronn Oberamt / Chapter B 4  - Sources and full texts