Kaltenbach (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Lords of Kaltenbach

The Lords of Kaltenbach were a Swabian noble family, which is documented as early as 1083. The possessions were in what would later become the Baden Oberland, with the center in the upper Kandertal around Bürgeln . The male line died out in 1159.

Known members of the sex

According to the recent Chronicon Bürglense , Werner von Kaltenbach d. Ä. and his wife Ita, three sons and two daughters. Of these, only Werner d. J. and Wibert named as well as a daughter "H." The Liber Constructionis of the St. Blasien monastery , written in the late 14th century, names the two daughters Himmeltrud and Ita and the third son Konrad. The Liber Originum of the St. Blasien Monastery , written by Abbot Caspar Molitoris in the 16th century, reports on a third daughter named Hedwig, but according to research by Adolf Schmidt-Clever and Florian Lamke, this did not exist.

  • Werner von Kaltenbach the Elder Ä. († August 31, 1125) ∞ Ita († March 12, 1126), after around 1120 a nun in the Berau monastery
    • Werner d. J. († 23.01.1159); Provost of St. Blasien
    • Wibert († February 11th, after 1155); Procurator and later provost von Bürgeln
    • Konrad († probably in childhood)
    • Himeltrud; possibly Nun in the Sitzenkirch convent
    • Ita; Nun in the Berau monastery

history

It is reported from a family castle north of the hamlet of Kaltenbach . The local Michaelskirche was in 1095 by the Bishop of Konstanz, Gebhard III. von Zähringen , consecrated.

Around 1120 knight Werner von Kaltenbach d. Ä. under the influence of the Bishop of Constance , Gebhard III, who fled to the monastery of St. Blasien . to enter the monastery. Around 1125 his unmarried son Wiprecht bequeathed the entire Kaltenbach property to the monastery with the consent of his father and his brother Werner, who also lived in the St. Blasien monastery. In detail, be Obereggenen , Kaltenbach, Sitzenkirch and Outbound "Eimuntal" called. This also includes the Bürgelnberg on which the church of the village of Obereggenen stood, which served as a burial place for the Kaltenbach family .

Werner von Kaltenbach's wife, Ita, entered the Berau monastery in 1120 . From there she was sent to the Sulzburg monastery to restore monastery breeding there. The two daughters Itha and Himmeltrud probably also entered the monastery and possibly founded the cell at Sitzenkirch, which was placed under the monastery of St. Blasien in 1151.

Werner von Kaltenbach the Elder J. appeared as a witness at the court assembly of Strasbourg in 1141 in the comparison between the monastery of St. Blasien and its Vogt Konrad I von Zähringen on the one hand and the Prince-Bishopric of Basel on the other.

The foundation of the Provost Office Bürgeln

Werner von Kaltenbach hands over his donation to the abbot of Sankt Blasien

Werner von Kaltenbach the Elder Ä. urged Abbot Rustenus of St. Blasien to found a provost at the headquarters of the Kaltenbach. His successor, Berthold I (1125–1141), sent Werner von Kaltenbach the Elder. J. together with two monastery brothers to Bürgeln to establish a monastery cell. As an economic basis, the monastery cell was assigned properties of the St. Blasien monastery in Obereggenen, Kaltenbach and Sitzenkirch. In 1126 the monastery cell became a provost's office and Werner von Kaltenbach the Elder. J. became provost. The construction of a larger church was planned, but it was not consecrated until 1136 . The history of the foundation of the Propstei is based on the contemporary chronicle Chronicon Bürglense .

literature

  • Wolfram Hartig: How the Bürgelnberg came to the monks from St. Blasien. The Chronicon Bürglense - an exciting story from the Middle Ages. In: Das Markgräflerland, Volume 1/2019, pp. 200–221
  • Florian Lamke: Cluniacensians on the Upper Rhine: Conflict resolution and noble group formation in the time of the investiture dispute . Freiburg 2009.
  • Wolfram Hartig: In monte burglon - Bürgeln in the Middle Ages - how it all began , In: Friedrich Schöpflin, Ehrenfried Kluckert (ed.): Castle Bürgeln - closer to heaven . Donzelli Kluckert - Verlag, Schloss Bürgeln 2009, pp. 10–17
  • Commission for historical regional studies in Baden-Württemberg (Hrsg.): Document book of the monastery Sankt Blasien in the Black Forest-From the beginnings to the year 1299 , edit. by Johann Wilhelm Braun, Stuttgart 2003
  • Hans Trenkle: Local history of the communities Obereggenen and Sitzenkirch as well as the Probstei Bürgeln , self-published by the author 1930
  • Julius Kindler von Knobloch : Upper Baden gender book, Heidelberg 1905, volume 2, p. 238 digital copy of the University of Heidelberg
  • Rustenus (Christian) Heer: Anonymus Murensis denatus , Appendix II: Conradi de S. Blasio Chronicon Bürglense, Freiburg 1755, pp. 365–384 in the Google book search
  • Adolf Schmidt-Clever: The foundation of the Provost Office Bürgeln ; In: Alemannia , Vol. 40 (1912), pp. 47-80
  • Josef Bader : The Breisgau baron family von Kaltenbach . In: Badenia or das Badische Land und Volk, a magazine for patriotic history and regional studies, 3rd year, Karlsruhe 1844, pp. 125–136 online in the Google Book Search
  • Karlheinz Beyerle: The noble family von Kaltenbach in Malsburg-Marzell - a search for traces in the southern Black Forest, Ortschronik of the community Malsburg-Marzell, Edenbach Verlag, S. 48-77

Web links

Commons : Coat of arms of the Lords of Kaltenbach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual references / comments

  1. ↑ Schmidt-Clever, pp. 63-65; Lamke, pp. 261-262.
  2. ↑ or 1131
  3. ↑ according to Trenkle p. 35 on the Waldebnetköpfle
  4. ↑ s. Homepage of the community ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.malsburg-marzell.de
  5. ↑ Entry "Kaltenbach" on discover regional studies online - leo-bw
  6. ↑ Document Book St. Blasien, No. 124; Eimuntal is located on the boundary of today's Obereggenen, see Hugo Ott: Studies on the late medieval agricultural constitution in the Upper Rhine region , Stuttgart, 1970, p. 30
  7. ↑ or already 1117/8
  8. ↑ Document book St. Blasien, No. 104
  9. ↑ Document book St. Blasien, No. 197
  10. ^ RI IV, 1,2 n.204, in: Regesta Imperii Online, accessed on October 6, 2016 . See also Badische Zeitung, April 9, 2016: Werner von Kaltenbach - important mediator between the fronts , accessed March 12, 2020