Kunz Jehle

Kunz Jehle (* around 1480; † on December 13, 1525 near Waldshut ; born / actually Konrad Jehle ) was the leader of the Hauensteiner Haufen in the German Peasants' War . The Küssenberger Chronik says: Your Haubtmann Conradt Uli, known as Kuonz von der Niedermüli

Life

Kunz Jehle was born around 1480. He later had a farm in Niedermühle im Albtal , but whether he was born there is not certain. The first name Kunz is only a short version, his real name was Konrad. Kunz Jehle was married and had at least one child, Johannes Jehle, who continued the family after the death of his father.

Services

On April 27, 1525, Kunz Jehle led the Hauensteiner horde of around 600 farmers against the St. Blasien monastery in the German Peasants' War . In his book History of the City of Waldshut, Joseph Ruch describes the event as follows: “The farmers ran together as if it were snowing, from all the villages, except for none. They drove away the monks and devastated the monastery. Kunz Jehle, who was considered prudent and level-headed, warned to stop and not to burn down the monastery as is customary in many places. ”A record from 1532, which has been preserved to this day and is now in the parsonage of Dogern, records those involved in the storm Monastery from one of the parishes, the parish Birndorf , as follows: “Copy from 1532 - Anno 1525 ran from the parish of Bürdorf to St. Bläsi and did great damage: Antoni Waldkiller from hir Vogts son, Caspar Meyer from here, Hans Gäng from here, Heini Fluom from here, Marti Ratzinger from Schatenbürdorf, Hanss Scheffer the young von Bürkingen Vogts son, Adam Schänk von Bürkingen, Andres Trändlin von Bürkingen the young, Andreas Leber von Bürkingen, Marx Mettenberger from the Chuchelbach, Hans Pfeiffer from the Poland, Thoma Winkler von Buoch, Baschli Eggert von Buoch, Jörg Trändlin from Hächel der Jung, Peter Sur from Etzbel, Michel Tröndlin von Heite ”.

Martin Luther distanced himself from the peasants' freedom movement and wrote literally in his pamphlet: “Against the Murderous and Rebellious Rotten der Bawren”: “They should be thrown, choked, stabbed, secretly and publicly, who can, how to make a great dog must be slain ”, which the authorities did not say twice and followed Luther's deeds.

After the peasant uprising had been bloodily suppressed, the nobility in the retinue of Christoph Fuchs von Fuchsberg retaliated despite requests from St. Blasier Abbot Johannes Spielmann (1519–1532) . Kunz Jehle fell into the hands of the soldiers on Candlemas 1525 near the Hungerberg . These made short work after he escaped them at a first meeting under knight Phillip von Tegernau . Christoph Fuchs von Fuchsberg let it hang on an oak tree above the Lettenmühle on December 13, 1525, the place is on today's old Waldshuter Straße to Waldkirch. The Lettenmühle stood above the Tröndlemühle, later the SIPO barracks and police school were there.

The pastor of Dogern at the time, Heinrich Küssenberg , wrote in his chronicle: "Your Haubtman Conradt Uli called Kuonz von der Nidermüli was taken prisoner to St. Blasi, but the other day he was hanged on a tree, whether called Latvian, at Waltshuet." On the night of December 14, 1525, friends of Kunz Jehle cut off his right hand and nailed it to the cloister gate of the St. Blasien monastery and a note with the inscription: “This hand will take revenge”. Thereupon followers of Kunz Jehle set fire on the night of April 11, 1526 in the monastery of St. Blasien. To do a “clean job”, they sprinkled gunpowder in strategically important places. The monastery buildings east of the Alb burned down completely in a few hours.

The chronicler Andreas Lettsch reports in his chronicle that Kunz Jehle was the leader of the Black Forest farmers (probably Hotzenwälder) in the attempted siege of Radolfzell (July 1, 1525), in which Hans Müller von Bulgenbach also played an important role.

literature

• Horst Buszello : Bundschuh on the German Peasant War. The "common man" at the turn of the Middle Ages to the modern age in law, economy and society . Teacher's booklet. Schöningh, Paderborn 1979.
• Rudolf Metz : Geological regional studies of the Hotzenwald with excursions, especially in its old mining areas . Schauenburg, Lahr (Black Forest) 1980, ISBN 3-7946-0174-2 .
• Wilhelm Zimmermann : The great German peasant war . Köhler, Stuttgart 1841–43, (often, most recently: Melzer Verlag, Neu-Isenburg 2006, ISBN 3-937389-82-2 ).
• Heinrich Küssenberg: Chronicle of the Reformation in the county of Baden, in Klettgau and in the Black Forest , 1876

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Quoted from: David Liebelt: The religious understanding of rule in Martin Luther. GRIN Verlag 2008, p. 23
2. ^ Heinrich Küssenberg: Chronicle of the Reformation in the county of Baden, in the Klettgau and on the Black Forest
3. ↑ Franz Josef Mone (ed.), Collection of sources for the Baden regional history , Vol. 2, Karlsruhe 1854, pp. 42 to 56.