Honold vom Luchs (patrician)

Coat of arms of the Honold vom Luchs - Augsburger Chronik, around 1457–1487

Family table Ulrich Honold

The Honold vom Luchs family is an old patrician family from Kaufbeur from the 14th to 17th centuries. Century. Besides her there was also the Honolde von der Taube in Kaufbeuren. The relationship between the two sexes has not been explored.

Generation 1

The progenitor of the Honolde vom Luchs is Ulrich I. The family chronicle describes him as the "oldest Honold". In Stöttwang he owned "gericht, Burgstall, Holtz, markt, Veldt, Wäldt and Mähder ". Because the Stöttwang Monastery was owned by the Kempten Princely Monastery until 1692 , the place can only have been a fiefdom in which Ulrich had landlord rights. But he was also wealthy in other places in the near and far. In 1361 he acquired the tithe from three farms in Westendorf . Together with his two wives from the 1st and 2nd marriage, Maria and Adelheid, Ulrich found his final resting place in the Stöttwang church in or near the sign .

Generation 2

Ulrich I's two sons, Peter and Hans, are also buried in Stöttwang. The latter is possibly identical to the Augsburg city bailiff of the same name, Hans Honold (1393-1397). The paternal inheritance was taken over by the 3rd son Volker (Völk, Felk) Honold. He is mentioned as a citizen in Kaufbeuren in 1385 and held important offices there. Between 1402 and 1413 he was repeatedly mayor and hospital caretaker. Volker, who is once referred to as a trader, donated a perpetual mass in 1409 on the Marien Altar in the Kaufbeurer parish church of St. Martin . Volker had four children from his wife Elsbeth, a daughter of Kunz Jakob. The eldest son Hartmann and two daughters died at a young age without offspring. The siblings were buried in the new Honold burial place under the sign of St. Martin's Church. The parents were also buried here, Volker in 1424.

Generation 3

The family owes its continued existence to Volker's son Ulrich II. Honold. He was probably born around 1390 and his first marriage was to Ursula Wälsch from Kaufbeuren. After her untimely death, Ulrich took Anna Vöhlin as his wife. She died before 1436, because this year Ulrich married for the third time, this time Ursula Herwart, also from the Augsburg patriciate. The two last marriages in particular show Ulrich's social rise. In 1439 he acquired citizenship in Augsburg and it can be assumed that he and his relatives participated in the profitable long-distance trade. This enabled him to significantly expand his property in and around Stöttwang. In particular, by buying the Emmenhausen estate , he increased his property. Other acquisitions were:

• 1422 the church set and the Widumhof in Schwäbishofen
• 1432 a field in Lörun near Ummenhofen
• 1433 the village court of Lengenfeld
• 1445 an estate in Reichenbach, which he compared his mill in Frankenhofen eintauscht
• 1445 goods to Engratshofen and Krämoos with the court
• 1451 1 2/3 farms in Thalhofen , which he had previously as a fief
• 1451 two farms in Stöttwang, the Reichenbach estate , the Holbratshofen estate and parts of the Kaiwald as fiefdoms
• In 1451 a tenable tithe to Stöttwang as property
• 1453 the large Koneberg estate

He also owns a farm in Lengenfeld in 1553 and one in Unterostendorf in 1460 .

Ulrich Honold proved to be a great patron of St. Martin's Church in Kaufbeur. When the money threatened to run out during a construction and the church should therefore be shortened by one yoke, Ulrich had this construction phase carried out at his own expense. He also paid for the two vaults "to demand in the offside whether our women and S. Niklas altar". He also commissioned a painted panel and donated a "melted" window and two pews with the family coat of arms. In addition he donated a crimson velvet to the regalia, many chasubles and choir cloaks. Furthermore, he decreed a preacher position, in the opinion that the silent ceremonies are empty and do not understand any benefit or fruit, but rather bring and awaken faith.

