Konrad Vaut

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Konrad Vaut (* around 1446 in Zuffenhausen ; † December 11, 1516 in Stuttgart) was a meritorious Vogt of Cannstatt and, as a political opponent of Duke Ulrich von Württemberg, was sentenced to death after a brief hearing for alleged high treason.

Live and act

Konrad Vaut was a civil servant in Zuffenhausen from 1473-76 and from 1483 councilor, 1486-94 mayor and 1514 Vogt in Cannstatt. He is considered a protagonist of the bourgeois-class opposition to the claims of the ducal house. About a year after the signing of the Tübingen Treaty, Konrad Vaut was imprisoned for high treason at Hohenasperg Castle and tortured for months until Duke Ulrich, then 32, had his political opponent, who was more than seventy years old, publicly executed on the Stuttgart market square. It was a judicial murder that excited the whole country.

This happened because in May 1515 Duke Ulrich stabbed his stable master and friend, Hans von Hutten , from behind while hunting in the Böblingen Forest , after he had chatted behind closed doors at the court about the duke's unrequited love for the stable master's wife Had exposed ridicule. Emperor Maximilian I then ordered that a council should be placed at his side as co-regency. The Duke had to reluctantly agree to an even stronger influence of the estates over his government. Angrily, he planned to let the bourgeois bailiffs feel as soon as possible out of respectability , whom he accused of interplaying behind his back with the emperor to his disadvantage, that he alone was the master of Württemberg.

Duke Ulrich had the more than seventy-year-old Vogt of Cannstatt, Konrad Vaut, and the Vogt of Tübingen, Konrad Breuning , arrested on November 20, 1516 and held captive on the Hohenasperg. Sebastian Breuning , Vogt von Weinsberg, brother of Tübinger, and Hans Stickel , mayor of Stuttgart , soon joined the two arrested people on the Asperg . They were accused of high treason, because they were said to have turned to the emperor after Ulrich's bloody act; and Konrad Vaut also faced charges of lese majesty. The defendants denied the allegations, but on the instructions of Ambrosius Volland , who was the duke's advisor and confidante, the men were severely tortured until they made a confession. No witnesses for or against the prosecution were sought. According to the extorted confessions, the main hearing was set for December 10, 1516 in the courtroom of the manor house on the Stuttgart market.

There the negotiation took place again under the chairmanship of Ambrosius Volland. All four of the defendants had revoked their extorted confessions under torture, but their convictions had been determined beforehand. Witnesses were again not heard. After a brief hearing, the three bailiffs were sentenced to death, only Hans Stickel escaped with his life. Just one day after the verdict, the poor sinners bell rang at the market. In hairy shirts, Konrad Vaut and Sebastian Breuning were led between a trellis of mercenaries with swords and spears under loud drum rolls in the market to the execution block. Both were beheaded and Konrad Vaut possibly quartered. Konrad Breuning was tortured for another year before he was executed.

Bibliography

  • Albrecht Gühring: Konrad Vaut and his family . In: Zuffenhausen. Village, city, municipality . Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen, 2004, ISBN 3-00-013395-X , pp. 104-112
  • Otto-Günter Lonhard : Agnes Bayer b. Vautt and her family. New to genealogy Vautt I . In Südwestdeutsche Blätter für Familien- und Wappenkunde (SWDB), Volume 24 (2004–2006) pp. 441–453
  • Otto-Günter Lonhard: The new Pfründ in Zuffenhausen and their donor family, news on the genealogy Vatt II . In SWDB Volume 24 (2004-2006) pp. 485-503
  • Otto-Günter Lonhard: The Vaut in Zuffenhausen in the 15th century, news on the genealogy Vautt III . In SWDB Volume 24 (2004-2006) pp. 517-525

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Walter Hipp: List of ancestors Sophie Hipp
  2. ↑ Andrea Bachmann: Die Breuningstraße , Tagblatt-Anzeiger, 2010. ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Hans Widmann: Tübingen as a publishing town , Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 1971, p. 34 f.
  4. ↑ a b c Rose Wagner: Mosaik, special publications of the Martinszeller Verband No. 17 , Stuttgart 2002, pp. 38–43.
personal data
SURNAME Vaut, Konrad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Vogt of Cannstatt
DATE OF BIRTH around 1446
PLACE OF BIRTH Zuffenhausen
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1516
Place of death Stuttgart