Imperial War (1311-1312)
The imperial war was a war in the years 1311 and 1312. The opponents of the war were the imperial cities and Eberhard I the Illustrious.
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Eberhard I supported the Bohemian estates and the Bohemian King Heinrich of Carinthia in their fight against Albrecht I of Habsburg and his successor Heinrich VII. In 1309, Eberhard was accused of his gripping, self-serving ministry as governor and was therefore accused by Heinrich VII quoted from Speyer . From there Eberhard I left prematurely, whereupon Henry VII imposed the imperial ban on him . Henry VII now supported the Swabian imperial cities in his dispute with Count Eberhard von Württemberg, who also pursued an aggressive territorial policy towards the imperial cities. Since Heinrich moved to Italy , he commissioned the new Reichslandvogt, Konrad IV. Von Weinsberg , as military leader of the Swabian imperial cities and some nobles. On the part of the Swabian imperial cities, mainly Esslingen am Neckar and Reutlingen , on the aristocratic side z. E.g .: v. Tübingen, v. Vaihingen, Herter v. Dusslingen.
In the spring of 1311, the Imperial War began, in the course of which, presumably, the first military action, the siege of the ancestral castle of Wirtemberg took place in early May. After an unfortunate attempt at relief on May 26th, the castle was taken on July 13th. After the Hohenasperg fortress fell in August 1312, Eberhard was taken in as a fugitive by his brother-in-law Margrave Rudolf Hesso from Baden in one of the two keep of Besigheim .
Only the death of Henry VII on August 24, 1313 and the political situation after the king's election in 1314 with Ludwig IV as king and Frederick the Fair as the counter-king prevented the defeat of Württemberg. Eberhard I then cleverly tacted between king and counter-king, so that he could not only compensate for the territorial losses, but also gain additional territories.
The following were conquered or destroyed by the Imperial Army: Burg Wirtemberg, Hohenasperg , Hohenjungingen , Ror , Burg Alt-Lichtenstein , Burg Haideck , Burg Hochbiedeck , Burg Greifenstein (Württemberg) , Untergreifenstein, Burg Dischingen near Stuttgart (based on coins found by G. Wein Destruction dated at the beginning of the 14th century) and Marbach am Neckar .
The following were not conquered: Hohenneuffen , Hohenurach with the city, Hohenwittlingen Castle and Seeburg .
literature
- Hans-Martin Maurer: History of Württemberg in Pictures. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-17-010960-X
- Theodor Schön: Wirtemberg Castle in sheets of the Swabian Alb Association . 1897
- Erwin Haas: The seven Württemberg state fortresses . ISBN 3-921638-59-3
- Jürgen Meyer: Everything was destroyed, not a stone was left standing . In: In the shadow of the past. Oertel + Spörer, 2004, ISBN 3-88627-270-2
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Hartmann Schedel: Weltchronik . Reprint of [the] colored complete edition from 1493. Introduction and commentary by Stephan Füssel. Weltbild, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-8289-0803-9
- ↑ The "robber castle" Dischingen ... on the trail of the legend. (No longer available online.) In: feuerbach.de. Archived from the original on December 9, 2007 ; Retrieved January 11, 2012 . 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.