Ulrich's first two marriages had no descendants and his third wife did not give him any children either. As the family chronicle says, Ulrich took a ride to Stams Monastery and pleaded with Our Lady to give him heirs, and he handed her a note of debt for 50 guilders. In fact, on his return, the wife became pregnant and gave birth to six children in succession.

Ulrich died in 1466, five years before his wife. Both were buried in the St. Moritz chapel they had donated in Augsburg.

Generation 4

There were four sons among Ulrich II's children: Ulrich III, Anton I, Hans I and Peter I.

• Ulrich III., Born between 1425 and 1430, must have lived permanently in Augsburg. He was married to the patrician Walburga Langenmantel vom Sparren, of whom he had a daughter Ursula. She later married Hieronymus Imhoff into an old Nuremberg patrician family.

• Anton I, born around 1430, grew up in Augsburg and married Veronika, the daughter of the rich merchant Ulrich Walther, in the local parlor there. In 1477/78, according to the family chronicle, Anton moved to Kaufbeuren because of the “ Schwarzschen turmoil ” and had a house here on Kaiser-Max-Straße. Because he was buried under the portal of the Kaufbeurer Martinskirche in 1496, he apparently stayed entirely here and managed the family's extensive property in and around Kaufbeuren. Two of his children were born in Emmenhausen in 1482 and 1484.

• Hans I was born in 1435. Like his brother Ulrich III. He probably lived permanently in Augsburg, where he was married to the patrician Elisabeth Rehlinger from 1480. Both died probably before 1498. They left behind the sons Peter II, Sebastian and Hans II.

• The fourth and probably youngest son was called Peter I. He was probably born around 1440. Like his brother Anton I, he left Augsburg and acquired civil rights in Kaufbeuren by 1487, where he owned a house. Peter was married twice, first to the Augsburg patrician Anna Arzt, then to Felizitas (or Benigna) Ridler. From both marriages, Peter had only one son Leonhard as a male descendant, but he died young and is therefore of no importance for the lineage . Peter Honold must have been a very influential person in Kaufbeuren. The family chronicle proudly notes that he (and his brother Anton) were able to welcome Emperor Friedrich on his visit to Kaufbeuren. Because Peter's second wife remarried in 1502, her husband must have died shortly before.

When it came to managing the paternal inheritance, the four brothers often acted together and tried to round off the property through purchases. The expansion of their rule in Emmenhausen was particularly important to them. From 1474 they began to rebuild their "castle" Emmenhausen at great expense. In 1480 this work was apparently finished. As a last joint action, the brothers rebuilt the Emmenhausen parish church of St. Ulrich in 1488.

Generation 5

The joint property of the now ramified Honold family was considerable. In addition to scattered estates in the region northeast of Kaufbeuren, their property was concentrated in the villages of Koneberg and Linden as well as Emmenhausen and Bronnen . Also Gutenberg was one of them. The Honolde bought this rule in the second half of the 15th century.

After the death of Ulrich III, Anton I and Hans I, an inheritance was divided between the still living brother Peter I and the sons of his deceased siblings soon before 1501, so that there were now two lines of lynx honors.

Coat of arms of the Honold from the lynx - Renaissance style

Koneberg line

With this division of the estate, the small lords of Gutenberg and Koneberg including Linden fell to the heirs of Anton I. Two daughters, Anna and Veronika, and the following sons are known:

• Felix died before 1515 and appears to have been unmarried.
• Ulrich, born in 1475 and married to Felizitas Meuting, was paid out. The family chronicle reports that he had a son, Jacob.
• Anton II was born in Augsburg in 1466 and married Barbara Mülich, the daughter of Hector Mülich , in the local parlor there . He then moved to Kaufbeuren, where he found his final resting place in 1533 in a Honolian burial under the portal of St. Martin's Church .

When his wife Barbara, a staunch believer in evangelical doctrine, died five years earlier, however, there were problems with her burial place. The city council refused her honorable hereditary burial near St. Martin and demanded that she be buried in the general cemetery. For this case, the deceased had determined during her lifetime that she would be buried in the garden of her house in front of the Rennweger Tor, which was also done.

