Ludwig Vogelweider

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Ludwig Vogelweider (* before 1454; † 1492 in St. Gallen ) was a Swiss merchant and mayor of St. Gallen.

Life

Ludwig Vogelweider came from an important St. Gallen trading family.

Together with his brother Peter Vogelweider and Ulrich Krum (1433–1493), he ran a long-distance trading company whose business activities extended to Hungary and Poland from 1466 .

In the period from 1476 to 1480 he represented, together with Hans Schurff and Georg Gmünder , and from 1481 to 1489 together with Ulrich Varnbühler and Heinrich Zili and from 1490 to 1492 with Leonhard Merz and Walter Küchenmeister, every three years as mayor , former mayor and imperial bailiff the city of St. Gallen. On July 25, 1476, he represented the city at the peace negotiations in Freiburg after the Burgundian Wars .

In 1481 he acquired the Steinerburg near Obersteinach and in 1485 he is mentioned as the owner of the Pfauenmoos Castle in St. Gallen.

literature

  • August Naef : Chronicle or Memories of the City and Landscape of St. Gallen. With the epitome of the related Appenzell events. From the oldest to the more recent. Friedrich Schulthess, Zurich, Scheitlin, St. Gallen 1867, p. 64 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ildefons von Arx : Stories of the Canton of St. Gallen . Zollikofer and Züblin, St. Gallen 1811, p. 393 f . ( Limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 24, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Steinerburg (Steinach Castle). Burgenwelt, accessed on December 24, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Stefan Sonderegger : Divorced and yet not separated. In: 158th New Year's Gazette. Historical Association of the Canton of St. Gallen, 2018, accessed on December 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Vogelweider, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss businessman and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH before 1454
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH 1492
Place of death St. Gallen