Lebenberg (noble family)

Family coat of arms

Lebenberg , also Löwenberg , is the name of an old Tyrolean noble family that died out in the male line in 1426.

history

family tree

Lebenberg Castle

Increased coat of arms of the Fuchs von Fuchsberg after Siebmacher

As early as the middle of the 12th century, the village of Marling near Merano was the seat of an influential noble family. Its seat at that time was likely to have been on the site of today's school building, the former Turnerhof . The remains of a tower were found in the cellar. A document from 1164 still describes the members of the family as servientes comitis . Later the Lords of Marling are regarded as Tyrolean ministerials . The coat of arms suggests a genealogical connection with the Ministerials of Lana , the Lords of Brandis . Count Franz Adam von Brandis already suspected a relationship between the Lords of Lebensberg and those of the Lanaburg .

Rudolf and Wolfgang von Mering are recorded between 1236 and 1270 . In 1260 Rudolf's son, Rudolf von Meringa , named himself after his residence Burg Lebenberg von Meringa and Lebenberg . In 1271 Heinrich von Märingen witnessed when Count Meinhard and Albrecht von Tirol shared their possessions in 1271. Cunz von Mering appears in 1274 . In 1286 his sons Ulrich, Lazarus and Konrad only call themselves von Lebenberg. Ulrich, who died before 1368, was married to the Bolzano aristocrat Maria von Weineck .

In 1352 Berthold von Lebenberg , who was married to Elisabeth von Tschengls , bought half of Tschenglsberg Castle from his brother-in-law Berthold von Tschengls . Reinhard von Löwenberg appears at the state parliament negotiations in Merano in 1361 . In 1406 Friedrich von Hauenstein moved the seat of Marling including the court to the knight Leonhard von Lebenberg . He died before 1421, after he had bequeathed a farm in Branzoll to the Bolzano Heiliggeistspital as a sea ​​equipment institution . His brother Bartholomäus von Lebenberg had received the Trentino fiefdom in 1383 for himself and his siblings Gottfried, Margareth and Anna .

Gottfried's son, Petermann von Lebenberg , married Clara von Fuchs von Fuchsberg in 1395 . With his death, the male line died out. Through the marriage of his only daughter and heiress Dorothea von Lebenberg , Lebenberg came to Wolfhart Fuchs von Fuchsberg , whose line the Fuchs von Fuchsberg also owned the Jaufenburg in the Passeier Valley . She also acquired Freudenstein Castle in Eppan in the 15th century . In 1450, Thomas Fuchs von Fuchsberg received the Lebenberg fortress as the fief of his mother Dorothea and his siblings. Count Johann Fuchs von Fuchsberg , the last of his line to die in 1828 , whose tombstone is in the parish church of Marling.

coat of arms

In the silver field with a blue bar a red lion soaring to the right. In 1456 Emperor Friedrich gave the Thoman, Wolfhart and Georg Fuchs brothers in Neustadt the coat of arms that had been lost by their mother, the last of their family. The Life Berger line of Fuchs Fuchsberg added now on the crest completed their own added. It has been used by Marling as the municipal coat of arms since 1966.

family tree

• Konrad von Marling; 1.⚭ Angelica von Liechtenstein; 2.⚭ Agnes von Weineck
  • Ulrich von Lebenberg; ⚭ Maria von Weineck
    • Bertold von Lebenberg; ⚭ Elisabeth von Tschengls
      • Gottfried von Lebenberg; ⚭ Anna from Villanders
        • Petermann von Lebenberg; ⚭ Clara Fuchs from Fuchsberg
          • Dorothea von Lebenberg; ⚭ Wolfhart Fuchs from Fuchsberg
            • Fuchs line from Fuchsberg to Lebenberg (expired in 1828)

literature

• Cölestin Stampfer: Palaces and castles in Merano and environs. 2nd edition 1909, Innsbruck, pp. 74 ff. (Online)
• Joseph Friedrich Lentner : Chronica of the closed and the Vesten ze Lebenberg . Plant, Meran o. J. This Chronica should be interpreted ironically.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Associations for Christian art and archeology in Bolzano and Meran: The German portion of the Diocese of Trento: topographically, historically, statistically and archaeologically described by several and published . A. Weger, 1907 ( google.de [accessed December 31, 2019]).
2. ↑ Comune di Marlengo. Marling municipality. Dati generali. Cenni storici. General data. From the Chronicle - PDF free download. Accessed December 31, 2019 . 
3. ^ New magazine of the Ferdinandeum for Tyrol and Vorarlberg . Printed with Wagner'schen Schriften, 1845 ( google.de [accessed December 31, 2019]).
4. ^ Coelestin Stampfer: Palaces and castles in Meran and surroundings , pp. 75–77
5. ^ Hannes Obermair : Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 1 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2005, ISBN 88-901870-0-X , p. 366, no.749 .
6. ^ Hannes Obermair: Bozen Süd - Bolzano Nord. Written form and documentary tradition of the city of Bozen up to 1500 . tape 2 . City of Bozen, Bozen 2008, ISBN 978-88-901870-1-8 , p. 62, no.962 .
7. ^ Johann Jakob Staffler: Tyrol and Vorarlberg: in 2 parts. Part 2: Tyrol and Vorarlberg, topographical. Vol. 2, H. 2.2,2, b . Rauch, 1846 ( google.de [accessed December 31, 2019]).
8. ^ Innsbruck Tiroler Landesarchiv St. A. Adels. 1115.
9. ↑ South Tyrol in words and pictures . Südtirol-Verlag Herbert Neuner, 2006 ( google.de [accessed on December 31, 2019]).
10. ^ Eduard Widmoser: Tirol A to Z. Südtirol-Verlag, 1970 ( google.de [accessed on December 31, 2019]).