Emmenhausen line

When the aforementioned division of the estate took place, only Peter I of the 4th generation was still alive. In addition to his deceased son, he also had a daughter Felizitas, who was her first marriage to Christoph Rehlinger and was probably paid off by the inheritance: The Emmenhausen property complex fell to the sons of Hans I.

• Peter II was born around 1480 and married Regina von Stetten in the Herrenstube in Augsburg in 1517 . In 1525 he bought two more farms in Bronnen and in 1534, together with his brother Hans, the widow's estate of his aunt Felizitas, who remarried after the death of her first husband. It consisted of the village court in Lengenfeld including two farms, an estate and a hat. Peter already blessed the temporal in 1537, his wife not until 1562.

• Hans II remained single. He only outlived his brother Peter by three years.

• Sebastian, presumably the youngest of the brothers, married Magdalena Melber in 1526 and had a son Markus (Marx) with her. Sebastian didn't get very old either. After his death in 1546, there was a lawsuit between the widow of Peter and Sebastian's son Markus about the Honolian inheritance. The dispute was only decided after Markus was dead in 1554.

Generation 6

Koneberg line

Anton II had a large number of offspring with 15 sons and daughters, many of whom, however, died young or at a young age. Finally he inherited:

• Sibylle, born in 1501 and died in 1564, married the Kempten merchant Johann Vilgus.
• Anna, born in 1511, married the Memmingen pharmacist and councilor Dr. Alban Wolffhart. She received half the share in the Gutenberg estate as a marriage property, but sold it to Georg Hörmann von Kaufbeuren as early as 1537 and the other heirs also sold their shares to him by 1545.
• Regina, born in 1519, is said to have been "beautiful and long". She married Andreas Zechendtner, Emperor Ferdinand's Coin Council . She died in Augsburg in 1572 and was buried there in the Honolian funeral chapel near St. Moritz .
• Anton III, the first son, was born in Kaufbeuren in 1499. It is reported from him that he was a "beautiful straight and almost long person" with "good understanding and skill". He entered the service of the Protestant Elector Johann Friedrichs von Sachsen and was considered "dear and worthy" by him. After Anton retired in Kaufbeuren, he became mayor here. He died in 1551.
• Dominikus, the second son, was born in 1514 in Kaufbeuren. He called himself Herr zu Koneberg und Linden. In 1538 he married Barbara Herwart in Augsburg and was accepted into the Augsburg patriciate that year. Later he was raised to the hereditary nobility by the Emperor Maximinilian .

Dominikus had the "castle" built in Koneberg in 1545 and the "castle or manor house" in Linden in 1562. He was also able to expand his property around the village of Ummenhofen .

His wife Barbara died in 1548 and was laid to rest in Augsburg. Four years later, the widower married Apollononia Stecklin, who was also a widow, and was born Wegelin. This connection remained childless.

Dominikus continued the family chronicle begun by his father until 1571. An addendum reports his death for the year 1574. He slept patiently and calmly and was buried in Kaufbeuren.

Emmenhausen line

Three children are known of Peter II and his wife Regina von Stetten.

• Regina married the Augsburg patrician Anton Baumgartner in 1540 and probably died in 1548.

• According to the Augsburg wedding books, Anna is also likely to have married in the mansion there, namely in 1542 with Christoph Welser. She too died in 1552 after only ten years of marriage.

• Hans III. on the other hand, born around 1520, had a very long life. He married into the financial aristocracy in 1545 through his wife Jakobine Welser. He certainly had his main residence in Augsburg, where he had citizenship and, after his cousin Dominikus, was also accepted into the Grand Council. Like his cousin, he was ennobled and called himself Hans Honold von Emmenhausen, Lengenfeld and Bronnen.

But Hans also took great care of his rule in the Ostallgäu . In 1557 he wrote a penal book "with his own hands", in which the punishment for misconduct of the subjects was determined. In addition, he increased the rule by purchasing various estates in Emmenhausen and the surrounding area. No fewer than 16 documentary evidence are still preserved.

