Lords of Lengenbach

Neulengbach Castle

The lords of Lengenbach (also Lengenbacher ) are a Bavarian - Lower Austrian noble family who provided the Regensburg cathedral bailiffs between 1188 and 1235 . They are important in the development of the Babenberg rule in Austria and the development of the Vienna Woods . Places associated with this family are Altlengbach and Neulengbach . The lords of Lengenbach also built Neulengbach Castle around 1189 as the center of their rule. Their home monastery was the Sankt Andrä an der Traisen monastery . They are often mentioned in connection with the Babenberg margraves and dukes and are also likely to have been present on September 17, 1156 when Austria was elevated to duchy . You might be an elaborate royal household with its own butler - and Truchsessamt operate. The first cupbearer was Siegfried von Wolfsberg , the first verifiable Truchseß was called Ulrich . They also had a large number of ministerials and had an affinity for minnesang , as Neidhart von Reuental made a remark about his house in Lengbach.

history

Presumably an Engilrich is the top man or at least the predecessor of the Lengenbach family; he is here in 998 with a donation by Emperor Otto III. called, where this royal estate, at the request of his loyal Duke Heinrich , gives away between the Great Tulln and the Anzenbach , a tributary of the Reichramingbach . His job was to guard the crossing over the Traisen . He is assigned to the family of the Counts of Ebersberg , who played an important role in the colonization of Austria. When the Counts Eberhard von Ebersberg († after 1040) and Adalpero († 1045) founded the Geisenfeld Monastery , they also gave it possessions in Elsbach , Asperhofen and Legenpach (presumably Altlengbach); after that they still had properties in the Lengbach area. It is also assumed that this Engilrich was related to the Counts of Görz , as his name or variants of it (Engelbert) appear in the ancestral list of this count family and they also had possessions in Lower Austria. The fortification of Altlengbach is related to the border security and the organization of rule on the edge of the Vienna Woods, at the same time it served to secure the road that led from St. Pölten to Vienna . When the traffic was moved to a new route in 1192, the headquarters were relocated to Neulengbach.

The oldest, definitely verifiable member of the Lengenbach family is Otto von Purgstall . He and his successors are known as noble free and given the predicates vir liber et nobilis . He is believed to be related to the Burgraves of Regensburg , who had close ties to the Babenbergers in the 12th century. Burgrave Friedrich I attested to various transfers of ownership from this family (around 1159 when the tithe and usage rights were transferred from Petzenkirchen to the Diocese of Passau or in 1160 when the Bishop of Passau and Count Konrad I of Peilstein signed a contract ). Rehberg Castle was one of the oldest possessions of the Lengenbachers , after which many Lengenbachers (such as Otto II von Rehberg ) name themselves. Otto III. von Purgstall, Rehberg and Lengenbach contributed to the founding of the St. Andrä an der Traisen Monastery on December 30, 1160 as a witness for Walter von Traisen . Otto IV von Rehberg and Lengenbach succeeded in acquiring imperial fiefs in Lungau from the Sulzbach rule and also got the possessions of Otakar IV. In 1189 (after the Sulzbachers , who had held this office until then) died out, he was made bailiff of Regensburg appointed. This title seems to have been very important to him, because he trades with different additions to his name as Ratisbonensis advocatus , Tumadvocatus , advocatus de Lengenbach , Tumbvogt and even as Dei gratia Ratisbonensis ecclesiae advocatus . In 1156 the Klein-Mariazell monastery was founded with his testimony . He was also present at the foundation of the Schottenkloster in Vienna by Duke Heinrich II , in 1186 at the exhibition of the Georgenberger Handfeste and in 1221 at the award of city rights to Vienna by Duke Leopold VI.

Between 1186 and 1192 he and his son Hartwig III. on their bailiwick rights to the monastery of St. Andrä and continue to donate properties to this monastery. Otto V. took part in a tournament with 22 followers in 1244, and in 1227 he is the host and tournament partner of the minstrel Ulrich von Liechtenstein . The last Regensburg bailiff from this family is Otto V. von Lengenbach . The office of bailiff was then occupied by a Konrad , whose family origin is unknown. After another ten years, Bishop Siegfried retired from the office of bailiff.

