Sützel
The von Sützel family was a Frankish noble family from the Odenwald .
history
The von Sützel family, including Sitzel, Sützell, Sützel von Mergentheim zu Balbach and Süzel, was organized in the knightly canton of Odenwald . Starting from possessions in Bad Mergentheim , the family was also from 1355 with two castles and palaces in Unterbalbach and Oberbalbach. In 1479 she expanded her property in Unterbalbach with purchases from the Truchseß von Baldersheim family . They were also mentioned in Zaisenhausen and in Lauda in 1506 on a castle that was destroyed by fire in 1917. In Neunkirchen they sold half of the village in 1550 to the Würzburg bailiff von Bütthard Sebastian Geyer von Giebelstadt and the other half in 1558 to Götz von Berlichingen .
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Destruction of Balbach Castle in 1523
Main article: Wandereisen woodcuts from 1523
During the Franconian War , the Swabian Confederation's punitive expedition also stood in front of the Lower Castle Unterbalbach . Its owner from the von Sützel family was one of the helpers of the robber baron Hans Thomas von Absberg . The castle was burned down.
coat of arms
The coat of arms of the Sützel is divided diagonally by black and silver . From the helmet, with black and silver blankets, grows a black-clad carrot .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ State Archives Wertheim
- ↑ Cord Ulrichs: From the feudal court to the imperial knighthood - structures of the Franconian lower nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period (list of the canton Odenwald from 1550, StAL B 583 Bü 191.) . Franz Steiner Verlag Stuttgart, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 , pp. 214/215 .
- ↑ History of Unterbalbach , djk-unterbalbach.de
- ^ Oberbalbach ( Memento from October 22, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Unterbalbach , tobias-stindl.de
- ↑ Mulfingen: Current ( Memento from February 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Castles and palaces in the Main-Tauber district - detail page ( Memento from December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )