Lords of Ofteringen
The Lords of Ofteringen or Knights of Ofteringen were a southern German noble family in the county of Stühlingen with their seat at Ofteringen Castle .
history
In 1240 a knight Gerung von Ofteringen appears with the first mention of the place. 1251 a Herr Huc von Ofteringen is named in the course of the Küssenberger legacy of the Counts of Küssenberg .
In 1384 Katharina von Ofteringen was the prioress of the Riedern am Wald convent .
1349 the St. George knight Friedrich von Ofteringen is mentioned in connection with the castle Untermettingen .
In the lesser Laufenburg , the Knights of Ofteringen had Ofteringen Castle as a fief. In 1428 Junker Heinrich von Erzingen bought this Ofteringen Castle from Hans von Tüfen, along with the people who belonged to it.
In 1523 the guardians of Ludwig Truchsess sold the Ofteringen estate to the noble Junker Hans Ulrich von Ofteringen, known as Gutjahr, mayor of Waldshut .
On November 3, 1550, Pankraz von Ofteringen, known as Gutjahr, received some feudal rights and tithes of the Reuentaler mill from the Counts of Lupfen .
On December 6, 1678, the widow Margarethe Agathe von Ofteringen, née Keller von Schleitheim - according to the testament of her husband Junker Karl von Ofteringen, the last of his family, who fell seriously ill on a trip to Waldshut and was cared for in the Waldshut Capuchin Monastery - the entire Ofteringen property was transferred to the Rheinau Monastery .
coat of arms
It shows three silver crescent moon lying on a red field. This coat of arms was adopted by the later municipality. The coat of arms of the Counts of Küssenberg had a shield split in blue and silver and three red crescent moons in the silver half.
The coat of arms of the community of Oftringen in Switzerland is derived from the Ofteringer coat of arms. However, the place Oftering in Austria has a completely different coat of arms. The Lords of Bergen had three lying silver crescent moons on a black shield.
In Ofteringen, but on the opposite side of the Wutach , there is the Reuentaler Mühle today an inn owned by the Ofteringer family, who are derived from the knights of Ofteringen.
literature
- Ferdinand Hasenfratz: The herb bed hunter and other adventurous spider tubs, genuine forest trampolians and chats from the Wutach valley. 1984, ISBN 3-925016-00-7
- Wutöschingen - then and now. The reader: Degernau, Horheim, Ofteringen, Schwerzen, Wutöschingen. Municipality of Wutöschingen (Ed.), Wutöschingen 2006
- Father Hieronymus Haas (OSB Mariastein ): Marienburg Abbey 1862-1962.