After the Lengenbachers died out, their numerous possessions fell to Duke Friedrich II of Babenberg . The successors in the Lengenbach area were the Truchsesse von Lengenbach (also known as the "younger Lengenbacher"). These were originally a ministerial family of the Lengenbachers, but then became fiefs of the Austrian dukes and were able to allodify their possessions . Since they took part in an uprising against Duke Albrecht I at the beginning of the 14th century , they lost their fiefs.

Coat of arms of the Lords of Lengenbach according to Siebmacher's book of arms

coat of arms

Ulrich von Liechtenstein describes the coat of arms as follows:

"Ir (the shields) upper part there was gevar
beautiful, betzvech wiz and bla
wol wil differentiate here and there
nider part daz was even golt
a rüsch vou Pfansvedern guot
fuort on the helmet of hochgemuot
the ruesch what should be tied high
on the helmet sin
with a risen guot sin "

- Quote after

Tribe list

NN

• Engilrich (?), 988
  • Otto I. (von Purgstall ), approx. 1050/55
    • Otto II. (Von Rehberg ), † October 21, 1108 ∞ (I) Mathilde / Mechthild von Bogen , (II) Berta von Traisen
      • Adelheid, † May 11th
      • Tuta, † January 28
      • Berta, nun in Millstatt Abbey , † December 27th
      • Heinrich (von Purgstall), 1120–1141
      • Hartwig I. (von Purgstall and Lengenbach), 1120–1158, ∞ NN von Sulzbach (?)
        • Hartwig II., Ca.1165
        • Gebhard, ca.1165
      • Otto III. (von Purgstall, Rehberg and Lengenbach), 1120–1160, † May 16, 1161 (?) ∞ Beatrix (Petrissa) von Görtz , later a nun in Aquileia
        • Otto IV. (Von Rehberg and Lengenbach), 1155, Domvogt zu Regensburg, † 1192 (or 1195) ∞ (I) NN, (II) Mechthild von Lengenbach, daughter of Regensburg Domvogte Friedrich II. From the Andechser family ,
          • Hartwig III, approx. 1180–1197, Domvogt of Regensburg from 1195, pilgrim to Jerusalem and participant in the Third Crusade under Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa , † November 6th (?), ∞ Udilhild, † November 25th (before 1197)
        • Berthold I (von Rehberg), 1150–1160, † December 23 (?) ∞ Kunigunde von Rehberg, † 1177 (?)
          • Otto V. (von Lengenbach), 1200 / 04–1236, Domvogt zu Regensburg from 1200/04, participant in Frederick II's crusade , † January 16, 1236 or January 29, 1236, ultimus familiae , ∞ Kunigunde, “advocatissa de Lengenpach ", † June 4th (?)
            • Otto VI., Approx. 1200 / 02–1209, † before May 1, 1220
          • Bertold II. (Von Lengenbach), † February 5 (?)
          • Kunigunde ∞ Otto II von Burgschleinitz

literature

• Diethard Schmid: The Lords of Lengenkamp as bailiffs of Regensburg. In: Ferdinand Kramer , Wilhelm Störmer (Hrsg.): High Middle Ages noble families in Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia (= studies on the Bavarian constitutional and social history. Volume XX). Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-7696-6874-X , pp. 341–372.
• Rudolf Büttner: The Lengbach ministerials under Ottokar and the first Habsburgs. In: Yearbook of regional studies of Lower Austria. New series, Volume 44/45, 1979, pp. 405-426 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

Web links

Commons : Burg Neulengbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Büttner: The Lengbach Ministerials under Ottokar and the first Habsburgs. P. 405.
2. ^ Regesta Imperii : No. 1275 .
3. ^ Rudolf Büttner: The Lengbach Ministerials under Ottokar and the first Habsburgs. P. 412 f.
4. ↑ Otto Titan von Hefner , Gustav Adelbert Seyler : The coat of arms of the Bavarian nobility. Repro. Johann Siebmacher ’s large book of arms. Volume II, Nuremberg 1856, Volume 22, Dead Bavarian Sexes. Bauer & Raspe, Neustadt an der Aisch 1971, ISBN 3-87947-022-7 .
5. ↑ Diethard Schmid: The Lords of Lengenkamp as Domvögte of Regensburg. 2005, p. 372.