Lords of Wittstatt
The lords of Wittstatt were a medieval noble family who came from Oberwittstadt and had property in Hagenbach in particular and died out in 1586.
history
Burkhart von Wittstatt is named as the oldest progenitor in 1090 when the Comburg monastery was founded . In 1157, Walkun von Wittstatt was named as a witness to the founding of the Neusaß monastery (later Schöntal monastery ). The ancestral seat of the family was Oberwittstadt , where they owned a castle and other goods, which were sold today, but sold them early, whereas a Rüdiger von Wittstatt is mentioned as early as 1236 as the owner of the imperial fiefdom of Hagenbach . The local branch of the Wittstatt family called Hagenbuch was named after the place that was then still called Hagenbuch .
At times, the family also owned Lautenbach , Duttenberg Castle , parts of Heuchlingen and a town house in Neckarsulm . In the early 15th century, the brothers Konrad and Eberhard von Wittstatt called Hagenbuch appeared in the Elz estuary. Konrad was the bailiff of the Margrave widow Mechthild von Sponheim in Mosbach and Obrigheim . Eberhard received the Obrigheim Neuburg as a fief from Count Palatine Otto I in 1424 and was an assessor in the Mosbach court in 1445. A Wittstatt grave slab found in 1991 in the Friedenskirche in Obrigheim is very likely to be that of Eberhard.
Although the Hagenbucher Wittstatt came from the old nobility, they only had a low income from their small possessions and were therefore also castle men on the Scheuerberg themselves . Philipp von Wittstatt († 1520) and his wife Agatha von Ramstein († 1518) sold Hagenbuch in 1506 for 2000 guilders to the Teutonic Order , half of which they had to cede to the emperor. Philipp was then in Baden-Baden in Baden service. The property in Duttenberg remained in the possession of the family until the death of Wilhelm von Wittstatt in 1584, which went out in 1586 with Philipp von Wittstatt, the Württemberg servant at Helfenberg Castle and wealthy in Mundelsheim . The Wittstatt fiefdom fell back to the sovereigns, the few allodial holdings were inherited by the Helmstatt and Capler von Oedheim families .
coat of arms
The coat of arms shows a green bar in silver. On the helmet with green-silver covers two silver horns with green clasps.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sebastian Parzer: The tomb of those von Wittstatt in the Obrigheimer Friedenskirche . In: Obrigheim yesterday and today 12 , Obrigheim 2002, pp. 20-23.
literature
- Lothar Hantsch: The gentlemen from Wittstatt in Hagenbuch . In: Bad Friedrichshall 1933–1983 . City of Bad Friedrichshall, Bad Friedrichshall 1983
- J. Siebmacher's large and general book of arms, VI. Volume, 2nd Division; Dead aristocracy from Württemberg; Author: GA Seyler; Publication: Nuremberg: Bauer & Raspe, 1911, p. 147 and plate 80