Konrad Frumold

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Konrad Frumold also Conrad Frumolt († November 11, 1339 ) was a Regensburg merchant and councilor . As a supporter of Mayor Friedrich I. Auer , he was also a supporter of Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian , whom he wanted to enable the conquest of Regensburg with a conspiracy. After the failure of the conspiracy, he was sentenced to death by the Regensburg Council and executed.

Life

Konrad Frumold was a wealthy merchant and owned several houses in Regensburg. He had acquired a patrician house on Haidplatz east of the Goldenes Kreuz castle from Friedrich Auer, who was Mayor of Regensburg from 1631 to 1634. Frumhold had supported the mayor Friedrich Auer when he was expelled from the Regensburg citizens during the Auer uprising in 1634 because of his arbitrary rule. When tensions arose between the free imperial city of Regensburg and Emperor Ludwig the Bavarian after the expulsion of the mayor in 1336, the emperor decided in 1337 to take the city of Regensburg in a nocturnal coup and was conspiratorially supported by supporters of the expelled mayor Friedrich Auer. As a partisan of Ludwig the Bavarian and a supporter of Friedrich Auer, Konrad Frumold was the leader of the conspirators who wanted to enable the emperor's army, who besieged the city in 1337, to conquer the city.

Weeks beforehand, an underground passage had been dug under the city wall at Aegidienplatz , through which the emperor's troops were supposed to enter the city undetected. The starting point of the tunnel was the castle-count's court house, which is located directly on the city wall and belongs to the emperor, today's St. Josef retirement home. The betrayal was discovered and two workers were immediately hanged from the battlements of the city wall. Frumold was able to flee the city. When it became apparent after offers from his relatives that Frumhold could expect a fine if he presented himself, Frumhold returned to the city. However, he was arrested, imprisoned and, after a long trial, executed by strangling him on Martini Day 1339 a year later. In the same year there was a compromise between the emperor and the city. The relatives of von Frumold who had moved to Nuremberg only got their house on Haidplatz back after long negotiations and sold it in 1358 to the Graner family. After further changes of ownership, this house came into the possession of Georg Friedrich von Dittmer in 1781 and was converted into the first Thon-Dittmer-Palais. A few years later the first palace was combined with a second old house to form today's Thon-Dittmer-Palais .

Traces of the conspiracy

In order to mark the site of the conspiratorial tunnel construction and to commemorate the events, the City Council of Regensburg had a memorial plaque attached to the now no longer existing Zwingermauer near the site of the excavation near the still existing tower XXXII of the former city wall . Today the plaque can be found in the courtyard of the St. Josef retirement home (Aegidienplatz No. 6). The wording of the inscription reads:

"ANNO DOMI
MCCCXXXVII
DES ERITAGS
BEFORE SAND VRB
ANS DAY WAITING
THE HOLE VND
BETWEEN THEREINN GEVAN
GEN THE HOLE
PITS VND
WERE APPENDED THE
NEXT FREE
DAY DARNA
CH AN DI ZINN
Urban (translation: in the year 1337, on St. May) the hole was found and two caught in it, who dug the hole. The following Friday they were hanged on the battlements. "

- Karl Bauer Art, Culture and Everyday History, 6th edition 2014

Coelestin Steiglehner , the last prince abbot of St. Emmeram , who lived in the former castle-count's court house after the secularization, was encouraged by the text of the memorial plaque in 1812 and 1818 to carry out excavations on the city wall in the courtyard of the house. In doing so, you came across a vaulted underground room, from which you could get over rubble and bones into another vault below. There a stone pillar was found with a ring on top. Steiglehner's notes make it seem possible that Frumhold was strangled with the help of this column at the place of his betrayal. The rooms found by Steiglehner are no longer verifiable today because they were destroyed as early as 1840 when a canal was built.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Karl Bauer: Regensburg Art, Culture and Everyday History . 6th edition. MZ-Buchverlag in H. Gietl Verlag & Publication Service GmbH, Regenstauf 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 , p. 534 .
  2. ^ Carl Theodor Gemeiner: The Regensburg Chronicle , 1803.
  3. ↑ Werner Chrobak: The Thon Dittmer-Palais . In: City of Regensburg, Kulturreferat (Hrsg.): Kulturführer . tape 25 . City of Regensburg, Regensburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-943222-55-5 , p. 24 f .
  4. ↑ p. 534
personal data
SURNAME Frumold, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frumolt, Conrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Regensburg patrician
DATE OF BIRTH 13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1339