Raimund Vogler

Portrait of Raimund Vogler in Vogler's "prayer book" from 1575/76

Raimund Vogler's coat of arms

Raimund Vogler (* around 1528 in Heilbronn ; † 1588 there ) was Mayor of Heilbronn from 1585 to 1588.

Life

Raimund Vogler came from an important Heilbronn merchant family. Raimund's grandfather Balthasar Vogler married a woman from the Heilbronn trading house Speidel, which existed in the Maulbronner Hof in the 15th century , and became a co-owner of the trading house after the death of his father-in-law. Raimund's father was councilor Caspar Vogler, who died shortly after the birth of his son around 1530. Raimund's mother then married Mathis Schnepff, brother of the pastor and reformer Erhard Schnepff . Raimund probably spent his youth in the Schnepff house and then studied at the University of Tübingen , where he appears in the matriculations in 1543 and 1551. Back in Heilbronn he married Anna Lachmann, daughter of the pastor and reformer Johannes Lachmann . Nothing is known about his profession; he probably followed his ancestors as a merchant.

He was a member of the court in 1559 and belonged to the small, inner council ("von den burgern") from 1569, was tax master from 1574 and from 1585 mayor of Heilbronn .

The so-called Vogler prayer book has been preserved to this day. This is a handwritten creed in late Gothic Fraktur with the title Directory of testimonies from H. Schrifft and the old pure church teachers. The book has a format of 10 × 11.5 cm, comprises almost 350 parchment pages and is bound in leather decorated with golden embossing. The title page is decorated in gold letters with the Latin hexameter SIM PLICITAS RECTUMQUE TUUM ME CHRISTE GUBERNET , including the year 1575 and the initials RV. There are several colored miniatures in the book. On the twelfth page, Raimund Vogler is shown standing in an oval medallion behind the family coat of arms. The picture is inscribed with Raimund Vogler consul Heilbronnensis and dated 1576. In the lower right-hand corner there is an open book of music that may indicate Vogler's preoccupation with music. The Heilbronn organist Johann Woltz became the godfather of a Vogler son in 1573. Another miniature shows the domestic upbringing in a patrician house, presumably Vogler is shown again with his wife and four children. A medallion similar to the Vogler portrait shows the Heilbronn preacher Johann Straub (preacher at Kilian's Church from 1565 to 1603) with his coat of arms showing a bouquet. There are also some miniatures with biblical scenes as well as contemporary copperplate engravings. According to the dates, the book was written in 1575/76.

In the Heilbronner Weinbüchlein it is reported that Vogler won an ox as a prize at the pleasure shooting in Stuttgart on June 6, 1580. Vogler depicted this ox on his house at Klostergasse 4 and had it embellished with a longer rhyme.

coat of arms

Their relationship with the Speidel family (Speidel is another term for wedge , the Speidel family also had wedges in their coat of arms) could be the reason that three wedges or Speidel can be seen on the crossed axes on the Vogler coat of arms . Axes and riving knives should also indicate the income of the Speidel and Vogler sex.

literature

• Werner Heim: A bibliographical treasure: The "prayer book" of Heilbronn Mayor Vogler from 1575 . In: Swabia and Franconia. Local history supplement of the Heilbronn voice . 15th year, no. 2 . Heilbronner Voice publishing house, February 8, 1969, ZDB -ID 128017-X .
• Christhard Schrenk , Hubert Weckbach , Susanne Schlösser: From Helibrunna to Heilbronn. A city history (=  publications of the archive of the city of Heilbronn . Volume 36 ). Theiss, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-8062-1333-X , p. 60 (Fig. From Vogler's prayer book).
• Bernd Klagholz: Heilbronn and its mayors in the period from the 16th to the 19th century (approval work), Tübingen 1980, p. 38