Rooms (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Lords of Zimmer in the Ingeram Codex from 1459

The Lords of Zimmer (from 1538: Counts of Rooms) were an important noble family in southwest Germany, which died out in the male line in 1594 . It is known today from the Zimmerische Chronik , which was written by Froben Christoph von Zimmer in the middle of the 16th century.

history

Lusso von Zimmer (miniature from manuscript B of the Zimmerische Chronik). The rooms trace their history back to the Cymbers and Teutons and name Lusso von Zimmer as the first ancestor known by name. But this is only a legendary figure.

The gender of the Lords of Zimmer has been traced back to 1080, although, as was common with the noble families of the time, they trace their own origins long before the founding of the empire, in this case to the Cimbri .

The original territory, the so-called Herrschaft vor Wald (i.e. the Black Forest ) was in the vicinity of the villages of Seedorf and (Herren- ) zimmer in what is now the Rottweil district . The remains of the Herrenzimmern family castle still stand there today .

The Zimmerisches Schloss in Meßkirch : A complex from the 14th century was expanded and rebuilt in 1557 under Count Froben Christoph von Zimmer by Jörg Schwarzenberger into the first regular four-wing palace north of the Alps in the Renaissance style.
Messkirch 1575, about 9 years after Froben Christoph's death and the completion of the Zimmerische Chronik.

In 1319 Werner von Zimmer married Anna Truchsessin von Rohrdorf (a branch line of the Lords of Waldburg ) and so came into the possession of the Messkirch lordship , which was confirmed by purchase in 1354. In several steps, from 1398, but finally in 1415, the Lords of Zimmer acquired Wildenstein Castle, not far from Meßkirch .

In 1462 the city of Oberndorf was given a Habsburg pledge on rooms.

In 1488 there was a disaster for the Zimmer house. Due to the escalation of the Werdenberg feud , Johannes Werner the Elder was disregarded , the room property, with the exception of the rule held by his uncle Gottfried in front of Wald around Seedorf, came into the possession of the Sigmaringen-based Werdenberg line .

It was not until 1503 that the son Johannes Werner the Elder, Johannes Werner the Younger, was finally able to recapture the rule.

After the death of Uncle Gottfried on May 10, 1508, the inheritance was divided among the three brothers: Johannes Werner, Gottfried Werner and Wilhelm Werner .

  • Wilhelm Werner, the youngest, waived inheritance with the following conditions:
  1. Should his brothers die without an heir, the inheritance waiver would lapse.
  2. He keeps his third part on the Wildenstein.
  3. He receives an annual pension from his brothers and these provide him with a canon pillar.
  • Gottfried Werner received the rule of Wald with Oberndorf, as well as the possessions in Hilzingen and in the Höri .
  • Johannes Werner receives the rule of Meßkirch.
  • With regard to the Wildenstein, it was agreed that the two oldest brothers would be responsible for the administration in alternate years and that in such years they would draw the proceeds from the fields and meadows that belonged to it, but would also have to pay for the maintenance.
  • Herrenzimmern, which was owned by Heinrich von Zimmer at the time , was also not shared. Heinrich von Zimmer was her cousin, the originally illegitimate son of Gottfried, but who was declared marital and noble by Emperor Maximilian I.
  • The debts that had accrued during the period of exile were also shared. 335 guilders from Johannes Werner and 475 guilders from Gottfried Werner.
  • Both brothers still gave each other the right of first refusal and Johannes Werner, as the eldest, undertook to marry within a year.

In the years that followed, the brothers exchanged property among themselves several times. Gottfried Werner acquired sole ownership of the Wildenstein and expanded it in its current form.

Wilhelm Werner later acquired gentlemen's rooms and, after retiring from the Reich Chamber of Commerce, maintained an extensive library and a cabinet of curiosities that was highly regarded among contemporaries .

From 1527 Johannes Werner withdrew to the Falkenstein , which was acquired by Gottfried Werner in 1516 .

The ruins of the Herrenzimmern castle.

At the height of their power, the lords of Zimmer became in 1538, primarily at the instigation of Wilhelm Werner von Zimmer, the presiding judge at the Imperial Court of Justice, with their three lords Vor Wald (seat in Castle Seedorf), Meßkirch with Wildenstein Castle and Herrenzimmern with Oberndorf raised to the rank of count on the Neckar .