The right to hunt had been granted to the Bishop of Augsburg since the game was banished in 1059. Because of this, there were differences with the bishopric , because Hans claimed a bird stove on the former castle stable in Emmenhausen. The proceedings of the 1574 even at the Imperial Reichskammergericht in Speyer reached, finally adjusted by the fact that the Honold against a discharge granted permission for the erection of two bird flocks and the Mitjagdrecht on rabbits, foxes and deer in a specific district has been granted.

As a student, Hans Honold was a table companion of Martin Luther and that is why he became a staunch supporter of the new teaching, which he also introduced in his reign in Emmenhausen by accepting Lutheran preachers . Hans died in 1592, 20 years after his wife Jakobine.

Generation 7

In the 7th generation, the lineage of the Honolde of the lynx died out in the lineage. The last representatives of the family were:

Koneberg line

Dominikus Honold had four children, three of whom were either born dead or died very young. Only the daughter Barbara grew up and married the imperial councilor Johann Achilles Ilsung . With her death, the Honolian line to Koneberg and Ummenhofen expired.

Emmenhausen line

Hans III. Honold had three sons, all of whom a few years after the father's death - probably 1601 - "departed with todt" in Venice . So only his seven daughters remained as heirs to the great wealth of the father. Of them got married:

• In 1581 Sabina took Daniel Hörmann (1535–1626) as her husband. He was a son of Georg Hörmann, who had acquired the village of Gutenberg from members of the Honolian line in Koneberg by 1545. Sabina died in 1592.
• Maria was married to David Schorer from Augsburg in her first marriage. After his death in 1594 she married Zacharias Zeller, a member of the Kaufbeurer gentlemen's guild.
• Katharina married Markus Anton Stehr in 1583.
• Felizitas married the widower Dr. Johann Goat Men from Speyer. After the rule of Emmenhausen had been sold, they warned the subjects in Emmenhausen to remain Protestant or to emigrate. Felizitas died in 1623.
• Jakobina married Matthias Lauber († 1599) in 1593 and in 1601 with the Kaufbeurer lawyer Dr. Hans Jörg Bonrieder, who then took over the administration of the Emmenhausen estate. In 1609 he sold it to the Holy Cross Monastery in Augsburg. Jakobina died in 1635.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chronicle of Honold von Luchs in the Protestant Church Archives in Kaufbeuren, begun in 1516 by Anton II Honold and completed in 1571 by Dominikus Honold
2. ↑ Document 218
3. ↑ to Steichele
4. ↑ Historical notes in the monastery file Lit. A B3 / 1 No. 71/3 (1973 in the Main State Archives Munich)
5. ↑ Steichele, p. 59
6. ↑ Steichele, p. 97
7. ↑ Passed on by Steichele as "Hans".
8. ↑ Hämmerle No. 434
9. ↑ Hämmerle No. 456
10. ↑ Original in the Main State Archives Munich (1973)
11. ^ Most of them in the main state archive in Munich under documents from the monastery of St. Cross in Augsburg (1973)
12. ↑ Main State Archives Munich, Augsburg Monastery, Holy Cross, No. 69
13. ↑ Zimmermann, p. 191
14. ↑ Hämmerle No. 1858

Many other references in the two series of the Kaufbeurer history sheets.

literature

• Bertold Pölcher: The Kaufbeur patrician family Honold vom Luchs . In: Kaufbeurer Geschichtsblätter Vol. 7 No. 8 (1976), pp. 233-240 and No. 9. (1977), pp. 256-265
• Anton von Steichele: The Diocese of Augsburg , Vol. IV, Augsburg 1883
• Richard Dertsch: The documents of the city of Kaufbeuren , Schwäbische Forschungsgemeinschaft, Augsburg 1955
• Albert Hämmerle (ed.): The wedding books of the Augsburger Bürgerstube and Kaufleutestube up to the end of imperial freedom , 1936
• Eduard Zimmermann: Kaufbeurer coat of arms and symbols , Allgäuer Heimatbücher 40th volume, Kempten 1951