Kuchler (noble family)

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Kuchler coat of arms according to Siebmacher's coat of arms book

The Kuchler and the Lords of Kuchl can be traced back as a knightly family since the 12th century in the archbishopric of Salzburg and in Mattiggau in Upper Austria . The Kuchler held high offices in the Archdiocese of Salzburg, including city ​​judges in Salzburg and Burgraves of Hohenwerfen . In 1369 the Kuchlers were entrusted with the office of Hereditary Marshal of Salzburg.

Kuchl Castle in the Salzach Valley

In the eponymous place Kuchl they owned a tower castle called Kuchl . This is likely to date around 1000, in 997 the Kuchler servant Gezo had signed an exchange contract with the Archbishop of Salzburg, and as a result a county with a regional court was established here. The Lords of Kuchl are named here in a document around 1160/70.

Possessions and offices in Mattiggau

The first further permanent seat of the Kuchler is believed to be on Hochkuchl near Lohnsburg am Kobernaußerwald . In 1146 an Eppo de Hohenchuchin is mentioned, in 1165 a Heinrich, 1179 an Eberhard, 1200 a nobilis Otto de Hochhuch , 1204 a Gottschalchus de Chiuchil and 1228 a Heinricus Chuocheler . These appeared as witnesses in various basic transactions of the Vornbach , Reichersberg and Admont monasteries . The Kuchler are also mentioned as participants in the tournaments in Cologne (1179) and Zurich (1165). In 1403 Hohenkuchl was given jurisdiction by Duke Heinrich V.

The castle Attersee 1332 Hans Kuchler, Captain Salzburg, issued as a deposit. In 1359 Werner and his sons Ulrich and Heinrich von Schaunburg signed a loan agreement with the Bamberg Bishop Lupold von Bebenburg in order to get Attersee as a pledge. But in 1377 Duke Albrecht III bought. of Austria the rule Attersee from Prince-Bishop Lamprecht von Brunn .

A Chunrad Kuchler also appeared as the owner of Kogl Castle in Attergau after 1342. As late as 1363, the Friedburger Urbar refers to the possession of the Kuchler near Lohnsburg. The brothers Kontrad III. and Hartneid II were able to acquire Friedburg and Mattighofen from the diocese of Bamberg in 1377 , which they had held as pledges since 1358.

Possessions and offices in the bishopric of Salzburg

At the end of the 13th century there were high officials of the Archdiocese of Salzburg among the Kuchlers . Konrad II was a captain during the Bavarian-Austrian peasant uprising . In 1298 the Salzburger Vitztum Konrad von Kuchl is enfeoffed with the Weiherhaus zu Triebenbach . His sons Hartneid and Konrad swapped the Pabenlehen and their farm in Teisendorf for Triebenbach in 1344 , which subsequently became the Kuchler's free property . Hartneid der Kuchler was also able to obtain enfeoffment with the Vogtei over Triebenbach from Archbishop Ortolf and in 1355 received permission from him to build a Vesst on his property in Triebenbach . This was probably the beginning of Triebenbach Castle. Hartneid von Kuchl, a son of the same name or even grandson of the Hartneids named in 1355, sold the property to his brother-in-law Wolfhart von Albm in 1390 .

In 1305/06 the Staufeneck family had to sell their Staufeneck Castle to Salzburg. They were able to keep a right of residence in the castle, but the lords of Kuchl got the castle and rule as a fief . In 1325 the Lords of Kuchl were able to take over the castle from Archbishop Friedrich III. acquire. In 1436 the castle fell back to the Archdiocese of Salzburg.

In the course of the defeat in the Battle of Mühldorf  (1322), which the Salzburg Archbishop Friedrich III. suffered on the side of Frederick the Fair , the archbishop had to pay high ransom money to Ludwig the Bavarian . The archbishop had to borrow part of the ransom from the Salzburg aristocrats, including Kuchlers. These were made in return for the burgraves of Hohenwerfen . From 1325 the news comes that Archbishop Friedrich III. the widow Margarete and her sons Konrad and Hartneid von Kuchl also had to hand over the Veste Golling for life. It was returned in 1375, but as a result of various differences, Archbishop Pilgrim was not able to regain possession of these rights until the end of the 14th century.

The archbishop also lent the tower to Felben to the Kuchler until 1351, then it came back to Heinrich von Velben .

In 1355, the Kuchlers were allowed to build a castle in the Abtsdorfer See by the Salzburg Archbishop Ortolph , but this remained in the possession of this family only for a short time and then had to be handed over to Bavaria. In the village of Kuchl they had a tower by the church.

A Kuchler who administered Obernberg Castle around 1427 introduced a toll here. One of the last Kuchler should have been Konrad IV, who died in 1436. The property of the Kuchler went to the Lords of Albm , the castle in Kuchl went to the Panicher von Volkersdorf .

Memories of the Kuchler

The coat of arms of the Kuchler is a blue stag leaping to the right on green ground ; it is used today as the municipal coat of arms of Kuchl and Lohnsburg am Kobernaußerwald , as well as in a modified form (deer head) by Lengau . These municipal coats of arms are chosen in reminiscence, not historically handed down (Kuchl 1930, Lohnsburg 1969, Lengau 1979).

Two red marble tombstones belonging to the Kuchl family lie in front of the Doserbauer farm in Kuchl ( Georgenberg  58), one of which commemorates the death of the Diemudis von Kuchl (1299) and the other to the Lords of Kuchl.

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  1. ↑ Friederike Zaisberger, Walter Schlegel, 1992, p. 171.
  2. ^ Heinz Dopsch, Robert Hoffmann: Salzburg. The story of a city. 2nd updated edition. Verlag Anton Pustet, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-7025-0598-1 , p. 136.
  3. ^ Friederike Zaisberge, Walter Schlegel, 1992, p. 172.
  4. ↑ Chronicle - Kuchl has a rich prehistory and early history ( Memento of the original from June 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuchl.net archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Kuchl community, kuchl.net.
  5. ↑ a b Benedikt Pillwein (Ed.): History, geography and statistics of the Archduchy of Austria above the Enns and the Duchy of Salzburg . With a register, which is also the topographical and genealogical lexicon and the district map. Geographical-historical-statistical detail according to district commissariats. 1st edition. Fifth part: the Salzburg district . Joh. Christ. Quandt, Linz 1839, Kuchl , p. 229 f ( Google eBook - Faks. Druckhaus Nonntal, Salzburg 1983). 2nd edition 1843 ( Google Book )
    Pillwein points out that the expiry date 1436 cannot be correct, as a Konrad Kuchler 1438 appears at Obernberg Castle .
  6. ^ Schloss Staufeneck , on Burgenwelt.de
  7. ^ Johann Siebmacher's coat of arms book. Volume 28: The coats of arms of the nobility in Salzburg, Styria and Tyrol. Facsimile reprint of the Nuremberg edition 1701–1806. Battenberg, Munich, p.?.