Johannes Werner's son Froben Christoph von Zimmer wrote the Zimmer Chronicle . He had eight daughters, but only one son, Wilhelm von Zimmer , who died childless in 1594 at the age of 44. With that, the count's family died out in the male line. Wilhelm's sisters shared the inheritance among themselves and sold most of the property. Most of the dominion in front of Wald was sold to the city of Rottweil . Oberndorf fell back to Habsburg. The rule of Meßkirch with Wildenstein Castle was sold to the Counts of Helfenstein - Gundelfingen for 400,000 guilders , and after they died it went to the Fürstenberg family .

Known family members

Family tree of the Counts of Zimmer, written down in 1776 by the Fürstenberg archivist Döpser with the help of the chronicle. Written on the inner band of the manuscript B.

Lineage of the Lords and Counts of Zimmer

Lineage up to John the Younger

The data before Albrecht † 1288 were determined with WW-Person.

  1. Wilhelm († around 1041)
    1. Swiss chard († around 1085/88)
      1. Rudolf († around 1111)
      2. Werner († around 1111)
    2. Alberich († around 1085/88)
    3. Gottfried († around 1090/92)
      1. Georg († 1092)
      2. Kuno († 1092)
      3. Friedrich († 1103)
      4. Albrecht († 1096)
      5. Gottfried II. († around 1100/1111)
        1. Albrecht II († 1170)
          1. Johann († around 1175/79)
            1. Wilhelm Werner I. († around 1220), ⚭ Adelheid
              1. Werner III. († 1267)
              2. Albrecht († 1288), ⚭ Margravine von Hochberg
                1. Werner († 1289), ⚭ Anna von Falkenstein (am Schw.)
                  1. Werner the Elder (* 1289; † 1384), ⚭ I) Anna Truchsessin von Rohrdorf († 1350); ⚭ II) Brigitte von Gundelfingen
                    1. Johannes the Elder, the Lapp (* 1354; † 1441), ⚭ Kunigunde von Werdenberg-Sargans († 1434)
                      1. Johannes the Younger (* around 1396; † 1430), ⚭ Verena von Sonnenberg , –– For descendants see next section
                      2. Anna (* around 1400; † March 1, 1445), ⚭ Eberhard von Werdenberg-Sigmaringen
                    2. Anna, ⚭ Huldreich von Schwarzenberg
                2. Konrad († 1314)
                3. Adelheid († after 1293), ⚭ Eberhard von Lupfen and von Stühlingen
              3. Konrad († July 23, 1255), Abbot of Reichenau
              4. Rudolf († after 1265)
            2. Eberhard († after 1224)
          2. Wilhelm IV. († around 1160)
        2. William III. († 1146)
      6. Wilhelm II († around 1080)
      7. Werner I. († around 1120/1124)
      8. Eberhard († around 1120/1124)
    4. Hartwig († around 1085/88)

