Pforr (noble family)

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Coat of arms of those of Pforr

In the Middle Ages, the von Pforr family was an aristocratic family from the city of Breisach am Rhein , who later continued to belong to the patriciate there . She provided several mayors .

history

The first representative known by name was a W. de Pforre , who was a member of the Breisach council in 1261. A Wernher von Pforr was named in 1266. In 1290, 1294 and 1296 Heinrich was a member of the council, as was John 1296, who was still alive in 1301. In 1380 Junker Werner the Elder was a lay judge in Breisach. In the early years of the Marienau monastery in Breisach , those of Pforr had also been decisive in the monastery. Katharina von Pforr was even abbess there in the 1320s / 1330s . Since the Pforr kept giving some of their daughters to the monastery as nuns , they also loyally gave the monastery goods and values and thus appeared as its patrons .

A tower in Munzingen is the remnant of the moated castle that was destroyed in the Thirty Years War and belonged to the local rule of the von Pforr family

The von Pforr family owned fiefs in Endingen from the House of Austria , which they shared with Duke Reinold von Urslingen until the death of Duke Reinold von Urslingen . Received Werlin (Werly) of Pforr 1430/1435 of Austria a part of the Veste Limpurg . Hans Werner von Pforr received half of Namsheim Castle as an Austrian pawn loan in 1478 , which he sold in 1482. In addition, the family had fiefs from the Counts of Fürstenberg , the Lords of Rappoltstein and von Staufen . At the beginning of the 16th century they acquired Munzingen Castle . Next to the Munzingen moated castle , which was largely destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, there was an estate that was expanded to become Reinach Castle . The reason for the documentary mention of Reinach Castle was the wedding of Hans Adam von Pforr with Maria Cleopha von Reinach , from which the baptismal font donated in 1626 in Munzingen's St. Stephen's Church comes from.

Until the late Middle Ages, family members of the von Pforr family can only be classified in a few people. At a young age, Junker Hans Werner von Pforr was appointed by the lord of the castle, Knight Wilhelm von Grünenberg, as the highest bailiff of the fortress and rule of Rheinfelden. In 1469 he was governor and bailiff of the Burgheim dominion . His son Gervasius von Pforr was the first mayor of Breisach from the family. In 1490 he was called "Former Mayor", so he had to have already exercised the office, which he held in 1516. After Gervasius (died between 1523 and 1532) his nephew Paul von Pforr came to the mayor's office in Breisach; he was mentioned in 1524 as Altschultheiß. In the years 1548 and 1554 the son of Gervasius, Hans Jacob von Pforr, was the mayor of Breisach. Another mayor was Paul's great-grandson Philipp Jakob zu Munzingen, who held the office in 1602. Antonius von Pforr , who died in 1483, was the translator of the Book of Examples , an influential translation of the Indian collection of stories Panchatantra .

Antonius von Pforr (* around 1410/15; † 1483) was dean in Endingen and is an imperial notary in 1460 . From 1472 in the vicinity of the Countess Palatinate Mechthild in Rottenburg , where he last documented as church lord and court chaplain in 1477 , he translated what he called the " Book of Examples of the Wise Men " into German prose and dedicated it to the son of Mechthild, the first Duke of Württemberg Eberhard in the beard . This book was the interest of the contemporary nobility, such as Count Wolfgang von Fürstenberg . At times, Antonius von Pforr had also been in the service of Archduke Siegmund of Tyrol .

When the von Pforr family died out around the middle of the 17th century, a branch of the von Kageneck family inherited many estates in the Breisgau from them and settled there. After the death of the last wife of Pforr (1659) the local rule of Munzingen was divided between the heirs, von Reinach and von Kageneck. Boundary stones carved with the Pforr coat of arms (from 1575) in Munzingen are still a reminder of the von Pforr estate.

In Breisach Stephansmünster several members of the von Pforr are set to grave, which today still emblazoned grave slabs from the 14th to the 16th century testify.

coat of arms

Coat of arms of those of Pforr (1449)

Blazon : In gold, a black disc is covered with a silver star of (mostly) seven rays. The crest with the silver star between two horns, the front in gold, the rear in black. The helmet covers are black on the outside, gold on the inside.

The star also has variants with six or eight rays. The tinctures of the horns in the crest are also mixed up, and there is a variant of the helmet covers with silver instead of gold. Another coat of arms consists of the star on a black hunting horn. This crest , on a helmet crown , was used by Antonius von Pforr in a document in 1460 as his notarial signet .

literature

Julius Kindler von Knobloch: Upper Baden gender book . Ed .: Baden Historical Commission. tape 1 : Ah. Heidelberg 1898, p. 86-88 ( digitized version of Heidelberg University [accessed on December 15, 2012]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Schmidt, The Marienau Choir Stalls and the History of the Abbey , self-published by the author, 2004, p. 25
  2. ^ Journal for the History of the Upper Rhine , published by the Baden Historical Commission , New Series Volume XVII, Heidelberg 1902 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ a b Ortslexikon Baden-Württemberg, Munzingen ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2015 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / maja.bsz-bw.de
  4. ^ Wilhelm Kühlmann, Literaturlexikon Volume 1 (2008), p. 177
  5. ↑ a b Bibliotheca Augustana: Antonius von Pforr
  6. ↑ Michael Bärmann, Antonius von Pforr and the gentlemen von Schönau ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ingentaconnect.com 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. : A newly found testimony to the author of the book of examples , in: Daphnis - Zeitschrift für Mittlere Deutsche Literatur , Vol. 35, No. 1–2, 2006, pp. 1–23 (23)
  7. ^ Stammler, Wolfgang, "Antonius von Pforr" in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 1 (1953), p. 320 ( online version )
  8. ↑ Marburg Repertory on Translation Literature in Early German Humanism, Sigmund von Tirol (der Münzreich) , accessed on October 2, 2015
  9. ↑ Friedrich Cast, Historisches und Genealogisches Adelsbuch des Großherzogthums Baden , 1845, p. 120 ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.forgottenbooks.com
  10. ↑ Nikolaus Philippi, Landmarks in Germany: Origin and History (2014), ( digitized version )
  11. ↑ Franz Xaver Kraus (ed.), The art monuments of the Grand Duchy of Baden (Volume 6,1): The art monuments of the districts of Breisach, Emmendingen, Ettenheim, Freiburg (Land), Neustadt, Staufen and Waldkirch (Freiburg Land district) , Tübingen, 1904 , P. 66 f.
  12. ^ Image index of art and architecture, grave slab from Pforr , Breisach am Rhein, church (catholic), Münster Sankt Stephan, western transept
  13. ↑ Uwe Driver, Grave Monuments in the Minster of St. Stephan , in: Our Minster, Münsterbauverein Breisach eV, No. 19/20 (1996/97), pp. 6-9