Muffle from Eschenau
The Muffel von Eschenau were one of the oldest patrician families in the imperial city of Nuremberg , first mentioned in a document in Nuremberg in 1286. The Muffel were represented in the "Inner Council" from 1332, with short interruptions until the Eschenau main line died out in 1784 according to the “ dance statute ” to the “old” sexes eligible for advice and were members of the imperial knighthood in the knight canton of Gebürg .
history
The origin of the muffle is not clearly established. It is likely that they descended from a Hohenstaufen ministerial family from the area around Neumarkt in the Upper Palatinate and that they immigrated to Nuremberg in the second half of the 13th century. The Nuremberg tradition assumes that the Muffel, Neumarkter and Weigel came from the same sex due to the identity of the coats of arms . The grouches were first mentioned in a document in Nuremberg in 1286 and from 1332 had the right to send members to the Inner Council. Because of their ancestry, they were wealthy in and around Nuremberg from an early age. Since the end of the 15th century, their possessions have been concentrated in the north and north-east of Nuremberg, especially in Eschenau, Eckenhaid and Ermreuth.
Business connections to Prague have shaped the long-distance trade of the grouch since the 14th century. The trading company Ebner -Muffel was occupied between 1377 and 1431 on the Middle Rhine , in Flanders and in the Carpathian region .
The most famous representative of the family, Niklas III. Muffel, was for many years councilor, caretaker of the Egidienkloster and the Klarakloster , old mayor, Nuremberg's envoy to the Swabian League of Cities , to Albrecht Achilles, to King Friedrich III. , at the peace negotiations for the First Margrave War in Munich and Bamberg as well as in Wiener Neustadt and at the Regensburg Reichstag in 1454 etc .; In 1457 he became the foremost slogan of the imperial city of Nuremberg . Due to alleged embezzlement of city funds and betrayal of secrets, he was sentenced to death on the gallows after incriminating statements by the second and third slogans Anton Tucher and Anton Tallner and after one of the most spectacular trials in the history of the imperial city. The judgment was probably due to his overpowering position, envied by his fellow councilors, and the hostilities that arose from it.
Due to these events and the subsequent loss of reputation, Niklas IV. Muffel took over the manor of Ermreuth after the division of the estate in 1469 , withdrew completely from Nuremberg and founded the line of Muffel von Ermreuth . The Ermreuther line was enrolled in the knight canton of Gebürg and expired in 1912.
The line of Muffel von Eschenau continued by Gabriel Muffel (? –1498) remained connected with Nuremberg and died out in 1784.
Other branches of the family can still be found today under the name Mufel in Russia, Poland, Belarus and the Ukraine. Children of 1736 in Konradsreuth born Johann Carl Heinrich muffle lived until 1917 on the of Empress Catherine II. Bestowed Good Gischmany near Siebirz (Sebesh?) In Belarus and after the flight to the Polish cities of Gdynia and Gdansk ( Danzig ) while the descendants of Johann Ludwig Ernst Muffel, who was born in Ansbach and who emigrated to Russia in 1743, are said to still live in the Ukraine and Belarus.
Former possessions (extract)
The family coat of arms shows a golden bar in black .
- 1383 / 1504–1737 / 52 Eschenau (50% 1383, 50% 1505 von den Haller )
- 1382–1502 Eschenau Castle, Von-Muffel-Platz 1, 2 (destroyed)
- 1512–1751 Muffelschloss ▲ , Von-Muffel-Platz 1 (heavily changed - only fragments available)
- 1512–1751 Mahlsches Schloss ▲ , Von-Muffel-Platz 2 (heavily changed - only fragments available)
- 1639–1737 Gronesches Schlösschen, Schlosshof 10 (heavily changed)
- 1387–1751 Eckenhaid
- 1400 / 64–1573 / 79 the manor of Ermreuth ▲
- 1426–1430 Gibitzenhof
- 1622/29 - ???? the manor ▲ Letten near Lauf an der Pegnitz
- 1649–1701 the lordship of the Ahorn - Ermreuther line
- ???? - ???? Weidhausen manor near Coburg - Ermreuther line
- ???? - 1442 Breitenthal Castle near Weigendorf
Pictures of former properties
Mahl's castle
Eckenhaid Castle
Marquardsburg
Foundations (extract)
- Wall tabernacle in St. Sebald (before 1374) by Nicholas I (d. 1392)
- The southern side altar of the Peterskapelle, (St. Peter, Kapellenstrasse 2) donated by Nikolaus III. Muffel and his wife Margarete von Laufenholz.
- Foundation of three lake houses
Gothic evangelist figure, Sebalduskirche
Baroque side altar, Sebalduskirche
Known family members
- Nicholas III Muffel (1410–1469), councilor, foremost slogan, the most powerful man in Nuremberg until his fall
- Nikolaus IV. Muffel (???? - 1497), founder of the Ermreuther line
coat of arms
Family coat of arms: split from gold and red, on the right a black, red armored lion with a red crown, on the left a silver fish.
See also
- Patriciate (Nuremberg)
- History of the city of Nuremberg
- Castles, palaces and mansions in the city of Nuremberg
- List of Frankish knight families
Individual evidence
- ^ Hallerbuch from 1533
- ↑ Glossary German-New High German ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ↑ Ancestral list of the grouch
- ↑ History of Eschenau -pdf
- ↑ History of Eckenhaid -pdf
- ↑ The history of Ahorn ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Mention of the Muffel von Ermreuth on Weidhausen -pdf
- ↑ https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/jakob-muffel-albrecht-dürer/GwGXriaq-VRilw
literature
- Christoph von Imhoff (Hrsg.): Famous Nuremberg from nine centuries . Nuremberg: Hofmann, 1984, 425 pages, ISBN 3-87191-088-0 ; 2., erg. U. exp. Edition, 1989, 459 p .; New edition: Edelmann GmbH Buchhandlung, October 2000
- Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( online ).
- Gerhard Fouquet: The Niklas Muffel Affair. The execution of a Nuremberg patrician in 1469, in: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 83 (1996), pp. 459-500.
- Gunther Friedrich, bibliography on the patriciate of the imperial city of Nuremberg (Nürnberger Forschungen, Vol. 27), Nuremberg 1994, bibliography on the Muffel family, pp. 101-103.