Ancestral line from John the Younger

  1. Johannes the Younger (* around 1396; † 1430), ⚭ * Verena von Sonnenberg (* around 1400; † 1443),
    1. Konrad (dies young)
    2. Werner the Younger (* around 1423; † 1483), ⚭ Anna von Kirchberg († 1478)
      1. Jörg (dies young)
      2. Johannes Werner the Elder (* 1454; † 1495), ⚭ Margaretha von Öttingen († 1528)
        1. Veit Werner (* 1479; † 1499)
        2. Johannes Werner the Younger (* 1480; † 1548), ⚭ Katharina von Erbach († 1549)
          1. Christoph Werner (* 1514; † 1517)
          2. Johannes Christoph (* 1516), dean of the cathedral in Strasbourg
          3. Froben Christoph (* 1519; † 1566), ⚭ Kunigunde von Eberstein
            1. Anna (* 1545), ⚭ Joachim von Fürstenberg
            2. Apollonia (* 1547; † 1604), ⚭ Georg von Helfenstein
              1. Georg, Baron of Gundelfingen , Lord of Wildenstein and Messkirch
              2. Froben, Baron of Gundelfingen, Lord of Wildenstein and Messkirch
                1. Johanna Eleonora, ⚭ Count Wratislaus I von Fürstenberg (property Meßkirch and Wildenstein becomes Fürstenberg)
            3. Johanna (1548–1613), ⚭ Jacob von Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil
            4. Wilhelm (* 1549; † 1594), ⚭ Sabine von Thurn
            5. Kunigunde (1552–1602), ⚭ I) Johannes Truchsess von Waldburg-Zeil-Waldsee; ⚭ II) Bertold von Königsegg
            6. Eleonora (* 1554; † 1606), ⚭ I) Lazarus von Schwendi ; ⚭ II) John of Limburg
            7. Maria (* 1555), ⚭ I) Georg von Thurn; ⚭ II) Kaspar von Lanthern
            8. Sybilla (* 1558), ⚭ Eitel Friedrich IV von Hohenzollern-Hechingen
            9. Ursula (* 1564), ⚭ Bernhard von Ortenburg
          4. Gottfried Christoph (* 1524; † 1570), Canon in Constance
        3. Gottfried Werner (* 1484; † 1554), ⚭ Apollonia von Henneberg († 1548)
          1. Anna, ⚭ Jobst Nicholas II of Zollern
          2. Barbara, nun
        4. Wilhelm Werner (* 1485; † 1575), ⚭ I) Katharina von Lupfen († 1521); ⚭ II) Amalia von Leuchtenberg († 1538), widow of Leonhard von Haag
        5. Anna
        6. Verena († young)
        7. Kunigunde († young)
        8. Katharina (* 1478; † 1547), 1494–1524 abbess in Zurich, ⚭ 1525 Eberhard von Reischach († 1531)
        9. Margaret (* 1481), ⚭ Wolf von Assenstein
        10. Barbara, ⚭ Hans Wilhelm von Weitingen
      3. Hans Schilling (illegitimate), lawyer for the rooms in the Werdenberg feud
    3. Gottfried (* 1425; † 1508)
      1. Heinrich von Zimmer (declared legitimate and ennobled in 1500), ⚭ I) Noble von Hegelbach; ⚭ II) Noble von Weitingen
        1. Jacob Zimmerer, ⚭ Anna (illegitimate daughter of Eitelfriedrich von Zollern )
    4. Kunigunde († young)
    5. Verena, ⚭ Ulrich von Brandis
    6. Anna († 1492), ⚭ I) Johannes von Geroldseck ; ⚭ II) Jakob von Bern

See also

List of German noble families

literature

  • Erica Bastress-Dukehart: The Zimmer chronicle. Nobility, memory, and self-representation in sixteenth-century Germany . Ashgate, Aldershot 2002, ISBN 0-7546-0342-3 ( review )
  • Casimir Bumiller, Bernhard Rüth, Edwin Ernst Weber (eds.): Patrons, collectors, chroniclers. The Counts of Zimmer and the culture of the Swabian nobility . Catalog for the exhibition July 15 - September 16, 2012 in the Kreisgalerie Schloss Meßkirch and September 30 - December 2, 2012 in the Dominican Museum in Rottweil. Belser, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-7630-2625-8 ( content, PDF )
  • Otto Franklin : The free lords and counts of rooms. Contributions to the legal history according to the Zimmerische Chronik . Mohr, Freiburg 1884
  • Beat Rudolf Jenny : Count Froben Christoph von Zimmer. Historian, narrator, sovereign. A contribution to the history of humanism in Swabia . Thorbecke, Lindau and Konstanz 1959
  • Holger Kruse: Rooms . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 9, LexMA-Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-89659-909-7 , Sp. 616-618.
  • Gerhard Wolf: From the Chronicle to the World Book. Sense and claim of southwest German house chronicles at the end of the Middle Ages . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York 2002, ISBN 3-11-016805-7 ( review )
  • Johannes Bühler: coat of arms. Cups. Lovemaking. The Chronicle of the Counts of Zimmer 1288–1566. Selection and introduction by Johannes Bühler . Frankfurt, Societät, 1940.

Web links

Commons : Rooms  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Wikisource: Zimmerische Chronik  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Kimmich: A "dear housewife" with a small flaw. Despite her birthmark, Froben's daughter Eleonora von Zimmer goes her way as a Protestant in a Catholic aristocratic family . Ed .: Schwarzwälder Bote R 2. No. 50 , February 29, 2020.
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